A patch to fix a current problem with displaying foreign language characters is scheduled to be applied.
Category Archives: Blackboard Server
Blackboard server outage: Fri, Feb 4, 7-8:00 US EST – routine patch install
Downtime NOTICE:
Blackboard will be unavailable on Thurs Feb 3 from 7:00 – 8:00 AM US Eastern Standard Time (UT: 1200 – 1300 hrs.) for routine patch/maintenance upgrades. This should be a routine, low-risk patch, and we do NOT anticipate any extended problems. Please accept my apologies for this late notice, but we’d like to complete this before the weekend.
If problems crop up, we can revert back to the previous state fairly quickly, so an hour should be sufficient to handle those contingencies.
A few faculty have recently report some anomalies in Blackboard. We believe it would be prudent to install these 3 minor upgrades to try and resolve some of those glitches.
Short Blackboard outage Thursday morning
An update will be applied to the Blackboard server. Outage time should be 5-15 minutes, based on experience with previous updates.
Blackboard Server not responding
Blackboard is not responding. The server was shut down and restarted.
Very short Blackboard unavailability
A service pack was installed which fixes several critical issues with Blackboard.
Blackboard failure
A backup process failed on the server this morning. Causing an disruption in service.
Brief Blackboard service interruption
A patch will be applied to the system early Tuesday morning. This will involve about 1 – 5 minutes of unavailability.
Result: Hotfix failed to install. Another outage will be necessary later.
1 Hr BlackBoard Outage – Security Update, BB Patch
Info Systems will be taking the BlackBoard server off-line early Fri morning (11/21) to apply security updates to the operating system and a patch to the BlackBoard application to fix on outstanding problem.
Installing the updates should take no more than one hour. The system should be back on-line by 7:30am.
This outage will be occurring at the same time as an outage for the mail servers for the application of the same operating system security update.
Blackboard Outage
An automatic backup procedure failed early this morning, causing the server to remain offline until it was brought back online manually.
Blackboard Software Upgrade
Info Systems will upgrade the Blackboard software at the same time as the Novell system save is being performed. This is a relatively small upgrade. We expect the system to return to service by 9:00am.
IMPORTANT NOTE: A more detailed description of the outage timetable is available on a web page here. You are urged to view click the link to see the detailed information.