[RHN Outage Announcement] RHN outages | 2005-03-04 - 2005-03-05 & 2004-04-07

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RHN OUTAGE NOTICE
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Summary:
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RHN experienced multiple outages this week. The outages involved both
backend database issues and problems with our storage system.

Incident Dates and times:
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US EST:
2005-03-04 - 2005-03-05     23:30 - 03:00    3.5 hours
2005-03-07                  10:40 - 11:00    20 minutes
2005-03-07                  18:00 - 21:00    3 hours

GMT:
2005-03-05 - 2005-03-06     04:30 - 08:00    3.5 hours
2005-03-07                  15:40 - 16:00    20 minutes
2005-03-08                  00:00 - 26:00    3 hours

Groups Impacted:
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All RHN users, though at different intermittent times.

Description:
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RHN experienced multiple outages this week. The outages involved both
backend database issues and problems with our storage system.
Unfortunately, though the problems have been resolved in the mean time
and RHN is stable, the problems are complex in nature. Troubleshooting
continues to further confirm that the various issues will not occur
again.


-the RHN Team