Fortress
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January 7, 2016, 6pm The Fortress move has completed and has been returned to production. Original Due to a failure in the notice system, the earlier attempts to notify of this work which were sent on Dec 7th and Jan 3rd were not delivered. The Fortr...
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Fortress will be unavailable from 8:00am to 9:00am Wednesday, 3 February, 2016 for routine maintenance.
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Degraded performance of several systems
We have seen a significant wave of these events this morning, September 21. For the most part, this wave seems to have been linked to a storage problem that has been resolved. However, we are implementing new monitoring and response procedures toda...
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The Fortress archival storage system is currently experiencing intermittent connectivity. We expect the situation to be resolved by approximately 1pm. UPDATE: Storage engineers have resolved the connectivity problems and Fortress is back in full prod...
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The Fortress Archive will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, May 31st, 2017 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. Fortress will return to full production by Wednesday, May 31st, 2017 at 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Fortress will have the Hig...
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The issues with Globus have been resolved, and the Fortress archive is fully restored to normal operations. This concludes this maintenance. Update: July 19, 2017 9:36pm: The work on Fortress has been completed and it is in normal production for al...
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The Fortress archive will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, August 17th, 2017 at 8:00am, for regular maintenance and will return to full production that day by 5:00pm. During this maintenance, Fortress will have some availability features and fir...
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The Fortress Archive will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, September 27th, 2017 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. Fortress will return to full production by Wednesday, September 27th, 2017 at 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Fortress will...
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The Fortress Archive will be unavailable from Wednesday, October 18, 2017 from 8:00am - 9:00am EDT, for regular monthly maintenance. During this time, Fortress will have normal backups made and a fiber link upgraded.
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Fortress will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, November 15th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for scheduled maintenance. Fortress will return to full production by Wednesday, November 15th, 2017 at 5:00pm EST. During this time, Fortress will have the under...
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The Fortress Archive will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 6th, 2017 at 8:30am EST, for scheduled monthly maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, December 6th, 2017 at 10:30am EST. During this time, Fortre...
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The Fortress archive is unavailable due to a datacenter power issue. Datacenter facilities staff are currently investigating, however, at this time there is no estimate for a return to service.
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The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, April 4, 2018 from 8:00am - 11:00am EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance. During this time, Fortress will receive normal updates and have some work done on its battery backup system. Any work which...
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The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, June 27, 2018 from 8:00am – 5:00pm for partial physical relocation. During this time, Fortress will receive normal updates and also have a portion of the servers which support it physically relocate...
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The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, July 11, 2018 from 8:00am - 10:00am EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance. During this time, Fortress will receive normal updates and have some work done on its battery backup system. Any work which...
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The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Saturday, October 27, 2018 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT for regular updates and work on the high-availability switchover system. This will require a longer maintenance than typical monthly Fortress maintenance. A...
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Unscheduled Fortress Archive Outage
The Fortress Archive was undergoing routine monthly maintenance at 8:00am EST when it suffered a failure of the internal database. Engineers are working with the vendor to repair the database and restore service as soon as possible. Until then, any a...
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A power event around 8:40 am this morning affected all Research Computing resources, along with networking, and other resources around campus. Networking is offline making all resources inaccessible. Networking is slowly coming back online around 9:3...
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Fortress began experiencing issues around 11:15am EST. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. We will provide an update by 4:00pm.
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The Fortress tape archive began experiencing issues with Globus and HSI access around 2:30pm EDT on Sunday, March 10th, 2019. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working with the vendor to identify a fix. We will provide an update by...