The SIS will be upgraded to EX 3.8, with attendant upgrades to myEMU.
More info at:
http://emu.edu/blog/is/2010/10/14/jenzabar-ex-3-8-released/
These systems will be unavailable from 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.
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Status update at 6:00 pm:
myEMU is now available for use.
The EX (SIS) upgrade is extended to 9:00 pm.
The Oracle Calendar server will be inaccessible for approximately one hour while updates are installed. This will affect users of the web calendar and Outlook.
ST Novell server crashed. Was rebooted.
ST crashed again and was rebooted.
A core network device is being upgraded, requiring a complete network outage.
ALL network services will be affected for the bulk of the outage, scheduled from 7 – 11 a.m.
UPDATE at 11:15: Some services are still being started up. Everything should be available again by noon.
A portlet caused a brief service disruption.
The Blackboard server needs to be restarted to fully correct problems that began on Sunday. The total time unavailable should be less than 10 minutes.
The Blackboard server is not recognizing a storage device that’s needed for it to function. The problem is being investigated.
The server became unresponsive and was rebooted.
The primary email server will be taken offline for 20 to 30 minutes late Tuesday night in order to make more storage space available.
The SIS database server needed to be rebooted, to complete a configuration change to Windows Terminal Server. This affected SIS and myEMU.