GWDG – IT in der Wissenschaft
As already announced in GWDG news 12/2022, our own Mastodon instance for AcademicCloud opens its doors today. All institutions and partners in the AcademicCloud network (institutes and universities in Lower Saxony, all Max Planck institutes and other selected partners) can use the service directly: https://academiccloud.social. Mastodon is a social media platform that has been increasingly … Read more
With our scheduled maintenance of https://gwdg.de and https://academiccloud.de on 12/15/2022 starting at 5 pm, a new account management website has been released. At https://id.academiccloud.de, we now provide a centralized way to manage account settings and enable additional services. The main innovation is the ability to set up two-factor authentication for logging in via our single … Read more
[sc name=”head_betriebsmeldungen_en” message_id=”202208251101″ time=”25.8.2022, 5pm – 7pm” affected=”whiteboard.academiccloud.de users” impact=”Possibility of short interruptions of the service” ][/sc] We are performing an update of the Collaboard service. This may cause short interruptions in the use of the service.
[sc name=”head_betriebsmeldungen_en” message_id=”202207010910″ time=”Friday 1st of july” affected=”Collaboard users” impact=”collaboard is now available” ][/sc] The problem has been fixed and logging in to Collaboard is possible again.
[sc name=”head_betriebsmeldungen_en” message_id=”202207010910″ time=”Friday 1st of july” affected=”Collaboard users” impact=”possibility of short interruptions of the service” ][/sc] Due to a change of certificates at the academic cloud authentication service[1] it is currently not possible to login at our whiteboard service under https://whiteboard.academiccloud.de. We are working on a fast solution for the problem. [1] https://info.gwdg.de/news/wartungsarbeiten-beendet-zertifikatsumstellung-fuer-sso-academiccloud-de/
[sc name=”head_betriebsmeldungen_en” message_id=”202206281705″ time=”30.06.2022, 5 pm” affected=”logins at sso.academiccloud.de” impact=”none” ][/sc] The certificate change was successful and the login is available again. Please also notice the gitlab maintance: https://info.gwdg.de/news/wartung-gitlab/
[sc name=”head_betriebsmeldungen_en” message_id=”202206281705″ time=”30.06.2022, 5 pm” affected=”logins at sso.academiccloud.de” impact=”login on services are temporarily not possible” ][/sc] On Thursday, June 30 at 5:00 p.m. there will be a certificate changeover for the Academic Cloud login service. During the changeover, there may be brief interruptions in logging in to the following services: – Pad – Filesender … Read more
[sc name=”head_betriebsmeldungen_en” message_id=”202206211038″ time=”21.06.2022 since 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.” affected=”Users of ownCloud” impact=”ownCloud is available” ][/sc] The GWDG ownCloud is available again since 11:30 a.m. The reason for the outage was more than 4200 simultaneous accesses to a publicly shared, large file. This led to a very high load on the infrastructure. We apologize … Read more