Article #764: Fortress Archive Upgrade
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 d...
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Article #763: 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 stor...
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Article #760: Fortress Samba unavailable
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 pat...
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Article #715: 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 si...
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Article #686: 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 H...
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Article #666: Fortress Archive Unavailable
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 un...
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Article #643: 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...
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Article #621: Fortress Archive Down
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 t...
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Article #609: 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 unavai...
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Article #585: Unscheduled Fortress Outage
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....
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Article #575: Fortress tape library upgrade
Updated, 3/29/2013 During the datacenter migration the core server for the Fortress HPSS system experienced a failure with its boot device. Vendor eng...
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Article #547: 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 preventati...
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Article #538: 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 upgr...
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Article #524: Unscheduled HPSS outage
Update - April 11, 2012 240pm At around 240pm, ITaP engineers have restored communications between the HPSS system and the tape library. Access to For...
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Article #507: Fortress: ADIC Scalar 10k tape robot unavailable (1/4/2012)
Update - 1/9/2012 The repairs to the ADIC tape library have been completed and Fortress' tape functionality is back in operation. Update - 1/6/2012 Fo...
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Article #503: Fortress: ADIC Scalar 10k tape robot unavailable
Update 12/2/11 (4:15pm) The tape robot has been returned to service and Fortress is back in production. Please contact us at rcac-help@purdue.edu if y...
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Article #485: Fortress archive upgrade to HPSS
UPDATE: Archive Conversion moved to Oct. 7-14 Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) is upgrading the research computing archival storage system Fort...