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Adam Stone posted on Jan 13, 2014 Most IT services including many business systems, windows home directories, and collaboration tools will be offline this Friday (1/17) evening for four hours in order to upgrade storage hardware. This outage will also impact IT hosted websites including TABL … [Read more...] about Major IT Outage Scheduled for January 17

Adam Stone posted on Jan 03, 2014 On December 30th at approximately 12PM, fire alarm maintenance in the main networking data center resulted in an unexpected and unscheduled shutdown of all power to the datacenter including all backup power systems. This resulted in a temporary complete … [Read more...] about Unscheduled Outage Dec 30 2013

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

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

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 19, 2013 Some of our institutional systems will be unavailable Saturday due to electrical work in the IT Data Center. The planned outage window is from 12 noon to 5PM, although some applications will be impacted for a much shorter period of … [Read more...] about July 20 Data Center Maintenance

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

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

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

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Feb 07, 2013  Maintenance on UPS may impact Collaboration and File/Print Services The IT Infrastructure Dept has scheduled an maintenance window to upgrade a UPS.  The goal is to replace an aging unit with a new one.  This work may impact some IT Services. … [Read more...] about Planned Data Center Maintenance – 6:30 PM Feb 13, 2013

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Feb 07, 2013 Maintenance this Weekend Affects eBuy, TREX, PCard, and Other Financial Services Starting at 2 p.m Feb. 8 and continuing through the weekend, the Lab’s financial systems will be taken offline for maintenance. To prevent an online session from … [Read more...] about Financial Systems – Planned Outage: Feb 8-9