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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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Expired Certificate of mail server

9 months ago 2025-11-15 07:00 UTC
Fixed
Affected Components: Mailserver

Fixed

9 months ago 2025-11-20 07:07 UTC

The certificate was also replaced on our webserver. All systems are operational again.

Identified

9 months ago 2025-11-15 19:01 UTC

Restoring access to the Mailinglist Web-UI is currently pending action from the webserver team.

Identified

9 months ago 2025-11-15 16:36 UTC

The following services are affected by expired certificates and are currently not available:

  • Mailbox access (IMAP/POP3)
  • Sending and Receiving Mail
  • Mailinglist Web-UI

New certificate requests have been issued and currently awaiting clearance from the certificate authority.

Identified

9 months ago 2025-11-15 10:04 UTC

We are currently in the process of requesting a new certificate. Please be patient.

Reported

9 months ago 2025-11-15 07:00 UTC

We are experiencing issues with an expired certificate on our IMAP server. Our ability to receive mails is currently partially degraded.

No incidents reported.

No incidents reported.

No incidents reported.

Availability issues after network maintenance

9 months ago 2025-11-11 11:00 UTC
Fixed
Affected Components: Databases and Homepage

Fixed

9 months ago 2025-11-11 12:56 UTC

All services are working again.

Watching

9 months ago 2025-11-11 12:36 UTC

After a restart of the database node we see a recovery of most of the concerned services. We are monitoring the situation.

Investigating

9 months ago 2025-11-11 12:30 UTC

We have identified the root cause of the issue being a mailfunctioning database node. We are currently working on mitigating the issue.

Reported

9 months ago 2025-11-11 11:00 UTC

We are experiencing issues with availability of our infrastructure after the network infrastructure maintenance this morning.

The services include:

  • Webhosting
  • Database infrastructure

Upgrade of fiber network infrastructure

9 months ago 2025-11-11 10:00 UTC
Complete

Some of our server components will be upgraded to a new fiber network installation, which can cause approximately 5 Minutes of downtime. This will especially impact the following services:

  • video and content delivery
  • xmpp
  • web services
  • linux mirrors
  • mail lists

No incidents reported.

Maintenance on VM hosts

10 months ago 2025-11-09 17:00 UTC
Complete

As part of our maintenance, we will be updating the operating system and core 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
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