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 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)

    3 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

No incidents reported.

7 months ago 2026-01-16 17:00 UTC
Fixed

Fixed

7 months ago 2026-01-30 16:39 UTC

This incident has been resolved.

Reported

7 months ago 2026-01-19 23:05 UTC

We've had another rolling DHCP outage.

Investigations for a cause are still ongoing.

Reported

7 months ago 2026-01-16 17:00 UTC

DHCP doesn't function properly for new devices in some VLANs

Maintenance on virtualization hosts

7 months ago 2026-01-15 22:55 UTC
Complete
Affected Components: Network Management, Mailserver and VM-Hosts

In this timeframe, the cause of a failing NVME drive will be investigated, which requires a shut down of the host is required.

Most of the affected virtual machines are redundant and should not impact user traffic.

Helpdesk Maintenance

7 months ago 2026-01-15 18:27 UTC
Complete
Affected Components: Helpdesk

We are performing software updates for our helpdesk website. This will cause a downtime of approx. 5 minutes.

7 months ago 2026-01-14 17:00 UTC
Fixed
Affected Components: Helpdesk

Fixed

7 months ago 2026-01-15 18:34 UTC

This incident has been resolved. Ticket creation over the web interface is possible again

Reported

7 months ago 2026-01-14 17:00 UTC

The creation of support tickets in our helpdesk is currently not possible via the web interface.

To open a ticket please send us an email to helpdesk@fem.tu-ilmenau.de.

7 months ago 2026-01-14 13:45 UTC
Fixed
Affected Components: Wireless (Aruba system) and Wired

Fixed

7 months ago 2026-01-14 16:06 UTC

The situation has normalized again. This incident has been resolved

Investigating

7 months ago 2026-01-14 14:30 UTC

We are seeing a high amount of active connections on some of the NAT nodes. We are investigating.

Watching

7 months ago 2026-01-14 14:02 UTC

Our NAT-systems have been restartet, IPv4 connections seem to operate. We are monitoring the situation.

Reported

7 months ago 2026-01-14 13:45 UTC

We are experiencing issues with IPv4-Connectivity in House C.

No incidents reported.

7 months ago 2026-01-12 22:30 UTC
Fixed
Affected Components: Wireless (Aruba system)

Fixed

7 months ago 2026-01-13 09:23 UTC

We have restored the WiFi system operation.

Identified

7 months ago 2026-01-13 08:53 UTC

We have identified an outage in the management system for the WiFi. This causes authentication problems, which prevent clients from connecting to the network.

Reported

7 months ago 2026-01-12 22:30 UTC

The new Aruba WiFi system powering the WiFi in all houses except A and CJD is experiencing connection issues. We are investigating to determine the full impact of this outage and possible sources.

7 months ago 2026-01-11 15:00 UTC
Fixed
Affected Components: Network Management

Fixed

7 months ago 2026-01-13 08:44 UTC

The system seems to have stabilized and is no longer causing performance issues.

Watching

7 months ago 2026-01-12 10:52 UTC

The system seems to have stabilized in the last minutes. We are watching the system state and will inform about any updates.

Investigating

7 months ago 2026-01-12 10:39 UTC

We are still investigating this issue. Network usage is partially impacted.

Reported

7 months ago 2026-01-11 15:00 UTC

We have observed increased load and performance issues on our main network management system. The issue appears to originate from the old DHCP system creating too many database connections.

The issue has rendered the network management web interfaces practically unusable and the authentication to the network extremely slow. This mainly impacts users trying to (re-)connect to the network.

We have performed a reboot of the old DHCP system. This seems to have resolved the issue.