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Downtime for Informatics services is announced here or on the sys-announce list. It may also get a mention on the Computing Systems blog or on Mastodon.

Tuesday 15/07 9:30-11:30 - maintenance on some DICE remote desktop servers

Servers guitar, theorbo and zither will be unavailable while they get important updates to maintain security and system integrity.
You can find out which remote desktop server you use with the DICE command:

host $USER.remote.inf.ed.ac.uk

On other systems replace $USER with your DICE username.
Other remote desktop servers won't be affected. Anyone who has their own DICE desktop can access its remote desktop through the Informatics VPN, and staff can also use staff.xrdp.inf.ed.ac.uk.

See also help information about DICE remote desktop.

Wednesday 16/07 10:00-10:30 - ssh reboots

The three machines which provide the ssh service will all be rebooted on Wednesday morning to apply important updates. We'll reboot one at a time, and each reboot will take only a few minutes.

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Downtime for University-wide services is announced at IS status and alerts.

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