The server INTCHK will be moved from a physical to a virtaul machine on 4/17/2009 starting at 7am. During this window INTCHK will be completely unavailable.
Database startup/shutdown script Test on Philchuck 4/15/2009
Performed the script test this morning, 7:00-8:30 am.
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Verified the script is working, so Nick installed it onto Tahoma as well.
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Verified Enterprise Manger’s Alert system is working successfully.
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Found one oracle bug on EM Agent which I’ll apply the patch soon.
[Resolved] www.ups.edu Publishing Problem 4/10/2009
This evening, a problem with publishing content to the Athletics site was resolved by republishing the entire Web site. During the republishing process, images may not have displayed correctly; however, content was available throught that period.
Webmail, IMAP, POP3 server SSL Certifcates Replaced
We replaced the yearly SSL certificates for the Webmail (webmail.ups.edu), IMAP (imap.ups.edu), and POP3 (pop3.ups.edu) servers this morning. All these services are up an running and accepting connections.
Mil9ip Instance Performance Tuning
Performed Mil9ip tuning on 4/7/2008, based the test on mildemo instance with Sean Vincent. According to Sean, this tuning improved the performance of Millennium dramatically. The tuning includes the follwing changes in the parameter file.
· optimizer_mode=FIRST_ROWS from CHOOSE
· increased shared_pool_size, pga_aggregate_target size, and sga_max_size
mail attribute no longer synced from OID to AD
AD must have sole control of its “mail” attribute to properly provision e-mail accounts. OID –> AD synchronization had included this, and the provisioning system (privcmd) had been filling this with any known e-mail address. This prevented new pugetsound domain accounts from being enabled when the e-mail address was not in the ups.edu domain, as is the case for most new students.
The mapping file was changed to no longer update the “mail” attribute when synchronizing from OID to AD.
Password Synchronization is Here
Password Synchronization is here! You can now synchronize your password across many Puget Sound applications by changing your password in Cascade Web, Webmail/e-mail or Windows. Learn more at http://www.ups.edu/pssync.xml.
[resolved] Application Servers Dev and Test not responding
The Oracle listener on Albert stopped functioning 3/26/2009 around 9:15 or 9:30am, which caused all Oracle databases on the machine to stop responding.
This affected development and test application servers. Specifically Registrar staff testing was interrupted. No production services were affected.
The listener was bounced and service restored after about 20-30 minutes.
Cascade Web minor improvements installed
The following minor changes were installed 3/25/2009 10:30am, with no disruption:
- Cascade Home page now includes “Technical Problems” link
- Password Change page now includes buttons when using tab key to navigate
- Typo in error message was fixed
- Format of initial password was changed so it includes mixed case instead of symbol
[Completed] Brief Cascade Web Disruption 3/25/09 at 5:30 AM
To support Banner Single Sign On, minor software updates will be installed during our normal maintenance window on Wednesday, 3/25/09, between 5:30 and 6:00 AM. The service disruption to Cascade Web will last only a few minutes.
[Completed] VPN License Upgrade 3/24/09
The authorized license count for our new Cisco ASA Anyconnect VPN client has been updated from 2 to 25 simultaneous users.
[Resolved] VPN connections unavailable 3/24/09
Due to configuration errors at the Internet Service Provider (Integra Telecom), VPN connections were not working from 6:00 to 7:20 AM. The VPN has been restored.
Emergency Power Repairs are complete 3/21/2009
The emergency power repairs have been completed, and all systems have been restored to normal.
Increased Connection Limits – Cascade Web
In response to yesterday’s Cascade Web problem, the following changes were made to the production Application Server (As10gr2p) to accommodate increased connections due to ViewsFlash deployment.
- MaxClient 500 (from 150) on Http Server
- LoadLImit 200 (from 100) on WebCache
Firefox can now access Discoverer and ViewsFlash
3/19/2009
The value of mod_osso_url in the production application server was changed from “https://cascade.ups.edu:443” to “https://cascade.ups.edu”.
This fixes the problem where ViewsFlash or Discoverer could not be accessed via Firefox. (A space appeared at the end of the url.)
We tested the new configuration, using Firefox to directly access ViewsFlash, Discoverer, Portal, Cascade Web, and oiddas.