No Patch Maintenance scheduled for the month of May, do to student Study period and Finals week. The next scheduled Patch Maintenance Window will be in June 2012. There will be a Quarterly Server Patch Maintenance in the Month of June. The June Patching will be for Pre-production servers on the 7th of June 2012, from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., and Production servers Patch Maintenance will be on the 10th of June 2012 from 3 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Monthly Archives: April 2012
[Resolved] Cascade Web Unavailable – 04/16/2012 3:00 pm
[Updated 04/16/2012 3:10 pm] Access to Cascade Web has been restored. Thank you again for your patience and understanding.
Members of the campus community have reported that they are unable to login into Cascade Web. They are redirected to an Internal Server Error message page. We are working to restore access as quickly as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience.
[Completed] Production Monthly Patch Maintenance Sunday the 8th of April 2012, from 3:00 am to 12:00 pm
[Completed] The Monthly Patch Maintenance was completed at 11:10 a.m. All servers and services taken down for this maintenance period are up and back online. A notification of the next scheduled maintenance will be posted.
The monthly patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday the 8th of April 2012, from 3:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Most services, may be intermittently or entirely unavailable, including:
- 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
- vDesk
- Print Services
An update will be posted once Server Maintenance has been completed.
[Resolved] Blogs Available Again – 4/2/2012
Blogs.pugetsound.edu needed to be unavailable for a brief period to complete some emergency server maintenance, but has returned to service, after about a 5 min. outage.
[Completed] Pre-Production Patch Maintenance the 5th of April 2012, 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
The Pre-Production Patch Maintenance has been completed at 8:50 a.m., and all servers patched during this time period are back online. This Sunday the 8th of April is a scheduled Monthly Patch Maintenance Window, and a separate blog will be posted.
On Thursday the 5th of April 2012, from 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM most pre-production servers are to be patched. This means that most test systems may be intermittently or entirely unavailable during this time. Most users will not be impacted, as most users do not have access to these pre-production servers.
This should not affect any production services such as:
Email
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
Print Services
vDesk
A follow up email and update to the blog will be posted once Pre-Production Patch Maintenance has been completed.