Weekend server maintenance

Update: (August 11th)  The hardware issue has been solved and Engineering Storage system is back online.  All other storage system maintenance was completed successfully.  Sunday's maintenance window will not be used as all goals were completed with Saturday's work.  Thank you for your patience.

Update: The work done today (August 11th) on the Engineering Storage systems has revealed a problem with our network hardware.  Engineering storage will be down for two more hours in order for us to try to repair or replace the networking parts.  Additional time on Sunday may be required.

August 9, 2012

In preparation for the Fall 2012 semester start, we will be updating and replacing hardware in the servers that provide data storage to many of Engineering IT's services on Saturday, August 11th.  The maintenance is not for the services themselves but because they are dependent on the storage systems, the services will not be available while work is being done.  Services affected include: subversion, smartphysics, EWS home directories and related services, cpanel, Engineering file services, DCShome and faculty web sites, engr-wintools, as well as all centrally provided virtual machines.

The Engineering web portal and Engineering wiki systems should not be affected by the maintenance outage.

Work will begin at 9am and the outage is expected to last until 5pm, Saturday. We will continue patching and upgrading on Sunday starting at 9am if necessary.