Updated 01/09/2010 at 12:26PM
Blackboard is now back online and functioning properly since approximately noon.
Blackboard will be unavailable from 8:00AM to 4:00PM on Saturday January 9th, 2010. This outage is required to improve the reliability of the Blackboard system. Please contact the ServiceDesk at x8585 with any questions or concerns on this outage.
CRM will be down for the next 15 minutes for a switch reboot.
The BJP proccessor in the development environment was stopped inadvertently. In restarting it, the Production database was mistakenly specified, so production batch jobs were started on a server that could not run them.
The servers have been restarted correctly, and batch jobs are being re-queued to run properly.
Due to conflicts with the start of the semester, there will be no scheduled maintenance during our normal window (last Sunday of every month). We will resume scheduled maintenance in February with our quarterly window from 8:00am – 4:00pm on Sunday February 28th.
This morning at approxmiately 8:20 PST, the old Solaris listhost server was shutdown and powered off. All mailing lists were migrated yesterday to a new listhost.ups.edu running Linux on our VMware cluster.
All sites were moved successfully by noon.
On Monday December 21st all Math and CS websites, including faculty sites, will be moved to an upgraded server (from orion to userweb). The move will take place between 8 AM and 12 noon. All effected were contacted last week.
Update at 4:30 PM — All testing was successful, migration completed.
Updated at 3:30 PM — All changes have been made and lists should be fully available once again, but we are continuing to test and verify all is working properly.
On Tuesday, December 22nd 2009 between noon and 5:00 PM, email lists hosted on listhost.ups.edu will be moved to a new server. During this time new email sent to email lists will be held until the service migration is complete. If possible, please do not post messages to email lists during this time.
Refer back to this post on Tuesday for updated information.
Mike Carroll installed new certificates for cascade.ups.edu and chinook.ups.edu (sso and dip).
The new cascade certificate will expire 10/13/2011.
Cascade Web and Cascade Web Forms went down approximately 2:30 p.m. this afternoon. We are investigating the problem and will have it back up as soon as we can.
Services were restored at about 4 p.m. Causes are unknown at this time but we will continue to investigate what happened.
Just added a new policy to the Internet Authentication Service – Remote Access Policies to not allow users of the “novpn” AD group to use VPN.
All maintenance work was completed by 8:30 am this morning. Please contact TechHelp (x8585) if you experience any problems as a result of this change.
On Thursday December 10th from 7am-9am all preproduction servers are to be patched. This means that all test systems may be intermittently or entirely unavailable during this time. Most users will not be impacted, as most users do not have access to preproduction servers. Specifically, the following servers will be impacted:
12/21 – Odyssey database purge
12/22 – Micros version Upgrade 0530
1/4 – Odyssey version Upgrade TBD
Today at approximately 4pm the server orion.ups.edu (also known as tock.ups.edu) crashed and rebooted. Everything seems to have came back properly, but unexpected behavior may be experienced. Please contact TechHelp at x8585 if you experience problems with Orion.
Updated 12/20/09 @ 11:15 AM
As of 11:00 AM all services are back online, earlier than expected. Please contact TechHelp at x8585 if you see any problems with university services.
The next production maintenance window is Sunday, December 20, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
From 8:00 AM to Noon, all services may be intermittently or entirely unavailable, including:
BJP was modified to error appropriately when a runrep command fails. BJP was stopped and restarted at 12:30 pm for the new code to take effect.