Category: GAC IT

At about 2:00pm something happened on the network in the Art building such that by 4:00pm it caused major network issues and our core router was unable to handle the load. As a result all network traffic was unusable. At this time we have it narrowed down to 3 possible ports in the Art building.…

At about 5:45pm today the UPS in the Carlson Admin building died. As a result all network access to datatel, the admin building, and the student center was down. At about 6:25pm Ethan and I routed the power around the UPS and directly to the wall which restored access. Webadvisor access was unavailable until I…

At about 3:20pm or so yesterday we had an issue with our mailserver.  This information from Tami should shed some light on what happened: Yesterday (May4th) a user on campus sent a very large (25 mb) email message to hundreds of users on campus. This message has caused multiple problems for you to be aware…

As of this week, all new accounts we create will have spam filtering enabled by default. Our default spam score threshold is 6.  Any email scoring higher than 6 will be automatically placed in a mailbox called Filtered_by_GAC. Filtering can be easily changed or disabled by using the email settings webpage.

The DNS entry for secure.gac.edu which used to point to an old solaris box named Zeme has now been changed to point to our new webadvisor servers.  We are trying to retire Zeme and this way anyone who has a bookmark to the old webadvisor link will continue to work when our SSL certificate for…

At about 12:15am Tuesday morning, our email server stopped allowing people to access their inboxes.  At about 12:50am I rebooted it, woof.gac.edu, and restored access to email inboxes.  The real cause of the problem is still unknown.

UNIX Sys Admin Status Update 4-21-06 Datatel Update:   The new IBM AIX server is now here and in the server room.  The migration to the new system is now one step closer :)  The new webadvisor servers appear to be handling this weeks registration well.  The server for backing up datatel is also here in…

The SSL certificate that we were using for imap.gac.edu expires this weekend.  We have installed a new wildcard certificate ( *.gac.edu ) on our IMAP server that is good for the next year. Some email clients ( probably just Eudora ) complain about our certificate sometimes.  Therefore if you are a Eudora user, you may…

Some time early this morning the air conditioning for the server room in Olin stopped working. As a result the temperature in the server room got high enough for at least one server to stop working. It must have been close to or slightly over 100 degrees F in there. At this time physical plant…

This morning at 7:00am central, the router our I2 connection uses in the Twin Cities was moved to a different UPS. As a result the I2 connection went down. As of 10:30am this morning, our I2 connection is still down. As far as I can tell we can still reach other I2 sites, however it…