A patch was applied to Blackboard at 7:45 AM. Application was unintrusive and system unavailability lasted only a few seconds.
Category Archives: Blackboard Server
Blackboard outage Thursday morning
The blackboard server lost power about 10:30 AM. The reason for this is unknown; possible causes include hardware failure or an accident.
Bb outage: Aug 18, 7-9 AM
Following our successful upgrade to Bb version 6 on July 21, we will be doing a maintenance revision on Aug 18 to bring us up to full compliance. The outage will be short: from 7 – 9 AM on Monday, Aug 18; it’s likely to be shorter than that. Please let me know IMMEDIATELY if that time causes a serious disruption for you.
Blackboard Version Upgrade
system offline for upgrade to version 6.
2nd Bb outage: July 21, 7am-noon
The ‘off-line’ test run July 9-11 to ascertain the exact amount of time needed for the real migration indicates that only several hours is required to migrate all existing courses and user account from the older v5.5 to the new v6.
The Blackboard server will be taken off-line about 7am. It is expected to be back on-line at least by noon.
The server was turned back on by 10:30 AM on July 21. Everything on the hardware and server side is functioning normally. There may be some glitches within the software user interface and database content, but those issues will surface only with use over time.
Bb server – 1st outage: July 8 – 2 hrs
A brief 2 hr outage is scheduled to allow for the current Bb system to be copied to another server in preparation for the upcoming migration.
1 HR Blackboard Server Maintenance Outage
A system image will be made for catastrophe restoration purposes. This is a one-time process done periodically to insure a rapid return to service in the event of a catastrophic failure.
Blackboard restarted
Virtual classroom outage reported Friday morning. Fixed Friday around 4pm. But restart of TutorNet caused Apache to go down too.
Planned 3hr Blackboard Outage, 6hrs Reserved
Upgrade of Blackboard server hardware. Outage will most likely last from 6am to 9am. However, if unpredicted problems arise (which we believe is unlikely) additional time will be required. For this reason we have indicated the outage end time to be noon. Current status during the outage will appear on the Critical Information notice visible on the EMU home page.