The number of webmail licenses was exceeded. The user list was reset, and this cleared the problem.
Due to this action, all address books were inadvertently deleted.
Unfortunately the backup failed as well.
This does not affect email data itself, only the webmail address books.
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The directory server, charon, was down briefly becuase of a misconfiguration in its IP address. This was caused by some upgrade work necessary to the implementation of the new mail server.
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The external and internal DNS servers were reconfigured to take SOA for chsg.org, a history society that Mark Largent (History Dept.) is working with.
SCYLD was promoted to domain controller in ACADEMIA. The procedure went very smoothly. About one hour after promotion, the RID attributes on the primary controller were updated, and the problem was cleared.
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See Account Management in ACADEMIA Fails IV – Problem fixed (April 16, 2003) for a description of why this was done.
During a modification of the syslog setting on the PIX firewall it hung, blocking all outbound/inbound network traffic for approximately 15 minutes. The rule base was determined to be correct, and the PIX was reset with a hard-reboot. Network traffic was restored.
Account creations in the ACADEMIA domain began failing. Attempts to create accounts or add computers to the domain hung the operations master for the domain. This caused slow roaming profile loading across the domain. It became necessary to reboot the operation masters.
The main and mcintyre subnet sections of the dhcpd.conf file on the DHCP server were reconfigured to use porthos and alexandria for WINS instead of merlin. This is a change to test the new WINS configuration.
Automatic monthly Apache log rotation was set up on the main web server, www.ups.edu.
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In preparation for Registration nex week, SHASTA and WHITNEY, the Cascade application servers, were rebooted.
The PIX firewall was reconfigured to allow outside access to ports 5000 through 5350 on library.ups.edu (the Library web server). This is for a second instance of the ezproxy application.
Jim and Larry reconfigured the Trimble Hall network topology to simplify troubleshooting in the future. The switch stacks on the first floor now feed directly to the basement MDF, whereas before, the switch stacks were daisy chained.
The move of data from Merlin to Merlin2 is now complete. Merlin has been decomissioned from file sharing.
Becuase of a change to Cas9i, the Cascade web server, shasta served a blank home page. The script that created that page was pointed to the wrong database instance. The error was corrected.
Jeremy was able to automate backups on the Windows 2000 systems with a scheduled script. This will allow us to start backups on these systems later, and avoid some problems we’ve been having with open files.