I have recorded Alexandria crashes at:
11 AM on Monday 10/22
11:50 AM on Tuesday 10/23
4:25 PM on Tuesday 10/23
1:15 PM on Wednesday 10/24
10/22/2007 – Alexandria freezes and reboots
Beginning on Wednesday, October 17, Alexandria started freezing, sometimes rebooting itself, and sometimes requiring a manually-forced reboot. We don’t know what is causing this behavior. One possible cause is a RAID firmware upgrade recommended by Dell. This was done on October 10, one week before.
There are no log entries or any other indications of what might be wrong.
At this point we are going to watch the system to try and determine the frequency of the incidents. We may wish to schedule a rollback of the RAID firmware.
Serious Ingeniux outage
Today the pages on the main university web server began to fail due to problems with the Ingeniux CMS system. The CMS system itself could not be started to correct this issue. As a result, the contents on the CMS had be restored from backup. Unfortunately, changes made to the website from within the CMS may have been lost. If you have lost content, it may be possible to restore it. Please contact Jean Huskamp at x3773 for more information.
Internet performance issues
We are experiencing reduced round trip times to the internet. This is effecting browsing and downloading of files. I am working with Cisco to find the cause and resolve it as soon as possible. You may notice messages when trying to browse to some websites “unable display page”. We are experiencing unusually heavy data traffic, which has brought these issues to the surface. We will work through the problems and keep you posted.
09/10 Camano Failure
Camano failed due to process and memory overload caused by a failure to properly process bounceback messages from CRM.
1/27/2007 DB upgrade on Crystal
Upgraded DB 9.2.0.6 to DB 9.2.0.8
3/3/2007 Applied Oracle Critical Patch
Crital Patch cpuJan07
3/3/2007 DB Upgrade on Rainier
upgraded 9.2.0.6 db to 9.2.0.8 db
8/2/2007 Applied Oracle CPUJuly2007 & 5671676 Patches
Applied Oracle CPUJuly2007 & 5671676 Patches to 9.2.0.9 Database and its Instances ( Ridge, Summit, Ban9id, Ban9it, Crm11id, Fam9id, Fam9it, Mildemo, Rcat, Tools9i) on Crystal server.
8/24 Securing Database on Crystal
Limited sysdba login , Secured Other Oracle Executables, Configured Oracle binary permissions.
Changed the category 4 passwords on Cascade (schemas)
Changed the category 4 passwords on Cascade (schemas), bjp, and their dependents throughopout the system.
8/18/2007 Applied Oracle CPUJuly2007 & 5671676 Patches
Applied Oracle CPUJuly2007 & 5671676 Patches to 9.2.0.9 Database and its Instances ( Cascade, Banner, Basis9i, Crm11ip, Famis9i, Mil9ip, Prcat) on Rainier and Whidbey servers.
8/10/2007 VPN Concentrator has been reconfigured to allow connections from PPTP/L2TP clients
The University’s VPN concentrator is now configured to allow connections from PPTP, L2TP, or L2TP/IPSec clients. Because of this reconfiguration, the Microsoft VPN client can now be used to connect to the University’s VPN. Encryption will be required when using these protocols.
Because of IPSec’s superior encryption methods, the use of an IPSec VPN client is still the recommended way to connect.
BJP Changes to Production
3 changes have been moved to production today:
1-bug fix to kill job routine
2-bug fix to calling of runrep commands
3-support for duplex printing
BJP Modification
A bug was fixed in BJP to allow users to kill jobs.