ITS Communications Corner Announcements

Due to system maintenance scheduled for Saturday, March 15, MyUNIverse and HEAT will be unavailable from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The following systems will be unavailable from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday, March 16: e-mail (mail will still be received), MyUNIverseCT (formerly WebCT), MyUNIverse, MEMFIS, and many other smaller distributed systems.

In order to adjust our SAN (Storage Area Network) to support the new imaging project we have scheduled the following maintenance to occur Sunday, March 16 from 7am - 1pm.

Due to system maintenance scheduled for Saturday, March 15, MyUNIverse and HEAT will be unavailable from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The following systems will be unavailable from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday, March 16: e-mail (mail will still be received), MyUNIverseCT (formerly WebCT), MyUNIverse, MEMFIS, and many other smaller distributed systems.

The production database WEBP will be unavailable on Saturday, March 15th beginning at 8:00am through 5:00pm. The outage is necessary to upgrade the Oracle database to version 10.2.0.3. This outage will impact the following applications:

My UNIverse
HEAT
AD_ASTRA
Residence applications
BALANCE
UNI ID card system
LIB_PROD systems
ASCC

These databases work with the following applications: Ad Astra, Balance, Equitrac, Heat, Library and the My Universe applications.

The upgrade will take approximately 6-8 hours to complete. Please let me know if you have questions about the upgrade or the proposed dates for the upgrades.

ITS will be applying operating system patches beginning at 6am on Saturday July 12, 2008. Maintenance is expected to be complete by 10am.

The following systems and services will be unavailable during the maintenance window:
CatID
Campus E-Mail (Collab)
MEMFIS
MyUniverse
WebCT
Student Web Registration (ResQPortal)
Student Registration (Mainframe)
Discoverer
Webfocus
COD XML System
ResNet Registration
Phone Book (all J2EE applications)
Heat
Library systems

If you need additional assistance please contact the Computer Consulting Center (CCC) at (319) 273-5555. The CCC is located in Room 36 ITTC Building (old East Gym). Consultants are available to provide hands-on assistance daily Monday through Friday during University Business Hours.

ITS will be moving production databases to new equipment beginning at 7:00 AM on Saturday June 13, 2009. This maintenance is expected to be complete by 3:00-4:00 PM. An email will be sent out once the database is available.

The following systems and services will be unavailable during the maintenance window:

• MyUniverse
  
• Student Web Registration (ResQPortal)
  
• Student Registration (Mainframe)
  
• COD XML System - Financial Aid back office
  
• ResNet Registration
  
• Phone Book (all J2EE applications)
  
• Heat - Help desk
  
• Some Library systems which utilize Oracle
  
• CardID system (system for printing UNI ID cards)
  

• Campus Web based E-Mail
  
• WebCT
  
• MEMFIS
  
• CatID Reset
  

The Oracle database server requires a restart on Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 6:00 a.m. – 6:30 a.m. This will impact eLearning (Blackboard/WebCT) and WEBP (MyUNIverse portal) databases. The system will be available by 6:30 a.m.

Due to hardware changes related to preparing for the new student system, all oracle based systems will be down Saturday 07/25/2009 from 7am - 10am, with the exception email will be down from 5AM to 10AM.