As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday August 7th beginning at 6:00pm. 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. We expect the work to begin by 6:00pm and be completed by midnight, most services will only be off-line for part of this time.
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
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: July 31, 2015, 4:38 PM