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The remote RMX Manager machines were moved to a new data center over the break. These remote machines were also moved into the BoR video ip space so their ip addresses have changed. If you use one of these machines and have not been contacted with the new connection information, please contact the BoR video [...]

RMX Relocated

The RMX was moved to a different data center over the break. The entire BoR video ip space was moved to this new location at the same time so the ip addresses for the system have not changed (Video Conferences: 76.165.208.11, Management: 76.165.208.9). Our tests indicate the RMX is fully functional and ready for the [...]

No Known Issues

There are no known issues with the system at this time.

Scheduled Downtime for Maintenance

UPDATE: This session needs to be rescheduled, the new date will be Wed., 7/4/2012 UPDATE: This session needs to be rescheduled, barring any classes on these dates, the new dates will be Fri., 6/29/2012 and Sat., 6/30/2012 The RMX system will be in a maintenance cycle on the days of 6/22/2012 and 6/23/2012. We will [...]

UPDATE: the dates have been changed, the new dates are Fri., 6/1/2012 to Sat., 6/2/2012 The RMX system will be in a maintenance cycle for the week of 5/21/2012. We will be performing general hardware maintenance and restructuring the rack space containing the equipment. As of now we have the entire week blocked off (Sun., [...]

The RMX is back up and fully functional after the scheduled maintenance to replace the chassis. After extensive diagnostics, it was determined that there was an issue with the backplane of slot 1 in the original chassis so only the chassis was replaced. The MPM-F card originally in slot 1 which was thought to be [...]

After more diagnostics on the RMX, Polycom engineers are recommending that the RMX chassis be replaced. Depending on when the chassis comes in, we are scheduled to start on the swap at 1:00p this Friday (2/17/2012). Due to the extensive nature of the swap, we are scheduling the RMX to be down from 1:00p to [...]

More Polycom diagnostics on RMX

Polycom Level 3 Support wants to perform more diagnostics to determine if it is a power supply or chassis slot issue. The RMX is scheduled to be down from 3:00p – 7:15p on Monday, 2/13/2012 (there are no scheduled classes on the RMX after 2:45p on this date).

After the conference call, the replacement MPM-F card is still not initializing. The scheduled downtime ran over by about an hour (until about 4:05p). After extensive diagnostics and troubleshooting, the Polycom engineer has escalated the issue up to the next support level. The Polycom engineer is recommending a replacement of the RMX chassis instead of [...]

After speaking with the vendor support engineer again, we have scheduled a conference call between us, the vendor support engineer, and a Polycom engineer to attempt the MPM-F card installation again. This attempt is scheduled for 1:00p on 2/7/2012, the RMX is scheduled to be down from 1:00p to 3:00p. If the card will not [...]