Fortress
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The Fortress Archive will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, May 31st, 2017 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. Fortress will return to full production by Wednesday, May 31st, 2017 at 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Fortress will have the Hig...
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The Fortress archival storage system is currently experiencing intermittent connectivity. We expect the situation to be resolved by approximately 1pm. UPDATE: Storage engineers have resolved the connectivity problems and Fortress is back in full prod...
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Degraded performance of several systems
We have seen a significant wave of these events this morning, September 21. For the most part, this wave seems to have been linked to a storage problem that has been resolved. However, we are implementing new monitoring and response procedures toda...
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Fortress will be unavailable from 8:00am to 9:00am Wednesday, 3 February, 2016 for routine maintenance.
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January 7, 2016, 6pm The Fortress move has completed and has been returned to production. Original Due to a failure in the notice system, the earlier attempts to notify of this work which were sent on Dec 7th and Jan 3rd were not delivered. The Fortr...
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The Fortress Archive service, Fortress, will be unavailable starting Wednesday, November 4th, 2015 at 6:00am EST for regular maintenance and will return at Wednesday, November 4th, 2015 at 8:00am EST. During this time, access via HSI, HTAR, Globus of...
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As of 11:55 pm August 18, 2015, Fortress/HPSS has been brought back online. Storage engineers continue working on bringing upgraded Fortress up and deploying new software to all RCAC systems. Current estimate for return to service: 12:00 am August 1...
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Fortress Service Unavailable June 23
The Fortress data archiving services will be unavailable starting 8:00AM on 23 June, 2015 due to a scheduled maintenance. During this outage, our storage engineers will: Upgrade hardware, and Configure RAID on the internal servers. Users are reques...
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Fortress Samba service has been restored as of 10:15am on Monday, June 8th. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused and thanks for your patience. Beginning Friday afternoon, the Fortress Samba mounts became unavailable due to an issue with...
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Diminished network connectivity to research computing resources
Due to a network issue at the Indiana GigaPOP, connectivity to RCAC resources from off campus is intermittent. Access to the research computing web site, Globus, Thinlinc, or other research computing resources may be impacted. To work around this iss...
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Fortress HPSS Software Upgrade
Update The issues with the HPSS upgrade have been resolved with assistance from the vendor and the system is now in normal operations. Anyone using HSI or HTAR from their personal systems will need to upgrade their client to the latest (version 5) c...
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Log in to Globus with your Purdue Career Account
ITaP Research Computing is pleased to announce the deployment of a Purdue-specific login page to manage your data transfers with Globus. Globus is a powerful and easy to use file transfer service that is ideal for transferring large data files virtua...
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UPDATE: Fortress was successfully returned to service as of 7:35 pm Wednesday, 15 July. As of 8:30am on July 15, 2014, the Fortress HPSS Archive is unavailable due to a hardware issue. Access to Fortress via HSI, HTAR, Globus, or CIFS is not availabl...
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Fortress HPSS Archive Maintenance
The IBM T3584 tape library serving Fortress is scheduled to be down Wednesday, March 19, 2014 from 8AM to 5PM for a hardware upgrade. Additional tape capacity and tape drives will be added to support increased demand. HPSS will remain accessible, ne...
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The Fortress HPSS Archive is offline due to issues with their storage systems relating to the power loss on the West Lafayette campus in the wake of the severe weather Sunday night. Engineers are investigating the problem now, but until this is reso...
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Fortress HPSS Archive Unavailable
Update - 10:15 am Fortress is back in full production. Original Message: As of 8:00am, Thursday, September 19, the Fortress HPSS is temporarily unavailable due to issues with communicating with its tape drives. Storage engineers are working to return...
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Resolved: As of about 4:45pm ET, the connectivity issue affecting the Fortress archive has been resolved. The HPSS archive is back in full production. If you encounter any issues, please contact us at rcac-help@purdue.edu Update: ITaP Storage Enginee...
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Updated, 3/29/2013 During the datacenter migration the core server for the Fortress HPSS system experienced a failure with its boot device. Vendor engineers are working on the issue, and as a result, the estimate to Fortress's return to production ha...
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ADIC Scalar 10k tape library maintenance
From 8:00am-12pm on Friday, September 7, 2012, the ADIC Scalar 10K library serving the Fortress archive will be unavailable while emergency preventative maintenance is performed. Fortress will still be able to write files into HPSS, and files already...
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Scheduled Maintenance - August 2012
In August 2012, some RCAC systems will be down for maintenance for up to three days in order to accommodate electrical service and chilled water upgrades in the Math building and OS and scheduler upgrades on the systems. Planned Maintenance Timelin...