News

Exams in the CIP pools on Tuesday morning

On Tuesday, 2018-07-17, the rooms CIP1 (01.155-113) and CIP2 / develop group (02.151-113) are closed from 9:30am to approximately 12:30pm due to an exam taking place there.

-- Julian Brost

Maintainance of gitlab.cs.fau.de tonight

Today (Tuesday, 2017-12-12) starting at 10pm/22:00, gitlab.cs.fau.de will be offline for maintainance. This is expected to take no longer than 30 minutes.

Login on the computers and all other CIP services are unaffected by this and will work as usual.

-- Johannes Schilling

Maintenance on Wednesday 30.08. all day

Due to updates of our servers on wednesday 30.08. all computers will be repeatedly unavailable on short notice.

-- Michael Gebhard

Electronic exam on monday 31.7. from 10:00 to 12:00

On Monday, July 31th from 10:00 to 12:00 the room 02.151 CIP2 (develop group) will be blocked by the electronic exam for Applied Visualization.

During the timespan of around 9:45 to 12:15 the hosts faui00*, faui02* and faui0f* will not be available.

-- Johannes Schilling

Chair 4 trip on 24.07.2017

On Monday July the 24th will be no CIP-Admin consultation hour due to a trip of chair 4.

-- Michael Gebhard

Maintainance work today from 9:00 PM

Today, 2017-06-19 from 9:00 PM we need to perform maintainance work on the computer pool. All computers will need to be restarted. We expect the maintenance to take at most one hour.

-- Julian Brost

New CIP-VPN

There is a new version of our CIP-VPN with more modern encryption. See Documentation. The old version is still running for now.

-- Michael Gebhard

CIP downtime from March 1st to March 3rd 2017

From March 1st to March 3rd all CIP servers will be moved to a different server room. Thus all CIP pools will be unavailable for that time. In addition the client hosts will be migrated to Debian stretch which will wipe the complete disk including /var/tmp. If the downtime is over earlier, it will be announced here.

-- Simon Ruderich

SSH- und GnuPG-Keys in backups

Starting on 1.11.2016 SSH and GnuPG keys stored in home directories will be backupped alongside with the regular CIP backup. These backups are stored on RRZE computers, not CIP infrastructure. Please delete any keys for which this is unacceptable before that date.

-- Sebastian Hahn

CIP pools unavailable on Monday evening due to hardware Maintenance

On Monday, 2016-08-29, the CIP pools will not be available starting at 11:00 PM for up to 2 hours. The home directories will be unavailable in this time as we have to replace the RAID controller in the server storing them. Thus working is not possible on any of the computers.

-- Julian Brost