FeM e.V. Infrastructure and System Status

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 months ago
    • Internet Uplink

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

Past incidents

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1 year ago 2025-10-08 20:47 UTC
Fixed
Affected Components: Internet Uplink and Wireless (Aruba system)

Fixed

1 year ago 2025-10-09 08:34 UTC

The switch seems to operate without problems again.

Watching

1 year ago 2025-10-09 06:11 UTC

The network switch did an automatic failover to the main management module and seems to operate normally again.

We are monitoring the state of this situation

Reported

1 year ago 2025-10-09 05:58 UTC

The redundant management module failed with the same error again. We are currently investigating the situation again.

Fixed

1 year ago 2025-10-08 21:01 UTC

The switch executed a failover to the redundant management module and is operational again. No user traffic was impacted.

This incident has been resolved.

Reported

1 year ago 2025-10-08 20:47 UTC

A switch in house L and with that parts of the network in that house are down.

No incidents reported.

No incidents reported.

No incidents reported.

1 year ago 2025-10-04 17:04 UTC
Fixed
Affected Components: Mailserver

Fixed

1 year ago 2025-10-04 17:44 UTC

The incident has been resolved.

Identified

1 year ago 2025-10-04 17:32 UTC

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

Reported

1 year ago 2025-10-04 17:04 UTC

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

1 year ago 2025-10-04 09:30 UTC
Fixed
Affected Components: Webcluster and Homepage

Fixed

1 year ago 2025-10-04 10:42 UTC

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

Identified

1 year ago 2025-10-04 09:36 UTC

We are currently assessing the situation and recovery procedures.

Reported

1 year 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

1 year 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.

1 year ago 2025-10-02 07:00 UTC
Fixed
Affected Components: Internet Uplink

Fixed

1 year 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

1 year 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.