Monthly Archives: June 2017

Self-managed server room – planned power outage

Posted on June 28, 2017 by idurkacz

Good news! We are extending the Forum self-managed server room facility by adding three brand new racks in a nearby room. Bad news! To arrange the necessary power feeds to the new room, we will need to completely switch off … Continue reading →

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Staff NX server reboot

Posted on June 27, 2017 by squinney

We need to reboot the staff NX server (jubilee) to upgrade it to SL7.3. We plan to start this work at 9am on Thursday 29th June, we expect the service to be unavailable for approximately 1 hour. During the period … Continue reading →

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ScientificLinux 7.3 upgrade

Posted on June 20, 2017 by squinney

The 3rd minor update to ScientificLinux 7 (which is based on RHEL7) is now ready for deployment to the Informatics SL7 DICE office and student lab machines. A minor update like this provides us with the opportunity to update important … Continue reading →

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SSH Server Reboot

Posted on June 6, 2017 by squinney

We need to reboot the general access SSH server (bruegel) to upgrade it to Scientific Linux 7.3. This is just a minor upgrade from SL7.2 to SL7.3 which will have very few user-visible changes. We plan to do this at … Continue reading →

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Staff SSH server reboot

Posted on June 1, 2017 by squinney

We need to reboot the staff SSH server (brendel) to upgrade it to Scientific Linux 7.3. This is just a minor upgrade from SL7.2 to SL7.3 which will have very few user-visible changes. We plan to do this at 8am … Continue reading →

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