As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday June 3rd and Saturday June 4th. 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.
Friday June 3rd (work will begin at 5:00pm and conclude by 11:00pm, most systems will only be down a small portion of this time):
RT will be down from 5pm to 7pm
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 4th (work will begin at 9:00am and conclude by 11:00am with the systems only being down a portion of that time)
- 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 27, 2016, 4:22 PM