Software on the Varian Mercury 200 reloaded

 After January 4th, VnmrJ on the mercury 200 was not starting up correctly. The software was re-installed and this is fixed.

 MestReNova printing

 Printing from MestReNova is very slow on "keroppi".

 NMR Status page

 The NMR Facility is pleased to announce the new NMR Status page. It shows the status of all the NMR spectrometers and the state of the queues on the sample changers.

 MestreNova 5 Lite is available with ChemOffice 12

 All users in the University of Toronto can download a free yearly license for ChemOffice 12 from the Chemistry Library. This also includes a copy of MestreNova 5 Lite for both Windows and Macintosh. Go to the Chemistry Library for more information.

 MestreNova on Keroppi upgraded

 I've upgraded the copy of MestreNova on Keroppi to version 6.0.2, the latest version. Version 6 has some nice additions that would be useful for all chemists, see below (Images stolen from MestreNova LLC):

 More server fall-out

Some problems with moving to backup hardware after the server failed. 

FTP was not working

Printing to "babe" was not working

Mail out of NMR was not working until this morning.

Update September 10/2009 11 AM.

The departmental proxy "grandial" was being blocked. Only windows users within the department were affected and could not access the booking schedule and training signup. This has been fixed. 

Files from the Mercury 300 and 400 were not being copied for ~24h, an errant space in the script was removed and files are being copied again.

Update September 10/2009 1 PM.

Bruker files now transferring!

 Plotting colour issues

 There are problems with colour plotting from Keroppi. Follow these instructions to get the colours you want.

 Keroppi finally fixed

 The workstation Keroppi is working again. It has a copy of MNova and VnmrJ for users to process NMR data.

 NMR server problems

 The boot hard drive on the NMR server had problems starting ~9PM Saturday August 29. The drive was fixed by 11:45 PM.

 Workstation Keroppi problems

 The workstation keroppi suffered a hard drive failure. 

 NMR server blocked

 After a misconfiguration, the NMR server timothy was blocked by Frank Bures. We are waiting for it to be unblocked.

[AT 4 PM, the server was unblocked]

 Server updates

 The main NMR server will be updated today for security patches, with reboot around 10 AM.

[Update: server rebooted and all services restored.]

 NMR Server rebooted

 From 5 PM to 6PM today (June 10 2009) the server was rebooted for patches.

 Files transferred from the Bruker

 Some files were transferring from the Bruker while others were not.

 Using FileZilla and corrupted FIDs

 Watch out that FID files are not corrupted when transferring with FileZila.

Hard drive failure

More unexpected downtime of schedule

Unexpected ftp downtime

Server updated and rebooted

Server updated and rebooted