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====== News and Service Indications ====== | ====== News and Service Indications ====== | ||
- | Here you will find recent Information and service indications | + | Here you will find recent Information and Service Indications |
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- | ===== 2021-12-06 19:00 to 2021-12-07 09:00: works on /home/stud ===== | + | ===== 2023-12-11: Eduroam was out or order ===== |
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+ | Members and students of the Computer Science department and the B-IT can also use our own [[en: | ||
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+ | ===== 2023-12-12/ | ||
- | To facilitate enlargement of /home/stud , it won't be available | + | < |
- | the night from | + | </html> |
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+ | This semester's data will be available | ||
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+ | If you still need your data, please read them out before. This will also be possible afterwards, of course, </ | ||
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+ | ===== 2023-08-07: Change | ||
- | Mon, 6th of December | + | Today we did renew the certificate for our wifi infrastructure. At the same time we switched over to the new certification authority hosted by the DFN (GEANT, just like the HRZ did some days before, you may remember the mail about eduroam). |
- | Also, systems using this set of home directories may need a reboot | + | This means that all wifi configurations |
- | (login-stud, pool-u..., bitcuda-NN, ...) | + | connect to the computer science dept. or the b-it (eduroam-cs and |
+ | 802.1X) have to be reconfigured to check for the new certificate/ | ||
+ | or CA. | ||
- | Last copy of data from the old /home/stud: Dec 6th, 1900 CET. | + | You will find the current [[en:wifistd|fingerprints and certificate downloads]] at the usual place. |
- | Please stop long-running processes before that. | + | |
- | We aim to provide availability of the new / | + | The VPN service is *not* affected by these changes.\\ |
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+ | =====2023-07-14: | ||
+ | The [[https:// | ||
- | ---- | + | According to HRZ, a connection with the old parameters **won' |
- | ===== 2021-11-11: Discontinuation of the "Azure Dev Tools for Teaching" | + | |
- | Due to new licensing provisions, we are no longer able to offer the “Azure Dev Tools for Teaching” licensing program. Via the program formerly known as " | + | If you have an Informatics/ |
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- | ===== 2021-10-23: BigBlueButton Maintenance | + | ===== 2023-07-10: Student printer (feder) malfunctioning |
- | **Update: | + | **Update: |
- | Starting at around 11:00 am, we will undergo a comprehensive upgrade of the entire BBB environment to the latest software versions. Since a long overdue restructuring of the load balancing and DB backend systems | + | The student printer in U1.040 (feder) |
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- | ===== 2021-10-01: BigBlueButton slides and whiteboard functionality available again ===== | + | ===== 2023-02-02: Wifi services unavailable |
- | a workaround for the problem has just been implemented; | + | **UPDATE (09:40h) : all wifi services are fully restored by now.** |
- | BBB meetings will not benefit from this yet, but the following ones | + | |
- | will once again have slides and whiteboard functionality. | + | |
- | Please note that the workaround may fail on some systems due to | + | We are currently experiencing a total loss of WiFi authentication |
- | cached redirects; if this happens on your browser, please clear all of your browser caches that are associated with the BBB nodes | + | inside the whole building |
- | bbb-node*.informatik.uni-bonn.de or use a alternative browser until the redirects | + | to a failure of a central component. |
- | in your standard browser have expired. | + | |
- | Thus, the full functionality | + | We are already working on a solution to the problem. Unfortunately we |
- | \\ | + | cannot predict how long these repairs will take. Due to the nature |
- | ---- | + | the problem, it could be a longer process. |
- | ===== 2021-10-01: BigBlueButton service without slide functionality ===== | + | |
- | Probably as a result of yesterday' | + | Other services |
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- | ===== 2021-09-30: BigBlueButton service back online | + | ===== 2023-01-30: New transponder forms ===== |
- | Our BigBlueButton Instance is back online.\\ | + | There are new versions (V9) of all transponder forms available (German only). If you have saved the forms locally, please replace them with the current versions. You can find those as usual on our homepage: |
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- | ===== 2021-09-30: BigBlueButton service temporarily | + | ===== 2022-09-19: Poster printouts |
- | The load-balancing layer of our BigBlueButton Instance is temporarily unavailable. | + | We are unable to print your posters at the moment due to defective hardware in our poster plotter. Please utilize the similar service from the [[https:// |
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- | + | **Update (2022-10-05):** the plotter has been repaired, we resumed | |
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- | ===== 2021-09-17: overleaf back online ===== | + | |
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- | Overleaf is once again up and running. All Accounts need to be re-created due to the Database-Errors.\\ | + | |
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- | ===== 2021-08-06: unscheduled downtime | + | ===== 2022-09-15: Availability |
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- | Due to inconsistencies in the DB backend, the overleaf instance of the C.S.Dept. is down at the moment.\\ | + | |
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+ | In order to reduce power consumption, | ||
+ | More information can be found on the [[https:// | ||
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- | ===== 2021-07-27: unscheduled downtime of BigBlueButton, a b-it fileserver and some VMs ===== | + | ===== 2022-07-19: WiFi Certificate about to expire, replacement imminent |
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- | ** Update: All central services are by now fully available again. ** | + | |
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- | Due to problems with the storage backend of an older virtualization cluster, there are currently massive problems when using some VMs, in particular: | + | |
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- | * BigBlueButton Load Balancer (bbb.informatik.uni-bonn.de) | + | |
- | * a central file server of the B-IT | + | |
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- | as well as the machines | + | |
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- | * vm-wuebbel-01 | + | |
- | * sentry | + | |
- | * mail-info4 | + | |
- | * bbb4mm | + | |
- | * leonov | + | |
- | * inf1-srv-01 | + | |
- | * login.bit.uni-bonn.de | + | |
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- | The affected systems are immediately shut down completely in order to accelerate the repair of the affected storage backend. After repairs have been completed, the systems will be moved to a newer cluster in the short to medium term. | + | |
- | The central BigBlueButton IT service is also affected, | + | **UPDATE 2022-07-25: |
- | I apologize for the inconvenience, we are working on eliminating | + | As the current certificate used for our wifi authentication services is about to |
+ | expire, we will be updating to a new certificate soon. Your operating system could | ||
+ | be set up to notify you about this for security reasons. If this happens, you can | ||
+ | safely accept | ||
+ | the certificate fingerprints to the ones issued on our [[en: | ||
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+ | ===== 2022-07-15: E-Mail service computer science & b-it unavailable ===== | ||
- | ===== 2021-06-07 External Connectivity Issues ===== | + | **Update: The e-mail-service is restored.**\\ |
+ | The email addresses @informatik, | ||
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- | Last night and today in the morning we had some connectivity issues due to a problem with our uplink to the Hochschulrechenzentrum (HRZ). The HRZ has issued a maintenance report regarding this incident: | ||
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- | https:// | ||
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- | The problem has been solved by now. | ||
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- | ===== 2021-05-31 Loss of All Network Connectivity. | + | ===== 2022-04-05: Authentication Problems with Matrix Service |
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- | There has been a complete breakdown of all network connections | + | |
- | within computer science at about ~17:00 due to an error in the | + | |
- | Stack communication of our central router. Individual stack participants | + | |
- | got into repetitive reboot loops. We could find the source of the problem | + | |
- | and eliminate it. All services should be available again. | + | |
+ | After the last Update of the matrix Service, some users may have experienced problems logging into out matrix service. This problem is now fixed. Existing sessions were not affected by this problem.\\ | ||
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- | ===== 2021-05-14 Downtime Staffhomes I/ | + | ===== 2022-03-03: new Chat-Function on GSG-Supportpages |
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- | The staffhomes on these filesystems are available again, e.g. on login-staff: | + | As we are trying to further accomodate incoming support requests especially from students, we added a new chat function to this page to give you an opportunity to request aid directly from us without the need for a physical helpdesk. If this service is maintainable, |
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- | * /home/I | + | If you want to use the chat, just click on the blue bar on the bottom right part of the page footer.\\ |
- | * /home/II | + | |
- | * /labor/II | + | |
- | * /home/IV | + | |
- | * /home/V | + | |
- | * / | + | |
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- | ===== 2021-03-30: Overleaf Instance in the C.S.Dept./ | + | |
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- | For all users of the c.s. Dept and the B-IT, we are now maintaining | + | |
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- | More Informations about this [[en: | + | |
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- | ===== 2021-03-01: New SSH Login Servers | + | |
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- | We deployed two new ssh login servers for you: | + | |
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- | for staffers: login-staff.informatik.uni-bonn.de | + | |
- | for students: login-stud.informatik.uni-bonn.de | + | |
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- | The new fingerprints are available at the usual URL: | + | |
- | https:// | + | |
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- | The old servers will be available for you until friday (2021-03-05, | + | |
- | 9:00am). At that time we will shut them down and redirect their DNS | + | |
- | names to the new servers for some time to aid your migration there. | + | |
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