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ST drive failure – no server downtime.

Wednesday February 6, 2002 12:00am - 12:00amFile Serveradmin

ST server – drive in slot 1 of raid 5 failed again. Drive was moved to mail server to verify it is what is bad. A replacement 36 Gig drive was ordered from Dell. A drive from the mail server was used and the replacement drive will go into the mail server.

Disk Failure on ST (Student) Novell Server – no server downtime.

Friday February 1, 2002 11:00pm - Saturday February 2, 2002 12:00pmFile Serveradmin

A disk on ST failed. System remained operational on RAID 5. On 2/2 at 11:30am Jason took reseated hot-swap drive. Immediately began automatic rebuild. Rebuild completed at 11:50am without errors.

FS (Faculty/Staff) Novell Server Crash

Friday February 1, 2002 11:00pm - Saturday February 2, 2002 11:45amFile Serveradmin

FS server crashed. Reason unknown. Restarted 2/02 11:30 by Jason. Volume repair performed. No errors encountered.

Novell ST (student) Server Crash

Tuesday January 29, 2002 11:15am - 11:50amFile Serveradmin

The ST Novell server ‘ab-ended’ (i.e. crashed) for unknown reasons. Was returned to service at 11:50 after running standard disk validation and repairs program.

EMail ERROR Messages Between 10:55 and 11:15

Tuesday January 29, 2002 10:55am - 11:15amEmailadmin

One of the EMU Email Servers errored during Sophos email virus definitions update. All mail sent or received between 10:55 and 11:10 was flagged, erroneously, as having a virus and would have been ‘bounced’ back to the sender. If you sent an email during this time period and received a ‘bounce’ message rejecting it because of a ‘virus’, disregard it and send again.

IEP Network Connection Failure

Thursday January 24, 2002 9:00am - 9:30amNetworkadmin

There was a problem with the connection to the IEP switch. It was traced to an unplugged power supply to one of the 100 meg media converters/switches in the Data Center.

Communication House Network Failure

Thursday January 24, 2002 8:00am - 8:30amUncategorizedadmin

Power was turned off to the Communications house. This effected their network connection.

Sporatic Novell Problems While Debugging On-going Issues

Tuesday January 22, 2002 10:00am - Thursday January 24, 2002 5:00pmNetworkadmin

The Novell NDS (Netware Directory Services) data base has not been performing correctly since the Service Pack 3 installation on 1/5/2002. A consultant was hired to assist with debugging the issues on 1/22. Progress was made but users encountered failed logins regularly while the debugging work was performed from 1/22 – 1/24.

ST (student) Server Crash

Tuesday January 15, 2002 12:05pm - 12:35pmFile Serveradmin

ST (student) Novell server crash. Lingering problem from SP3 upgrade of 1/5/02. All SP3 induced problems now resolved. General area of problem centered on timesync function.

Student Server Restarted

Friday January 11, 2002 7:30am - 8:30amFile Serveradmin

Since ST had to brought down due to loosing control of the console I made an image of it this morning.

I tried a couple of other things regarding why it won’t down and didn’t find anything new out.

I’m now going to try and load that image on the AR box.

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