The email system update is underway. It is taking somewhat longer than expected and will probably be up by 1pm.
Email system update on Wednesday, July 13 at 11am
July 11, 2016 by
The departmental email server will be upgraded, starting at 11am on Wednesday July 13, 2016. We expect that the upgrade will take about one hour.
The new server will have stronger security and updated software. The web client, squirrelmail, will be slightly newer and there seem to be no significant changes in its behaviour. Access to our email system by the POP3 protocol will no longer be supported (an email about this was sent more than 3 weeks ago to affected users).
After the update please let requests@math.toronto.edu know if you discover any problems.
Updates at 4:15pm on Wednesday May 18, 2016
May 18, 2016 by
The departmental servers coxeter and the mail, web, share, ptr, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied on Wednesday afternoon, May 18, 2016 which will require rebooting (most servers will be unavailable starting at 4:15pm). Since some updates will be applied while the servers are still up there may be some temporary issues with some software. We hope that any such issues will be minor and by doing most of the upgrading before bringing systems down the shorter downtime will be worth the potential minor problems. Please restart any programs if you observe problems during the upgrades (and please let us know at requests@math.toronto.edu, so we can investigate). We expect the systems to be back up by 5:00pm.
coxeter update on 2016mar30 was successful
March 31, 2016 by
coxeter appears to be working fine after the update.
Networking updates on 2016mar16 were successful
March 16, 2016 by
The departmental networking appears to be working fine after the updates.
Server updates on 2016mar16 were successful
March 16, 2016 by
The departmental servers appear to be working fine after the updates.
Updates at 3pm on Wednesday March 16, 2016
March 16, 2016 by
The departmental mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied on Wednesday afternoon, March 16, 2016 which will require rebooting (this will be done during the 3pm-5pm time for the network upgrades). Since some updates will be applied while the servers are still up there may be some temporary issues with some software. We hope that any such issues will be minor and by doing most of the upgrading before bringing systems down the shorter downtime will be worth the potential minor problems. Please restart any programs if you observe problems during the upgrades (and please let us know at requests@math.toronto.edu, so we can investigate). We expect the systems to be back up by 5:00pm.
Networking updates on 2016mar16 from 3pm-5pm
March 16, 2016 by
The main departmental networking infrastructure will be upgraded in the afternoon of Wednesday March 16 from 3pm until 5pm. During this time there will be a few network outages (which should be less than about 5 minutes in total for a particular machine) as the switches connecting desktop computers are moved and as the main departmental servers are moved to new connections to the University backbone. The new connection will provide redundancy for desktop computers and (in the future) for some of the main servers. The new connection to the University backbone will run at 10Gbps so that transferring large files will be faster.
Server updates on 2016feb10 were successful
February 10, 2016 by
The departmental servers appear to be working fine after the updates.
Updates at 4:15pm on Wednesday February 10, 2016
February 9, 2016 by
The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, share, ptr, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied on Wednesday afternoon, February 10, 2016 which will require rebooting (most servers will be unavailable starting at 4:15pm). Since some updates will be applied while the servers are still up there may be some temporary issues with some software. We hope that any such issues will be minor and by doing most of the upgrading before bringing systems down the shorter downtime will be worth the potential minor problems. Please restart any programs if you observe problems during the upgrades (and please let us know at requests@math.toronto.edu, so we can investigate). We expect the systems to be back up by 5:00pm.
