Friday, January 8, 2010

Rex2 Issues

We continue to experience sporadic issues with the Rex2 server. This server hosts printers as well as personal network storage space.
Although the issues have not been as frequent or campus wide we still have issues.
The hardest part of troubleshooting this issue is that we change/fix something on the server and don't experience the behavior for a weeks at a time.
We thought we had the issues resolved when we moved a portion of the data to a new server in late November. We moved Apps/Departmental/Course Materials to Morpheus. Then over Christmas break we replaced and increased the memory in the Rex2.
Our next option is to completely move the printers and personal network storage space to different hardware. This is a significant undertaking that we plan on getting started with the process next week.
Rex2 will need to be shutdown for a period of time to complete the migration. We've tentatively set January 16th in the AM hours for this transition. An email will be sent out the week of January 11th when we have a more concrete time frame.

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