Outage in HUIT

Open OnDemand Service Interruption

Resolved Major
April 16, 2025 - Started 15 days ago - Lasted about 17 hours
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Outage Details

When logging into https://ood.huit.harvard.edu, users are able to load the Open OnDemand dashboard, but interactive apps will not start properly. The terminal app may load, but the Slurm scheduler is unstable, and compute jobs may or may not run. User data is unaffected, and can still be downloaded through the Open OnDemand dashboard. FAS Academic Technology is troubleshooting this issue and working to restore this service.
Components affected
HUIT Other Services
Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED 14 days ago - at 04/17/2025 01:46PM

The outage affecting HUIT Open On Demand has been resolved, and users are able to login and access resources. We'll continue to closely monitor to ensure service stability.

MONITORING 14 days ago - at 04/16/2025 11:44PM

Restarting the slurm controller node and altering its configuration has enabled launching interactive apps in HUIT Open OnDemand once again. HUIT will continue to monitor the service to ensure stability before resolving the Major Incident.

IDENTIFIED 15 days ago - at 04/16/2025 10:45PM

The service team believes they've identified a path forward. They continue working to investigate and remediate the root cause.

INVESTIGATING 15 days ago - at 04/16/2025 09:12PM

When logging into https://ood.huit.harvard.edu, users are able to load the Open OnDemand dashboard, but interactive apps will not start properly. The terminal app may load, but the Slurm scheduler is unstable, and compute jobs may or may not run.

User data is unaffected, and can still be downloaded through the Open OnDemand dashboard.

FAS Academic Technology is troubleshooting this issue and working to restore this service.

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