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MAD Data Storage: Gateway Reboot Completed

October 6, 2015 1:00 pm to 3:45 pm

The reboot of all 3 gateways has completed successfully and it appears as though normal behavior has returned. Please test your normal use cases to ensure...

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Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan in the Enterprise

September 29, 2015 11:45 am

The Partners Enterprise Apple Support (PEAS) team is pleased to inform you that testing is complete and you may now consider an upgrade...

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Monthly IS Maintenance (ISM)

September 28, 2015 12:00 am to 4:00 am

Applies To: All Users

Information Systems Maintenance (ISM) took place on Monday, September 28 from 12:00 am to 4:00 am.

During this time, planned system maintenance and...

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MySQL connection issues

September 21, 2015 8:00 pm

Applies to: MySQL instance - MySQL2.dipr.partners.org



A minor connection refusal on mysql2.dipr.partners.org may have caused a small outage for connections to the MySQL instance from around 8p.m...

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REDCap Service Alert: Limited Support Sep. 28 - Oct. 1

September 28, 2015 9:00 am to October 1, 2015 5:00 pm

There will be limited support next week while EDC Support attends the annual REDCap Conference. Please plan for delayed response times.  Priorities will be made...

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REDCap: Known Issues With Upgrade to v6.5

September 17, 2015 1:28 pm

With the recent upgrade to REDCap v6.5.9, we are aware of a number of issues that users are experiencing. These include: 

  • Script errors when creating...
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New VPN Client

September 23, 2015 11:00 am

The Partners Network Security team will upgrade the VPN client software (anyconnect) to version 3.1.10010 that is hosted on the VPN servers (www.partners.org/vpn). After...

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StudyTRAX Infrastructure Updates

September 10, 2015 9:00 pm to September 11, 2015 12:00 am

StudyTRAX was offline September 10 at 9pm - 12 midnight for SQL database migration.  Migration was successful.

If you have any concerns, please email edcsupport@partners.org...

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Internet Explorer 11 Upgrade

September 1, 2015 8:00 am

Applies To: All Users

During September and October, workstations across the Partners network will be upgraded to Internet Explorer 11 (IE11), the most current version...

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Partners HealthCare Wireless Network (phswifi3)

September 9, 2015 8:00 am

Additional phswifi3 certificate information for the change announcement box below:



This new intermediary certificate is issued by ‘InCommon RSA Server CA’ by way of the Trusted Certificate ROOT CA ‘USERTrust...

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DIPR Server: Software Management Issue

August 19, 2015 12:00 pm

UPDATE 8/21 10:05AM EDT: Current testing shows yum response time has returned to normal thresholds and is fully usable.  ERIS will work with Network Engineering...

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MySQL Restart

August 19, 2015 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

UPDATE - Restart completed successfully.  Thanks for your patience!

We will be restarting the MySQL daemon on MySQL3.research.partners.org on Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 7p.m...

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SSH Gateway Server Connections

August 19, 2015 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

UPDATE 11:55PM EDT: UPDATE - Restart completed successfully.  Thanks for your patience!

UPDATE 4:23PM EDT: Reboot window has been moved to 9PM-11PM EDT to accommodate...

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LimeSurvey Scheduled Downtime

August 19, 2015 9:00 pm to 11:55 pm

LimeSurvey (https://limesurvey.partners.org/limesurvey) required urgent infrastructure updates on Wednesday, Aug. 19. LimeSurvey was offline from 9:00 - 11:55 PM EST.  

If you have...

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DIPR File Server Reboot

August 19, 2015 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

UPDATE 11:55PM EDT: UPDATE - Restart completed successfully, a good deal of hosts required their storage to be remounted.  Contact ERIS support at rcc@partners.org if...

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RFA (Research File Area) Maintenance

August 20, 2015 8:00 pm to August 21, 2015 12:00 am

On Thursday, August 20th, 2015 from 8p.m. - 12a.m. EDT, maintenance was performed on the RFA (Research File Area) storage system, and there was no interruption to service...

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Monthly IS Maintenance (ISM)

August 17, 2015 12:00 am to 4:00 am

Applies To: All Users

Information Systems Maintenance (ISM) took place on Monday, August 17th from 12:00 am to 4:00 am.

During this time, planned system maintenance and testing were...

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DNS issues resolved for Database Services, RFA, DIPR VMs

August 11, 2015 10:00 am to 11:00 am

Multiple services were unreachable on the morning of Tuesday, August 11, 2015 due to DNS (Domain Name System) issues. All services were back up and...

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Slow performance on MySQL2.dipr.partners.org

July 31, 2015 3:27 pm

Websites and services hosted on MySQL2.dipr.partners.org were running slower than usual on Friday, July 31 beginning around 2:45p.m. EDT. ERIS is actively investigating and while as of...

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REDCap Upgrade v6.5.9

August 25, 2015 7:00 pm to 9:02 pm

REDCap (https://redcap.partners.org/redcap) upgraded to v6.5.9 on Tuesday, Aug. 25. REDCap was offline from 7:00-9:02 PM EST. 

This upgrade will include a large number...

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MySQL.dipr.partners.org reboot

July 28, 2015 10:30 pm

All services on MySQL.dipr.partners.org have been restored.

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MySQL.dipr.partners.org will be rebooted tonight (7/28/15) at 10:30 p.m. EST, to clear some I/O issues, and connectivity issues...

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SQL Server 2008 Restart

July 21, 2015 4:00 pm

Applies to:  ERISSQL2K8P.DIPR.PARTNERS.ORG\ERISSQL2K8P

This notice is for all clients using erissql2k8p.dipr.partners.org\erissql2k8p.  We turned on forced encryption for SQL in transit on our SQL production server. ...

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SQL Server 2008 Patching

July 20, 2015 2:00 pm

Applies to: SQL 2008 Users

The SQL 2008 servers (erissql2k8p.dipr.partners.org, erissql2k8d.dipr.partners.org) were offline for patching on Monday, July 20 at 2pm EDT.  There was a slight...

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Partners MyApps Citrix StoreFront Changes 7/7/2015

July 7, 2015 7:00 am

Starting Tuesday, July 7, 2015, the MacGateway (red apple icon) no longer appears on https://myApps.partners.org (Partners MyApps Citrix StoreFront). To access all of your applications from...