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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.
CIFS Gateway Outage
Last updated on November 4, 2009 at 09:11:49 AM
Summary: Complications during a planned hardware upgrade of a CIFS Gateway led to an outage outside the established maintenance windows, and degraded some web services. Details: At 7:00AM, Wednesday November...read more
Resolved: PASS Cluster Pause
Last updated on October 29, 2009 at 09:48:15 PM
By 9:30 p.m. the problem has been cleared, and all services should have been restored. It appears that www.personal.psu.edu and at least some of the PASS CIFS gateways were affected....read more
Update: PASS CIFS Gateway Group Lookup Issue
Last updated on October 28, 2009 at 10:36:06 AM
At 10:06 a.m., both backend servers had reached maximum load. By 10:33 a.m., some of the gateways had been forced to use failover servers, and the load on all servers...read more
Resolved: NFS Version 3 Gateway not responding
Last updated on October 27, 2009 at 11:51:01 AM
From 6:45 until 7:55 nfs.pass.psu.edu was not responding for NFS Version 3 mounts. The cause of the issue, was a restart of one of the supporting services to the NFS...read more
NFS Gateway Partial Outage
Last updated on September 24, 2009 at 03:12:44 PM
By mistake, we restarted one of the backend NFS servers. This happened at 3:00 PM today. The server was back in production as of 3:10 PM. The reason we restarted...read more
Resolved: NFS PASS Partial Gateway Outage
Last updated on September 21, 2009 at 11:02:07 AM
The failing hardware was replaced this morning. The server was back online as of 10:45.
Resolved: PASS Unexpected Outage
Last updated on August 19, 2009 at 04:55:21 PM
After further investigation, it was determined this outage was related to the one earlier in the day, referenced at: http://alerts.its.psu.edu/alert-1198
Intermittent PASS win.pass.psu.edu Gateway Service Interruption
Last updated on August 13, 2009 at 02:51:41 PM
Some users may have experienced an inability to access their PASS space via the PASS Gateway, win.pass.psu.edu (also known as smb.pass.psu.edu, cifs.pass.psu.edu, and samba.pass.psu.ed). This is related to this morning's...read more
Resolved: Network outage in Computer Building affects some ITS Services
Last updated on July 20, 2009 at 07:16:44 AM
All failing hardware has been replaced. All temporary work arounds have been undone and we are back to the standard config as of 6:30 this morning.
Resolved: PASS Explorer Outage
Last updated on July 15, 2009 at 07:32:11 PM
The PASS Explorer has been returned to service by 7:26. ITS staff will continue to monitor the service.
