Turnitin Unavailable in Moodle 11/2/13 [Completed]

[Updated] The maintenance was completed as planned and full access to Turnitin within Moodle is now restored.

[Original Post] Turnitin, a plugin service in Moodle, may be intermittently unavailable during a scheduled maintenance period on Saturday, November 2, from 7:00 to 11:00 a.m. Instructors are encouraged to modify assignment due dates either before or at least several hours after the scheduled maintenance window. Thank you so much for your patience and support!

Cascade and Email Unavailable Due to Maintenance 10/13/2013 [Completed]

[Updated 10/13/13 10:05 a.m.] Maintenance is completed and Cascade and email service are restored.

[Original Post] Due to scheduled maintenance, Cascade and the university’s email system will be intermittently or entirely unavailable between 3:00 a.m. and noon on Sunday, October 13. An update will be posted once this maintenance is completed.

Technology Services schedules regular maintenance windows 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!

[Resolved] vDesk Unavailable 11/27/2011

[Updated 4:37 p.m.] vDesk was restored to service at about 4:15 PM.

vDesk is currently unavailable due to some problems encountered during the scheduled maintenance. The problem began at about 1:30 PM. We are currently working to restore service as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Soundnet Service Interruptions [Update]

Service issues in regards to Soundnet are not expected to be resolved this afternoon. Soundnet will continue to experience intermittent technical difficulties until a full resolution is in place. We appreciate your patience during this time and are working on restoring full service as soon as possible.

[Complete] Production Maintenance Window 1/30/2011 from 8:00 AM to Noon

Updated at 11:27am 1/30/2011:  All maintenance complete.

The next production maintenance window is Sunday, January 30th, from 8:00 AM to noon.

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)

[Complete] Pre-Production Maintenance 1/20 from 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM

On Thursday January 20th from 5:00 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
Furthermore, Oracle systems may be unavailable starting at 5:00 AM:
OAS on hope and deactur
Oracle Forms on Fidalgo

Production Maintenance Window 2/27/11 from 8:00 AM to Noon

The next production maintenance window is Sunday, February 27th, from 8:00 AM to noon.

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)

Pre-Production Maintenance 02/17/2011 from 7:00am to 9:00am

On Thursday February 17th 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
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] Pre-Production Maintenance 9/16/2010 from 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM

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

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.