Next week we will be moving web content on www2.ups.edu to new web server hardware. This is a routine replacement of an older web server. The move will take place on Tuesday evening, August 19, beginning at 5 PM and ending early morning on the next day, August 20. During this time it will not be possible to update websites on this server; however, the website itself will be available for normal viewing at all times. This will have no effect on content served from the main University web server, www.ups.edu.
Applied CpuJul2008 9208db Patch to Dev DB on Crystal- 8/11/2008
Installed CpuJul2008 9208 db Patch to Crystal’s 9808 database and its instances.
Aruba Wireless Upgrade
We will be working to upgrade the Aruba wireless network on Friday 08/08/08 from 10:00am-12:00pm. We expect to have 2-3 short outages (5-10min duration) during this time. Please be prepared for these short intermittent loss of connectivity during this time. Thank you for your understanding.
Internet Router Upgrade
We will be making a change to our Internet router on 08/06/2008 between 6:00-7:00am. During this time you would experience intermittent outages to the internet. Please be advised that connectivity cannot be guaranteed during this time. Thank you for your understanding.
Scheduled Internet Outage
We will be replacing the main firewall on 07/31/2008 between 6-7:00am. There will be intermittent outages as we shutdown the old firewall and bring up the new one.
Network Firewall Upgrade
I will be upgrading the network firewall device on 07/24/2008 at 6:00-7:00am. Expect intermittent internet outages during this time.
Upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.6
I just upgraded the maintenance blog to WordPress version 2.6.
Commvault Updates
I have upgraded all the servers running Commvault to Service Pack 3.
Here is the timetable of updates:
—16th—
Portal
—17th—
Alexandria
BE2
CMS
Illiad
Kronos
Micros
msproject
Odyssey
Crystal
—21st—
Albert
Grace
—22nd—
Camano
Whidbey
DM-1
Cicero
Shasta
Webserver1
—23rd—
Rainier
Webserver2
www3
www5
blackboard
BJP down
BJP was down for a short period of time due to unknown causes. It went down about 2:55 p.m. and was back up by 3:17 p.m.
Banner printing was down
Banner printing from job submission was down from Tuesday afternoon on July 8th (sometime after 3) until 11 a.m. on Wednesday morning, July 9th. The cause was incorrect privileges that had been applied to the banjobsfinances sub-directory on Rainier as the result of a user account change request. The jobs were running, but the reports could not be saved on Rainier and thus were not able to be printed.
Border Router Upgrade
We have successfully upgraded our network Internet Border Router. As you might remember we were experiencing problems with our Internet connection due to our existing Border Router being undersized. We have now successfully upgraded the hardware to properly handle the internet traffic we have experienced and what is projected for this comming academic year. We hope you will realize higher reliability with this new equipment in place.
Applied CpuApr2008 CRM Patch – 6/16/2008
Installed CpuApr2008 CRM Patch (db, apps) to Crmtst and Crm11id instance. Upgraded CRM’s Oracle Jinitiator from 13121 to 13129.
Publishing in the CMS is stalled.
Update: publishing has resumed.
The CMS is experiencing some publishing difficulty. This should be cleared up soon.
Main web server down briefly
The main university web server (www.ups.edu) experienced errors caused by the Ingeniux (CMS) application this afternoon. Content was restored from backup, although this version of the content is a few days old. When the publishing operation finishes in about 30 minutes, all current content will be restored. If you are a content provider who published pages between 3:00 to 3:30 PM, we recommend publishing them again after 5:40 PM. Thank you.
BJP down temporarily
BJP was down temporarily on May 7th from about 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm. It took itself down, we could find no evidence of a problem, so we restarted it and it seemed to work fine.