The administrative systems environment will undergo routine maintenance on Thursday, August 23, between 4am and 7:30am. During this time Banner, Self-Service, Cognos, Xtender, Focus, Smartcall, Extensis, WebHelpdesk, Novell Zen, VMware Manager, and the online directory will be unavailable.

On Thursday, August 16, logins to some services will be briefly unavailable from approximately 7:00 to 7:05am as necessary maintenance occurs. Affected services include Denison Apps, OrgSync, PeopleAdmin, Freestyle previews, Symplicity, Denison Wiki, DU Forums, the Writing Center, and the campus calendar. If you experience difficulties please wait a few minutes and try again.

Update:  Full service was restored by approximately 11AM on 8/13. If you continue to experience network connectivity problems, please contact the ITS Help Desk.

There are a couple of areas within the Mitchell Athletic Center where there are problems connecting to the wired network due to network equipment issues related to fiber work.  ITS is working to restore service as quickly as possible.  If you are having problems accessing the network and would like a call back as soon as service is restored, please contact the ITS Help Desk at 740-587-6395 or helpdesk@denison.edu.

 

The Banner environment will undergo routine maintenance on Tuesday, August 7, between 5am and 8:30am. During this time Banner, Self-Service, Cognos, Xtender, Focus, and the online directory will be unavailable. The production systems will be restored to operation first, then the test systems, with the goal of all systems available by 8:30am.

7:40am Banner production services have been restored.

Several Denison-hosted websites and services will be unavailable for a brief outage between 6:30 and 6:45 a.m. on Tuesday, August 7 for database server maintenance.  These services include:

  • Denison Apps (Web interface only)
  • MyDenison
  • Freestyle
  • DU Forums
  • Admissions Web Scheduling
  • Denison Online Journals
  • The Denison Museum
  • Student Employment
  • OrgSync
  • Symplicty
  • Denison Wiki

If you are unable to access any of these services during this time period, please wait a few minutes and try again.

Note: Many services, such as Denison Apps, will still be available during this brief window, if you are already logged in.

Update 7/26/12 9AM – Maintenance completed and all services restored.

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The services Smartcall, Extensis, Luminis, Zenworks, Web Help Desk and VMware manager will be unavailable on Thursday morning, July 26, between 6 and 8:30AM. During this time they will moved to a new server.

If you experience problems with these services after 8:30AM- or problems with any other service – please contact the ITS Help Desk at 740-587-6395 or helpdesk@denison.edu. Any updates to the planned outage will be posted here.

Thank you for your patience.