Unfortunately, last week’s update failed because of networking problems, and has thus been re-scheduled to take place tomorrow morning, 1st of December, between 07:00 a.m. and 09:00 a.m.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this repeated downtime.
A software component will be upgraded on Wednesday, 24/11/10, in the course of our scheduled maintenance hours.
Since the upgrade requires approximately 2 hours downtime of vLib, the installation will be started at 07:00 a.m. Services are expected to be back by 09:00 a.m.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Due to a scheduled power outage vLib will be unavailable on Wednesday, 17/11/10, from 6 am onwards.
As a a high number of services will be experiencing a downtime, systems will be initialized successively after the outage.
We have done our best to prioritize the start of vLib, however, we are unable to give any more precise point of time when vLib will be available again but between 9 and 12 o’clock in the morning.
MPG/SFX services should be available without interruption.
More info see GWDG News.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
The GWDG currently undertakes some necessary construction work in their server room and the vLib server need to be moved to a new location in this context. Therefore, our hosting partner scheduled a downtime for the vLib portal on Wednesday between 07:30 a.m. to approximately 12:00 a.m. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Update from 1 pm: Server restart will be delayed by two hours at least.
Unfortunately, the vLib portal is not running at the moment due to server problems at our hosting partner. The responsible system administrators at GWDG work intensely to resume service as soon as possible.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Update from 6 pm: The problems have been caused by a failure of memory devices. The system was restarted successfully in the meantime.
In order to prepare an upcoming migration, the GWDG scheduled a few hours downtime for the MPG/SFX server on Sunday between 01:00 a.m. and 06:00 a.m.
Please be aware that MPG/SFX services will be unavailable during that time, while the upcoming system is synchronized with the MPG/SFX server in production.
On Wednesday, February 17, after thorough testing, the new system will be switched to production during our regular maintenance hours, which will involve another short downtime.
!! PLEASE NOTE: Switch to production was re-scheduled to take place on Thursday morning, February 18, between 8 and 9 a.m. Apologies for the short notice. !!
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Today, the MPG/SFX server was not available from 12 a.m. to 3 p.m., due to a crash of the SFX database. Meanwhile our hosting partner managed to restore the database from the backfile and restarted the service successfully.
We are sorry for the inconvenience (and will try our best to get rid of all the bad karma
We are planning to upgrade our portal software to MetaLib version 4.3.
Unfortunately, a downtime of several hours will be inevitable, consequently vLib is likely to be unavailable between 08:00 and 12:00 a.m. that day.
We would like to apologize in advance for any inconvenience.
UPDATE (16 September, 12:19): Installation process delayed. Services continue to be unavailable.
UPDATE (16 September, 15:45): Services available again.
Due to a technical emergency at the GWDG, the power supply will be turned off at 3 pm for an hour at least.
This outage will affect all information services hosted at the GWDG, including:
All services will be shut down now and restarted successively after 4 pm. We’re sorry for the inconvenience!
In order to prepare an upcoming migration, the GWDG scheduled a 2 hours downtime for the MPG/SFX server on Sunday between 10:00 a.m. and 18:00 p.m. MPG/SFX services will be unavailable during this downtime. Please be assured that every effort will be made to minimize the outage as much as possible. We’re sorry for the inconvenience!