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FeM e.V. Infrastructure and System Status

This page shows an overview of the status of infrastructure, services and systems of FeM e.V.

Please keep in mind that all helpers do this voluntarily in their free time. Therefore, there are no guarantees for any given timelines or time estimations.

If you have any questions or specific problems, feel free to send us a ticket via our helpdesk: https://helpdesk.fem.tu-ilmenau.de.

All systems are operational.

Last updated 2 weeks ago

    • Internet Uplink

      Operational
      Last updated 2026-08-23 21:59:06

    • Wireless (Freescale system)

      House A

      Operational
      Last updated 2026-08-01 21:43:16

    • Wireless (Aruba system)

      House B, C, D, E, H, I, K, L, N, P, Q, CJD and FeM-Office

      Operational
      Last updated 2026-07-28 17:49:29

    • Wired

      Ethernet sockets

      Operational
      Last updated 2026-01-19 23:58:28

    • Network Management

      FeM AdminDB and network services (DHCP, DNS...)

      Operational
      Last updated 2026-04-23 21:48:54

    • Helpdesk

      Operational
      Last updated 2026-01-30 15:05:44

    • Storage systems

      Storage systems for servers (e.g. Ceph, ha-storage)

      Operational
      Last updated 2026-01-17 14:09:13

    • Monitoring

      All monitoring systems, e.g. Icinga, Grafana, ...

      Operational
      Last updated 2025-11-04 14:15:17

    • Databases

      Operational
      Last updated 2026-08-23 19:28:39

    • VM-Hosts

      Operational
      Last updated 2026-08-23 19:28:40

    • Mailserver

      Mail servers, inboxes & list systems

      Operational
      Last updated 2026-01-30 15:05:22

    • Webcluster

      Operational
      Last updated 2026-08-23 19:28:38

    • Mastodon

      Federated social network

      Operational
      Last updated 2026-05-10 14:39:06

    • Mattermost

      Internal Messenger

      Operational
      Last updated 2026-08-23 19:28:41

    • Pretix

      A Service to Sell Tickets and Manage Events

      Operational
      Last updated 2026-08-23 19:28:42

    • Dist-Mirror

      A Mirror for some selected Linux Distributions

      Operational
      Last updated 2025-10-31 12:35:48

    • XMPP

      XMPP / Jabber Instant Messaging

      Operational
      Last updated 2026-05-05 23:21:05

    • FeMCI

      FeM Content Infrastructure

      Operational
      Last updated 2026-08-23 19:28:43

    • Homepage

      Our homepage

      Operational
      Last updated 2026-05-22 15:00:39

    • Matrix

      Federated Instant Messaging

      Operational
      Last updated 2026-08-23 19:28:44

Planned maintenance

  • Sunsetting of the FreeScale WiFi (House A)

    2 weeks from now 2026-09-30 22:00 UTC
    Upcoming

    We are shutting down our old WiFi system (FreeScale-WiFi) on 2026-10-01. This WiFi system is currently only used in House A. All other houses are not affected by this change!

    After this date, the usage of the FeM-Net in house A is only possible via LAN or with a private router. Please keep in mind, that the usage of registered private routers (without NAT, AP mode enabled) is only allowed in accordance with the Terms of Use in houses A, N, P and houses in the Professor-Philippow-Str.

    If you have any questions, please open a ticket in our helpdesk at https://helpdesk.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/.

    Affected Components: Wireless (Freescale system)

Past incidents

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Access problems with mail list server

11 months ago 2025-10-04 17:04 UTC
Fixed
Affected Components: Mailserver

Fixed

11 months ago 2025-10-04 17:44 UTC

The incident has been resolved.

Identified

11 months ago 2025-10-04 17:32 UTC

We have identified the cause of the incident and we are implementing a fix.

Reported

11 months ago 2025-10-04 17:04 UTC

We are experiencing problems with our email list management interface server and are currently investigating the issue.

Expired Certificates

11 months ago 2025-10-04 09:30 UTC
Fixed
Affected Components: Webcluster and Homepage

Fixed

11 months ago 2025-10-04 10:42 UTC

We were able to replace the expired certificates. The incident has been resolved.

Identified

11 months ago 2025-10-04 09:36 UTC

We are currently assessing the situation and recovery procedures.

Reported

11 months ago 2025-10-04 09:30 UTC

We are experiencing problems with expired HTTPS certificats for parts of our web infrastructure. Therefore, the FeM homepage and other pages are currently partially unavailable

VM-Host Maintenance

11 months ago 2025-10-04 13:50 UTC
Complete

As part of our maintenance, we will be updating the hypervisor software on one of our VM hosts. This update requires a restart of the server, which will result in multiple services being partially or completely unavailable.

This includes:

  • mailing lists
  • xmpp
  • web services
  • linux mirrors

No incidents reported.

ProPhiS Network Outage

11 months ago 2025-10-02 07:00 UTC
Fixed
Affected Components: Internet Uplink

Fixed

11 months ago 2025-10-02 07:00 UTC

There was an electrical fault in ProPhiS 1 due to work on electrical installations. This caused a total network outage in all ProPhiS houses.

The issue has been fixed.

Network Management Service Migration and Updates

11 months ago 2025-10-02 21:00 UTC
Complete

Some components of our network management infrastructure are moved to a newer hardware node this evening. At the same time, updates are installed as part of regular maintenance.

We expect no outages due as all services are build for high availability and other nodes can take over.

Packet loss and Performance issues

11 months ago 2025-09-30 23:00 UTC
Fixed
Affected Components: Wireless (Freescale system), Wireless (Aruba system) and Network Management

Fixed

11 months ago 2025-10-01 10:05 UTC

The incident has been resolved. All systems are operational again.

Identified

11 months ago 2025-10-01 07:28 UTC

We have identified the specific component in our network infrastructure which caused the incident

Reported

11 months ago 2025-09-30 23:00 UTC

We are experiencing problems with packet loss and some performance issues in our network infrastructure.

No incidents reported.

No incidents reported.

No incidents reported.

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