Departmental IT Status Information

Older status page information has been moved to oldstatus so that this page could be made easier to read and more up-to-date. New information will continue to be added near the top of this page.

March 26, 2008

All systems are working normally after the reboot.

March 26, 2008

mail and www are working again. coxeter will take about another 10 minutes to configure the new printing system.

March 25, 2008

The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, www, and mail will be rebooted at 4:15pm tomorrow (Wednesday) as is normally scheduled. Some changes will be made to configurations and UPS connections. We expect that the servers will be back online by 5pm.

March 21, 2008

Printing is working again.

March 21, 2008

There was an unscheduled power outage in Bahen on Thursday evening that lasted until early Friday morning. There may have been a second outage early this morning or some other problem at that time. Currently the departmental servers coxeter, sphere, mail, and www are back online. Printing problems are currently being investigated.

March 19, 2008

The reboots of coxeter, sphere, and mail appear to have taken place without incident.

March 19, 2008

Reminder: coxeter, sphere, and mail will be rebooted today at approximately 4:15pm. We expect that the machines should be back online before 5pm. The web server, www, should not be affected.

March 18, 2008

Due to a broken peering agreement between Cogent (UofT's non-research network provider) and Telia some European (mostly northern) websites are currently unreachable from UofT.

March 14, 2008

In order to apply security updates coxeter will be rebooted on Wednesday at 4:15pm.

March 10, 2008

If you use Bell Sympatico at home you may be experiencing some problems. There are network troubles affecting large areas of Toronto. You can check http://service.sympatico.ca/index.cfm?method=home.serviceStatus for more (currently not very detailed) information.

[Last update: March 26, 2008]