Most Campus IT Services Will Be Unavailable 12/30/13

Downtime Will Be 8 a.m. to Noon.

From 8 a.m. to Noon on Monday, December 30th the DoIT staff will be upgrading our OpenAFS file system used to support our Unix environment. The upgrade will involve bringing up new hardware and performing software maintenance on the OpenAFS file system database. These upgrades should improve system reliability and security.

This will impact the following services:
All web services (main campus web servers on www.umbc.edu, parts of myUMBC, userpages.umbc.edu, and the campus wiki.
Blackboard, Peoplesoft, Box, VPN, and other systems using the webauth single signonwill be unavailable.
All email delivery will be delayed.
The GL Unix environment
User home directories
Software license servers
Our mailing lists on lists.umbc.edu
New account creation and password changes

We believe the date of 12/30 should minimize the disruption to the campus but if anyone has concerns, please contact Jesse Beauman, jesse@umbc.edu or Jack Suess, Jack@umbc.edu.