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====== News and Service Indications ====== | ====== News and Service Indications ====== | ||
- | Here you will find recent Information and service indications | + | Here you will find recent Information and Service Indications |
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- | ===== 2021-10-23: BigBlueButton Maintenance | + | ===== 2023-12-11: Eduroam was out or order ===== |
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- | **Update:** Das Upgrade wurde erfolgreich abgeschlossen. | + | < |
- | Starting at around 11:00 am, we will undergo a comprehensive upgrade | + | Members and students |
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- | ===== 2021-10-01: BigBlueButton slides and whiteboard functionality available again ===== | + | ===== 2023-12-12/13: TVS maintenance window |
- | a workaround for the problem has just been implemented; | + | < |
- | BBB meetings will not benefit from this yet, but the following ones | + | </ |
- | will once again have slides and whiteboard functionality. | + | |
- | Please note that the workaround may fail on some systems due to | + | This semester' |
- | cached redirects; if this happens on your browser, please clear all of your browser caches that are associated with the BBB nodes | + | |
- | bbb-node*.informatik.uni-bonn.de or use a alternative browser | + | |
- | in your standard browser have expired. | + | |
- | Thus, the full functionality of the BBB should | + | < |
+ | If you still need your data, please read them out before. This will also be possible afterwards, of course, </ | ||
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- | ===== 2021-10-01: BigBlueButton service without slide functionality | + | ===== 2023-08-07: Change |
- | Probably as a result of yesterday' | + | Today we did renew the certificate for our wifi infrastructure. At the same time we switched over to the new certification authority hosted by the DFN (GEANT, just like the HRZ did some days before, you may remember |
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- | ---- | + | This means that all wifi configurations of your devices that are used to |
- | ===== 2021-09-30: BigBlueButton service back online ===== | + | connect to the computer science dept. or the b-it (eduroam-cs and |
+ | 802.1X) have to be reconfigured to check for the new certificate/ | ||
+ | or CA. | ||
- | Our BigBlueButton Instance | + | You will find the current [[en: |
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+ | The VPN service | ||
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- | ===== 2021-09-30: BigBlueButton service temporarily unavailable | + | =====2023-07-14: Configuration change also for " |
- | The load-balancing layer of our BigBlueButton Instance | + | The [[https:// |
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- | ---- | + | According to HRZ, a connection with the old parameters **won' |
- | ===== 2021-09-17: overleaf back online ===== | + | |
- | Overleaf is once again up and running. All Accounts need to be re-created due to the Database-Errors.\\ | + | If you have an Informatics/ |
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+ | ===== 2023-07-10: Student printer (feder) malfunctioning ===== | ||
- | ---- | + | **Update:** The parts have been changed. |
- | ===== 2021-08-06: unscheduled downtime of overleaf ===== | + | |
- | Due to inconsistencies | + | The student printer |
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- | ===== 2021-07-27: unscheduled downtime of BigBlueButton, | + | ===== 2023-02-02: Wifi services unavailable |
- | ** Update: All central | + | **UPDATE (09:40h) : all wifi services are fully restored |
- | Due to problems with the storage backend of an older virtualization cluster, there are currently | + | We are currently |
+ | inside the whole building of the Computer Science Dept. and the B-IT due | ||
+ | to a failure of a central component. | ||
- | * BigBlueButton Load Balancer (bbb.informatik.uni-bonn.de) | + | We are already working on a solution to the problem. Unfortunately we |
- | | + | cannot predict how long these repairs will take. Due to the nature |
+ | the problem, it could be a longer process. | ||
- | as well as the machines | + | Other services are not affected by the disruption.\\ |
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+ | ===== 2023-01-30: New transponder forms ===== | ||
- | * vm-wuebbel-01 | + | There are new versions (V9) of all transponder forms available (German only). If you have saved the forms locally, please replace them with the current versions. You can find those as usual on our homepage: |
- | * sentry | + | \\ |
- | * mail-info4 | + | ---- |
- | * bbb4mm | + | ===== 2022-09-19: Poster printouts unavailable at the moment ===== |
- | * leonov | + | |
- | * inf1-srv-01 | + | |
- | * login.bit.uni-bonn.de | + | |
- | The affected systems | + | We are unable |
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- | The central BigBlueButton IT service is also affected, the individual BBB servers are available | + | **Update |
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- | I apologize for the inconvenience, | + | ---- |
+ | ===== 2022-09-15: Availability of Pool PCs during nighttime ===== | ||
+ | In order to reduce power consumption, | ||
+ | More information can be found on the [[https:// | ||
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+ | ===== 2022-07-19: WiFi Certificate about to expire, replacement imminent ===== | ||
- | ===== 2021-06-07 External Connectivity Issues ===== | + | **UPDATE 2022-07-25:** the certificate was successfully replaced. |
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- | Last night and today in the morning we had some connectivity issues due to a problem with our uplink to the Hochschulrechenzentrum (HRZ). The HRZ has issued a maintenance report regarding this incident: | + | |
- | https://www.hrz.uni-bonn.de/ | + | As the current certificate used for our wifi authentication services is about to |
+ | expire, we will be updating to a new certificate soon. Your operating system could | ||
+ | be set up to notify you about this for security reasons. If this happens, you can | ||
+ | safely accept the new certificate and make sure it is the right one by comparing | ||
+ | the certificate fingerprints to the ones issued on our [[en: | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | The problem has been solved by now. | ||
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- | ===== 2021-05-31 Loss of All Network Connectivity. | + | ===== 2022-07-15: E-Mail service computer science & b-it unavailable |
- | There has been a complete breakdown of all network connections | + | **Update: The e-mail-service is restored.**\\ |
- | within computer science at about ~17:00 due to an error in the | + | The email addresses @informatik, |
- | Stack communication of our central router. Individual stack participants | + | \\ |
- | got into repetitive reboot loops. We could find the source of the problem | + | |
- | and eliminate it. All services should be available again. | + | |
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- | ===== 2021-05-14 Downtime Staffhomes I/ | + | ===== 2022-04-05: Authentication Problems with Matrix Service |
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- | The staffhomes on these filesystems are available again, e.g. on login-staff: | + | |
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- | * /home/I | + | |
- | * /home/II | + | |
- | * /labor/II | + | |
- | * /home/IV | + | |
- | * /home/V | + | |
- | * / | + | |
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- | ===== 2021-03-30: Overleaf Instance in the C.S.Dept./ | + | |
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- | For all users of the c.s. Dept and the B-IT, we are now maintaining an overleaf instance for collaborative publishing. | + | |
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- | More Informations about this [[en: | + | |
+ | After the last Update of the matrix Service, some users may have experienced problems logging into out matrix service. This problem is now fixed. Existing sessions were not affected by this problem.\\ | ||
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- | ===== 2021-03-01: New SSH Login Servers | + | ===== 2022-03-03: new Chat-Function on GSG-Supportpages |
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- | We deployed two new ssh login servers for you: | + | As we are trying to further accomodate incoming support requests especially from students, we added a new chat function to this page to give you an opportunity to request aid directly from us without the need for a physical helpdesk. If this service is maintainable, |
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- | for staffers: login-staff.informatik.uni-bonn.de | + | If you want to use the chat, just click on the blue bar on the bottom right part of the page footer.\\ |
- | for students: login-stud.informatik.uni-bonn.de | + | |
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- | The new fingerprints are available at the usual URL: | + | |
- | https:// | + | |
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- | The old servers will be available for you until friday (2021-03-05, | + | |
- | 9:00am). At that time we will shut them down and redirect their DNS | + | |
- | names to the new servers for some time to aid your migration there. | + | |
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