8:10am The restart has been completed. If you experience any problems with Banner services please report the details of the issue to the Helpdesk at helpdesk@denison.edu or call extension x6395.

We will be performing maintenance and a restart of Banner, Cognos, Xtender and associated services during the regular maintenance window on January 8, 2013. We expect a 2-hour process and hope that all services will be operational by 8:30am. Please check Netnotes for updates Tuesday morning.

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.

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.

We are currently experiencing problems with Banner, Self-Service, Xtender, and Cognos and are investigating the problem. Updates will be posted as more information becomes available.

Update 1:11pm – At this time Self-Service, Xtender, and WebHelpdesk service has been restored. We are continuing to work on Banner INB and Cognos.

Update 1:22pm – Banner INB is now available.

Update 1:45pm – After an influx of logins, there are now some reports of a timeout logging into BANNER INB. If you have an existing session, please continue to use it. We are working to resolve the issue with logins now.

Update 2:01pm – BANNER INB logins have been restored, and Cognos is now available.

Update 2:15pm – There are continued reports of failures logging into BANNER INB. We are investigating.

Update 5/1 5:47am – All Banner services are currently being restarted.

Update 8:00am – All services have been restored, and appear to be working well. If you encounter any problems please contact the Helpdesk at x6395 or at Helpdesk@denison.edu.

Services related to Banner will be unavailable Saturday morning, April 7, for routine maintenance. These services include Banner itself, Self-Service, and the online directory on denison.edu. I apologize for any inconvenience.

1:05pm Services have been restored.