Service Alerts

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Freezerworks Server Temporary Access Link

May 26, 2023 9:00 am to 11:59 pm

There weren't resources available yesterday to push the Citrix client out to the production environment, so we'll have one more day of accessing Freezerworks through...

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Freezerworks Maintenance 9 PM April 11

April 11, 2023 9:00 pm to 9:30 pm

Freezerworks will be down briefly for maintenance and to clear the cache tonight at 9 PM. It is expected to be back online within 30...

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Freezerworks Restart Tonight

March 8, 2023 5:00 pm to 5:15 pm

Freezerworks will be down for ~15 minutes beginning at 5 PM this evening to clear "stuck" login sessions. 

Remember to always close ALL Freezerworks windows...

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PEAS will be undergoing maintenance

February 15, 2023 3:22 pm

PEAS will be undergoing maintenance on Thursday 2/16 from 7pm-8pm.  Self Service and Enrollments will be intermittent during this time

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SAS Server erissas01 NOW AVAILABLE

February 13, 2023 9:45 am

The ERIS SAS server, erissas01, is back online, thank you for your patience.

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Action Required:  You must upgrade from Windows 7 Operating System prior to January 31, 2023

January 18, 2023 3:32 pm

Action Required:  You must upgrade from Windows 7 Operating System prior to January 31, 2023


 


Information Security & Privacy is a top priority for...

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ERIS MySQL Database Outages

December 15, 2022 10:03 am

"The MySQL Database Cluster that a number of applications hosted by ERIS rely on experienced a series of unexpected downtimes this past week. We have narrowed...

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Please Review PHP Version on your VM

December 6, 2022 2:53 pm

DIPR VM Users. PHP 7.4, is the final release in the PHP 7.x series, and it is no longer supported. PHP 8.1 is the latest major...

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Freezerworks Server Restarting at 9:30 AM Today, Fri. Dec. 2

December 2, 2022 9:19 am

Server has been restarted and sessions have been cleared.


Please close ALL Freezerworks windows before logging out to prevent sessions from being cached and using...

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Fixed - LabArchives Scheduler Login Issue

November 16, 2022 11:24 am to November 17, 2022 11:24 am

LabArchives Scheduler is currently experiencing an error message after logging in

 

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LabArchives Maintenance Window 3 AM Eastern

October 14, 2022 9:40 am to October 15, 2022 4:00 am

There will be a 30 minute maintenance outage overnight tonight, beginning at 3 AM Eastern, to address the cause of the brief unanticipated outage that...

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Freezerworks Enterprise (2021) Outage

October 12, 2022 5:08 pm to October 21, 2022 5:08 pm

All Freezerworks 2021 users are being moved to 2018.


No new labs will be added to Freezerworks for FY2023. We are in the process of...

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Problem Logging into AWS from MGB SSO - Resolved

July 18, 2022 11:32 am

There is an issue on the AWS side that is preventing MGB registered AWS users from connecting to their AWS projects. AWS is aware of...

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Kiteworks sftp now available

June 15, 2022 4:46 pm

Kiteworks sftp is back online after an unanticipated storage server adjustment: 

https://transferkw.partners.org/

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Secure File Transfer is available

May 6, 2022 10:16 am

The Secure File Transfer service https://transferkw.partners.org/ is now available.  Clear your browser cache and history before logging in.

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RISC Website Maintenance 28 Apr 2022

April 28, 2022 6:38 am to 6:48 am

The Research Computing website, https://rc.partners.org was updated on Thursday, April 28, 2022, between 6:38-6:48a.m. to apply security patches and bug fixes. 


Please contact rcwebmaster@partners.org if...

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Changes to Approved AV Software List

March 31, 2022 1:11 pm

The FCC prepares this list of technology products/services that pose risk to our national security. 


Kaspersky Antivirus (AV) will no longer be approved for use...

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REDCap Scheduled Downtime

March 21, 2022 10:22 am to March 22, 2022 10:22 am

REDCap Upgrades to v.12.0.19 Scheduled:


REDCap (https://redcap.partners.org/redcap) upgrades to v12.0.19 are scheduled for tomorrow Tuesday March 22nd, 6:30AM ET. REDCap was offline from 6:37...

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RISC Website Maintenance 17 Mar 2022

March 17, 2022 6:30 am to 7:09 am

The Research Computing website, https://rc.partners.org was updated on Thursday, March 17, 2022, between 6:30-7:15a.m. to apply security patches and bug fixes. The website was offline...

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REDCap Scheduled Downtime

March 14, 2022 10:16 am

REMINDER: REDCap Upgrades to v.12.0.15 Scheduled:


REDCap (https://redcap.partners.org/redcap) upgrades to v12.0.15 are scheduled for tomorrow Tuesday March 15th, 6:30AM ET. REDCap was offline from 6:35-7:00AM...

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Install CrowdStrike on Your Apple Macintosh Computer

February 22, 2022 9:00 am to March 22, 2022 5:00 pm

Mass General Brigham is committed to providing a consistent computing experience across all devices used at work to assure productive, stable, and secure computers. Vulnerabilities...

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Freezerworks 2018 Citrix Login Access

February 18, 2022 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

UPDATE 02/23/2022:


Testing in production is complete and has succeeded. Freezerworks 2018 is now available for use in its normal location on https://workspace.partners.org/Citrix/UniversalWeb/

 




UPDATE 02/22/2022...

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MGB REDCap: Issues with File Storage

February 17, 2022 9:25 am

The issues MGB REDCap was experiencing this morning have been resolved. The REDCap file server storage ran out of space. We were able to quickly...

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RISC Website Maintenance 31 Jan 2022

January 31, 2022 6:30 am to 7:00 pm

The Research Computing website, https://rc.partners.org was updated on Monday, January 31, 2022, between 6:30-7a.m. The website was unavailable from 6:45-6:55a.m. as planned for the update...

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Patching: All Major Linux Distributions

January 26, 2022 8:12 am

Applies To: All Major Linux Distributions


A privilege escalation vulnerability has been found on polkit's pkexec utility. This can allow an ordinary local user account...