See also
- Power outage records, procedures, and to-do's
- http://www.cornell.edu/cuinfo/specialconditions
- https://ipp.cornell.edu/aggregator/categories/1
| Date, day | Duration and chronology | Notes | Official info, if any | |
| 6/14/2018 | ~20 minutes, ~12:20pm. | Partial campus. Baker Lab, ST Olin, etc. Q: CIT's telephony affected beyond power outage's region (see to the right)? Lulu was in China. Michael was to be off the afternoon and had left. Oliver was leaving at time of outage, to be off the afternoon. Unusual, personal circumstances for why we both needed to be off that afternoon. Michael and Oliver returned to campus around 2:30, after fulfilling some their personal obligations. Michael led getting the server room's servers up and running. | CIT's problems stemming from power outage: https://itservicealerts.hosting.cornell.edu/view/5267 CIT writes: A power outage has caused a partial service outage for campus Telephone Service. Voice over IP (VoIP) telephones in some locations are not working. Affected locations include Baker Institute, Hungerford Hill, some vet facilities and Stewart Avenue including Phi Kappa Psi. | |
10/23/17 Tuesday | ~9 minutes, ~7:24am. Lulu reports power outage: ~ 7:24-7:33am Q: A double power-down within a minute, around 7:32 and 7:33? | Campus-wide. Math's server also down, so as of 9:20am, IT reporting (Chemistry and Physics) and Pumpkin Cam were down. | CornellALERT: Power Outage - Ithaca Campus Email's time-stamp was GOOD: Tue 10/24/2017 7:31 AM | |
4/23/17 Sunday | 5-10 minutes., ~9:25am. Some data points: ============= Sunday, April 23, 2017, 9:28 AM, Micheal wrote: I’m betting we just had a power outage or blip on campus. | Affected some places downtown, too, per Oliver's info (blew out sound system at an Aurora and Buffalo location). | http://www.cornell.edu/cuinfo/specialconditions#2718 Sun, 04/23/2017 - 10:58: At 09:50 a.m. on April 23, 2017 power outage is impacting the Ithaca campus. Service personnel are aware of the outage and are responding. Sun, 04/23/2017 - 11:57: Cornell Utilities reports power to all of the Ithaca campus has been fully restored as of 10:45 AM. | |
| 2/4/17 Saturday | Almost 3 hours, 5:17-8:05pm. We did get power temporarily on for 20 minutes near the end of this interval, 7:15-7:35pm. Some data points: ============= Sat 2/4/2017 7:44 PM, Micheal wrote: (Power went out at) 7:15pm to the (ed. room, per Synology records). I got in and was starting to look at what was up and what was down, but then I lost access to everything. I think the room lost power again at 7:35pm. Sat 2/4/2017 9:12 PM, Michael wrote: Power appears to have come back at 8:05pm (ed. per Synology records). | TBD. Note, for future reference: Early on, "NYSEG has estimated restoration around 8:15-8:30pm" | https://itservicealerts.hosting.cornell.edu/view/4655 CUAlert nofications: (1) First CUAlert came about 30 minutes after actual outage started: Sent: Saturday, February 4, 2017 5:46 PM (2) Our systems only got power 20 minutes after CUAlert stated power was back: Sent: Saturday, February 4, 2017 7:52 PM | Michael had logged in, noted system had shut down. And was himself kicked out, indicating a second power outage during this time. NetAdmin-L alerted potential ~10 minutes before Alert: From: On Behalf Of Jamie Rosner Duong Are parts of Cornell experiencing a power outage?
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4/11/16 Monday | About 40 minutes, starting shortly after noon. Official emails: Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 12:25 PM: CornellALERT: ITHACA CAMPUS POWER OUTAGE Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 12:59 PM: CornellALERT: ITHACA CAMPUS POWER OUTAGE - UPDATE 12:48 | Sun article, quoting Melissa Hines: http://cornellsun.com/2016/04/11/damaged-transmission-line-responsible-for-cornell-power-outage/ | Servers mostly OK. Some UPS failings. Some router failings. See our notes on this particular outage. | |
2/27/2014 | 2 minutes | Procedural error? | No link to info in 3/3/14 email? | Michael led our effort to initially evaluate and restore systems, with Oliver adding to documentation and to-do's. Lulu completed the cluster restoration efforts. |
1/27/2014 | 17-19 minutes | ? | Lulu, Michael, and Oliver shut down head nodes and other systems which were on UPS. (Those systems non UPS shut down hard, per usual.) | |
12/23/2013 | 2 minutes | Procedural error? | Terrible timing, right before the longest staff holiday of the year. | |
7/17/13 | Half a morning (~2 hours) |
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