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Notices

System notices (downtime, power outages, maintenance) will be placed here.


  • 09 July 2005, 7:15 PM: The Exchange Server went down due to a hardware problem with the network card. All Services have been restored as of midnight.
  • 29 March 2005, 8:00AM: Due to a networking problem csa2, csa3, cs3, and several other systems at 730 Comm. Ave are off line. As a result, several web services are off-line.
  • 25 March 2005, 12:00PM: Windows Print Services went down due to a hardware problem with the network card. This had a 10-15 Minute affect on DNS (same server) which affects internet usage and possible exchange on some systems.
  • 22 March 2005, 4:00PM: The Exchange Server experienced a corrupt database and would not mount until it was repaired and checked for consistency. All Exchange Mail services are running smoothly again (1:20 AM 3/23/05).
  • 15 November 2004, 9:15AM: The IMAP and POP servers for CS are down. The will be up shortly.
  • 07 October 2004, 9:15AM: The failed piece of networking hardware at 730 Commonwealth Avenue was replaced. Networking was restored to all the affected servers.
  • 07 October 2004, 1:00AM: Due to a networking hardware failure the servers: csa2.bu.edu, csa3.bu.edu, cs2.bu.edu, and cs-nts2.bu.edu are off-line. Along with these servers, the undergraduate printers r2d2 and watercolors are also off-line. In addition to these servers, the cs-rt.bu.edu and cs-wiki.bu.edu web sites are down.
  • 02 August 2004: New general purpose computing nodes csa2.bu.edu and csa3.bu.edu are available to the entire CS cluster. Please read this notice for more details.
  • 14 April 2004: The server that will be replacing csa.bu.edu is available for testing. The server's temporary host name is csa-tmp.bu.edu. The server is an IBM eServer xSeries 365 Intel CPU based server. Please read follow this link for more information.
  • 18 October 2003, 10PM - 19 October 2003, 10AM: All home directories will be frozen during this time. Users will have read access to their files, but they will not be able to write to their home directories.