posted August 15, 2014
On Wednesday, August 20, 2014, from 4:00am to 5:00pm, MSI systems will be part of a construction downtime and MSI staff will perform scheduled maintenance and upgrades to the network and various systems. The construction will be simultaneously mechanical and electrical work. The electrical work will require all MSI systems to be powered-off and unavailable during this period. Some key systems will remain online during the process but user (ssh) access to key systems will not be allowed until the electrical work is complete. The mechanical work will affect only the Itasca system and is expected to last until 5:00pm on August 20 and may be extended should any issues arise.
In addition to the site-wide outage, we will be performing the following updates:
• New resource manager versions for lab queue and Galaxy systems
• All infrastructure Linux systems will be updated and rebooted
• NICE drivers will be upgraded
• Network hardware will be replaced affecting all external network connections
Due to this late August downtime, we will skip the September downtime and our next scheduled maintenance will be on October 1.
Systems status is always available on our Status page.
If you have any questions, please email help@msi.umn.edu.