Student assistants wanted
in Top News
The GWDG´s working group “Nutzerservice und Betriebsdienste” is looking for two student assistants.
Student assistants wanted
Warning: Phishing Mails circulating
in Operating news
Message-Id: 201512211411
Time: 21.12.2015, 2:11 p.m.
Affected: Users of University of Göttingen
Impact: Logon credentials may get spied
Currently emails are posted, which pretend to be send from GWDG or Göttingen University und which are prompting the recipients to enter [...]
Season´s Greetings
in Top News
We wish all our users a Merry Christmas, a good start in the New Year and for 2016 a lot of luck, happiness, success and health. [...]
Information: GWDG Cloud Share: eduroam login disabled, LDAP logins with e-mail alias now possible
in Operating news
Message-Id: 201512181832
Time: 18.12.2015, 6:32 p.m.
Impact: GWDG Cloud Share
Affected: “GWDG Cloud Share” with an eduroam account has been disable, every e-mail alias can now be used for logging into the service together with the password of that account [...]
Information: Opening times of the data centre around Christmas and New Year
in Operating news
Message-Id: 201512171430
Time: 24.12.2015 – 03.01.2016
Affected: Customers of GWDG
Impact: Restricted opening times of the data centre and accessibility of the service hotline
The data centre of the GWDG is closed from 24.12.2015 to 27.12.2015 and from 31.12.2015 to [...]
Warning: printers are currently abused
in Operating news, Security
Message-Id: 201512161600
Time: 16.12.2015, 16:00
Affected: Printers within the IP range of 134.76.0.0/16
Impact: Hundreds of pages are printed full of nonsense
Currently printers in the University of Göttingen are attacked: A user “admin” sends printjobs [...]
Information: Restricting of UNIX-Mail service “mailer.gwdg.de” or “mailer.mpg.de” for general user operation
in Email, Operating news
Message-Id: 201512120900
Time: 16.12.2015, 9:00 am
Affected: Users of UNIX-Mail servers “mailer.gwdg.de” or “mailer.mpg.de” (not Exchange!)
Impact: Gradual limitation of Sending E-mails
Sending of e-mails through UNIX-Mail server “mailer.gwdg.de” or “mailer.mpg.de” for general user operations will be gradually limited. In [...]
Information: Enhanced Spam- and Virus Filtering
in Email, Operating news
Message-Id: 201512121500
Time: 15.12.2015, 3:00 p.m.
Affected: Users of Spam- and Virus Filter Services, specially users with e-mail addresses “@gwdg.de”
Impact: Enhanced Spam- and Virus Filtering
To improve Spam- and Virus Filtering Services, new filtering instances have been set up [...]
SharePoint maintenance completed
in Operating news
Time: 10.12.2015, 5:00 p.m. – 10.12.2015 12:00 p.m.
Affected: SharePoint farm
Impact: All site colllections are not available
Urgent Update of SharePoint
As announced GWDG SharePoint Farm maintenance has been carried out and has successfully been finished. All site collections [...]
Information: Data center closed due to staff meeting
in Operating news
Message-Id: 201512101445
Time: 12-14-2015, 10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Affected: Customers of GWDG
Impact: User areas and printer inaccessible, telephone hotline unreachable
Due to a staff meeting the data center will be closed during the period mentioned above. Furthermore, the [...]
Discontinuation of eduroam authentication for GWDG Cloud Share
in Operating news
Up until now it was possible to sign in to the GWDG Cloud Share service with an eduroam account from your home institution.
This possibility will be disabled on Thursday, 17 Dez.
* What happens to your account and your [...]
Upgrade of ipam.gwdg.de on 12/10/2015
in Operating news
Dear users,
during our maintenance sheudule on thursday, Dec. 10 at 5pm, the IPAM system (ipam.gwdg.de) will be upgraded from version 4.0.6 to 8.0 and is therefore not available for approx. 1 hour.
The DNS- and DHCP-services won’t be affected. [...]
Dezember issue of the GWDG News published
in Top News
The Dezember issue of the GWDG News has just been published.
It contains among others the following topics:
- Optimization of StorNext environment
- New Aleph version 22 online
- VMware – five steps to your virtual machine
- Usage of Liferay permission system
Resolved: [HPC-Cluster] Power outage in main facility
in Operating news
Dear users,
today we have a power outage in our HPC main facility in FMZ. This also
leads to unusability of the clusters located at Fassberg, since they
depend on filesystems from FMZ.
I’m very sorry for this, I try [...]
Power failure on several sites
in Operating news
Due to a power outage on our sites at the SUB and Fernmeldezentrale, some services may be interrupted. [...]
Störung im Mailverkehr
in Operating news
Heute gegen 16:10 Uhr und 16:30 Uhr ist es für jeweils ca. 5 Minuten aufgrund einer Fehlkonfiguration zu einer Störung im Mailverkehr gekommen. Dabei wurden versehentlich alle E-Mails abgelehnt.
Wir bitten, die Unannehmlichkeiten zu entschuldigen. [...]
SharePoint Maintenance on December 10th, 2015
in Operating news
Time: 10.12.2015, 5:00 p.m. – 10.12.2015 12:00 p.m.
Affected: SharePoint farm
Impact: All SiteColllections will not be available
Urgent Update of SharePoint
Between 10.12.2015, 5:00 p.m and approx. 12:00 p.m. the GWDG SharePoint farm will be under maintenance. In order [...]
Canceled: SharePoint Maintenance on December 4th, 2015
in Operating news
Due to a power outage, the maintenance of SharePoint Farm is rescheduled to 10.12.2015.
Störung des Parallelrechnerbetriebes für Uni-Mitarbeiter
in Operating news
Wegen einer Dateisystemstörung ist die Nutzung der Parallelrechner für Uni-Mitarbeiter zur Zeit nicht möglich [...]
[1511231625] Maintenance completed : Maintenance Window on December 3rd, 2015
in Operating news
Time: 03.12.2015, 5:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.
Affected: Trouble-Ticket-System OTRS
Impact: Ticket processing delayed, web interface unaccessable
Update of trouble ticket system OTRS
As announced GWDG trouble ticket system (OTRS) maintenance has been carried out and has successfully been finished. [...]