You must request to get on new Carbon; Interested in going to MOSS? Contact ATEL
(July 13, 2009) IT Services will be retiring the hardware that the server Carbon runs on. The retirement of the 'old' Carbon, as well as the associated move to the new virtual Carbon server in the UCDenver domain, will happen in several stages.
User-level access to the 'old' Carbon (Carbon.CUDenver.edu) will be discontinued on Sept 1st, 2009. This means that users will no longer be able to update any of their web pages on the old Carbon server after August 31, 2009. Static content on the old Carbon will be available until Dec. 1, at which time that server will be permanently retired.
Effective July 7, IT Services began creating accounts on the newly built Carbon.UCDenver.edu server so that users of the 'old' Carbon server can begin to move their Web apps and data over to the new server. Accounts on the new Carbon server will only be created if they are specifically requested. People requesting accounts on the new Carbon must be currently employees of UCD (as evidenced by their status in PeopleSoft), or they will need to be sponsored by the department that they work with.
Link to the Sponsored User Request form: http://www.uchsc.edu/is/forms/sponsor/
Accounts on the new Carbon server may be requested sending an email to Paul.Wyles@UCDenver.edu
The new Carbon server (Carbon.UCDenver.edu) is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server (RHEL 5). The Apache web server has been upgraded from version 1.3 to version 2, and PHP has been upgraded from version 4 to version 5. These two upgrades will cause some pages to no longer work, if data is ported directly from the 'old' Carbon. The only other applications that will be available on the new Carbon are Perl and MySQL. Through August 31st, users will be able to transfer their own data from the old Carbon to the new server. Beginning September 1st, only IT Services will be able to transfer data from the old server to the new server.
The only TCP / IP ports that will be accessible from off campus will be the web server (ports 80 and 443). For SFTP and SSH access to the new Carbon, users will be required to VPN in to the campus network, prior to connecting their SSH or SFTP client.
Please note that IT Services will continue to support the new Carbon server by updating and patching the operating system and applications, as well as provisioning and managing accounts for users on that server, but IT Services lacks the resources to assist users with HTML problems/questions or any other web application support.
The following information regarding web support has been provided by ATEL:
This fall, as schools/colleges Web sites are redesigned in MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server -the centrally supported web content management system), new web templates for faculty professional bio-sites will be deployed. Depending on how schools/colleges implement this feature, faculty who wish to develop their professional web presence in MOSS should be able to expand on the standard content in the bio-template into a full professional website. If you currently use Carbon to host your professional website and wish to move to MOSS instead of the new Carbon server, please contact Carol Martin (carol.martin@ucdenver.edu).