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Production Monthly Patch Maintenance Sunday 15th January 2012, from 6:00 am to 12:00 pm

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[Updated 1/15/12, 11:25 am] The Monthly patch maintenance was completed at 11:22 AM, and all systems are back online. The next production patch window is scheduled for Sunday, February 12th, and will be a monthly patch.

The monthly patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday the 15th of January 2012, from 6:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Most services, may be intermittently or entirely unavailable, including:

  • 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 will not be affected by this outage. An update will be posted once Server Maintenance has been completed.

[Completed] Pre-Production Patch Maintenance, Monthly – Thursday the 12th of January 2012 7 a.m. to 9 a.m.

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The Pre-Production Patch Maintenance was completed at 9 am.

On Thursday the 12th of January from 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM all 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.

[Completed] Monthly Patch Maintenance Scheduled for the 27th of November 2011, from 8 am to 12 pm

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[Completed] The monthly patch maintenance has been completed at 10:25 am. There will not be a scheduled Monthly Patch Maintenance for the month of December. The next scheduled patch maintenance window will be for January 2012.

The monthly patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday the 27th of November 2011, from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Some services may be intermittently or entirely unavailable, including:

  • Email
  • Personal and departmental file shares (on Alexandria and Merlin2)
  • Web services such as www.pugetsound.edu, cs.pugetsound.edu, and Moodle
  • vDesk

A followup will be posted upon completion of this scheduled patch maintenance window.

[Completed] Pre-Production Patch Maintenance, Monthly – Thursday the 17th of November 2011 7 a.m. to 9 a.m.

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[Completed] the next scheduled patch maintenance window is Sunday the 27th of November 2011 from 8 am to 12 pm, this is a Monthly Patch window. A separate notification will be posted prior to the Monthly Patch Window.

On Thursday the 17th of November from 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM most pre-production servers are to be patched, to exclude all DST related servers. 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 preproduction 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.

[Completed] Pre-Production Patch Maintenance, Monthly – Thursday 20th October 2011 7 a.m. to 9 a.m.

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[Completed] Pre-Production Patch Maintenance has been completed at 8:15 am, all test servers have been patched.

The next scheduled patch maintenance window is the 30th of October 2011, from 8 am to 12 pm. This is a production patch maintenance window, and a separate notification will be sent, as well as a separate blog posted.

On Thursday October 20th 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.

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.

[Completed] Production Patch Maintenance 09/25/2011

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[Updated 9/25/11, 12:02 PM] The quarterly patch maintenance was completed at 11:55 AM, and all systems are back online. The next production patch window is scheduled for Sunday, October 30, and will be a monthly patch.

The quarterly patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday the 25th of September 2011, from 4:00 AM to 12:00 PM. All services may be intermittently or entirely unavailable, including:

  • 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

[Completed] Pre-Production Maintenance 09/15/2011 from 7:00 am to 9:00 am

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Pre-Production Patch Maintenance completed at 8:35 am, all test and development servers which were patched this morning are back on line. The next scheduled Patch Maintenance, is the Production Patch Maintenance on Sunday the 25th of September 2011. Another blog will be posted prior to the Patch Maintenance day.

Pre-Production Patch Maintenance window for this month will be Thursday the 15th of September from 7 am to 9 am. The following pre-production servers may be unavailable due to maintenance during this time:

Linux and Windows systems:

1. lummi
2. hope
3. Decatur
4. Squaxin
5. Shaw
6. Philchuck
7. mysqldev
8. moodle2
9. kickstart
10. ldaprelay-dev
11. tomcat-dev
12. maharadev
13. alacartedev
14. vmctdb1-d
15. vmlxss1-d
16. vmlxss2-d
17. vmlxwb2-d
18. vmlxwb3-t
19. lxss3
20. lxwb4
21. FIDALGO
22. ISIS
23. OSIRIS
24. KETRON
25. VS0
26. ATHABASCADEV
27. SERVICEDESKACD
28. BASIS (VM)
29. KRONOSTEST (VM)
30. SOUNDNETDEV (VM)
31. WNPH-P (VM)
32. WNFM1-D
33. WNFM2-D
34. WNCU01-D
35. WNXA01-D
36. WNBA01-P
37. WNXA02-D

Furthermore, Oracle systems may be unavailable starting at 6:00 AM:
bjp for ridge and summit
banner for ridge and summit
Job submission for ridge and summit
OAS on hope and deactur
Oracle Forms on Fidalgo

[Completed] Production Patch Maintenance 07/31/2011 from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm

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The Monthly Patch Maintenance has been completed and all systems are back on line. There is no scheduled patch window for the month of August, but a quarterly patch will be scheduled for September.

The Monthly Patch Maintenance is scheduled for Sunday the 31st of July, from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM. 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

Database services such as Cascade will be affected during this Patch Maintenance Window.

[Completed] Pre-Production Maintenance 07/21/2011 from 7:00 am to 9:00 am

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The Pre-Production patching has been completed at 8:55 am. The next scheduled outage will be Sunday the 31st of July, for all remaining Production servers. A separate blog post will be posted.

Pre-Production Patch Maintenance window for this month will be Thursday the 21st of July from 7 am to 9 am. There will also be a CommVault version 9 upgrade to all servers being backed up by CommVault as well as Oracle Agents to servers which have Oracle currently running. The following pre-production servers may be unavailable due to maintenance during this time:

Linux and Windows systems:

1. lummi
2. hope
3. Decatur
4. Squaxin
5. Shaw
6. Philchuck
7. mysqldev
8. moodle2
9. kickstart
10. ldaprelay-dev
11. tomcat-dev
12. maharadev
13. alacartedev
14. vmctdb1-d
15. vmlxss1-d
16. vmlxss2-d
17. vmlxwb2-d
18. vmlxwb3-t
19. lxss3
20. lxwb4
21. FIDALGO
22. ISIS
23. OSIRIS
24. KETRON
25. VS0
26. ATHABASCADEV
27. SERVICEDESKACD
28. BASIS (VM)
29. KRONOSTEST (VM)
30. SOUNDNETDEV (VM)
31. WNPH-P (VM)
32. WNFM1-D
33. WNFM2-D
34. WNCU01-D
35. WNXA01-D
36. WNBA01-P
37. WNXA02-D

Furthermore, Oracle systems may be unavailable starting at 5:00 AM:
bjp for ridge and summit
banner for ridge and summit
Job submission for ridge and summit
OAS on hope and deactur
Oracle Forms on Fidalgo

[Completed] Production Maintenance Window 06/26/2011 from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM

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The Quarterly Patch Maintenance has been completed and all systems are back on line. The next production patch Maintenance window is scheduled to be on the 31st of July 2011.

The next production maintenance window is Sunday, June 26th, from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
From 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, all services may be intermittently or entirely unavailable, including:

• E-mail
• Web services such as www.pugetsound.edu, cs.pugetsound.edu, and Moodle
• Personal and departmental file shares (on Alexandria and Merlin2)

Database services such as Cascade should not be affected during this Patch Maintenance Window.

[Completed] Pre-Production Maintenance 06/23/2011 from 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM

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Pre-Production patching has been completed at 8:55 am. All servers and services related to the pre-production patching are now back online and operational.

On Thursday June 23rd 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
alacartedev
Union
Shibb-sp
vmctdb1-d
Vmlxss1-d
Vmlxss2-t
Vmlxwb2-d
Vmlxwb3-t
EXDEV
FIDALGO
ISIS
OSIRIS
KETRON
PORTAL
VS0
ATHABASCADEV
HELPDESKACD
Furthermore, Oracle systems may be unavailable starting at 5:00 AM:
bjp for ridge and summit
Clean address for ridge and summit
Job submission
OAS on hope and deactur
Oracle Forms on Fidalgo

[Completed] Production Monthly Maintenance Sunday the 24th April 2011 from 8 a.m to 12 p.m

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Updated: 6:00 pm 24th April 2011.
Issues occurred with patches during the patch maintenance window. Services were regained by 5:45 pm, all service are available now.

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

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

[Completed] Pre-Production Maintenance 04/21/2011 from 7:00 am to 9:00 am

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The Pre-Production patching has been completed at 8:40 am. The next scheduled outage will be Sunday the 24th of April, for all remaining Production servers. A separate blog post will be posted.

On Thursday April 21st 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
alacartedev
union
shibb-sp
vmctdb1-d
vmlxss1-d
vmlxwb2-d
EXDEV
FIDALGO
ISIS
OSIRIS
KETRON
PORTAL
VS0
ATHABASCADEV
HELPDESKACD
Furthermore, Oracle systems may be unavailable starting at 5:00 AM:
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 3/27 from 8: 00 AM to 12:00 pm

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Update at 11:30 am 3/27/2011: All maintenance complete.

The next production maintenance window is Sunday, April 24th, from 8:00 am to noon.

On Sunday March 27th from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM the following production servers may be intermittently unavailable due to maintenance:

Merlin2
Google
SQL
Harstine

Services Affected:
Cascade, Banner, Bosscops, Bosscars, Surveys, Apex, Kronos, Sharepoint, Food Services Suite, and possibly XenApps.