[Astro] [CAPT] Fwd: FW: IMPORTANT REMINDER: Physics building loss of power for urgent maintenance: 09:30 to 13:30, Wednesday 3rd September

[Phil Parry]

Hi all,

A reminder that this is happening tomorrow morning.

We have several servers and other computers in the Physics building; 
these will all be shut down early tomorrow morning at around 8am:

|astroraid|

|astrozfs|

|capt-gpu|

|capt-gpu2|

|dator|

|pleiades|

|mlis1|

|mlis2|

|ukads
|

The shared machines captain, odhar and brahan are hosted elsewhere and 
won't be shut down, but as they use the NIS server astroraid for their 
password database, you won't be able to log in to these machines. (If 
you're logged in beforehand, you should be OK, but please consider these 
machines to be at-risk tomorrow.)

If all goes well, the above machines should be back online in the 
afternoon.  I'll start work on restarting them as soon as the power 
comes back on, I expect it to take around an hour to restore everything.

Apologies for the disruption this will cause.

Thanks,
Phil P

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Subject: 	FW: IMPORTANT REMINDER: Physics building loss of power for 
urgent maintenance: 09:30 to 13:30, Wednesday 3rd September
Date: 	Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:36:13 +0100
From: 	Sharon Meeks (staff) <ppzsm2 at exmail.nottingham.ac.uk>



Dear all,

Further to previous emails, I would like to remind you that we have an 
upcoming full electrical shutdown within the Physics building on 
*Wednesday 3rd September between 09:30 to 13:30.*

*All areas of the building will be without power and lighting during 
this time (including all FoS offices and the Student Services hub)*, so 
I would suggest that predominantly office-based occupants should seek 
alternative work spaces that day; experimental Physicists and Technical 
staff are likely to need to be on site to assist with the safe shutdown 
and re-energising of key infrastructure.  Unfortunately I have to be off 
site until approximately 10:00 that morning, but will be available on MS 
teams.

As a reminder, this shutdown is to enable contractors to undertake 
urgent maintenance on the high voltage transformers within the 
substation that serves the Physics building.  They will endeavour to 
complete the work in under the allotted four hour period.

Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. Please don't hesitate to 
contact me if you have any queries or concerns.

Kind regards,

Nick

*Dr. Nick Botterill, MInstP*

*Senior Technical Manager and Facilities Manager*

School of Physics and Astronomy

University of Nottingham

Room B402, Physics Building

University Park

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