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July 23, 2008

Linux servers up 7/23

The Linux servers are back up.
All services are available.

Linux servers down 7/23

Linux servers:


  • lambic.ssc.upenn.edu

  • pils.ssc.upenn.edu

  • porter.ssc.upenn.edu

are down.
The servers failed to start properly after being moved to a new rack.
Web sites, statistical processing and file access are unavailable.

SAS Computing staff are working to diagnose and fix the problem.
Check back here for updates.

August 2, 2007

lambic.ssc back online

SSC file server, lambic.ssc.upenn.edu, is back online.

lambic.ssc 8/2/2007

SSC's Linux file server, lambic.ssc.upenn.edu, will be down after 5pm to this evening (8/2/2007) to replace system components. This means that you will have no access to data stored on lambic, including the following:

/work/econ
/work/popsoc
/work/pscwork
/work/psci
/work/staff
/work/other
/africa
/pier
/home

As a result, some websites for which the data resides on lambic, will
not be available, as well.

We anticipate this outage lasting no longer than 2 hours, but cannot be certain of this at this time. We will notify you when lambic.ssc is back online.

We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this causes.


SSC

May 1, 2007

McNeil Server Room shutdown 5/1

Due to an electrical emergency, all systems in the McNeil Building server room willl be shutdown today (5/1) at 4 p.m. for approximately 2 hours. Web-sites and network drives (e.g. H, K, J, Q, R, T, W) will be unavailable. Please close any files that are open on network drives.

Send questions to ssc-lsp@ssc.upenn.edu or call 215-898-6454

January 16, 2007

Linux Servers Maintenance

Beginning Saturday, January 27, we will be performing Operating System and Application upgrades to the SSC Linux servers. We do these upgrades periodically in order to ensure the highest possible performance, security, and robustness of our systems.

The servers affected (and a list of services affected) are:

*lambic.ssc.upenn.edu - SSC Linux File Server - /home and /work directories, personal websites, and course websites hosted within individual home directories

*porter.ssc.upenn.edu - SSC Linux Web Server - all websites hosted by SSC

*stout.ssc.upenn.edu - SSC Linux Application Server - Statistical Applications, including SAS, Stata, Gauss, R

*mailman.ssc.upenn.edu - SSC Mailing List Server - Department and Research mailing lists

In order to ensure a minimum of service disruption, one server will be upgraded each weekend, beginning with the weekend of January 27. The tentative schedule is as follows:

Dates Server
January 27-28, 2007 stout.ssc.upenn.edu
February 3-4, 2007 mailman.ssc.upenn.edu
February 10-11, 2007 lambic.ssc.upenn.edu
February 17-18, 2007 porter.ssc.upenn.edu

December 8, 2006

E-mail server updates 12/8

For updates on the status of the e-mail server, go to
http://emergency.sas.upenn.edu/

E-mail server down (12/8)

E-mail server (mail.sas) is down. The server will be down all day (12/8) for repair. We (SAS Computing) are sorry for the inconvenience to our clients.

December 6, 2006

mail.sas up 12/6

The mail.sas server is back online

mail.sas status 12/6

The mail server is still down. Estimated up time is after 5:00 p.m. SAS Computing regrets the inconvenience to our clients.

mail.sas down 12/6

Mail server mail.sas.upenn.edu is down. Estimated return time is after 1:00 p.m. We will post updates as we receive them.

September 7, 2006

Linux systems available post-upgrade

The memory upgrades for the Linux systems were accomplished successfully. All services should be available, and running better than ever.

September 6, 2006

Linux systems unvailable 09/07/06

The linux servers (lambic, porter, and stout) will be unavailable between the hours of 10pm and 12am on Thursday night, September 7th for hardware upgrades.

All SSC-hosted websites will be unavailable, as will all Linux-based fileshares. Statistical applications on stout.ssc.upenn.edu will also be unavailable during this time.

July 6, 2006

Seadog to be rebooted evening of 7/6/06

Seadog.ssc.upenn.edu requires several reboots to complete repairs and upgrades. SSC will be performing these on Thursday 7/6 - AFTER 10:00PM, until midnight.

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Seadog back online!

Seadog was offline from approximately 12:30AM to 1:30AM on July 6.

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