Services News

Current RI Services’ Status

Connecting to compute platforms – Monday 1st Dec – RESOLVED

Mon 1st Dec 18:00 – Connections to CSF4 are working as normal – all login nodes available. Batch jobs running in scratch have been unaffected but please check your job outputs.

Mon 1st Dec 10:00 – Connections to CSF3 are working as normal – all login nodes available. Batch jobs have been unaffected but please check your job outputs.

For any other IT system, please check the Staffnet article on the IT incident.


Other important IT News Announcements

Planned network downtime in October and November

Full details and dates are available on staffnet. During the advertised times you may not be able to connect to some of our services and other IT systems. Any genuine problems with our services will always be published on this webpage.


Other login issues to Research Infrastructure Services?

Please first check above for any system-specific or University-wide issues that may have occurred.

Can’t Login – “Account Locked” Message?

An “Account Locked” message is NOT a problem with the CSF. It is caused by your central IT user account being locked due to too many login attempts to other systems with an incorrect password.

A common cause is when users change their UoM IT password. If you didn’t log out of an email app on your phone before changing your UoM IT password, it could still be using your old password. You’ll need to sign out of the app and sign in again. If the app has made too many incorrect login attempts, your IT account may be locked, which will then prevent your CSF login from working.

If you saved your password in an app such as MobaXterm, VSCode or WinSCP, then it may still be trying to login with your old password. You’ll need to remove the password from these apps (we recommend that you don’t save passwords in apps.)

You will need to contact the IT Help Desk to have your IT account unlocked – Research IT CANNOT do this for you.

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CSF Updates

Permanent notice: Scratch files over THREE months old being deleted

Scratch is not intended for long-term storage of files. Files not accessed for THREE months or more are deleted. All users should regularly tidy up their scratch files to avoid data loss. Full details about the policy.

If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us via the HPC Help form

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iCSF Updates:

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RVMS Updates:

None.

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Last modified on December 1, 2025 at 6:11 pm by George Leaver