BX:Main

It is a simple task to make things complex, but a complex task to make them simple. - Meyer's Law

This is the central hub for BX system user documentation.

All Pages in the BX namespace.

Help / General Info

Email admin-at-bx.psu.edu for support.

• New User Info
• BX email
• Installing CACert Root Certificate
• AFS
• Network Connections
• BX Accounts
• Printing

Tools

• Current System Status (login: guest/guest)
• Nagios Looking Glass (same as above, but different)
• Twitter feed of BX system status
• Network and System graphs (weblogin)
• Webalizer Website Statistics (weblogin)
• BX Webmail (weblogin)
• BX Password Change (weblogin)
• AFS Home Directory Info (weblogin)]

Recent System News

Mon, Mar 8, 2010

• The new Solaris+ZFS+AFS home directory storage has been brought fully online and all home directories migrated back to the 3 new virtualized machines, afs-fs4, afs-fs5, afs-fs6. The new filesystem allocation uses ZFS, with compression turned on, resulting in 1.75 to 1 compression on average for home directories.
• The machine previously known as coltrane has been re-purposed as a VMware ESXi machine, running the 3 new Solaris AFS fileservers. The machine currently known as coltrane is now a virtualized CentOS 5.4 machine.

Sun, Feb 21 2010

• mail.bx.psu.edu has been decomissioned as per the announcements to all@bx (1, 2). Please see BX:Mail for the canonical instructions for configuring your mail client.

Upcoming Changes/Outages

• Thursday, March 18, 2010 OPP has requested a whole-building power outage for Wartik Lab from 4AM to 7AM. Equipment on backup power will not be effected. We are currently unsure if we will be able to move the server equipment onto the new backup power in time.