We are required to check the Emergency Power Off (EPO) button
in the machine room every few years. We discovered problems in
the October 2018 EPO test, which have now been addressed. A
number of outside vendors have been scheduled for the Tuesday
morning of 7/30/18. We expect the majority of systems
operational on or before 10am.
The Morse Hall network is no longer runs out of the Lenharth
Data Center (LDC), so wired and wireless networking should not
be interrupted. There are a number of services provided by LDC
servers that may significantly affect your desktop systems.
Common services include: NIS servers, storage server mounts, and
email servers.
The HPC servers and some non-production hardware will be
shutdown at the close of business on Monday 7/29. RCC staff
will begin graceful shutdown of all remaining systems around 6:30am on Tuesday 10/30. RCC
staff will bring systems back online and check functionality as
soon as the tests and repairs have been completed. We expect to
start powering up systems by 9am.
We encourage you to double check late Tuesday morning to
verify the services you use are functioning correctly. Please
let us know what to check for you if you will be unavailable on
Tuesday.
There is no perfect time to power down the data center. We
hope that giving more than a weeks notice and starting during
our normal early morning maintenance window provides the least
impact possible.
During the shutdown we will update the UNHRCC twitter feed.
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Robert E. AndersonUNH RCC
Associate Director
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