Quarterly patching downtime on 11/15/2019 & 11/16/2019

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 10:02:44 -0500

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday, November 15th and Saturday, November 16th. 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.

Friday, 11/15/2019 between 4pm and 10pm (most systems will only be down for a short period during this time):

Between 4pm and 5:30pm only: LDAP-Master and Webadmin will be taken down for system maintenance. During this time account creations and password changes will be unavailable. Account authentication and logins will not be affected during this downtime

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)

Saturday, 11/16/2019 between 9am and 11am(most systems will only be down for a short period during this time):

myUMBC lite page will be up resulting in reduced myUMBC functionality

Wiki will be unavailable

The sites (wordpress) web hosting environment will be unreachable

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

Thanks!

Tim Champ

Manager of Unix Infrastructure

UMBC DoIT