RFA (Research File Area) was unavailable on Friday April 17, between 11 p.m. and 12 p.m. due to an urgent windows patch needing to be installed in order to thwart a recently discovered exploit.
During this time frame, connections could not be made to RFA storage. If you have any questions, please notify rcc@partners.org
REDCap (https://redcap.partners.org/redcap) required infrastructure updates on Thursday, Apr. 16th. Systems were offline from 3:00 a.m. - 8:08 a.m. EST.
The production REDCap database was migrated from MySQL 5.0/mysql.dipr.partners.org to MySQL 5.6/mysql3.dipr.partners.org. This is an interim solution to alleviate performance issues during shared DB maintenance. End-state plans for the platform will eventually be a clustered solution using CentOS7 HA clustering.
For more information, please contact edcsupport@partners.org or view the REDCap Alert Email Archive
Monthly Information Systems Maintenance (ISM) Applies To: All Users
Planned system maintenance and testing was performed by IS Operations teams. This routine maintenance reduces the risk of unscheduled outages on our computer network and to the Internet.
Impact to systems and applications
View the IS Broadcast Archive for additional details. We appreciate your patience while the work is completed. Please contact your IS Service Desk if you have any questions.
On Thursday, April 9th, 2015 from 10 - 12 p.m. EDT, maintenance will be performed on the RFA (Research File Area) storage system, but there will be no interruption to service.
Firmware software will be updated to ensure premium supportability, security and performance. An additional notice will be sent after maintenance has completed.
The RFA (Research File Area) storage system was offline for a brief system reboot on Monday, March 30, 2015 at 10 p.m. EDT. During the reboot, you will be disconnected from your RFA for approximately 30 minutes.
This downtime restarted a windows service that was hung and prevented the creation or modification of existing RFAs.
Please contact rcc@partners.org with any questions or concerns about the RFA storage service.
Data Center Maintenance affecting the ERISOne cluster and related computational resources completed successfully on Sunday 3/29 at 1 p.m. The environment underwent some minor disruptions during the power shutdown but all issues have been identified and are being resolved.
Please notify hpcsupport@partners.org if you are having continuing problems related to the Data Center maintenance.
Visit the KnowledgeBase for details about this scheduled maintenance event. http://rc.partners.org/kbase?cat_id=45&art_id=602
RedHat and CentOS issued OpenSSL updates to address multiple vulnerabilities. ERIS proxy and all current ERIS CentOS builds have been patched. Please restart any services that rely on OpenSSL for encryption (that might be Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, LDAP, etc).
DIPR VM users with custom builds (such as ubuntu, debian or other non-standard builds) will need to be patched by you or your system administrator.
More information regarding the OpenSSL updates can be found: https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2015/03/19/OpenSSL-Patches-Multiple-Vulnerabilities
Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns by emailing rcc@partners.org.
Apple has released important software updates that address the security vulnerability known as “FREAK”. This exploit impacts encryption of all Apple products. Members of our Apple community are strongly encouraged to update all your devices to the latest operating system.
Prior to updating, ensure you backup your device and connect to wired power and internet if available.
Apple supports three versions of Mac OS X (10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.9 Mavericks, and 10.10 Yosemite). If you are running an older OS, please please contact your IS Service Desk for assistance upgrading your Mac.
Thank you for keeping our community safe & secure.
StudyTRAX v3.4 upgrades were completed Monday, March 16 at 5:00 - 6:40 p.m. EDT.
Login: https://studytrax.partners.org/StudyTrax/
New Release Info: http://www.sciencetrax.com/support/new-release/
If you have any concerns about this scheduled downtime, please email edcsupport@partners.org
