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

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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

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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

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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.

No Maintenance Window for August

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Since many important campus activities begin near the end of August, all campus technology services will remain available throughout our normal “last Sunday of the month” maintenance window.  Again, all services will be available all day Sunday August 29th.

[Complete] Pre-Production Maintenance — Thursday July 15th, 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM

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Update at 10:30 AM:  After database refreshes, all dev/test services should now be back online, maintenance is complete.

Update at 9:09 AM:  Some hiccups happened with the database refresh of dev/test databases.  Due to that the following servers are still offline:  lummi, decautr, and hope.  All other servers and services are online

On Thursday July15th from 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM the following pre-production servers may be unavailable due to maintenance:

  • VMhost4
  • lummi
  • hope
  • decatur
  • daisy
  • tomcat-dev
  • VMhost2
  • alacartedev
  • athabascadev
  • mi007rck2-2tp
  • moodle2
  • mysqldev
  • sharehouse
  • Union
  • vmwktestvistax64

Services:

  • bjp for ridge and summit
  • Clean address for ridge and summit
  • Job submission
  • OAS on hope and deactur
  • Oracle Forms on Fidalgo

[Complete] Production Maintenance Window 7/25/10 from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM

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Update at 2:30PM 7/25/2010:  All services are back online as of 2PM.

The next production maintenance window is Sunday, July 25th, from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

From 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM some services may be intermittently or entirely unavailable, including:
  • E-mail
  • Database Applications: Cascade, FAMIS, Millennium, and Banner
  • Web services such as www.pugetsound.edu and cs.pugetsound.edu

The following services will not be impacted:

  • Personal and departmental file shares (on Alexandria and Merlin2)
  • Moodle

[Complete] Production Maintenance Window 6/27/10 from 8:00 AM to Noon

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Update at 12:20 PM on 6/27/2010:  All maintenance was completed by noon.  All services are online and functional.  Please call the Service Desk at x8585 if you experience any problems.

The next production maintenance window is Sunday, June 27, 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 — Thursday June 17th, 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM

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Update at 8:45AM:  All services are back online.
On Thursday June 17th from 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM all pre-production servers are to be patched.  This means that all 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 preproduction servers.  Specifically, the following servers will be impacted:
  • lummi
  • pilchuck
  • shaw
  • decatur
  • squaxin
  • hope
  • mysqldev
  • EXDEV
  • FIDALGO
  • GALAXY
  • KETRON
  • PORTAL
  • VS0

Houdini DNS Server Moved to VMware

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The primary DNS server for the University, houdini (internal: 192.124.98.110) and loanshark-main.ups.edu (external:  192.124.98.48) has moved from a physical server to a VMware VM as of 10 AM on 5/20/2010.  All tests show good results and no problems are expected.