Nevis Obsolete News Items
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Obsolete wiki pages
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Archived 20-Sep-2013: The high-availability cluster has been set aside in favor of a more traditional single-box cluster. HA is grand in theory, but in the three years we operated the cluster we had no hardware problems which the HA set-up would have prevented, but many hours of downtime due to problems with the HA software.
This mailing-list post
has some details.
Here are the pages that documented the state and the diagnostic procedures for the HA cluster when it existed:
Major announcements
- Upgrading the cluster to a 64-bit operating system.
- The mail server will reject e-mail messages if their spam score
is too high.
- The old nevis1 server will be shut off
near the end of 2005.
- Notes on the new servers
installed at Nevis near the end of 2005.
- Mail services were shut down
on nevis1 on 12-Apr-2004.
- The switch to the new web server took place on 23-Oct-2002.
- The mail processing
on nevis1 is scheduled to be changed on 26-Aug-2002.
- Nevis1 usage policy - to make sure everyone here has a fair chance to use the system's resources.
- The list of machines in the old VAX cluster
.
- Review the shutdown schedule
for the Nevis computer systems over the 1999-2000 New Year's weekend.
- We performed major upgrades
to nevis1 in March-August, 1999.
- The status of the VAX migration
(last updated 5-Jan-1999). There are also instructions
on how to convert your VAX mail to UNIX format.
Nevis computer news items
- For news from 2004 through the present, see the nevis-linux
news archives.