Die GWDG und ownCloud, Anbieter der gleichnamigen Digital-Collaboration-Lösung, unterstützen digitales Lernen während der Corona-Krise. Mit der „Academic Cloud“ bietet die GWDG im Auftrag des Landes Niedersachsen schon seit Längerem eine unentgeltliche Kollaborationsplattform für die Studierenden und Mitarbeiter*innen [...]
Message-Id: 202003301633
Time: 30.03.2020, about 14:20 to 16:20
Affected: users of RocketChat
Impact: RocketChat was temporarily not accessible
Eine eigentlich als transparent angesehene Konfigurationsänderung hat heute Morgen zu einer Überlastung des Rocket.Chat Clusters geführt. Die Überlastung ist behoben und der [...]
Message-Id: 202003301435
Time: since ca. 2:20 pm
Affected: All users
Impact: Rocket.Chat is temporarily not accessible
The service chat.gwdg.de is temporarily not accessible. We are working on a solution. [...]
Message-Id: 202003301328
Time: 30.03.2020
Affected: Users of UNIX Fileservice
Impact: UNIX Fileservice unavailable
The malfunction has been resolved. [...]
Message-Id: 202003301226
Time: 30.03.2020 since 12:15 PM
Affected: Users of UNIX Fileservice
Impact: UNIX Fileservice unavailable
The UNIX file service is subject to a malfunction and is currently not available.
We are working on a solution. [...]
In order to simplify the access to videoconferencing services for our users, now also Zoom as well as Cisco WebEx are connected to our single sign-on infrastructure. This enables users to log on to the services with their home account [...]
Message-Id: 202003261830
Time: since 26.03.2020, ca. 6:00 pm
Affected: Users of Persistent Identifier Consortiums for eResearch
Impact: PID resolution might slow down
A mirror server of the Persistent Identifier Consortium for eResearch (vm08.pid.gwdg.de) is subject to a malfunction and is [...]
Message-Id: 202003261200
Time: 12 - 3 PM
Affected: RocketChat
Impact: all user
There was an unexpected high ammount of new connections that cannot be explained by the elevated usage during the last days.
Following that the backend systems of rocket.chat [...]
Message-Id: 202003261200
Time: 12:00 PM
Affected: RocketChat
Impact: all user
The service chat.gwdg.de is currently experiencing a malfunction. The colleagues are already looking for the error and try to get the service up and running again as soon as possible. [...]
In order to simplify the use of alternative video conferencing services, we have implemented a connector between the Cisco WebEx service and our single sign-on solution. This allows employees and students of the University of Göttingen as well as employees [...]
As part of the current COVID-19 crisis, we are currently evaluating possible e-learning scenarios together with the e-learning service team of the University of Göttingen.
We are currently focussing on BigBlueButton an open source video conferencing tool that, in [...]
The current COVID-19 situation affects science and teaching to a large effect. Many employees and students have to work from home. The usual procedures are not always available and need to be adapted. In order to provide you with the [...]
Message-Id: 202003171643
Time: 17.03.2020
Affected: Azure users with @uni-goettingen.de account
Impact: Loss of access to services and data
We have discovered that an Azure Tenant of the University of Göttingen was illegally set up at Microsoft and linked to the [...]
Due to the current pandemic situation, the use of videoconferencing tools for mobile working is expected to increase significantly in the coming days and weeks. We are therefore currently working intensively on the provision of alternative services in order to [...]
Due to the current pandemic situation, a strong increase in the use of VPN and videoconferencing is expected in the coming days and weeks, and we are currently working intensively on alternative offers. In the area of videoconferencing, we are [...]
Message-Id: 202003161225
Time: from Tuesday, Mar 17th
Affected: all users
Impact: data center closed
Due to the current pandemic situation, the GWDG data center will be closed from/on Tuesday, Mar 17th, 2020. Personal access for users to the computer center, [...]
The Aleph server (https://aleph.mpg.de) is down and cannot be used at the moment. We are working on restoring the service as soon as possible. [...]
The Aleph server (https://aleph.mpg.de) is down and cannot be used at the moment. We are working on restoring the service as soon as possible. [...]
Message-Id: 202003121410
Time: 13.03.2020, 21:00 Uhr
Affected: Exchange Users
Impact: no impact
The certificate actualisation was finished successfully. [...]
The March issue of the GWDG News has just been published.
It contains among others the following topics:
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