Changes to Printing
The printing setup will be changed as of September 26, 2025. From then on, credit in your RRZE printing account will be required, and printing will be possible via the print dialog of each application. Commands will then no longer be necessary.
-- Lea Eichelsdörfer
CIP client dist-upgrade on 2025-09-18
On 2025-09-18, all CIP clients will be updated from Debian Bookworm to Trixie. All CIP pools will have at least partial downtime on this day.
-- Jari Nestel
GCPC on 2025-07-05 in CIP1 and CIP1-N
Due to the German Collegiate Programming Contest CIP1(01.155-113) and CIP1-N(01.155N-113) will be closed all day on 2025-07-06.
-- Maximilian Rumi
GCPC Training-Session
BibCIP will be unavailable from 18:00 to 20:00.
-- Maximilian Rumi
VPN outage
Due to unexpected hardware failure our OpenVPN and wireguard instance are currently unavailable.
-- Timur Perst
Construction work CIP1 & Win-CIP
On Friday (May 23) the clients cip1b[0-6] and cip6a[0-6] are unavailable until 11 am due to ongoing construction work.
-- Timur Perst
printers in the 2nd floor swapped back
As the CIP2 is accessible again, the printers have been swapped back to their original place. Thus, ps2ccip (color printer) was moved back to the CIP2 and ps2acip accordingly back to the BibCIP.
-- Lorena Kretzschmar
NFS-Maintenance work on 15.03.
Due to maintenance work, there will be disruptions to the NFS, in particular /proj.
-- Maximilian Rumi
Maintenance work on 25.02.
Due to maintenance work on Tuesday, there will be disruptions and outages for CIP services on site and remotely, including GitLab.
-- Maximilian Rumi
CIP8 (Bib-CIP) unavailable from 17:30 to 20:00
Due to the practice session for the ICPC Wintercontest on Saturday, CIP8 will be unavailable from 17:30 to 20:00.
PS: Registration is still possible at wintercontest.io.
-- Maximilian Rumi
Printer ps2ccip unavailable
Due to maintenance work, the printer ps2ccip is temporarily unavailable.
-- Maximilian Rumi
Maintenance work 2024-10-16
Due to maintenance work, there will be outages of ALL CIP-clients (except cipterm0) on 2024-10-16 starting 18:00.
-- blue / Lele Eichelsdörfer
More HDMI cables
From now on each monitor from the open cip rooms has an HDMI cable connected
to it. You can use it for your Dual-Monitor-Setup.
Have fun with it! 
-- Leo Herbst
New Xpra-Version
The latest Xpra version (6.1.1) is now installed on the Cip computers. Connecting from computers with older Xpra versions may no longer work.
-- Maximilian Rumi
Maintenance on 2024-08-10
Due to server maintenance outages of all CIP services are to be expected, the NFS at /proj/ciptmp will be affected the most.
-- Michael Pien
CIP1 and WinCIP closed starting on 2024-07-22
Due to renovation work, CIP1 (01.155-113) and WinCIP (01.153-113) will be closed starting on 2024-07-22. CIP1N (01.155N-113) will remain available.
-- Lorena Kretzschmar
Maintenance work 2024-07-06
Due to maintenance work, there will be outages of ALL CIP-related services (including CIP login, GitLab, and VPN) on 2024-07-06 between 11:00 and 14:00.
-- Lorena Kretzschmar
ps2acip printer unavailable
As the CIP2 (02.151) has been closed due to construction works, two printers have been swapped. The color printing unit (ps2ccip) is now available in the BibCIP, whereas the original unit (ps2acip) is temporarily out of service for the foreseeable future.
-- Luca Spotka
GCPC on 2024-06-22 in CIP1 and WinCIP
Due to GCPC, CIP1 (01.155-113) and WinCIP (01.153-113) are unavailable for normal use all day on 2024-06-22.
-- Lorena Kretzschmar
Restrictions on the usability of CIP pools starting at 2024-06-12
From 2024-06-12, renovation work will take place in the computer science tower. The CIP2 (02.151-113) will be completely inaccessible and therefore unusable. The clients in CIP2 will be switched off to save energy.
In addition, there will be minor restrictions in CIP1 (01.155-113) and WinCIP (01.153-113). A few workstations will be dismantled or relocated. The WinCIP will only be accessible through the neighboring i6-CIP.
-- Lorena Kretzschmar
Reboot of the cipsrv02 hypervisor
05/16/2024 at around 12:00 PM, the hypervisor cipsrv02 will be rebooted as a result of some maintenance works. The attached cipterm0 as well as ircbox will be intermittenly unavailable for a short period of time.
-- Luca Spotka
Maintenance works starting from 2024-03-05
From 2024-03-05 to approximately 2024-03-08 regular semiannual maintenance works have been scheduled. Expect outages of various systems (Gitlab, File-Storage, Networking).
-- Luca Spotka
ICPC in CIP2
On 2024-01-27, CIP2 will be unavailable the whole day due to ICPC.
-- Lorena Kretzschmar
BibCip not available on 2024-01-25
Due to the ICPC practice session the BibCip will be unavailable for regular use on 2024-01-25 between 18:00 and 21:00.
-- Maximilian Rumi
maintenance work and technical difficulties are over
Due to maintenance work at 2024-01-18, downtimes have occured (for the dates 18.01 and 19.01) for many CIP services. This also applies to online services such as GitLab and E-Mail.
-- Davud Mukovic
maintenance work
Due to maintenance work at 2024-01-03, downtimes may occur for all CIPs and CIP services. This also applies to online services such as GitLab.
-- Lorena Kretzschmar
faui02 downtime
Maintenance work is scheduled on our backendserver faui02. It is possible that there will be disturbances with our module- and vpn-services.
Shutdown of remote.cip.cs.fau.de and Bookworm-Upgrade
From 2023-09-12 to 2023-09-15 approximately maintenance works for a Client-Upgrade to Debian 12 "Bookworm" have been scheduled. Client-downtimes and unavailability are to be expected. This does not concern any services offered by our backend servers. Furthermore remote.cip.cs.fau.de will be shut down without replacement.
Server maintenance
Due to an urgent server maintenance, all CIP-Service will be intermittenly unavailable the 08/23/2023. This includes all services offered including gitlab, Login via ssh and local means and webservices. We apologize for the inconveniences caused, but such measures are necessary to ensure the stability and security of our systems.
faui03 downtime
The faui03 will shortly not be available from 7pm today (2023-08-16). This means that local- and remote-login will not work. You also won't be able to ckeck your mails.
-- Davud Mukovic
CIP2 closed On tuesday 2023-07-18 from 2 pm to 3:30 pm the CIP2 will not be available due to an exam in this room.
-- Timur Perst
Cyberexam
On friday 2023-06-30 from 2:30 pm to 6 pm both the CIP2 and CIP3 will be unavailable due to a cyberexam.
-- Timur Perst
GCPC 2023
On 2023-06-17, the CIP2 will be unavailable due to GCPC.
-- Lorena Kretzschmar
Power outage
On wednesday 2023-05-07 from 6 am to 7:30 pm a planned power outage renders all cip clients (incl. CIP-Remote) unusable. Our gitlab instance and the cipterm0 will still be operational.
-- Timur Perst
CIP maintenance
On 2023-04-14 starting at 7 pm all CIP clients and all CIP services will be unavailable for a few hours due to server maintenance. This includes gitlab.cs.fau.de, remote.cip.cs.fau.de and the ircbox.
-- Timur Perst
Maintenance cipterm0
On 2023-03-24 the terminal server cipterm0 will be unavailable due to maintenance work.
-- Lorena Kretzschmar
Maintenance CIP1 and CIP2
On 2023-03-06 CIP1 (01.155-113) and CIP2 (02.151-113) will be unavailable due to maintenance work.
-- Lorena Kretzschmar
Maintenance Huber CIP
On 2023-03-01 the Huber CIP will be unavailable due to maintenance work.
-- Lorena Kretzschmar
New Greeter
Our clients will successively switch from KDM to LightDM. This change comes with a new, custom greeter featuring a different design. If you encounter any problems please write an email to problems@cip.cs.fau.de.
-- Timur Perst
CIP Powerdown
Due to a planned power outage on Feb 15 all CIP clients won't be useable on this day from 6am to noon. This includes remote access via ssh or remote-cip. Our gitlab instance and the terminal server cipterm0 remain reachable.
-- Timur Perst
ICPC Wintercontest
On 28.01.2023 fau organizes the ICPC Wintercontest in the CIP2. Therefore, the corresponding PCs won't be accessible on that date. Furthermore we will test our setup on the 26.01. evening in the BibCIP. These PCs also won't be accessible between 17:00 and 21:00.
-- Benjamin Haag
Power outage CS
Due to a planned power outage all CIP-Pools and all CIP-Services will not be (fully) available on 2022-10-19 and 2022-10-26. (this also includes gitlab.cs.fau.de, remote.cip.cs.fau.de, account.cip.cs.fau.de as well as the CIP-VPNs)
-- Michael Panzlaff
Maintenance work
Due to maintenance work all CIP-Pools and all CIP-Services will not be (fully) available on 2022-09-05 and 2022-09-06. (this also includes gitlab.cs.fau.de, remote.cip.cs.fau.de, account.cip.cs.fau.de as well as the CIP-VPNs)
-- Thomas Preisner
ircbox, cipterm0 Maintenance
On 3rd August ircbox and cipterm0 will be rebooted. Both will be unavailable between 10pm-12pm for a short period of time.
-- Michael Gebhard
New Print Accounting
Since April printouts at the CIP printers can be paid for via the RRZE print accounting. The RRZE print balance is used automatically as soon as the CIP print balance is depleted. Details can be found at https://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/cipPools/equipment.en.html and the posters near the printers. Recharging your print balance is now only possible at RRZE help desks. The remaining CIP print balance can be used up until April 2023.
-- Michael Gebhard
ICPC in CIP2 and CIP8 (Bib-CIP) at 25.06.
At 25.06. the ICPC takes place in CIP2 and CIP8 (Bib-CIP). During this time the computers in those CIPs are unawailable.
-- Benjamin Haag
Cipterm0 and ircbox reboot at 10.06.
At 10.06. both ircbox and cipterm0 will be rebooted. During this the IRC might be not accessible and many users will get logged out.
-- Benjamin Haag
CIP1, CIP6 Power Shutdown 2022-04-21
Tomorrow, Thursday 21st April there will be a power shutdown on the first floor of the main CS building between 6:30am and 8am. All clients which are located in CIP1, CIP1-N and CIP6 (WinCIP) are not available during the shutdown.
-- Timur Perst
CIP-Pool Power Shutdown 2022-04-12
On next tuesdays 12th April there will be a complete power shutdown in the entire CIP-Pools during the period of 6 AM to 10 PM. During this time it will be impossible to work in the rooms themselves which also includes remote access. The server room is not affected and thus you can still use machines like cipterm0 for remote work on this day.
-- Michael Panzlaff
Kernel Upgrade 2022-03-09
Today on 2022-03-09 after 8 PM our Gitlab instance will be rebooted and be offline for a brief moment.
-- Michael Panzlaff
Kernel Upgrade 2022-03-08
Today on 2022-03-08 at 10 PM the entire CIP will be rebooted to install Kernel patches. This also affects some of the servers which means that home directories will be become unavailable for a short period.
-- Michael Panzlaff
Server Upgrade: faui0a, cipsrv01
On November 19th our VM servers will be upgraded to Debian 11. From 18:00 the following services will be unavailable for several hours:
-- Michael Gebhard
Server Upgrade: faui03, faui02, faui0c
On October 22nd the above servers will be upgraded to Debian 11. From 18:00 the following services will be unavailable for several hours: - local and remote login at all clients (incl. remote.cip.cs.fau.de) - mail - CIP VPN
-- Michael Gebhard
cipterm0, ircbox dist-upgrade
On 2021-10-01 the server cipterm0 and the ircbox will be upgraded to Debian 11. A short downtime is to be expected.
-- Timur Perst
cipterm0 dist-upgrade
On 2021-10-01 the server cipterm0 will be upgraded to Debian 11. A shot downtime is to be expected.
-- Felix Kraus
CIP Upgrade to Debian Bullseye until 21-09-29
Until 29-09-2021 we plan to upgrade our CIP machines to Debian Bullseye. During this period some clients may not work properly. If you are supervisor of a class please test our systems for your class to ensure correct operation. If you encounter any problems please let us know and send us an E-Mail to problems@cip.cs.fau.de.
-- Benjamin Haag
Server maintenance on 2021-08-27
On 2021-08-27, we will maintain our servers. Accordingly, there we will be several downtimes over the day accross all services. Also, the CIP computers themselves will be temporarily unusable.
-- Thomas Preisner
Reboot
Due to an urgent security update, all clients will be rebootet today (2021-07-21) at around 19:00.
-- Felix Kraus
Terminal server maintenance
This friday the 09th of July at 23:00 the network configuration of cipterm0.cip.cs.fau.de will be changed. At this time active network connections will be lost and the machine will be unavailable for an expected few minutes.
Ircbox maintenance
This friday the 09th of July ircbox.cs.fau.de will be moved to a VM, due to repeated hardware failures. The maschine will be temporarily unavailable between 23:00 and 02:00 of the following day.
-- Michael Gebhard
CIP-Pool Reopening
From wednesday 2021-06-22 on the CIP-Pools in the rooms 01.155-113 (CIP1) and 02.151-113 (CIP2) are available for studying again. Information on how to resere a workplace can be found on our website (https://wwwcip.cs.fau.de/).
-- Felix Kraus
Maintenance
On Monday 2021-06-28 the machines in CIP4 (cip4[a-e][0-3]) are temporarily unavailable from 00:00 due to maintenance.
-- Michael Gebhard
GitLab up and running again
The hardware problems that lead to the downtime of our GitLab are resolved. The GitLab instance is available as normal again. We are not aware of any data loss. Due to further maintenance work, another short but announced downtime is to be expected in the next few weeks.
-- Felix Kraus
Server maintenance
At about 11:00 o'clock today we will shutdown our vm-server for maintenance. The following services will be unavailable for about 1-2 hours:
-- Thomas Preisner
CIP-Pool Reopening
From wednesday 2021-06-22 on the CIP-Pools in the rooms 01.155-113 (CIP1) and 02.151-113 (CIP2) are available for studying again. Information on how to resere a workplace can be found on our website (https://wwwcip.cs.fau.de/).
-- Felix Kraus
Maintenance
On Monday 2021-06-28 the machines in CIP4 (cip4[a-e][0-3]) are temporarily unavailable from 00:00 due to maintenance.
-- Michael Gebhard
GitLab failure
Due to a Hardware breakdown our GitLab instance is no longer online. We are working to fix the problem and we will try to restart the instance as soon as possible and to load the backups from the day before.
-- Michael Panzlaff
BibCIP powerdown
Because there is currently very low demand for the machines in the
Bib-CIP (aka cip8), we will turn of these machines until further
notice on 24th December. Should this be a problem and you need
these machines, please contact us. We can then arrange to turn them
on again.
-- Michael Panzlaff
Maintenance of client hardware
The following machines will be unavailable from sunday 13.th Dezember 22:00 for several days:
-- Felix Kraus
Maintenance of client hardware
The following machines will be unavailable from sunday 06.th Dezember 22:00 for several days:
The following machines will be unavailable from sunday 13.th Dezember 22:00 for several days:
-- Michael Gebhard
GCPC Programming Contest
Due to a programming contest the following machines will be unavailable today and tomorrow (20-21.11.):
-- Michael Gebhard
Switch Reboot
On monday, 2020-09-14, one of the switches will be rebooted at 12 PM.
The following computers will be unavailable for approximately 30 minutes:
-- Michael Panzlaff
Maintenance work on server
Friday night, 2020-09-11, host faui02 will be rebootet. The following services will be briefly unavailable between 22:00 and 24:00.
-- Michael Gebhard
Maintenance work on servers
Next Thursday, 2020-09-03, several of our servers will be under maintenance starting at 12:00pm
-- David Sauerwein
Maintenance work on VM-Hosts
Due to maintenance work on our VM-Hosts all VMs will be unavailable on Monday from 12:00am until 3:00am. Among others this includes gitlab.cs.fau.de, remote.cip.cs.fau.de, and wwwcip.cs.fau.de.
-- David Sauerwein
Maintenance work CIP4
Due to maintenance work in CIP4, the following computers will not be available from Sunday 20:00 until approximately Monday 20:00: cip4b1-3, cip4c1-3, cip4d1-3
-- Thomas Preisner
Hardware failure of terminal server cipterm1 (former faui06)
Due to multiple hardware failures during the last few weeks we have shut off the terminal server cipterm1.cip.cs.fau.de (former faui06.cs.fau.de). The server will be unreachable until we have a replacement. In case there is data on the machine you still need please contact us via mail to problems@cip.cs.fau.de.
-- David Sauerwein
Maintenance Terminalserver
In the night from Saturday (30.05. 10pm) to Sunday (31.05.) both terminalservers faui0sr0 and faui06 will be rebootet and renamed. They will continue to be reachable as faui0sr0.cs.fau.de and faui06.cs.fau.de, but also be reachable as cipterm0.cip.cs.fau.de and cipterm1.cip.cs.fau.de.
-- Michael Gebhard
New SSH Host CA
Our SSH host ca has switched from rsa to ed25519. The new Public Key can as usual be found under Services.
-- Felix Kraus
Maintenance work
Unfortunately, yesterday's maintenance downtime is delayed by one day.
Due to maintenance work, the directories /proj/ciptmp, /proj/video, and /proj/cipdata
won't be available on Tuesday 2020-04-21 from 10 PM to 2 AM.
-- Michael Panzlaff
Maintenance work
Due to maintenance work, the directories /proj/ciptmp, /proj/video, and /proj/cipdata
won't be available on Monday 2020-04-20 from 6 PM to 12 AM.
-- Michael Panzlaff
Attendance free CIP-Pool Usage
To ensure the usability of the CIP-Pools during the upcoming semester, we will provide online options for account creation and password reset via IdM-SSO.
Anyone who would like to prevent access to their CIP-account through IdM-login can Opt-Out via email from their FAU-mail address to problems@cip.cs.fau.de .
-- Michael Gebhard
Maintenance work
Due to maintenance work ALL hosts and ALL services (including SSH) will be unavailable on thursday 2020-04-16 17:00 - 20:00.
-- Lorena Kretzschmar
Maintenance work
Due to maintenance work ALL hosts and ALL services (including SSH) will be unavailable on sunday 2020-04-05 12:00 - 20:00.
-- Lorena Kretzschmar
Corona Closing
Due to the Coronavirus all our CIP-Pools are closed presumably until April 19th. The Computers remain accessible from home via SSH.
For up to date information from the univeristy related to Corona see www.fau.info/corona
-- Michael Gebhard
Maintenance work
Due to maintenance work all CIP-Pools will not be available during the following time period:
-- Michael Panzlaff
Maintenance work
Due to maintenance work in the CIP-Pools the Huber CIP will be unavailable this wednesday.
-- Lorena Kretzschmar
Maintenance work
Due to maintenance work in the CIP-Pools the following rooms will be unavailable this friday evening.
-- Michael Gebhard
Maintenance work
Due to maintenance work in the CIP-Pools some rooms will be unavailable within the next week.
-- Lorena Kretzschmar
Exams in the CIP-Pools
Due to exams in the CIP-Pools some rooms will be unavailable within the next weeks.
-- David Sauerwein
Maintenance Work
Due to maintenance work the BibCIP (02.135) will be unavailable on Wednesday 2020-01-29, starting at 7:30 p.m.
-- Felix Kraus
Maintenance Work
Due to maintenance work the BibCIP (02.135) will be unavailable on Wednesday 2020-01-22, starting at 7:30 p.m.
-- Felix Kraus
GitLab Maintenance
Next Monday, 2019-12-23, the GitLab (gitlab.cs.fau.de) will be down for maintenance work between 11:00 and 23:59
-- Felix Kraus
Renovation work in the CIP pools
Next Thursday, 2019-10-31, the following CIP pools will be closed due to renovation work:
-- David Sauerwein
Changed list of always online computers
From now on, next to the terminal servers (faui0sr0, faui06, ircbox), only the following groups of computers are permanently switched on: faui00*, faui05*, faui0c*
-- Thomas Preisner
Exams and Renovation work in the CIP pools
Due to an exam CIP1 (01.155) and CIP1-N (01.155-N) will be closed from 9:30 until 12:00 this Friday, 2019-10-04.
Due to renovation work the following CIP-Pools will be closed on the following dates:
-- David Sauerwein
Renovation work in the CIP pools
Due to renovation work in the CIP pools some rooms will be unavailable within the next weeks.
-- Lorena Kretzschmar
Exams in the CIP pools
Due to exams in the CIP pools some rooms will be unavailable within the next week.
-- Lorena Kretzschmar
Events in the CIP pools
Due to exams and GCPC in the CIP pools some rooms will be unavailable within the next week.
-- Lorena Kretzschmar
server maintenance
On thursday 2018-05-02 at 8 PM /proj/ciptmp and /proj/cipdata will not be available. This is because of server maintenance. This will probably be completed in less than one hour.
-- Michael Panzlaff
GitLab SingleSignOn
Due to an imminent key rollover of the RRZE's SingleSignOn-service on Friday, 2019-04-26, it may not be possible to log onto our GitLab instance for a few hours using the "FAU Single Sign-On"-button. The login using previously set credentials will not be affected.
-- Thomas Preisner
Exams in the CIP-Pools
Due to exams in the CIP-Pools some rooms will be unavailable within the next weeks.
-- Thomas Preisner
Windows CIP-Pool discontinuation
Our native Windows CIP-Pools will be discontinued on 2019-04-01. The CIP-Pools 01.153 and 01.151-N will be turned into Linux CIP-Pools. Windows will still be available as Virtual Machines in our Linux CIP-Pools.
-- Michael Gebhard
Maintainance on 4.3.19
Due to maintainance all clients and servers will be rebooted on 4.3.19 at 18:00 and will be unavailable for presumably 3 hours.
-- Lorena Kretzschmar
Exams in the CIP-Pools
Due to exams in the CIP-Pools some rooms will be unavailable within the next weeks.
-- Thomas Preisner
Maintenance on 2019-01-14 starting 20:30
This evening, starting at 20:30, the following services will be unavailable for approximately half an hour due to replacement of a broken hardware component: Printing in the CIP pools, login on Windows computers, cipmap.cs.fau.de, gitlab.cs.fau.de, waffel.cs.fau.de and wwwcip.cs.fau.de. This replacement should resolve the slow response times of these services, in particular Gitlab.
-- Julian Brost
Merry christmas!
As a small christmas present we have doubled everyone's quota.
-- Thomas Preisner
Exams in the CIP pools on Monday evening
On Monday, 2018-12-03, the rooms CIP1 (01.155-113), CIP2 / develop group (02.151-113) and BibCIP (02.135) are closed from 6pm/18:00 to approximately 8pm/20:00 due to an exam taking place there.
-- Johannes Schilling
Maintenance on Tuesday 11.09.
Due to maintenance of our servers on tuesday 11th of September from 16:00 all computers in all CIP-Pools will be unavailable.
Update: Only VMs are left to reboot, i.e. short downtimes of individual services may still occur (windows, gitlab, printing, ...). The CIP-Computers are available again now.
-- Michael Gebhard
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
/proj/ciptmp not available from 9pm to 10pm
Today from 9pm to 10pm /proj/ciptmp will be unavailable due to maintenance work. Regular work will be possible during that time as long as ciptmp is not used.
-- Simon Ruderich
No consultation hours on Wednesday
Due to an all-day training event, consultation hours for Wednesday are cancelled this Wednesday.
-- Sebastian Hahn
maintainance work today from 10pm
Today, 2016-07-04 from 10pm we need to perform maintainance work on the computer pool. All client computers will need to be restarted. We do not expect the maintenance to last longer than 30 minutes.
-- Sebastian Hahn
/proj: maintainance work today from 10pm
Today, 2016-06-29 from 10pm we need to perform maintainance work on /proj. All other services should stay available.
We expect the maintainance to be done by 6am tomorrow morning.
-- Simon Ruderich
faui03: maintainance work today from 10pm
Today, 2016-06-01 from 10pm we need to perform maintainance works on the server faui03. Personal folders will be unavailable, working on the CIP-Pool machines won't be possible.
We expect the maintainance to be done by 6am tomorrow morning.
-- Johannes Schilling
CIP2 (develop group) closed for paint work
From February 8th to 12th 2016 the room 02.151 (CIP2) will be closed for paint work. Please use any of the other CIP pools, which will be available as usual.
-- Johannes Schilling
New Service: GitLab
New:
Old and gone soon:
Maintenance completed
All servers have been moved and upgraded, so everything should work as before. Should you encounter any problems, write us an email at problems@cip.cs.fau.de.
-- Lukas Braun
CIP downtime in the week of August 31st to September 6th 2015
In the week of August 31st to September 6th all CIP servers will be moved to a different server room and some of them will be upgraded to Debian jessie. Thus all CIP pools will be unavailable for that week. If the downtime is over earlier, it will be announced here.
-- Julian Brost
Complete CIP reboot tonight (2015.07.28)
Due to a security update all machines will be rebooted tonight at 2100.
-- Lukas Braun
consultation hour at 2pm, not 12pm today
Today's consultation hour will be held from 2pm to 3pm instead of the regular 12pm to 1pm.
-- Johannes Schilling
consultation hour at 2pm, not 12pm today
Today's consultation hour will be held from 2pm to 3pm instead of the regular 12pm to 1pm.
-- Johannes Schilling
Complete CIP reboot tonight (2015.05.28)
Due to a security vulnerability in a Linux kernel driver all machines will be rebooted tonight at 2100.
-- Lukas Braun
Huber-CIP offline due to network changes on 2015-04-27 14:00 until 18:00
Due to the network switch being replaced the Huber-CIP will be unavailable this monday from 14:00 hours until probably 18:00 hours. Working remotely on those machines will of course also be impossible.
Planned power outage on 2015-04-18
On Saturday, 2015-04-18, a planned power outage to test the emergency power supplies will take place. The CIP-Pool will be unavailable from approximately 6 to 12 AM.
Semester start consultation hours
The first two weeks of the semester, consultation hours will be from 12:00 to 13:00 either at the server room 00.157 or at one of our CIP-Pools. The current room is always announced via a sign in front of the server room.
CIP-Pools unavailable due to planned power outage on Fri 2015-03-27
On Friday, 2015-03-27, a planned power outage to test the emergency power supplies will take place. The CIP-Pool will be unavailable from approximately 7 to 10 AM.
Migration to Debian Jessie
On 2015-03-18 the CIP will migrate to the newest version of Debian ("Jessie"). Therefore the computers will presumably not be useable for the entire day.
The servers ircbox, faui01, faui06, faui0sr0 will be updated as well and therefore reinstalled. Existing crontabs will be migrated.
We're offering additional consultation hours on Thursday and Friday, starting at 14:00. The location will be displayed in front of room 00.157-113 as usual.
Update: The majority of the computers have been updated and are ready to use.
Update: The FAQ describes some of the changes.
Flash-Player disabled due to security concerns
Recently, there have been numerous unpatched security issues in the Flash Player. We're disabling the browser plugin for now.
CIP-Pools unavailable due to planned power outage on Sat 2015-01-17
On Saturday, 2015-01-10, a planned power outage to test the emergency power supplies will take place. To avoid any damage to hardware or software, we will automatically shut down all CIP-Pool computers starting 04:00. We expect the CIP-Pool to be available again some time in the afternoon or evening.
Update Contrary to previous announcements, the power supply tests and outtages will not take place on January 10th.
Update #2 The power outage will be on Saturday, January 17th from 6am till 6pm.
Wolfgang Händler Building finally open again starting 2015-01-12
Since most of the reconstruction works will have been finished by Monday 2015-01-12, the blue computer science building (Wolfgang-Händler-Hochhaus) will be accessible outside normal opening hours with your FAUcard again starting Monday. Please mind the still existing construction sites.
Reinstall of faui0sr0 and faui01
On October 31th we will reinstall the computers faui0sr0 and faui01 to switch the 32-bit system to 64-bit. All stored data on the machines will be wiped, this includes crontabs. Please backup your data.
-- Simon Ruderich
Reminder: Please mind the CIP-Pool rules
Unfortuantely, we've found that some of the CIP-Pool rules haven't been observed by some students. We'd like to remind you that it's not allowed to carry bottles (except water bottles) in the CIP-Pools, ask you to close all windows as you exit the room and turn off the lights. The rule about bottles includes empty soda bottles as well.
-- Sebastian Hahn
Unavailability of the computers faui06*
The computers faui06a to faui06p, which usually are permanently accessible via SSH, will soon be temporarly unavailable as the hardware gets replaced. The computers faui00* will still be available and should be used instead.
-- Julian Brost
hardware move for server faui02 on 2014-08-30
On Saturday, August 30rd 2014, starting at 10am we will move all of the faui02 services (including web services, waffel, openfaupn, git and printing, as well as parts of NFS and LDAP) to new hardware. We are hoping to be done around 6pm.
-- Johannes Schilling
New hardware for ircbox
On Saturday, August 23rd 2014, starting at 10am the old ircbox host will be replaced by new hardware. We'll try to migrate your crontabs, but you're advised to backup your setup and ensure everything works. The old ircbox host will be available as ircbox-old, but will be shutdown soon.
-- Sebastian Hahn
Moving /proj/ciptmp and video.cs.fau.de to new hardware on 28.07.2014
On Monday, July 28 2014, starting at 20:00 /proj/ciptmp will be moved to new hardware and thus be read-only for approximately 4 hours. video.cs.fau.de will also be moved but there should be no downtime.
-- Julian Brost
Update The maintenance will start at 20:00 instead of 13:00 as originally announced.
computer science building closed from 14.07 to 17.10
From 14th July until 17th October the computer science building including the CIP pools is closed due to building measures. Only the CIP pools on the ground floor (CIP 3 and CIP 4) and the Huber CIP are accessible, but only with registered FAU-card from Monday to Friday from 7am to 8pm. All other CIP pools are closed, however the machines are still accessible most of the time via SSH.
From 18th August until 15th Septemper 2014 only the Huber CIP is accessible!
For more details see the FSI-forum at https://fsi.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/forum/post/128653 and https://fsi.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/forum/post/132980.
-- Simon Ruderich
printer ps2acip now in room 00.156
Due to the imminent closing of the building, the printer ps2acip will be
available in room 00.156 from now until october. All other printers will be
switched off starting tomorrow evening.
-- Alexander Würstlein
Complete CIP reboot Monday evening
Due to an important security update we'll have to reboot all CIP machines monday night at 8:30pm.
-- Sebastian Hahn
unavailability of some cip services
Currently, some of our services are offline due to a general cooling device failure at the university. Currently, ciptmp, machines running windows and some sunray servers are down. We don't yet have any information on how long this outage may last.
Update: All services are operating normally again.
-- Simon Ruderich
Downtime on 2014-06-21 around 11:00
Tomorrow, Saturday, July 21st there will be a planned downtime of one of our
file servers for about one hour, starting at 11:00. The /local directory tree
and dhcp/primary dns services will be unavailable during this time.
UPDATE: The maintenance period is over
-- Johannes Schilling
Downtime on 2014-05-16 2014-05-12
UPDATE: The reboot took place, all systems should be back online now.
On Friday, 2014-05-16 Monday, 2014-05-12, starting at about 8pm, we will reboot the file server faui03 and all CIP clients. This should take no longer than 15 to 30 minutes.
-- Julian Brost
Security problems due to the heartbleed bug
TL;DR: change ALL your passwords
The CS Departement's CIP-Pool was also affected by the so-called heartbleed bug. The Rechenzentrum has also published some recommendations and comments. Affected server certificates have been swapped out, all software has been updated.
For you, as user, this means: If you are using one of the following services of the CIP-Pool or have been using it at some point since 2011, you have to change the passwords you used:
Redmine and Waffel each have a separate password database, you can reset those passwords
on the respective websites. Your general CIP-Pool password can be reset via kpasswd.
If you have set a separate service password for the aforementioned VPN or mail
services you can reset those passwords via /local/bin/servicepasswd -s vpn
and /local/bin/servicepasswd -s mail respectively. With /local/bin/servicepasswd -l you
can check if you have set service passwords, in case you are unsure.
When in doubt, reset all your passwords.
For the OpenFAUpn service the server certificate has also changed. This means that you need to download the new configuration and the new certificate chain and install them. You need to do this before you use your freshly reset password with the VPN for the first time.
All over the internet, lots and lots of services and websites have been affected. If you have re-used any password on any two websites or services anywhere (which we strongly advise you not to do), you have to reset all those passwords. You should also try to use separate passwords for each service in the future.
When in doubt, just reset all your passwords, and set them all different.
-- Alexander Würstlein
cooling device maintenance 31.3. - 8.4.2014. Unavailability of some services
Due to the installation of new cooling devices, some of the cip services will be unavailable. ciptmp will be inaccessible until proper cooling is ensured again.
Update: ciptmp is available again (at least for now, we're monitoring the temperature situation).
-- Sebastian Hahn
unavailability of some cip services
Currently, some of our services are offline due to a general cooling device failure at the university. Currently, ciptmp, machines running windows and some sunray servers are down. We don't yet have any information on how long this outage may last.
Update: The issues are expected to last until at least Tuesday morning, but we were able to restore ciptmp service. Windows and some sunray servers remain down for now.
Update2: All services are operating normally again.
-- Sebastian Hahn
Backup power test on Tuesday, April 1st
On Tuesday, April 1st 2014, the backup power supply will be tested, starting around 6am. The CIP pool will be unavailable during that time as a complete shutdown will be necessary. We expect the power outages to last until around 8am, and the CIP pool should be fully operational again at around 10am.
Please note that this is not an April fool's joke.
-- Sebastian Hahn
Reboot on Friday
This Friday, January 17th, all CIP computers will be rebooted in the afternoon, starting at roughly 6pm.
-- Simon Ruderich
Reboot on Friday, no consultation hours
This Friday, December 20th, all CIP computers will be rebooted in the afternoon, starting at roughly 5pm.
Additionally, the last consultation hour for this year will be Thursday, December 19th, at 3pm.
-- Sebastian Hahn
Power supply tests on Monday
This Monday, October 21th, the backup power supply will be tested, starting at 6 am. The CIP pool will not be available during this time, as we will shut down everything until the tests are over (hopefully around 10am).
Afterwards we will start all systems but please note that this will take some time so not all systems will be available right away.
-- Julian Brost
faui09 downtime
Due to a switchover from Solaris to Linux, several longer downtimes of faui09 will become
necessary this week. This will affect the directories /proj/ciptmp, /proj/cipdata and
our Debian and Ubuntu mirror at debian.cs.fau.de.
-- Alexander Würstlein
Update
Backup work is taking us longer than expected, faui09 downtime will extend well into next week.
-- Sebastian Hahn
Update 2
faui09 is back again, therefore /proj/ciptmp and /proj/cipdata are back,
too.
Please let us know, if you encounter any problems.
-- Simon Kuhnle (2013-10-14)
another upgrade
we apologize for the short notice, and hereby anounce that on friday sep 20th from 5pm on we will upgrade the last of our servers to debian wheezy.
from friday 5pm til saturday the CIP pools will not be usable.
--johannes schilling
Update
we want to thank everyone for your patience, and declare the update series over. please report anything that you might find broken to problems@cip.cs.fau.de.
Upcoming powerdown and upgrade work
In the next weeks there will be some disturbance in the availability of the cip-pool computers.
Namely, on thursday, September 12th we will upgrade the last and most important of our servers to wheezy, so from 4pm on the CIP-Pool will be completely unavailable.
One week after that, on thursday, september 19th we will shut down all CIP pools and servers for the time from 6am to 9am for rerouting of power lines in the course of including the new generator.
--johannes schilling
No consultation hour on Friday, May 31st
The consultation hour will not take place. In urgent cases: contact us via mail.
On Friday 17/05/2013 at 18:00 there will be planned downtime for several hours
You will not be able to use any services that are connected to our storages.
On Friday 17/05/2013 at 18:00 there will be planned downtime for several hours
You will not be able to use any services that are connected to our storages.
Official date for re-opening of currently closed rooms
All CIP pools and other rooms from ground floor to second floor that are currently closed due to fire safety regulations will be re-open on Monday, April 15th.
New fire safety regulations
Note: Obviously this was posted on April Fools' Day
Due to ongoing revisement of our fire safety procedures, we hereby announce the following change in our rules.
To reduce the amount of flammable material contained in a room, only non-flammable garments will be allowed henceforth. Due to various benefits to health, comfort and radiation protection we recommend, depending on your taste and weather conditions, the use of Tremolite, Carbonite or aluminum foil. Please also refrain from bringing any harmful chemicals such as Dihydrogenmonoxide to avoid the formation of flammable gasses through thermolysis.
Furthermore, we would like to announce a number of openings for the exulted position of "sniffer (f/m)". Your task will be to survey the surrounding air for byproducts of exothermic reactions and initiate emergency procedures on detection thereof. Similarly, the position of "runner (f/m)" is available for sporting individuals able to cover the distance from the CS building to the Erlangen fire station in less than 10 minutes, should the diesel backup power unit and thereby the fire alarm system fail unexpectedly.
Re-opening of currently closed rooms
Currently ongoing work to upgrade fire safety installations is scheduled to be finished by 2013-04-15. If everything goes according to plan, the CIP-Pools and lecture rooms that are currently closed will be reopened in time for the new semester.
Power supply tests on March 20th
The backup power supply was repaired, so it will get tested on Wednesday, March 20th, starting at 7 am. Again, the CIP pool will not be available during this time, as we will shut down everything until the tests are over (hopefully around 9 am).
Several CIP pools closed temporarily
The following CIP pools are closed for the time being:
The CIP pool 0.01-142 (Martensstrasse 5a, Casa Huber) is still usable (and now open for everyone), so is 02.135-113. Printer ps2ccip will stay online and is moved to 02.135-113. All other printers will be shut down.
Power supply tests on Saturday
This Saturday, January 12th, the backup power supply will be tested, starting at 7 am. The CIP pool will not be available during this time, as we will shut down everything until the tests are over (hopefully around noon).
Christmas holidays
During the christmas holidays (until January 7th) no consultation hours will take place. You can contact the administrators via email in urgent cases. The rooms will be accessible by our usual card lock system.
Merry christmas and a happy new year!
No pulseaudio, only alsa
Due to many sound system problems, pulseaudio was removed on all CIP systems. You now can use plain alsa. This should work with all applications out of the box. You can set the volume using alsamixer from your command line.
Please let us know if you still experience any problems with sound.
IPv6 address space changed
We changed our IPv6 address space to match the new policies specified by the RRZE.
Please let us know if you should experience any problems.
Windows Machines
We migrated our Windows domain from NT4 to Active Directory (thanks to Samba 4). Nothing should change for you, but you will have to reset your password via '/local/ciptools/bin/setsambapw' from your UNIX account.
Unscheduled downtime last night
Last night at around 1 am the CIP pool experienced some unscheduled downtime, causing reboots of different servers.
Since 8 am everything should be back to normal. If you still experience any problems, please let us know.
New website launched
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