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Confluence & JIRA Outage on May 16 2010 from 1000 - 2200 PDT

Confluence and JIRA will both be unavailable on Sunday May 16, 2010 from 10 AM PDT to 10 PM PDT. During this outage Confluence will be upgraded from version 2.10.2 to version 3.2.1. Please send comments or questions to confluence-admin@slac.stanford.edu.

Ernest Denys
Enterprise Applications - OCIO Computing Division
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Confluence & JIRA Outage TODAY April 17 2010 from 1800 - 2000 PDT

Confluence and JIRA will be unavailable this evening Saturday April 17, 2010 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT. During the outage confluence admin will install a critical JIRA Security patch, released yesterday, which addresses vulnerabilities related to XSS (Cross Site Scripting) attacks and privilege escalations in all versions of JIRA.

Confluence 3.2 installed in the user test environment

The latest release Confluence 3.2 has been installed in the User Test environment. It is available for user testing and familiarization. Production upgrade to Confluence 3.2 is scheduled for May 16, 2010.

You can see what's new with Confluence version 3.x here. The users guide is available here.

Questions? Feedback? Leave a comment here or send email to confluence-admin@slac.stanford.edu.

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Ernest Denys

OCIO Enterprise Applications

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Confluence & JIRA Outage on March 24 2010 from 2100 - 2130 PDT

There will be a 30 minute outage of Confluence and JIRA on Wednesday March 24, 2010 from 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM PDT. During this outage confluence admin will install and configure the JIRA Subversion plugin and install Confluence plugin updates.

Confluence & JIRA Outage on February 25 2010 from 1730 - 1815 PST

There will be a 45 minute outage of Confluence and JIRA on Thursday February 25, 2010 from 5:30 PM - 6:15 PM PST. The database server hosting Confluence and JIRA databases is being rebooted to pick up a new Linux kernel which addresses security vulnerabilities.

Access Confluence pages using WebDAV

Use Confluence like a network drive with drag and drop file operations.

New instructions with Confluence 3.2:

To map a Confluence WebDAV client web folder in Windows XP use ' My Network Places' not 'My Computer'.

WebDav client setup instructions can be found here.

Use network address: http://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/plugins/servlet/confluence/default

Known issue with Windows XP and 'My Computer':

Atlassian has an open improvement ticket to address the issue with Windows connecting to WebDAV

Until resolved they have recommended BitKinex WebDAV client as a work around. It is available for free here.

Confluence and JIRA Outage Saturday February 13, 2010 0700 - 2200

Confluence and JIRA will both be unavailable on Saturday February 13, 2010 from 7 AM PST to 10 PM PST. During this outage both applications will be moved to new SLAC Computing Division centrally managed hardware and JIRA will be upgraded to version 3.13.5. More information on the migration and upgrade project here. Please send comments or questions to confluence-admin@slac.stanford.edu.

Ernest Denys
OCIO Computing Division
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

JIRA down February 3, 2010 as of 0710 PST

JIRA went down at approximately 0710 this morning and currently remains unavailable. Confluence-admin is working on identifying the problem and restore the service.

Confluence & JIRA Outage on January 11 2010 from 1200 - 1245 PST

There will be a 45 minute outage of Confluence and JIRA on Monday January 11, 2010 from 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM PST. The linux and database servers hosting Confluence and JIRA are being rebooted to pick up a new Linux kernel which addresses security vulnerabilities.

IIS Web Server reboot on Thursday December 17 2009 at 0825 AM PST

A Yahoo Crawler session using system resources has been detected on our Confluence / JIRA Web server. The IP address has been blocked but IIS requires a reboot to implement the block and disconnect the current session.  The reboot will be issued at 8:25 AM PST today Thursday December 17, 2009. 

Please save your work and prepare for the momentary disruption in Confluence and JIRA

Ernest Denys

Confluence-Admin

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

There will be a 20 minute outage of Confluence and JIRA on Thursday December 10, 2009 from 12:10 PM - 12:30 PM PST. The linux server glastlnx08 hosting Confluence and JIRA will be rebooted.

Confluence & JIRA Outage on November 12 2009 from 1030 - 1115 PST

There will be a 45 minute outage of Confluence and JIRA on Thursday November 12, 2009 from 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM PST. The linux and database servers hosting Confluence and JIRA are being rebooted to pick up a new Linux kernel which addresses security vulnerabilities.

Unscheduled outage of Confluence and JIRA October 2 2009 1550 - 1620

There was unscheduled outage of Confluence and JIRA from 1550 - 1620 this afternoon. We have restarted the services and continue to investigate the cause.  We apologize for any inconvenience this outage caused.   confluence-admin SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Confluence & Jira Outage on September 30 2009 from 1245 - 1300 PDT

There will be a 15 minute outage of Confluence and Jira on Wednesday September 30, 2009 from 12:45 PM - 1:00 PM PDT. The linux and database servers hosting Confluence and JIRA are being rebooted to pick up a new Linux kernel which addresses security vulnerabilities.

There will be a 15 minute outage of Confluence/Jira on Monday August 31, 2009 from 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM PDT. The glast linux and database servers are being rebooted to pick up a new Linux kernel.