Weekly restart of Webmail Apache server(webmail.emu.edu) failed due to new config file entry. Only the Webmail server affected. Mail services from ms.mail.emu were unaffected.
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15 Min WebMail Outage
WebMail experienced an outage of about 15 minutes. Users could not login to WebMail. Other IMAP services were unaffected. Network Admin made some config changes to get it working again. No clear explanation for the failure.
FS outage – 30 minutes
FS server was down for about 30 minutes after it abended again and wouldn’t go down gracefully. Vrepair was run on all volumes.
FTP Not Working on FS Server
There has been a failure of the FTP services on the FS server. The main effect of this is that faculty and staff will not be able to access the FS server from off-campus. IS is working on the problem but it may be Monday, 1/603 before it can be resolved.
ALL DAY Maintenance Outage – Novell Servers
Major upgrade to Novell server software. Also affected will be the LDAP authentication supplied by our Novell servers so IMAP email will also be down. In general, most users should assume that all Network Services will be down on Saturday, 12/21. Even though mailbox access will be unavailable, no mail will be lost.
1 HR Blackboard Server Maintenance Outage
A system image will be made for catastrophe restoration purposes. This is a one-time process done periodically to insure a rapid return to service in the event of a catastrophic failure.
1 HR CTPilot Server Maintenance Outage
CTPilot Server: A system image will be made for catastrophe restoration purposes. This is a one-time process done periodically to insure a rapid return to service in the event of a catastrophic failure.
1 HR WebMail Server Outage – New Server Installation
New webmail server installation. Webmail will be off-line during this time while a new server is put into service that provides web access to the EMU IMAP email server.
Blackboard restarted
Virtual classroom outage reported Friday morning. Fixed Friday around 4pm. But restart of TutorNet caused Apache to go down too.
Power Outage – Ice Storm Related
The entire EMU campus experienced a 35 minute power outage this morning. All systems in the Data Center were supported by UPS and progressed through orderly shut-downs. Telephone switch was taken down manually. All systems restarted without incident. A few non-critical omissions were found in several startup configs. These were corrected.