Notices

CS IT STAFF AVAILABILITY

• The CS IT Support staff is back in Malone Hall. Our group is working a hybrid schedule with some of us working remotely on certain days, while others of our team are on campus.
• We continue being available M-F, 8:30 to 5pm, but there may be certain times we might be online only.
• Therefore, please remember to email support@cs.jhu.edu for assistance.
• Also, please have Zoom available on your device(s), so that we can arrange to contact you using that method, as an alternative to in-person communication.
• For the time being, Steve DeBlasio, our accounts liaison, is providing a virtual version of his daily office hours for accounts, etc. Email support@cs.jhu.edu for details.

JHU IT SERVICE OUTAGES AFFECTING CS IT SERVICES

PLANNED JHU SERVICE OUTAGES

WHAT: 5 to 15-minute network outage in Malone Hall

WHEN: Thursday, December 23, sometime between 4am and 6am.

DETAILS:

JHU Networking has indicated they will be upgrading the OS on almost all their network distribution routers on Dec 23rd from 4am to 6am. There will be a short (5 to 15-minute) disruption during the reboots of these routers, including the one for Malone Hall. This will affect both wired and wireless services at Malone Hall.

CS IT SERVICE OUTAGES

UNPLANNED CS IT SERVICE OUTAGES

Issue with Grad Net Self-Service File Recovery

• WHEN: Started around October 30, 2020
• WHAT: Intermittent errors while using self-service recovery

• DETAILS: The /users/backup directory used for Self-Service File Recovery on the CS Grad Net Linux clients may be sporadically unavailable, due to a software bug. Although you may still attempt the self-service recovery, until further notice, if you need a file restored and are having issues accessing the /users/backups directory, please request restoration from our offline backups.
  
  We are working on getting a fix for it, but it might be some time before that fix is available.
  
  NOTE: Self-Service File Recovery continues to be available on the CS Ugrad Net.

PLANNED CS IT SERVICE OUTAGES

Major CS Grad/Research Net and Ugrad Net IT Services Outage

WHAT: Most CS IT services will be unavailable due to file server maintenance.

WHEN: Tuesday, December 28, 5:30am to 7:30am.

DETAILS: We will be performing maintenance on our two file servers, rtfm and barley, that will require downtime for both those systems and several other major CS IT services as well. The affected IT services will be unavailable on Tuesday, December 28, from 5:30am to 7:30am. Please see below for the list of affected services.

CS IT Services That Will Not Be Available During The System Maintenance

• CS Mail service, both incoming and outgoing, will be suspended for CS Grad/Research Net users. And some CS email services will not be available for CS Ugrad Net users.
  • Incoming mail should be queued by the sender until our mail service is back up again. Outgoing mail will not be available.
  • Outgoing CS mail will not be available to Grad Net users, but since CS Ugrads can send through the JHU mail server, CS Ugrads might still be able to send email during the outage (just not from a Malone Hall–based computer.)
  • IMAP, POP, and webmail (for both Grad/Research and Ugrad accounts) will be unavailable.

• No locally-stored CS webpages will be available. The main CS website (run by WSE) will remain available, but, if you have a personal or lab page that we maintain locally in the dept, those will be unavailable. The CS IT Support Wiki and its Notices page will remain available.

• Grad/Research Net and Ugrad Net user accounts and home directories will be inaccessible during the power outage.

• ssh service to our CS Grad/Research Net & Ugrad Net Linux boxes (masters1 through masters16, ugrad1 through ugrad24, gradx, gradz, ugradx, and ugradz) will be unavailable.

• Console (desktop) access at any of our lab Linux client systems will be unavailable.

• SMB (SAMBA) File Shares (the CS Office Staff and some others use these) will be unavailable.

• MySQL service via the mysql.cs.jhu.edu server and through the dbase.cs.jhu.edu server will be unavailable.

We will update this Notices page if there are changes or any delay in the restore time of our IT services.

CS COMPUTING LAB AVAILABILITY

UPDATE - July 19, 2021 - The CS Computing Labs are once again available for in-person access...

MH-122 (CS Undergrad Lab/Collaboration room): Is now available for in-person access.

All CS Linux systems in that room (ugrad1 through ugrad12) are available for use in-person or remotely, via ssh. Masks are required for entry.

G-61 (CS Masters/Ugrad Labs): Is now available for in-person access.

The Linux systems in this lab area (masters1 through masters16 and ugrad13 through ugrad24) are available for use in-person or remotely, via ssh. Masks are required for entry.

Please see our Labs page for further information.

AUDIO/VISUAL (A/V) OUTAGES

None at this time.