av.emu.edu, the server providing Sophos updates to the campus community, will be taken off-line for a few minutes to relocate its power cable.
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Calendar: Server is non-responsive
The system was not available for user or administrative access, and was restarted. File system and database repair utilities were run.
Calendar outage.
The web component of the calendar server was offline for unknown reasons. When restarted the server reported no errors.
Web survey system – 5/10 9-10am
The survey/form system will be going through an upgrade process sometime between 4/29 and 5/10. Exact timing will be posted here.
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4/29 update: plan to take offline 5/6 between 9am and 10am
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5/6 update: postponed to 5/10
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5/7 update:
Systems affected by this outage
-2 housing questionnaires
-2 course evaluations
-web account renewal form
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5/10 update:
-successful database and code upgrade
Novell Faculty/Staff server outage (FS SERVER) – 1 hour outage
The Faculty/Staff Novell server (FS) will be down for about 1 hour to install a new tape drive.
Tape drive and SCSI card were added. No power cord was available, so a “Y” adaptor was used to jumper from SCSI drive backplane to the new tape drive.
The latest NWTAPE and ADPT160M drivers were loaded.
Also took down LD and installed the new memory. It is now at 2G – which is maxed out.
SIS disk controller card replacement
The Student Information System (iSeries, Campus Web) will be unavailable while a disk controller card is replaced. A one hour interuption is anticipated.
The systems affected will be Jenzabar application software (TEAMS2000) and CampusWeb (https://campusweb.emu.edu). CampusWeb provides student access to their financial information (billings and FinAid) as well as final class grades.
No other systems are affected by this outage.
TMA iServiceDesk / OCS Copier System Upgrade
The server housing iServiceDesk needed a network card driver update. The procedure went smoothly.
Network Outage in Maplewood & Oakwood
Due to an electrial outage in the Maplewood wiring closet. This is affecting the network connections in Maplewood and Oakwood.
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The electrical problem was fixed about 6:45pm and all networks appeared to return service by 7:30pm.
TMA upgrade
A recently released update will solve problems PhysPlant has been having with their TMA software. TMA and the iServiceDesk web server (tma.emu.edu) will be taken offline to perform the update.
Windows server outages
A server misconfiguration caused a number of Windows servers to be inaccessible for several hours today. Affected servers include TMA, the Keyserver and the ArcView server.