A power shutdown is scheduled for this Saturday, July 11th to enable necessary maintenance on the Lab’s power distribution system. The power shutdown involves several buildings, including the 50 complex, which houses the Lab’s central IT systems.
Most IT systems will be offline from Friday, 7/10 at 5:00pm through midday on Sunday, 7/12. We expect most systems to be available by Sunday night but some systems will not return until Monday midday.
If you are in a building impacted by the outage (see below), there will be no network connectivity inside your building or access to the internet during the power outage. In addition, you are strongly encouraged to shut down all computing equipment before the outage. Computers and equipment are easily damaged by power outages.
Services that should be available
We expect the following systems to be AVAILABLE throughout the outage:
http://www.lbl.gov, today.lbl.gov, newscenter.lbl.gov, and status.lbl.gov
Google mail/calendar/docs/sites
http://login.lbl.gov (single sign-on gateway to Google mail/calendar/docs/sites)
LDAP directory Services and Authentication
Laboratory Network Connectivity, Telephony, and Cyber Security (except in buildings impacted by the power outage)
One Time Password authentication services including the shell.lbl.gov OTP Gateway.
However, in any power outage, there is the possibility that backup power systems will not function as expected. With the exception of www, today, newscenter, and status, it is possible that the services above may also be unavailable if backup power does not come on.
Services Not Available
The following systems will be OFFLINE from Friday night until Sunday night (sub-bullets are examples of services, not all inclusive lists):
All Business Applications (Return to Service by Sunday at 5pm)
EHS Systems, Facilities Systems including Maximo, Financial Systems (FMS, AMS, ebuy, etc), HR Systems (HRIS, LETS, etc), Reporting Tools (Cognos), Protective Services Applications (visitorpass), etc.
All High Performance Computing Systems provided by IT (Return to Service by Monday at 5pm)
All HPC Clusters
Lawrencium
All HPC managed storage and web servers
All Collaboration Services except for Google Apps (Return to Service by Sunday at 5pm)
Windows File Storage provided by IT (synonyms: CIFS, Grouper, G Drive, etc)
Commons.lbl.gov Wiki
Legacy Systems: eRoom and Webspace
All Hosting Services provided locally by IT (Return to Service by Sunday at 5pm)
Systems hosted on Websnap/Plesk Infrastructure
Customer Virtual Machine Hosting
Most everything else: (Return to Service by Sunday at 5pm)
UCB Library Proxy Service
Windows Printing Services
Some Windows Authentication Services
Sophos AV updates
List of Buildings Impacted by Power Outage:
33B, 50, 50A, 50B, 50C, 50E, 50F, 54, 55, 55A, 56, 56A, 56W, 60, 63, 64, 65, 65A, 65B, 70, 70A, 71 complex, 71A, 71B, 71C, 71 Trailers, 88, 88D, 90 complex, 90 Trailers, and Blackberry Trailers
These buildings have different power outage windows on Saturday. However, given the various dependencies and pre-outage shutdowns, customers in these buildings should assume no network connectivity from early Saturday to early Sunday, even though it is expected the outage will be shorter.
