Quarterly patching downtimes on 8/16 & 8/17

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix & Windows Infrastructure groups will be conducting quarterly system patching on Thursday, August 16th and Friday, August 17th.  While many of the systems will be patched without any service disruption, there are some systems which require the downtime of key services.  The schedule below outlines which key services will be offline and for how long.

Thursday, 8/16/2018 between 8pm and midnight:

  • Uservol and Peoplevol servers - H & P drives
    • While there is no action required for end users, people may want to reboot their machine Friday morning to ensure all the drive mappings reconnect properly.

Friday, 8/17/2018 between 5pm and 8pm (most systems will only be down for a short period during this time): 

  • The web hosting environments (virthost) will be partially unavailable (pages will be available but any database calls will not work)
  • 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
  • All HFS (user) servers will be offline
  • Certain software licenses will be unavailable (autodesk, cadence, idl, schrodinger, xilinx, mathematica)


Please let us know if you have any concerns or questions.

Thanks!

Tim Champ

Manager of Unix Infrastructure

UMBC DoIT

Posted: August 13, 2018, 11:15 AM