Cascade Release 10.10 – 10.13.2010

Cascade Release 10.10 was installed on October 13, 2010. This release included the following features and fixes:

  • Fix Meal Plan Load For Student Faculty (tracker CAS-134)
  • Expand First Name on Reimbursement Oracle Form (tracker CAS-135)
  • Fix Refund Amount Display on Refund Approval (tracker CAS-67)
  • Modify Load Budget Equal to Actual to Exclude Certain Orgn Codes (tracker CAS-117)
  • Fix FOAPAL Search Menu From Budget Administration (tracker CAS-98)
  • Create Emergency Response Class Location Report (tracker CAS-37)
  • Fix Capitalization on Student Statements (CAS-130)
  • WA State Annual Unit Record Support (CAS-131)

[Complete] Blackboard Reboot 9/14/2010 @5:30 AM

Update on 9/14 at 6:00 AM:  Blackboard was restarted at 5:30 AM, it was fully functional again by 6 AM.


The Blackboard server (http://blackboard.ups.edu) will be rebooted on Tuesday 9/14 at 5:30 AM. This reboot is required to refresh network infrastructure changes in the blackboard application; specifically mail server information.

[Complete] Production Maintenance Window 9/26/2010 from 8:00 AM to Noon

Update at 12:30 PM:  All services are now back online.  It took a little longer than expected, but only a few services were down after noon.

The next production maintenance window is Sunday, September 26th, from 8:00 AM to Noon.

From 8:00 AM to Noon, all services may be intermittently or entirely unavailable, including:

  • E-mail
  • Personal and departmental file shares (on Alexandria and Merlin2)
  • Database Applications: Cascade, FAMIS, Millennium, and Banner
  • Web services such as www.pugetsound.edu, cs.pugetsound.edu, and Moodle

[Complete] Pre-Production Maintenance 9/16/2010 from 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM

Updated 6/19/2010 @ 10:08 AM:  All services were back online as of 9:45 AM.

Updated 9/16/2010 @ 8:56 AM:  All services are back online with the exception of bjp and banner job submission in dev/test.  We expect these services to be online at approximately 10 AM.

On Thursday September 16th from 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM the following pre-production servers may be unavailable due to maintenance:

lummi
hope
decatur
squaxin
shaw
pilchuck
moodle2
kickstart
mysqldev
maharadev
ldaprelay-dev
tomcat-dev
EXDEV
FIDALGO
ISIS
OSIRIS
KETRON
PORTAL
VS0
ATHABASCADEV
HELPDESKACD
Services Affected:
bjp for ridge and summit
Clean address for ridge and summit
Job submission
OAS on hope and deactur
Oracle Forms on Fidalgo

[Completed] mysql.pugetsound.edu Memory Upgrade, Wednesday Sept. 8th, 5:30 am

Memory in the virtual machine mysql.pugetsound.edu will be upgraded from 768MB to 2GB at 5:30 am on Wednesday September 8th.  This increase is needed in order to cache the increasing amount of database transactions running through this system.

The system will be offline briefly, between 5:30 and 5:35am.

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mysql was back online by 5:35am without incident.