Friday morning starting at 8:30 Tom and I are physically moving the WordPress server (blogs.uis.edu is hosted on this server) and UISAPPSRVPROD2 to another rack in HSB to prepare for the virtual servers and storage. Downtime should be no more that 1 hour each.
There is also an upgrade to the WordPress software that will be applied after the server is moved, so expect some intermittent downtime with that upgrade.
[From AITS]
Event Notice: i-card Programs’ Services Unavailable Sunday Morning, February 13
i-card services will be intermittently unavailable Sunday, February 13 between 6 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. This outage is due to AITS’ routine maintenance of production servers.
Card swipes, web queries, ODBC queries, and web applications that i-card Programs provides will be unavailable. Likewise, online Campus Cash deposits will be inaccessible.
These card services will function without interruption:
We had a 12 port power injector running in VPA to power the new wireless
AP units. It failed yesterday (Monday Feb 7, 2011). It may have been a
coincident that it happened about the same time the building experienced
electrical power issues or not. In any event we had to replace the
injector to get the wireless AP units working. All the work is done and
the wireless is working again.
Jamie Voyles
HSB 119
217 206-7840
UPDATE: The meeting today starts at 1:00 PM, not 2:00 PM.
The VMware team at CDW has completed the VMware Consolidation Assessment using data gathered during this past December and January. They have finished compiling the data and have scheduled a video conference today at 1:00 pm in HSB 132 to review and discuss the results. Any ITS person interested is welcome to attend.
The results are also in PDF format and have been added to the NGDC project wiki. You can find them here: https://edocs.uis.edu/cspea2/Next%20Generation%20Datacenter%20Initiative.xapp/Virtualization%20Assessment.xapp/index.wiki?stk=E1C06559DBFE976&uniq=-4s7v5z
The electricians discovered a power problem in VPA. They expect the
need to take the power down to the building. They may also have to take
the power down to SAB to fix the problem. The data switch in VPA has a
UPS but it will not last forever.
Jamie Voyles
HSB 119
217 206-7840
Monday Feb 7, 2011 the primary cooling and humidification unit switch
off so that the secondary unit could run, this is normal operations.
However the secondary unit has a faulty humidification unit and was shut
down. The primary system did not recognize that the secondary unit
failed. With NO cooling the room quickly reached temperatures above
acceptable levels. The temperature monitoring system sent out emails
and the Stationary Engineers responded. The reactivated the primary
unit and the temps and humidity began to return to normal. The
engineers turned the recirculating fans in the old system back on to
keep air moving as a backup to the primary unit if it stops again.
Jamie Voyles
HSB 119
217 206-7840
From the folks at UA:
EVENT:
Enterprise Authentication Services (EAS) will undergo maintenance on Saturday, February 5 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. This outage will prevent users from logging in to and starting new sessions for i‑card web applications.
Of Interest to:
Units using i-card web applications other than the i-card card swipes.
What/When:
This outage will prevent users from logging in to and starting new sessions for i‑card web applications. If you have already logged in to an i-card web application before the EAS outage, you will be able to use it as long as you do not log out of the session.
Impact:
i-card web queries will be unavailable.
Notes:
These services won’t be affected and should operate without interruption:
(From Janis S.)
As of January 2011, Exchange 2010 was fully operational. Early adopter issues have been resolved. Exchange 2010 is now ready for general user migration.
90 users have currently been migrated. This initial group of early adopters included IT personnel, Mac users, a Blackberry test user, and all new employees.
First Groups to be Migrated:
More updates to follow as we move through the migration process.