The following regulatory release and tax updates have been installed to banner production:
General 7.2
Payroll 7.2.2
Tax Update #100
1/6 – Banner Downtime for Upgrade
The Banner system, Banner Tools and the Budget Administration Web application will be unavailable Friday, January 5, at 6:00 p.m., through Monday, January 8, at 7:00 a.m., to allow time for a Banner upgrade.
11/18 SAN Upgrades for Camano
Camano was upgraded to add new SAN disks
6/10 – All systems unavailable for emergency generation test
All computer and network services will be unavailable from 7:00 AM until 4:00 PM on Saturday, June 10, 2006.
OIS and Facilities Services staff and outside representatives will conduct a test of the emergency generator that powers the OIS Server and Network Operations Center. All systems will need to be powered down for much of the testing period.
6/5 – New Tertiary DNS Put In Place
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In preparation for emergency generator testing on Saturday, an off-site DNS was added as a tertiary server.
6/3 – Database Systems Temporarily Offline
The database systems went offline sometime of 3 June this weekend when rainier and crystal lost connections to several disk volumes. The disks were remounted, and the databases were restarted. The DBA was called at 9 AM this morning.
The www2 webserver also became unresponsive because it lost connection to the database. The webserver was restarted once the database came online, restoring service.
5/30 – License problems with the FTP server on www2
Sometime during the weekend, the ftp server on www2 decided that its license had expired. Until a new license could be obtained, the standard ftp server (wu-ftpd) was run. This led to some slow response (wu-ftpd operates under the xinetd master daemon) for much of the day. The vendor provided a new license key at 4:30 PM. This was installed, and ftp service was restored to normal.
5/25 – www2 failed
The secondary web server www2 became unresponsive when the SurgeFTP service began consuming 99% of the CPU cycles. We were unable to stop the service or gracefully restart the system. The system was powered down, then back on, after which the system ran normally.
5/24 – MERLIN2 failure
Merlin2 became unresponsive to fileshare access today at 5:30 PM. The console was still responding, and we were able to log on. Access to the disk arrays appeared to be impaired – we were unable to list the disks or view their contents. No pertinent events were logged in the Event Log. The system was rebooted, and was back to normal.
We have made an adjustment to the antivirus software (changed vendors), and will keep monitoring.
5/19 – Merlin2 data move complete
The movement of files from the old Merlin2 server was completed successfully. The new server is ready and available.
5/19 – Merlin2 data to be moved to new server
Data from the Administrative file server Merlin2 will be moved to a new server in an effort to solve the recent instability problems. Merlin2 will be unavailable from 5:30 PM until midnight Friday, May 19th, 2006.
5/10 – ALEXANDRIA Stable – for the moment
ALEXANDRIA activated its spare memory bank on 11 April. Since that time it has not frozen. A new server is en route to replace the defective replacement server.
Change in authentication for the VPN and Dialin Services
Effective noon on Monday, December 5th, 2005, you will need your Windows password instead of your email password to access the campus Virtual Private Network (VPN) service and the campus dialup modem service. You will still use your email name. If you are connected to one of these services around this time, please log out before this time and date. This change is part of the larger effort to reduce the number of usernames and passwords we now use, culminating with the replacement of the current email system with Microsoft Exchange.
Those users of the dialup modem service who have pre-saved their passwords will need to change them. To do so, double click on the UPS dialup icon you have created on your desktop. In the User name field enter your e-mail username (your e-mail address without “@ups.edu”). In the Password field, enter your Windows password and check Save password if you want Windows to remember your password for future connections.
Banner Downtime for Upgrade
The Banner system, Banner Tools and the Budget Administration Web application will be unavailable Friday, December 2, at 5:00 p.m., through Monday, December 5, at 8:00 a.m., to allow time for the upgrade to Banner version 7.1
Email server maintenance
In order to address the problems that began with IMAP, POP3, and Webmail Slowness, we are tentatively scheduling email server maintenance for Monday, 21 November. The new disk array will be installed at this time. During the hours 7PM to 2 AM, all email service will be unavailable.