Update complete as of 9:35am on November 19, 2016.
Due to scheduled maintenance, access to PeopleSoft Campus and Portal will be intermittent on Saturday, November 19th starting at 8:00 a.m. for a PeopleSoft update.
We will post an update when the work is completed. Thank you for your patience while we conduct this necessary work!
[update 11/13/2016 10:00 a.m.] Our scheduled production server patch maintenance has been completed successfully.
[original] Production server patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday, November 13, from 3:00 a.m. until noon. During this time, all campus systems will be intermittently or entirely unavailable. Affected services include the university website, myPugetSound, PeopleSoft, Cascade, Moodle, campus file servers, and Exchange (email and calendar). An update will be posted once this maintenance is completed.
Technology Services schedules regular maintenance windows, generally on the second Sunday of every month, to ensure a secure, reliable computing environment. Thank you for your patience as we conduct this important work!
[update 07/10/2016 12:45 p.m.] The single sign on component of Cascade has been finished.
This concludes our planned patch maintenance and database migration for this weekend.
[update 07/10/2016 11:55 a.m.] We’re nearly complete with our work except for the single sign on component in Cascade is still outstanding. This will only affect users attempting to log into Cascade via the web. The other back-end processes in Cascade are verified operational.
Our database migration to the new storage array was successful and PeopleSoft is fully operational.
The rest of our production systems have been successfully patched.
An update will be made when the single sign on component has been fixed. This is expected to be resolved this afternoon.
[original] Production server patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday, July 10, from 3:00 a.m. until noon. During this time, all campus systems will be intermittently or entirely unavailable. Affected services include the university website, myPugetSound, PeopleSoft, Cascade, Moodle, campus file servers, and Exchange (email and calendar). An update will be posted once this maintenance is completed.
Technology Services schedules regular maintenance windows, generally on the second Sunday of every month, to ensure a secure, reliable computing environment. Thank you for your patience as we conduct this important work!
[Update 05/04/2016] This scheduled maintenance has been canceled. It will be rescheduled for a different Sunday and a new announcement will be made.
[Original] Production server patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday, May 8, from 3:00 a.m. until noon During this time, all campus systems will be intermittently or entirely unavailable. Affected services include the university website, myPugetSound, PeopleSoft, Cascade, Moodle, campus file servers, and Exchange (email and calendar). An update will be posted once this maintenance is completed.
Technology Services schedules regular maintenance windows, generally on the second Sunday of every month, to ensure a secure, reliable computing environment. Thank you for your patience as we conduct this important work!
[Update 03/13/2016 10:17 a.m.] Our scheduled production server patch maintenance has been completed successfully.
[Original] Production server patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday, March 13, from 4:00 a.m. until 1 p.m. During this time, all campus systems will be intermittently or entirely unavailable. Affected services include the university website, myPugetSound, PeopleSoft, Cascade, Moodle, campus file servers, and Exchange (email and calendar). An update will be posted once this maintenance is completed.
Technology Services schedules regular maintenance windows generally on the second Sunday of every month to ensure a secure, reliable computing environment. Thank you for your patience as we conduct this important work!
[Update 1/10/2015 9:00 PM] We have nearly completed our production patch maintenance. All systems have been fully patched as of 11:40 AM except for one portion of Exchange (our email and calendar system). We expect to have that portion finished up tomorrow. We do not expect that it will have any impact on end users. We’ll post an update to the blog when the final portion has been completed. If you experience any difficulties please contact the service desk at x8585.
[Original] Production server patch maintenance is scheduled for Sunday, January 10, from 3:00 a.m. until noon. During this time, all campus systems will be intermittently or entirely unavailable. Affected services include the university website, myPugetSound, PeopleSoft, Cascade, Moodle, campus file servers, and Exchange (email and calendar). An update will be posted once this maintenance is completed.
Technology Services schedules regular maintenance windows generally on the second Sunday of every month to ensure a secure, reliable computing environment. Thank you for your patience as we conduct this important work!
[Updated 10/26/2015 9:15 am] Access to all PeopleSoft systems has been restored. Thank you for your patience.
[Original Post] Members of the campus community have reported issues with PeopleSoft Financials and PeopleSoft HR this morning. We are receiving a “secure connection failed” error when trying to load PeopleSoft Financials, and a different error when trying to access Careers in PeopleSoft HR. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.
[Updated 1/24/15, 2:24 p.m.] The upgrade was completed successfully. PeopleSoft Campus and myPugetSound are now back in service.
[Original] Due to a scheduled system upgrade, myPugetSound and PeopleSoft Campus, including Student Center, will be unavailable between 7:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 24. Please note that PeopleSoft Financials and PeopleSoft Human Resources will not be affected and can still be accessed through Cascade.
Password Synchronization is here! You can now synchronize your password across many Puget Sound applications by changing your password in Cascade Web, Webmail/e-mail or Windows. Learn more at http://www.ups.edu/pssync.xml.
[Update 3/19/09 4:20 PM] Services have been restored. The application services were stopped and restarted. Root cause analysis in underway.
The application server that hosts Cascade is currently unavailable. Other services impacted are Cascade, Portal, Discoverer, CRM, and Views Flash Survey. TS is aware of the problem and it is being investigated.
Service has been restored to all central database systems (Cascade, Cascade Web, Banner, Famis, Millennium, Basis and CRM) as of 3pm. Please contact the Help Desk, 253.879.8585 or helpdesk@ups.edu, if you continue to experience problems.
All central database systems are unavailable. This service disruption began at 11AM today and services impacted include: Cascade, Cascade Web, Banner, Famis, Basis, CRM and Millennium. Technology Services has determined the source of the disruption to be a power outage and is working with Facilities Services to resolve as quickly as possible.
UPDATE AS OF 2PM:
Stable power has been restored and Technology Services is now focused on restarting and verifying the database systems. Every effort is being made to restore services as quickly as possible. Our earliest continuation of service is estimated at 3pm today.
At 6 AM this morning, a reload of the core switch caused a failure of the network interfaces on the Cascade Web server. This in turn caused the Cascade web interface to be unavailable from 6 to 8:15 this morning. The server was rebooted and recovered, restoring service at approximately 8:15.
Other affected servers were grace, camano, and crystal, all of which were rebooted to restore service at 7:30 AM. Batch job processing was affected between 6 and 7:30 AM.
Portal (Trustees and IR website) was unavailable on August 19, 2008 am hours, fixed by noon.