Quarterly Systems Patching over Spring Break (March 16-17)

Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:51:38 -0500

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure will be conducting its quarterly patching of systems. 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.

Monday March 16th:

RT will be down from 9am to 11am

Tuesday March 17th from 9am to 1pm

myUMBC lite page will be up resulting in reduced myUMBC functionality

The sites (wordpress) web hosting environment will be unreachable

Wiki will be unavailable

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

Tuesday March 17th from 1pm to 5pm

Access to Cyrus and UMBC Webmail (accounts not migrated to UMBC Gmail)

All mail will be queued up and delivered after the server ispatched

Expected to be unreachable from 1pm to 3pm

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