Message-Id: 202206301802
Time: June 30, 2022 since 5:45 pm
Affected: Applications and services with connection to the OpenLDAP directory service via ldap.gwdg.de/ldap2.gwdg.de
Impact: LDAP clients can only connect via SSL with the CA certificate chain of the GÉANT TCS PKI [...]
Author Archives: Roland Groh
Warning: Phishing e-mail in circulation
Message-Id: 202206241420
Time: since 24.06..2022
Affected: All GWDG users
Impact: Delivery of a phishing e-mail
There is currently another phishing e-mail in circulation. We especially want to draw attention to e-mails where the sender pretends to be a colleague or
Maintenance: Short-term maintenance of several BigBlueButton servers
Message-Id: 202206221122
Time: 22.06.2022
Affected: BigBlueButton users
Impact: Possible termination of meetings
Due to urgent maintenance work a part of the BigBlueButton
servers will be shut down in the near future. Affected are the servers c11
to c44. New meetings [...]
Update: Temporary rejection of emails with ZIP files as attachments revoked
Message-Id: 202206211700
Time: as of now
Affected: All e-mail users of the GWDG
Impact: Restrictions partially revoked
The emergency measure taken on June 14, 2022 due to an acute virus wave to refuse to receive emails containing ZIP files as [...]
Solved: Current Problems with the Survey Service
Message-Id: 202206221215
Time: 20.06.2022 12:24 – 17:45 o'clock
Affected: LimeSurvey
Impact: Missing survey answers are now restored
Responses given to surveys between 10:57 am and 1:45 pm have been successfully restored. For new surveys and edits to existing ones that [...]
Maintenance completed: Upgrade of GWDG Kubernetes service (Rancher)
Message-Id: 202206150908
Time: Thursday 16.06.2022 5:00pm – 7:00 pm.
Affected: Users of Rancher
Impact: Rancher GUI will be down and Rancher CLI won’t work. The Kubernetes CLI (kubectl)
and the hosted Kubernetes clusters not affected by the upgrade and will [...]
Changeover of server certificates on the OpenLDAP servers of the GWDG for ldap.gwdg.de/ldap2.gwdg.de on June 30, 2022
Message-Id: 202206151625
Time: Thursday 06/30/2022, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Affected: Applications and services with connection to the OpenLDAP directory service via ldap.gwdg.com/ldap2.gwdg.com
Impact: After the changeover, LDAP clients can only log in with the CA certificate chain of the [...]
Malfunction solved: Rocket.Chat, problem resolved regarding new logins
Message-Id: 202206141552
Period: 14.06.2022 15:00
Afflcited: Users of RocketChat
Impact: Login is possible again
The problem preventing new users to log into the service Rocket.Chat since Friday has been
resolved.
As part of the solution inactive accounts have been deactivated [...]
Information: Temporary rejection of e-mails with ZIP files as attachment
Message-Id: 202206141800
Time: With immediate effect
Affected: All e-mail users of the GWDG
Impact: Rejection of e-mails with attached ZIP files
The e-mail filters of the GWDG’s e-mail service are being set more restrictively due to a special threat situation. [...]
Solved: login.gwdg.de online again
Time: since 13.06.2022 9:00 am
Affected: users of login.gwdg.de
Impact: ssh login on login.gwdg.de possible again.
ssh login on login.gwdg.de is possible again. [...]
Information: Fehlerhafte Junk-Klassifizierung
Message-Id: 202206101810
Time: 10.06.2022, 4pm until 5:30pm
Affected: Users of GWDG Exchange (mail server)
Impact: Mails accidentally classified as junk.
Due to the misconfiguration of a transport rule in the exchange system, mails were accidentally classified as junk between 4pm [...]
Malfunction solved: Rancher service
Message-Id: 202206101236
Period: 10.06.2022 since 12:35 Uhr
Afflcited: Users of the Rancher service
Impact: Service is available again
The malfunction of the racher service was resolved and the service is available again.
Maintenance completed: vCenter Server Updates
Message-Id: 202206021738
Time: 02.06.2022 17:00 – 17:30
Affected: Users of the vCenter
Impact: Limited availability of the vCenter
The announced maintenance work on the vCenter of the GWDG has been successfully completed.
The vCenter is fully accessible again. [...]
Information: GWDG availability on 26.05.2022
Message-Id: 202205251315
Time: May 25th 2022
Affected: users of the GWDG
Impact: reduced availability of the GWDG
The GWDG service hotline will not be available by phone on May 25th, 2022.
If you would like to contact the GWDG on [...]
Partial outage fixed: WSUS
Message-Id: 202205181640
Time: 17.05.2022 16:00h -18.05.2022 16:30h
Affected: Downstream-Server and Clients at wsus.gwdg.de
Impact: Problem fixed
The WSUS service had limited availability from 05/17/2022 from 4pm until 05/18/2022 4:30pm.
The service is now fully available again.
We apologize for the [...]
Maintenance: ShareLaTeX/Overleaf on Fr 08-08:30 am
Message-ID: 202205181333
Time: 20.05.2022 08:00 – 8:30AM
Affected: ShareLaTeX/Overleaf
Impact: No file editing possible
For maintenance the service ShareLaTeX/Overleaf will be restarted Fr between 08-08:30 am
and briefly not available for 5-15 min.
The restart is necessary after a configuration [...]
Failure: WSUS-Service
Message-Id: 202205181131
Time: since 17.05.22 16:00
Affected: Downstream-Server and Clients at wsus.gwdg.de
Impact: Updates and Sync only partly possible [...]
Error: Loginservice
Message-Id: 202205161025
Time: Sa. 14.05. 09:30 – 16.05. 09:00
Affected:
Impact: Due to a certificate renewal, some services may encountered issues using our login infrastructure, which could have led to login problems at corresponding services. At least the login processes [...]
Update Collaboard
Message-Id: 202205051136
Time: Fri 6.5.2022,14:00 - 15:00
Affected: Collaboard users
Impact: Possibility of short interruptions of the service
We are performing an update of the Collaboard service. This may cause
short interruptions in the use of the service. [...]
Warning: Phishing e-mail in circulation
Message-Id: 202204281700
Time: since 28.04.2022
Affected: All GWDG users
Impact: Delivery of a phishing e-mail
There is currently another phishing e-mail in circulation. We especially want to draw attention to e-mails where the sender pretends to be a colleague or