System patching on Friday, March 17th starting at 5pm

Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:52:36 -0500

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday, March 17th from 5pm to 10pm. While many systems will be patched without any service disruption, there are several systems which require the downtime of key services for short times during this window. The schedule below outlines which key services will be offline and for how long.

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 5pm to 8pm

All HFS (user) servers will be offline

License5 will be down (autodesk, cadence, idl, schrodinger, xilinx, mathematica)

Perseus will be unavailable

RT

Expected to be down from 5pm to 6pm only

myUMBC lite page will be up resulting in reduced myUMBC functionality

Expected to be down from 5pm to 7pm only

Wiki will be unavailable

The sites (wordpress) web hosting environment will be unreachable

Expected to be down from 5pm to 7pm only

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

Tim Champ

Manager of Unix Infrastructure

UMBC DoIT