CTS Announcements & System Status

Starting at 9:00pm tonight, Internet and Internet2 (R&E) access will be sporadic as connectivity equipment is upgraded. The window is scheduled for 2 hours.

Tonight at 22:00 (10pm) Blackboard will be unavailable for a short time as back-end database and system modifications are tuned. While these changes should only take a matter of minutes, Blackboard may be unavailable for as long as 45-minutes to an hour.

Between 2:00 and 2:30 this afternoon, network maintenance will be performed in MacVicar to accommodate network growth. There may be a series of brief network outages during this window.

Helios backup volumes are now back online.

Helios will be rebooted at 5PM as part of the ongoing volume maintenance.

Backup volumes on helios (_backup folders) are currently offline as the volume undergoes critical filesystem maintenance.

An errant misconfiguration forced a restart of core network equipment. The outage was handled immediately and lasted 4 minutes and 23 seconds.

Helios experienced a fault and required a reboot. System back online.

Storage maintenance complete. All systems are back online.

Many campus services will be going offline at approximately 3:30AM the morning of September 10 while key storage components undergo a two hour maintenance window. This includes: Helios, WWW, Mail (POP/IMAP), and BearPAWS.