As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure will be conducting its quarterly patching of systems. While many of the systems will be patched without any service disruption, there are several systems which require the downtime of key services. The schedule below outlines which key services will be offline and for how long.
Monday March 16th:
RT will be down from 9am to 11am
Tuesday March 17th from 9am to 1pm
myUMBC lite page will be up resulting in reduced myUMBC functionality
The sites (wordpress) web hosting environment will be unreachable
Wiki will be unavailable
The new web hosting environment will be down (pages will be available but any database calls will not work)
Student mySQL databases will be offline
Tuesday March 17th from 1pm to 5pm
Access to Cyrus and UMBC Webmail (accounts not migrated to UMBC Gmail)
All mail will be queued up and delivered after the server ispatched
Expected to be unreachable from 1pm to 3pm
All HFS (user) servers will be offline
Userpages will be unavailable
License5 will be down (autodesk, cadence, idl, schrodinger, xilinx, mathematica)
Perseus will be unavailable
Posted: March 6, 2015, 8:51 AM