CTS Announcements & System Status

Helios shares will be going offline at 9PM for file system maintenance. They will be offline for up to a few hours.

The Blackboard application will be restarted tonight at 10 pm in order to rectify an application-level anomaly. Users should not be negatively affected by the restart, as existing user sessions should persist across the restart. It is important to note that while existing sessions will persist, any requests made during the few seconds of down time will result in connection errors.

The campus mail server experienced a software fault and required a reboot.

The affected mail volume is back online, and all mail is now flowing freely. The backlog of queued mail should clear out shortly.

Most likely due to power anomalies two nights ago, one of the mail volumes on the campus mail server requires maintenance. Some users will not be able to check mail during the maintenance. No new mail will be delivered, but will be queued for later delivery when maintenance is complete.

Due to a power anomaly in the main campus data center, some services are currently offline. These include BearPAWS, Banner, and HRWeb. No ETA for problem resolution.

Starting at 10PM this evening, the SMTP server(s) responsible for local email delivery will undergo an extremely brief maintenance window, during which time sending mail from on-campus will not be possible. The entire outage is expected to be on the order of minutes. Both checking mail (POP/IMAP), and receiving mail from off-campus domains, will not be affected.

It is generally believed that we have located and corrected problems causing network stability issues. There will likely be residual fallout for a short while as systems accustom themselves to a full-network restart, but all network metrics have achieved normality.

Helios experienced a system fault and required a reboot, all services should now be available.

There will be outages lasting 2-3 minutes of all network segments impacting most/all of the campus, as technicians work to locate the source of a network problem. Save early. Save often.