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A missconfiguration on the Cloud NFS exports made the share unavailable to the cloud bare metals. As ar result, the local filesystem of all virtual machines becomes read only. Regain read/write access is only possible by power off and on of all virtual machine.

The institutes mailserver have been upgraded to the latest OS and Zimbra version.

Announced: Friday, 29.5.15, 20:00 - 23:30
Final Duration: Friday, 29.5.15, 20:00 - 23:45

During the maintenance time:

• The mail server is completely offline.
• Arriving emails will be delivered in the following hours.

Details:

• OS Update from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04.
• Zimbra Update from 8.0.7 to 8.6.0.
• The mailserver becomes a virtual machine.
• The new CPUs will be 2 times faster than the old ones.
• The main memory will be doubled from 8GB to 16GB.
• The local disk storage will be increased to 1.3TB (300GB used at 06/2015).

see #585

The online survey tool is available for all IMATH users. For new users, an account needs to be created first. Further details: https://wiki.math.uzh.ch/math/limesurvey

Please follow the advices under https://wiki.math.uzh.ch/public/CronJobs to setup cronjobs.

Creating or editing cronjob on another server than 'ssh.math.uzh.ch', is not possible anymore.

All active S-Accounts from students have been renamed to their uzh_shortname.

The latest version will be started by default.
If needed, the older versions can be started via commandline (mathematica-9.0, mathematica-8.0.4, ...).
Installation images can be downloaded from `/scratch/software/math/mathematica/10.1.0` or as described under https://www.s3it.uzh.ch/software/mathematica/.

Issue #201

Create I-MATH Support Tickets via commandline. The script behaves like the commandline tool `mail`

Example 1: create a ticket with subject 'Printer J11' and the body 'Please replace the toner, it's empty.'

$ ttt Printer J11
Please replace the toner, it's empty.
<Ctrl-D>

Example 2: create a ticket with the subject 'long error message' and as the body the content of a text file

$ ttt long error message < file.txt

Check further options with 'ttt -h'

There was a problem that the 'UZH shortname' user credentials are case insensitive for the username. As a result, some user accounts has been created with wrong lower/upper case characters. This is fixed now.