IT Announcements

WIND Authentication Outage

Between approximately 8:05 and 9:50 this morning, some WIND authenication became unavailable. CUIT engineers worked to resolve the issue. WIND is currently operating normally.

Submitted by mahdad on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 11:51

mstorec2 repaired

Mstorec2 ras repaired with all four CPUs running and was back up at about 12:30PM

Submitted by rgb on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 13:11

mstorec2 emergency downtime

Mstorec2 has to come down immediately to replace a failed CPU. Sorry for the short notice.

Submitted by rgb on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 10:39

Mail Forwarding and Vacation Setup

Users on the "new" mail server will need to use Ingo (similar to the CUIT systems) to either forward your mail, OR to set up a vacation message.

Submitted by tnt on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 00:36

Email Server Maintenance

Maintenance on the mail server starting Tuesday, September 20, ~1:30 AM did not
go as planned. The email directory service was damaged and had to be restored.

Submitted by tnt on Tue, 09/20/2011 - 09:28

mail filters not working Wed May 4, 10:46 to 13:11

If you are on the new main LDEO mail server, and have set up mail filters using the new WEB interface at

Submitted by tnt on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 12:32

/data/dstore1 (/data/mstore) is online read-only

Read-only access to /data/dstore1 (/data/mstore) is back. A hardware adapter for disk drives was replaced.

Submitted by tnt on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 15:49

The mass store service partly restored

Mass store filesystems /data/dstore2 (/data/ocg), /data/dstore3, and /data/dstor4 are up.

/data/dstore1 remains down for now.

Submitted by tnt on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 09:13

mass store remains down into Tuesday, April 26

The mass store (dstore and its filesystems) remains down - hardware maintenance was not completed Monday.

Submitted by tnt on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 16:12

mass store down Monday, April 25, 10:00 AM - 4:00PM

The mass store (dstore and its filesystems) will be down for hardware maintenance Monday, April 25, 10:00 AM - 4:00PM.

Submitted by tnt on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 05:42

Web connectivity has been restored.

The UPS, that powered our web stack, completely collapsed on Monday around 6:30pm. This caused the shutdown of our web infrastructure completely. The lamont website, tomcat server, weba

Submitted by mahdad on Mon, 04/18/2011 - 21:29

Partial E-Mail outage - Fixed

One of the mail backend servers is currently inaccessible due to a disk problem. We are in the process of repairing the disk. Some of the ldeo users that are on this mail server can not

Submitted by mahdad on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 08:57

mass store status

The mass store robot is repaired. File systems are up with the caveat that /data/mstore (also referred to as /data/dstore1) is read-only.

Submitted by tnt on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 17:02

increased WAN bandwidth

Over the past several months the work to design, purchase, install, configure and test a new 500Mbit data circuit, new routers and new firewall has progressed.

Submitted by rgb on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 14:19