Major disruption

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UPDATE: 7 Nov 2011 - 11:00am

Following the major disruption to computing services at Sussex yesterday (caused by a technical fault with the cooling systems to the main campus data centre), ITS staff have been working to restore as many services as we can and have made good progress.

Service availability updated 11.00am on 7 November 2011
Web site OK
Email OK
ResNET Wired OK
WifI Northfield OK
WIFI Campus (incl Library) OK
Study Direct OK (restored 9.45am)
Sussex Direct OK
Windows Service Logins (Non Admin staff and students) OK (restored 1pm approx)
Windows Service Logins (Admin) OK (restored 1pm approx)
Printing Service (Non Admin staff and students) OK (restored 10.25am)
Printing Service (Admin) OK (restored 11.00am)
File space (N:drives) OK
File space (Academic G:drives) OK
File space (Admin G:drives) OK (restored 11.00am)
HPC: Apollo/Feynman OK
HPC: Lustre UNAVAILABLE

NB. whilst email is now working, users may experience some delivery delays as systems catch up with the back log that built up during the outage.

Lecturers should login to teaching PCs "locally" using the username .\localguest and password teach1ng.and use teaching materials from USB memory sticks.

Please check back for further progress over the course of the morning.

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