During our regular maintenance window on Star Wars Day, Thursday, May 4th from 5:00 am to 7:30am EST we have the following activities scheduled:

• Hummingbird, the web server front end to the undergrad Classes folders, will be replaced by a new server named Sunbird.
  • The web viewable functionality of undergrad course material stored on Middfiles will see a service outage up to 30 minutes. Including, http://cr.middlebury.edu, http://s17.middlebury.edu, etc…
• There will be brief interruption to network services, up to 10 minutes, at each of the following building on the VT campus
  • Allen Hall
  • Hadley Hall
  • Milliken Hall
  • Forest Hall
  • Coffrin Hall

We appreciate your patience as we continuously strive to keep our systems functioning optimally.

Regards,

Billy

Billy Sneed

ITS – Central Systems & Network Services

Middlebury College

During our regular maintenance window this Thursday, March 30th from 5 am – 7:30 am EST we have the following activities scheduled:

• The DNS/DHCP appliance will have a new reporting server installed into the grid. No service outage is anticipated.
• The physical interfaces connecting to the DMZ network will be reconfigured. There is a potential for a brief service outage of the Library Millennium server and the ADFS servers (SSO), up to 1 minute.
• The CommVault backup service will be upgraded. No customer impact.
• Continuing to work with campus fiber maintenance, there will be a brief network outage for Hadley, Milliken, Kelly, Lang, and Ross Halls, as well as faculty housing on Blinn Ln. Outage will be up to 5 minutes.
• On-premise Exchange servers will be upgraded to the next patch level. This work will continue on Sunday. No service impact is anticipated.
• The border firewalls in VT will be upgraded to the next point release. Leveraging the highly available configuration of these devices, no service outage is anticipated.

We appreciate your patience as we continuously strive to keep our systems functioning optimally.

Regards,

Billy

Billy Sneed

ITS – Central Systems & Network Services

Middlebury College

During our regular maintenance window this Sunday, February 5th from 6 am – 10 am EST we have the following activities scheduled:

• The PaperCut printing management system will be down for up to 1 hour. During the service outage printing will be unavailable.
• There will be a number of servers rebooted for patching. Each will be unavailable for up to 15 minutes.
  • WordPress servers, for both Monterey and Middlebury
  • CAS servers, providing the Central Authentication System for users accessing many Middlebury resources
  • MiddMedia
  • The GO service

We appreciate your patience as we continuously strive to keep our systems functioning  optimally.

Regards,

Billy

Billy Sneed

ITS – Central Systems & Network Services

Middlebury College

During our regular maintenance window this Sunday, January 29th from 6 am – 10 am EST we have the following activities scheduled:

• The DNS/DHCP servers will be patched in Monterey and Middlebury. There is no expected service outage as we leverage system redundancy during the upgrade process.

We appreciate your patience as we continuously strive to keep our systems functioning optimally.

Regards,

Billy

Billy Sneed

ITS – Central Systems & Network Services

Middlebury College

During our regular maintenance window this Sunday, October 30^th  from 6 am – 10 am EST we have the following activities scheduled:

• DNS servers will be upgraded in VT and CA. There will be no service outage but there may be some delays in DNS resolution for up to 45 minutes during the maintenance window.
• Border firewalls in VT will be upgraded. Taking advantage of the highly available configuration, there will be no service outage associated with this maintenance.

We appreciate your patience as we continuously strive to keep our systems functioning optimally.

Regards,

Billy

Billy Sneed

ITS – Central Systems & Network Services

Middlebury College