Cascade Web and Cascade Web Forms went down at around 6:00 pm.
Services were restored at around 6:40 pm after bouncing Application Server & Forms Server.
Scheduled Mid Tier Outage on San Juan
The middle tier on San Juan will be restarted after a configuration update on 2/5/2010 between 5:00 am and 5:30 am PST during the regular maintenance window. The configuration update will help in troubleshooting.
Intermittent Web Forms Outages 2/6/2010 – 2/7/2010
Over the weekend of the 6th and 7th of February 2010, work in development will be conducted on allowing SSO to interface with Cascade Web Forms. This will cause intermittent report outages for all applications.
Supervised Access feature added to Cascade
A new feature of the Account Management application allows supervisors to “unlock” an employee’s work session from a supervisor’s management page. Lockable systems are Cascade Web and Cascade database.
The following components were installed 1/27/2010 5:30-6am:
COM.INFORMATION_SYSTEM.TAB
COM.INFORMATION_SYSTEM.CON
COM.INFORMATION_SYSTEM.DML
COM.CAMPUS_ROLE.TAB
COM.CAMPUS_ROLE.CON
COM.PERSON_CAMPUS_ROLE.DRP
COM.PERSON_CAMPUS_ROLE.TAB
COM.PERSON_CAMPUS_ROLE.CON
COM.ROLE_LOCK_VIEW.VW
COM.ROLE_LOCK_VIEW.SYN
COM.ROLE_LOCK_VIEW.GRT
COM.ROLE_LOCK_API.PKS
COM.ROLE_LOCK_API.PKB
COM.ROLE_LOCK_API.SYN
COM.ROLE_LOCK_API.GRT
COM.PRIVCMD.PKS
COM.PRIVCMD.PKB
COM.DAY_TEXT.FNC
COM.DAY_TEXT.SYN
COM.DAY_TEXT.GRT
COM.DATE_TEXT.FNC
COM.DATE_TEXT.SYN
COM.DATE_TEXT.GRT
WEB.PRIVWEB.PKS
WEB.PRIVWEB.PKB
WEB.WEBSEC.PKB
WEB.CASCADE.PKB
COM.CASCADE_IS_LOCKED.FNC
COM.CASCADE_IS_LOCKED.SYN
COM.CASCADE_IS_LOCKED.GRT
COM.LOGON_DENY_LOCKED_USER.TRG
WEB.SUPERVISE_ACCESS.PKS
WEB.SUPERVISE_ACCESS.PKB
WEB.SUPERVISE_ACCESS.SYN
WEB.SUPERVISE_ACCESS.GRT
WEB.WEB_APP_MENU.DML
CascadeTest data refresh complete 1/18/2010
CascadeTest (summit) data was refreshed this weekend. Here are the details:
Age of data copied: 1/17/2010 10:00 pm
Refresh started: 1/18/2010 5 pm
Refresh completed: 1/18/2010 8:15 pm
[Completed] Wireless and Internet Disruptions 1/18/2010
On Monday, 1/18/2010, emergency maintenance will be performed on the wireless and Internet connections for all academic buildings (K20 network). Between 6:00 PM and 10:00 PM, expect a 40-70 minute period of down time.
[Resolved] Intermittent Internet Disruptions – 1/14/10
Our residential Internet connections are experiencing intermittent outages due to a vendor outage in the Seattle area. They are working to replace the equipment but we can expect intermittent outages for a short time.
[Update 1/14/10 4:00 PM] Service has been fully restored.
[Complete] Blackboard Unavailable 1/9/2010 8:00AM – 4:00PM
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 down momentarily
CRM will be down for the next 15 minutes for a switch reboot.
Batch Processing was interrupted and working again
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.
No Server Maintenance for January
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.
Old Listhost Server (benjamin) Turned Off
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.
[Completed] Math/CS Website Move 12/21/09
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.
[Complete] Mailing List Outage 12/22/09
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.
New certificates installed for cascade and chinook
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.