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Learning Opportunities

Axe-con 2021

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Axe-con, to be held March 10-11, is a free virtual conference based around accessibility.

Service Outage
Service Outage

Resolved: Service Outage: Atlas and Apollo

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Apollo is working. Atlas is in progress. On February 12, 2021, CSE-IT received reports of issues connecting to the atlas and apollo CSE Labs servers. These servers will be unavailable while we investigate the cause(s) of the issue.

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Planned Maintenance

Planned Maintenance: February 14, 2021

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CSE-IT systems will undergo routine maintenance from 4 a.m. to noon. Avoid using CSE UNIX home directories and project spaces and MacOS systems maintained by CSE-IT via UMN’s Jamf Pro.

Service Update: Duo Authentication required for remote connections
Service Updates

Using Duo Authentication With Remote Connections To CSE Systems

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Two-Factor authentication using Duo is required for all remote logins to CSE Linux systems.

Service Degradation
Service Degradation

Resolved: Service Degradation: Unstable Remote Connections

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On February 12, 2021 CSE-IT is rolling out updates to remote connection resources (VOLE, FastX, ssh) to require Duo Authentication. Remote connections may be unstable during the updates.

Service Outage
Service Outage

Resolved: Service Outage: VOLE 2D inaccessible

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CSE-IT encountered a network issue that prevented a critical configuration change. As a result, VOLE 2D is currently inaccessible. We estimate the VOLE 2D service will be restored by 12 p.m. on Wednesday, February 10.

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Service Updates

Service Change: VPN required to use VOLE

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As of Feb. 8, and as part of our ongoing efforts to protect you and your information, a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is required for access to CSE’s Virtual Online Linux Environment (VOLE).

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Service Updates

Share Google Drive files with non-Google accounts

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As of Jan. 7, all University accounts, including in the Health Sciences, can invite people who don’t have Google accounts to collaborate on University Google Drive files easily and securely.

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Planned Maintenance

Planned Maintenance: January 17, 2021

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CSE-IT systems will undergo routine maintenance from 4 a.m. to noon. Avoid using CSE UNIX home directories and project spaces and MacOS systems maintained by CSE-IT via UMN’s Jamf Pro.

Service Degradation
Service Degradation

Resolved: Service Degradation: VOLE is in degraded mode

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At 6 a.m. on December 18, 2020, VOLE was down due to bad updates.
Vole should now be up and functioning as of 8 a.m. We are still working on the update for Vole2D but this shouldn't impact performance.