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KACE Ticketing System: System Maintenance

Wednesday, January 27 @ 6 am – 7 am [COMPLETE]

REASON FOR IMPACT: The KACE ticketing system will be taken down so we can perform maintenance on a back end system to ensure system reliability.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

·         KACE will be inaccessible during the maintenance window.

·         For more information on Technology Services’ Incident Communication Plan or to view a list of our Critical Systems and definitions, please visit our Service Announcements page on the Puget Sound website.

This is an announcement from Technology Services (TS). Please see details below.

Phone: System Maintenance

Friday, January 22 @ 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. [COMPLETE]

REASON FOR IMPACT: Technology Services will be disabling unused software to prevent outages on our phone system.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

·         Phones and voicemail will continue to operate normally during the maintenance window.

·         During the maintenance window there will be periods of time where the phone system will not be redundant.

·         For more information on Technology Services’ Incident Communication Plan or to view a list of our Critical Systems and definitions, please visit our Service Announcements page on the Puget Sound website.

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Puget Sound Systems and Applications: Planned Maintenance

Sunday, January 10, 2021 from 6 a.m.-6 p.m. [COMPETE]

SYSTEMS IMPACTED: The following systems will be intermittently unavailable during the maintenance window:  

Campus file servers

Email and calendar

Canvas

pugetsound.edu

myPugetSound.edu  

PeopleSoft Human Resources

PeopleSoft Financials

PeopleSoft Campus Solutions

vDESK

Various Puget Sound systems and applications

REASON FOR IMPACT: To ensure a secure, reliable computing environment TS will be completing routine patch maintenance on our Puget Sound production servers.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

·       The university network, internet access and wireless will NOT be affected.

·       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.

·        For more information on Technology Services’ Incident Communication Plan or to view a list of our Critical Systems and definitions, please visit our Service Announcements site.

For support questions please contact the TS Service Desk via phone at 253-879-8585.

Phone system maintenance is now complete.

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Phone: System Maintenance

Wednesday, December 9 @ 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. [COMPLETE]

REASON FOR IMPACT: Technology Services will be installing security patches to our phone system.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

·         Phones and voicemail will continue to operate normally during the maintenance window.

·         During the maintenance window there will be periods of time where the phone system will not be redundant.

·         For more information on Technology Services’ Incident Communication Plan or to view a list of our Critical Systems and definitions, please visit our Service Announcements page on the Puget Sound website.

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Phone: System Maintenance

Tuesday, December 8 @ 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. [COMPLETE]

REASON FOR IMPACT: Technology Services will be installing security patches to our phone system.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

·         Phones and voicemail will continue to operate normally during the maintenance window.

·         During the maintenance window there will be periods of time where the phone system will not be redundant.

·         For more information on Technology Services’ Incident Communication Plan or to view a list of our Critical Systems and definitions, please visit our Service Announcements page on the Puget Sound website.

KACE is back online and you may use it again.  We do not have a fix for the issue yet so it is possible that it will go down again.  If it does go down we will try to have it available again as soon as we can.  We are still working with support on a permanent fix for the issue.

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KACE Ticketing System: System Maintenance

Tuesday, November 24 from 4 pm to approximately 5 pm [COMPLETE]

REASON FOR IMPACT: Our KACE ticketing system is having stability issues that cause it to be inaccessible to end users.  The software vendor will take the system down for maintenance to repair the system so it will run stable.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

·         The maintenance is expected to take about an hour but it could take longer.  A notification will be sent out when the work is complete.

·         During the maintenance period the system will not be accessible via a web browser and any ticket updates will need to be put in after the maintenance is complete.

·         Email addresses that are forwarded to the ticketing system will be turned off and anything sent to them during the maintenance period will remain queued for review by the queue owners.

·         For more information on Technology Services’ Incident Communication Plan or to view a list of our Critical Systems and definitions, please visit our Service Announcements page on the Puget Sound website.

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KACE Ticketing System: Emergency Maintenance

Monday, November 23 from 2 pm to approximately 3 pm [CANCELLED]

REASON FOR IMPACT: Our KACE ticketing system is having stability issues that cause it to be inaccessible to end users.  The software vendor will take the system down for maintenance to repair the system so it will run stable.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

·         The maintenance is expected to take about an hour but it could take longer.  A notification will be sent out when the work is complete.

·         During the maintenance period the system will not be accessible via a web browser and any ticket updates will need to be put in after the maintenance is complete.

·         Email addresses that are forwarded to the ticketing system will be turned off and anything sent to them during the maintenance period will remain queued for review by the queue owners.

·         For more information on Technology Services’ Incident Communication Plan or to view a list of our Critical Systems and definitions, please visit our Service Announcements page on the Puget Sound website.

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Phone: System Maintenance

Friday, November 13 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. [COMPLETE]

REASON FOR IMPACT: Technology Services will be installing security patches to our phone system.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

·         Phones and voicemail will continue to operate normally during the maintenance window.

·         During the maintenance window there will be periods of time where the phone system will not be redundant.

·         For more information on Technology Services’ Incident Communication Plan or to view a list of our Critical Systems and definitions, please visit our Service Announcements page on the Puget Sound website.

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KACE Ticketing System: System Update

Thursday, November 12 from 6 a.m. – 8 a.m. [COMPLETE]

REASON FOR IMPACT: Technology Services will be updating our ticketing system (KACE) to the latest version.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

·         Viewing, editing, and adding tickets will not be possible during the maintenance window.

·         For more information on Technology Services’ Incident Communication Plan or to view a list of our Critical Systems and definitions, please visit our Service Announcements page on the Puget Sound website.

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Phone: Planned Maintenance

Wednesday, September 30, 2020 from 9 am – noon [COMPLETE]

REASON FOR IMPACT: Our phone system management interfaces will be consolidated with the rest of our production systems.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

·         Phones will continue to operate normally during the maintenance window.

·         During the consolidation there will be periods of time, approximately 30 minutes in length, where the phone system will not be redundant.

·         For more information on Technology Services’ Incident Communication Plan or to view a list of our Critical Systems and definitions, please visit our Service Announcements page on the Puget Sound website.

For support questions please contact the TS Service Desk via phone at 253-879-8585.

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Pugetsound website: Machforms upgrade

September 23, 2020 from 6 am – 7 am [COMPLETE]

REASON FOR IMPACT: Machforms will be upgraded to a newer version.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

·         No outages to the Pugetsound.edu website are expected.

·         Any components that rely on Machforms may not work during the upgrade.

·         For more information on Technology Services’ Incident Communication Plan or to view a list of our Critical Systems and definitions, please visit our Service Announcements page on the Puget Sound website.

For support questions please contact the TS Service Desk via phone at 253-879-8585.