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The most recent ITS Alerts affecting PASS File Service are listed below and are also published via the PASS File Service Alerts RSS feed. In addition to the alerts below, a continuously updated list of the latest virus threats is provided on the right side of this page.
PASS Infrastructure Maintenance
Last updated on May 20, 2013 at 03:39:49 PM
From May 21 through June 4, maintenance will be performed on the infrastructure supporting PASS. The work will be conducted during the daily, scheduled maintenance windows, from 5-7 a.m. Services...read more
Resolved: sftp.personal.psu.edu and rs6klab partial outage
Last updated on May 13, 2013 at 08:36:07 AM
Starting on Saturday and going through Sunday night, sftp.personal.psu.edu and rs6klab had a partial outage. One of the backend servers was not correctly mounting PASS. This was do to the...read more
Resolved: Data Center Outage
Last updated on May 9, 2013 at 05:32:35 PM
ITS staff has determined that the issue is the result of a facility malfunction, requiring a number of systems to be powered down. Since that time, all affected services have...read more
Resolved: PASS Partial Outage
Last updated on May 2, 2013 at 01:36:16 PM
As of 11:20 a.m., the partial outage was resolved. Users that access PASS via nfs.pass.psu.edu may have to remount the drive because nfs.pass.psu.edu was restarted. ITS is looking into the...read more
Resolved: Dirapps.aset.psu.edu Certificate Change on March 7
Last updated on March 11, 2013 at 10:08:12 AM
The new Comodo certificate was successfully installed at 5:05am today.
Resolved: PASS Gateways Outage
Last updated on December 10, 2012 at 02:27:07 PM
Starting around 1:30 PM, all PASS Gateways were inaccessible for users. Intermittent access was restored around 1:50 PM today. The issue is still being evaluated as to the cause, however...read more
Resolved: PASS Server Software Upgrade Scheduled for December 6
Last updated on December 6, 2012 at 06:25:54 AM
All upgrades have been completed and nfs.pass.psu.edu is back in full operation.
Resolved: PASS Gateways Slowness
Last updated on December 5, 2012 at 05:12:11 PM
At 2:30 PM users of PASS Gateways (win.pass.psu.edu, smb.pass.psu.edu, and cifs.pass.psu.edu) may have experienced slowness or an inability to connect to the service. The issue is expected to resolve itself...read more
Update: Disaster Recovery Test Scheduled for January 9
Last updated on December 5, 2012 at 10:20:45 AM
This Disaster Recovery Test has been postponed and will now take place on Thursday, January 9, 2013 during the maintenance window (5:00-7:00 a.m.).
Resolved: Samba Gateway Issue
Last updated on November 15, 2012 at 12:43:55 PM
The misbehaving clients that caused this issue were taken out of service. The gateway service started recovering around 12:30pm.
