Banner payroll was upgraded to 7.2.2 on 1/16/2007
Category Archives: Patches & Upgrades
Regulatory Releases and Tax Updates
The following regulatory release and tax updates have been installed to banner production:
General 7.2
Payroll 7.2.2
Tax Update #100
Network upgrade
The planned OS upgrade of core network equipment on Sunday was not as smooth as planned. Two systems had difficulty with the upgrade and required a reboot: the mail server, and the Oracle development server. Otherwise, the upgrade was a success.
As a result of the problem, we have a better understanding of the upgrade process for future upgrades.
Google Search Appliance Replaced
The Google search appliance was replaced with a new version this morning. The new appliance is running version 4.o of the Google software.
Galaxy Backup System Upgraded to Service Pack 3
In order to solve a problem with the Galaxy job controller, which was causing backup jobs to run erratically, Service Pack 3 for CommVault Galaxy 5.0 was applied to the CommServer (lenel), and to the iData agents on crystal and rainier.
Blackboard upgrade
Blackboard has been upgraded from version 6.1.0 to version 6.1.5 with Application Pack. The upgrade was completed with only a short 1-minute interruption of service.
Directory Server Reboot
The directory server was rebooted at 5:15pm to finish the OS upgrade.
Server back on-line at 5:25pm.
Blackboard Upgrade
The Blackboard server will be unavailable starting at midnight, Monday, 17 May. During this time, OIS staff will upgrade the existing server from Blackboard version 5.5.1 to version 6.1. Three days have been reserved for the upgrade process: 17, 18, and 19 May. Blackboard services will be restored by midnight, 20 May, but may be restored sooner. Check the OIS maintenance site for details during the upgrade window.
Web Server Upgraded
The University’s web server was upgraded to apache 2.0.48.
Calendar and mail services preventative maintenance runs late
The application of operating system patches to the directory server ran late. The application of the patches completed at 9:45 am, thus delaying the use of calendar and mail services for 50 minutes. All services have now been restored.
Software updates
The following servers will be down during the regularly scheduled preventative maintenance (pm) window, 7-9am for software updates:
mail
camano
whidbey
rainier
crystal
whistler
charon
bigben
These updates are recommended software patches to the operating system.
During the pm window the following services will not be available,
electronic mail
CASCADE web
CASCADE/SUMMIT/RIDGE databases
Corporate Time
Modem pool
VPN
Web Server Upgrade Scheduled
The University’s web server will be upgraded to the latest version of the Apache web server (2.0.49) as part of the Office of Information Services’ Preventative Maintenance window.
Intermittent short outages may occur from 6-8 AM.
IOS Upgrades
Upgraded IOS on 6509 and 3640 on 3/15/2004. 6509 upgraded from IP W/SSH/3DES12.2(14)SX1 to 12.2(17d).SXB. 3540 upgraded from IP 12.2(T1) to 12.23.
Upgraded 3005 vpn to ver 4.1.2 on 3/10/2004.
Movable Type upgraded to version 2.65
In order to get the latest features and to patch a security vulnerability, the Movable Type weblogging system was upgraded to 2.65 from version 2.64.
An atom 0.3 feed was added to the Maintenance blog.
Google Search Appliance Upgraded
The Google search appliance was upgraded to operating system version 1.17.
The Search software was upgraded to version 3.4.14