The Blackboard application will be restarted at 22:00 (10:00 pm) tonight in an effort to resolve various application irregularities that have been occurring over the past few days. This window should only affect availability for a few minutes, however active sessions may see an interruption.
Asbestos abatement in the basement of Satterlee has complicated the situation. A shared breaker was tripped and has been reset allowing operations to continue. This problem may reoccur. It would be wise to save early, save often in Satterlee.
An electrical problem in the main Satterlee networking location has caused a prolonged outage in that building.
The mail server was rebooted to fix a software problem. All systems came back up with no problems. Mail is backlogged by a few hours.
CTS introduced two new pieces of hardware over the weekend in hopes of mitigating the ongoing mail stability and storage problems. The performance profile of said equipment is still being analyzed as equipment is put under load, but it is believed that the stability problem may be rectified at this time. The storage situation is still being worked on, and we hope to see performance improvements in the coming days and weeks as users are moved to the new storage equipment. In the meantime, deliveries may be delayed, as we have systems in place to keep the load on the hardware within safe thresholds until the situation can be rectified.
A pair of suboptimal cables were replaced, relieving the high packet loss problems between the dorm Road Runner University Network and the main campus network. The cables have been chopped into little pieces as punishment, and traffic is flowing at its usual insane rate of speed. All clear.
The mail server is back online on new hardware. All deliveries are being processed.
Bbeginning at 12:30AM this morning, the mail server will be going down for a two hour maintenance window to accommodate migration to new hardware. Mail to off-campus addresses will still be delivered, while mail to on-campus addresses will be queued for later delivery.
A network mixup alienated a storage volume serving the campus e-mail server. All clear.
As a temporary means of keeping the mail infrastructure on-line, the number of allowed BearMail and MailGuard connections during peak hours will be substantially reduced. This measure is an interim solution until necessary enhancements can be made in the near future to rectify the stability and performance problems.