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*  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. 
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* We continue being available M-F, 8:30 to 5pm, but there may be certain times we might be online only.
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*  Therefore, please remember to email [mailto:support@cs.jhu.edu support@cs.jhu.edu] for assistance.
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*  Also, please have [https://support.cs.jhu.edu/wiki/Zoom Zoom] available on your device(s), so that we can arrange to contact you using that method, as an alternative to in-person communication.
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* For the time being, Steve DeBlasio, our accounts liaison, is providing a virtual version of his daily office hours for accounts, etc.  Email [mailto:support@cs.jhu.edu support@cs.jhu.edu] for details.
  
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12/14/16 9pm  The rtfm.cs.jhu.edu server is having major issues, and we are investigating them.  This will impact dept DNS, Grad Net mail, and access to home directories.  Local web service will be unavailable as well.
 
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==== '''PLANNED CLOSURE''''' ====
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'''''WHERE:'''''  Malone Hall G-61, both the Masters and Ugrad sides of the lab.
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=== Malone '''MH 122''' ''and'' '''G61''' Ugrad and Masters Labs {{red|'''''Closure'''''}}===
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'''''WHEN:'''''  Monday, March 14 & Tuesday, March 15, from 6am to 12 Noon.
 
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'''''WHY:''''' Network cable installation.  The lab will be closed those two
 
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===Planned Outage 1: CS Ugrad Net File Server Repair (barley.cs.jhu.edu)===
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:'''WHAT:''' Malone Hall MH 122 '''and''' Malone Hall G61, both the Masters and Ugrad sides of the lab, '''and ''all'' the lab Linux computers, will be closed to CS students due to an ACM Programming Contest.
  
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UPDATE:  10/4/16 7:15am  All systems back in operation!
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:'''WHEN:''' Starting Friday evening, November 15, 5pm '''through''' Saturday, November 16, 9pm.
  
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:'''WHAT:''' Major CS *Undergrad* Net IT services outage, as we make repairs to the CS Undergrad Net file server, '''barley.cs.jhu.edu'''
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: Both the MH 122 '''and''' G61 Masters and Ugrad Labs will be used for an ACM Programming Contest and will therefore be '''''closed''''' to those not participating in the contest.
  
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:'''WHEN:''' Tuesday, October 4, from ''6am to approx 8am''.
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: Additionally, all of the labs' Linux computers (grad1 through grad16 and ugrad1 through ugrad24) will be unavailable during the time period referenced above.
  
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:'''DETAILS:''' Our CS Undergrad Net home directory file server, barley.cs.jhu.edu, will be shut down to swap out a motherboard, since its own motherboard is reporting errors.
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* During the lab closure times, compute servers, gradx.cs.jhu.edu, gradz.cs.jhu.edu, ugradx.cs.jhu.ed, and ugradz.cs.jhu.edu  '''''will continue to be available remotely''''', via SSH.
  
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:Due to this shutdown for repair, several of our CS Ugrad Net services will be unavailable during this time.  If there are any unexpected complications during the repair process that will delay the restoration of services, we will update the CS IT Support Wiki's Notices page at [https://support.cs.jhu.edu/wiki/Notices https://support.cs.jhu.edu/wiki/Notices]
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* We have to take down the lab systems late that Friday afternoon.  At the end of the ACM contest that Saturday night, the coordinators of that contest will be turning our lab computer systems back on. Most should boot normally.  But, if some do not, just trying using an alternate one in the lab.  We'll be back in the Monday afterwards and can check on any systems that didn't boot normally. (And don't forget, as mentioned above our compute servers -- gradx, gradz, ugradx, ugradz -- will continue to be remotely available, even if the lab systems are not.)
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<span style="color:#ff0000">UPDATE:  10/4/16 7:15am  All systems back in operation! </span>
 
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:::*'''CS Ugrad Mail service,''' both incoming and outgoing, will be suspended for CS Ugrad Net users (as this fileserver works in tandem with our CS Ugrad mail server.) Incoming mail should be queued until our mail service is back up again. Outgoing mail from CS Ugrad Net users will not be available.
 
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:::*'''IMAP, POP, and Webmail''' from our CS Ugrad Mail server will be unavailable.
 
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:Future updates will be posted on the [https://support.cs.jhu.edu/wiki/Notices Notices] page of the CS IT Support Wiki
 
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<span style="color:#ff0000">UPDATE:  10/4/16 7:15am  All systems back in operation! </span>
 
  
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* The printers in MH 122 and MH G61 will remain online, but, please pick up your printouts outside of the contest hours.
  
 
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:'''WHAT:''' The Databases class's MySQL database server, dbase.cs.jhu.edu, will be unavailable when the CS Ugrad Net's fileserver, barley.cs.jhu.edu, is being repaired (see above.)
 
  
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:'''WHEN:''' Tuesday, October 4, from ''6am to approx 8am''.
 
  
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:'''DETAILS:''' dbase.cs.jhu.edu uses the CS Ugrad Net file server and will therefore be unavailable during the barley.cs.jhu.edu repair time.
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:'''MH G61''' (CS Masters/Ugrad Labs) is available for in-person access.
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:{{red|However, please see the info above regarding the mid-November lab closure and systems unavailability.}}
 
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'''Wed, July 30, 9am through noon:'''  ''Entire Undergrad Net'' (clients and servers) will be down as we complete system maintenance and move some equipment to a different rack.
 
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'''MAJOR''' motherboard repair of ''rtfm.cs.jhu.edu'', one of our main CS ''Grad/Research'' Net file system servers, will create up to (but hopefully, much shorter than) 6-hour planned downtime for the Grad/Research Network.  Our hardware service/repair company will be on-site completing repairs.
 
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'''8/24/16 3:30pm'''  UPDATE:  We are told that JHU has fixed their mail servers and that JHU mail is back in operation again.
 
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'''8/24/16 1:30pm'''  JHU's central mail servers are experiencing an issue that is causing mail bouncebacks for people not on JHU Exchange sending to people on JHU Exchange.  An error might look like:
 
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'''8/8/16'''  We have been receiving reports of ''email bounces from people/organizations that normally work without problems.''  We think we know what is happening.  We recently discovered that one of our CS student accounts had been compromised and was being used to send spam.  Even though we disabled the account as soon as the compromise was discovered, several mail server reputation services had already classified us as a possible source of spam.  As a result of that classification, some organizations have decided to temporarily reject email from our mail server.  We can't predict ahead of time which organizations those are, since there are a variety of reputation services, and individual organizations differ in the ways they make use of reputation information.
 
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Latest revision as of 13:50, 30 October 2024


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.


CS IT SERVICE OUTAGES (Unplanned & Planned)

UNPLANNED CS IT SERVICE OUTAGES

None at this time.

PLANNED CS IT SERVICE OUTAGES

Malone MH 122 and G61 Ugrad and Masters Labs Closure

WHAT: Malone Hall MH 122 and Malone Hall G61, both the Masters and Ugrad sides of the lab, and all the lab Linux computers, will be closed to CS students due to an ACM Programming Contest.
WHEN: Starting Friday evening, November 15, 5pm through Saturday, November 16, 9pm.
DETAILS:
Both the MH 122 and G61 Masters and Ugrad Labs will be used for an ACM Programming Contest and will therefore be closed to those not participating in the contest.
Additionally, all of the labs' Linux computers (grad1 through grad16 and ugrad1 through ugrad24) will be unavailable during the time period referenced above.
  • During the lab closure times, compute servers, gradx.cs.jhu.edu, gradz.cs.jhu.edu, ugradx.cs.jhu.ed, and ugradz.cs.jhu.edu will continue to be available remotely, via SSH.
  • We have to take down the lab systems late that Friday afternoon. At the end of the ACM contest that Saturday night, the coordinators of that contest will be turning our lab computer systems back on. Most should boot normally. But, if some do not, just trying using an alternate one in the lab. We'll be back in the Monday afterwards and can check on any systems that didn't boot normally. (And don't forget, as mentioned above our compute servers -- gradx, gradz, ugradx, ugradz -- will continue to be remotely available, even if the lab systems are not.)
  • The printers in MH 122 and MH G61 will remain online, but, please pick up your printouts outside of the contest hours.


CS COMPUTING LAB AVAILABILITY

MH 122 (CS Undergrad Lab/Collaboration room) is available for in-person access.
However, please see the info above regarding the mid-November lab closure and systems unavailability.


MH G61 (CS Masters/Ugrad Labs) is available for in-person access.
However, please see the info above regarding the mid-November lab closure and systems unavailability.


AUDIO/VISUAL (A/V) OUTAGES

None at this time.