Quarterly Patching Friday March 11th beginning at 6:00pm

Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:25:48 -0500

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday March 11th beginning at 6:00pm. 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. We expect the work to begin by 6:00pm and be completed by 11:00pm, most services will only be off-line for part of this time.

RT will be down from 6pm to 8pm

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