Quarterly patching downtime on 5/23/2019 and 6/1/2019

Mon, 13 May 2019 13:39:43 -0400

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Thursday, May 23rd and Saturday, June 1st. 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.

Thursday, 5/23/2019 between 5pm and 9pm (most systems will only be down for a short period during this time):

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, 6/1/2019 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