We have a new Employee starting from the 1st of March.
Christian Borchardt will be helping out at our helpdesk and he will provide support for Linux and Windows installations.

The crashed server was recovered from backup. Everything is up and running again.

By: Rainer Weigle

The outgoing mail server smtp.zmaw.de has crashed.

By: Rainer Weigle

As already announced there will be a maintenance of the new machine hall
concerning power and cooling.

What will happen:

- A part of the power system will be upgraded
- Some valve of the cooling system will be replaced

When?

- Friday 19th 3 pm: Partly shutdown of the cooling system. Squall and
snow will be shutdown. All other CIS Servers will be up and running
till Saturday morning 7:00 am.
- Saturday 20th 7am: Full power down of all servers and the network.
- Sunday 21st: Cooling and power will be up and running. All servers
and services will hopefully be up and running on Sunday evening.

Who/What is affected:

- On Friday only the large systems squall and snow will be shutdown
- From Saturday morning till Sunday evening all servers and all
services will be shutdown. No network, no mail and no Internet access
will be available.

If you have any questions do not hesitate to send a mail to

A day like another? No it is Data Protection Day.
We attached some links to this news.