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.
Please Note that the patching is split over two days this quarter.
Friday, May 22nd from 6pm to 10pm:
RT will be down from 6pm to 8pm
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
Access to Cyrus and UMBC Webmail (accounts not migrated to UMBC Gmail)
All mail will be queued up and delivered after the server is patched
Expected to be unreachable from 6pm to 8pm
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
Saturday, June 6th from 8am to 11am:
myUMBC lite page will be up resulting in reduced myUMBC functionality
Wiki will be unavailable
The sites (wordpress) web hosting environment will be unreachable
Posted: May 8, 2015, 8:36 AM