Nevis Obsolete News Items

Where old status reports, news items, and links go to die.

Obsolete wiki pages

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:

• The administrative cluster:
  • basic diagnostic procedures;
  • cluster resource status;
  • pacemaker configuration for the very brave.

Major announcements

• Upgrading the cluster to a 64-bit operating system.

• August 2009 system upgrades

• Discussion of Fedora versus Scientific Linux

• The IMAP file switch was completed on 18-Feb-2009.

• The mail server will reject e-mail messages if their spam score is too high.

• Moving the applications directory from /usr/local to /usr/nevis.

• Proposal on what to do as the Fedora Legacy project shuts down.

• Notes on the new mail server installed at Nevis in Feb 2006.

• 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.

• Notes on the status of Redhat and Fedora installations on the Linux cluster.

• Mail services were shut down on nevis1 on 12-Apr-2004.

• Notes on the Redhat 9 upgrade that was performed on the Nevis Linux cluster.

• The switch to the faster T3 network took place on 08-Oct-2003.

• The ftp server switch took place on 27-Mar-2003.

• 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.

• A new mail server, franklin, was put into service on 09-May-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.

• Notes from 06-May-1997 on security changes made to the Nevis web server.

Nevis computer news items

• For news from 2004 through the present, see the nevis-linux news archives.

• The Nevis Computing News items from 2002 through 2003.

• The Nevis Computing News items from 2000 through 2001.

• The Nevis Computing News items from 1997 through 1999.