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IT Status

Status updates and reminders regarding IT-managed systems and applications. Check it-status.lbl.gov for more system and security notifications, including planned and unscheduled downtime and outages.

Major IT Outage Scheduled for Evening of December 13

Published on by Arica Chhay.

Adam Stone posted on Nov 27, 2013 Update: This work was completed on schedule. Most IT services including many business systems, windows home directories, and collaboration tools will be offline this Friday (12/13) evening for four hours in order to upgrade storage hardware. This outage … [Read more...] about Major IT Outage Scheduled for Evening of December 13

Outage Nov 6 2013

Published on by Arica Chhay.

Adam Stone posted on Nov 06, 2013 The failure of a piece of power distribution hardware in one the datacenters in building 50 led to a ~20 minute outage of key IT services on Nov 6.   Services impacted included www.lbl.gov, commons, some directory services, email delivery, and numerous other … [Read more...] about Outage Nov 6 2013

A look back at the “Spill the Hill” Check-in process

Published on by Arica Chhay.

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 16, 2013 Background On Thursday, July 11 at 2:30pm, the Lab conducted a real evacuation of the hill for selected buildings.  In parallel with this event, all lab employees were encouraged to check-in to report on their personal status as part of the … [Read more...] about A look back at the “Spill the Hill” Check-in process

HPC Resources Unavailable May 18th Weekend

Published on by Arica Chhay.

Gary M Jung posted on May 18, 2013 Most HPC resources including Lawrencium LR3 and other compute clusters in the Bldg 50B-1275 datacenter will be unavailable during the May 18 weekend due to facilities work to repair a leak in the cooling systems. Job scheduler reservations and reduced access … [Read more...] about HPC Resources Unavailable May 18th Weekend

Resolved – Data Center Power Outage April 29 12:30AM

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Adam Stone posted on Apr 29, 2013 An unscheduled power outage took all systems in the main LBNL datacenter down shortly after midnight on April 29.  Cascading impacts also impacted some services outside the datacenter.  Production business systems and most other services were restored by IT … [Read more...] about Resolved – Data Center Power Outage April 29 12:30AM

Resolved – Google Apps Outage April 17 2013

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Adam Stone posted on Apr 17, 2013 Update: This appears to be resolved as of ~6:20AM Pacific Google Apps Services (gmail, calendar, docs, etc) are down this morning due to issues at Google.  There is no ETA, though past experience suggests these outages have an average duration of < 1 … [Read more...] about Resolved – Google Apps Outage April 17 2013

If an email doesn’t seem right, it can be very wrong

Published on by Arica Chhay.

Jay Krous posted on Mar 14, 2013 Suspicious feeling leads IT’s Susan Green to report targeted attack Maybe it comes from working for 15 years in Berkeley Lab’s IT Division, but administrative assistant Susan Green likes to keep a close eye on her email, even those messages that end up in … [Read more...] about If an email doesn’t seem right, it can be very wrong

Planned Maintenance Outage – Enterprise Directory

Published on by Arica Chhay.

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Mar 07, 2013 We plan to take our enterprise directory service down at 10pm, Saturday March 9 for a 30 minute maintenance period.  This will impact all authentications to lab systems including cloud based services like Google.  For many, this service is … [Read more...] about Planned Maintenance Outage – Enterprise Directory

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