Databases unavailable, 1/10/2009

Campus email text:
Saturday, January 10, Technology Services will be performing important updates on our database systems. There will be two groups of outages:

5 AM until 8 PM – Cascade and Cascade Web will be unavailable.
9 AM until Noon – Banner, Famis, Basis, and Millennium will be unavailable.

Email, network files and shares, and other network services will not be impacted.

Details:
Cascade database is switching to new hardware and upgrading to 10g. Administrative toolset is being upgraded to 10g and deployed on new hardware.
Banner, Famis, Basis, and Millennium will be patched to make them compatible with 10g.

CRM application tier bounced at 10:20 am on 10/1/2008

CRM fulfillment experienced an error during the processing of an email (rollback segment problem). Restarting the email caused a runaway cpu-intensive session even though the email was subsequently cancelled.

Cause of runaway session: user created content using the wrong content type (admission content type instead of campus email), which relied on admission data being in the system.

Resolution: We bounced the application server and killed the runaway session. User recreated email with correct content type.