Network maintenance will be completed on Thursday 10/16/14 between 5am-7am in the areas listed above. During this time frame the areas could lose wired and wireless network for 15-20 mins.
Network maintenance in the areas listed above was completed by 7:00am this morning (10/16/14).
Campus Firewalls will be updated Tuesday, October 14 between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m.. All services will be maintained but there will brief network interruptions ( less than 1 minute ) when secondary devices take over.
Note: maintenance is complete. updates were installed successfully.
We had a brief network outage at Shaw at about 2:08pm which impacted the wired and wireless network.
We will be performing maintenance in Shaw tomorrow morning at 5:00am in order to correct the problem that caused this outage. The outage should last no longer than 15 mins.
10/10/14 ~ Network maintenance was completed in Shaw this morning as of 5:20am.
We will be performing planned maintenance on several network devices in Academic and Administrative buildings on 10/10/14 from 5:00AM to 7:00AM. This work may result in loss of wired and wireless connectivity in those buildings for approximately 15 minutes.
10/10/14 ~ Maintenance has completed as of 7:00am this morning.
Update: Maintenance is complete. If you still experience issues, please contact the ITS Helpdesk.
Original Post:
To prevent an event similar to what occurred 8/13/14, ITS has made some changes to improve service failover. We will be testing to verify those changes are successful on 10/9/14 between 5:00AM and 7:00AM. There will be brief outages as devices are failed over. Upon successful completion of the failover the devices will be upgraded also.
The Internet should remain available throughout the test. Some internal sites may be unavailable such as MyDenison.
Update: As of 7:45AM on 10/7/14 We have completed maintenance in Admin and Academic areas. We will continue the remaining maintenance work this coming Friday.
We will be performing planned maintenance on several network devices in Academic and Administrative buildings during the maintenance window on 10/7 and 10/9. This work may result in loss of wired and wireless connectivity in those buildings for approximately 15 minutes.
One of the switches on the first floor at Burton Morgan rebooted at about 10:00am. This brief outage would have affected roughly 17 network connections. This appears to be related to power. We also received alerts from 4 UPS units that switched to battery backup during this time.
Switch: burtonmorgan1-4
Update: Maintenance is complete. If you still experience issues, please contact the ITS Helpdesk.
Original Post:
To prevent an event similar to what occurred 8/13/14, ITS has made some changes to improve service failover. We will be testing to verify those changes are successful on 10/02/14 between 5:00AM and 7:00AM. There will be brief outages as devices are failed over. Upon successful completion of the failover the devices will be upgraded also.
The Internet should remain available throughout the test. Some internal sites may be unavailable such as MyDenison.
ITS is planning to install latest updates on Novell OES servers hosting shared network drives (PERSONAL, SHARED, MEDIA, SCRATCH, etc) on Thursday, 10/2/14 between 4:00am and 7:30am. As these updates are being applied, there will be short outages for the above network drives and printing while servers are updated and rebooted to complete installation.
2:00PM Wireless in Chamberlin has been restored.
1:00PM Service to Deeds Field has been restored.
12:15PM We are aware of wireless outages for Chamberlin and Deeds Field, and we are currently investigating.