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Queued email has been processed

Users may see a message asking for username, password, and date of
birth, purporting to be
From: “The State University New York at Potsdam”
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL with any information whatsoever. More
information forthcoming.

Due to “phish” related spam attack, there will be
delays in sending and delivery of email.

Webproxy and Printing services required restarts due to a power anomaly
in the datacenter.

At 4:21AM, a cable problem partitioned two critical parts of the server
network, rendering half of the host services invisible to the campus.
All clear.

The admin campus network experienced an approximately hour-long network
outage due to a hardware failure. All connectivity should be
re-established at this point. Anyone experiencing connectivity issues
should attempt to reboot their computer first.

All services have been restored

Currently working to resolve a database problem – services should be restored some time this morning

One of our License servers (Dodo) will be rebooted some time this evening in order to apply recent system updates. Outage is expected to be of minimal duration. Services potentially affected include Maple, SPSS, Sibelius, Finale, MathCAD, and FileMaker web databases.

Helios experienced a system malfunction and required a reboot to recover.