Information last updated March 4, 2007

03-09-07
Servers have been moved into the new racks and they are now all balanced on the UPS's. The remote access servers are now CSS01 - CSS10.


12-4-06
Spam Assassin is now up and working. Contact Sysadmin if you need assistance in setting up your account.


10-18-06

The new webmail host webmail.cs.wmich.edu is now working.


We now have dedicated remote servers for student and faculty access on or off campus. These machines are isolated from inadvertent disconnect from service (they reside in the data center) and they are available 24/7. They are "css01-css20" (the csx group of machines has been rerouted (CNAME) to the css group).
NOTE: These are x86 machines (Intel based chip set) running Solaris 10.

We are aware of the ridiculous amount of spam(we receive it all!). The new (isolated) mail server is in process, we plan to reduce current spam levels and flag suspect mail.

08-10-06


The intranet server can only be accessed from the cs.wmich.edu domain.

OIT has turned off port 25 aboard the campus, pop is no longer supported unless it's secure.

We have been experiencing a flood of spoofed mail from an outside source, indicating that passwords and accounts have been altered.
This is false info. If you recieve this mail just ignore it. The only department accounts that you need to be concerned with are:
"sysadmin" and "csadmin", all others are forged (or are not supposed to send mail).

We will be upgrading the UPS for all servers. We may experience short outages of system services once the Physical plant has completed the wiring.

Hal experienced some temporary hardware issues due to overheating. These Problems should now be corrected.

The follow software is installed on all csx/csy machines:
Sun C/C++, Fortran Compilers and utilities
GNU C/C++, Fortran, ObjectiveC and utilities
Clisp, DrScheme, GNU Prolog, SWIProlog
XFig, Maple 6, Mysql, spim, teTeX, Acrobat5, Jabberwocky
Java SDK 1.4.2_03, Java SDK 1.5.0


01-23-06

CS had a hardware failure causing intemittent NFS failures. The system is back up and working. (Cause unknown at this time)