CTS Announcements & System Status

Tuesday, August 7th at 5:00pm, the public events calendar at http://events.potsdam.edu/ will be going offline for an upgrade. The upgrade window is scheduled for 2 hours.

On Wednesday, July 18 @ 9:00am, we will be changing our Internet/Internet2 border policy to default deny. This fundamental paradigm shift will block connection requests originating from the Internet/Internet2, unless theyre destined for excluded systems. This will go largely unnoticed by the vast majority of the campus computing population. On Wednesday and Thursday, all requests for exceptions will need to go through Matthew Keller (kellermg@potsdam.edu). After Thursday, members of ISTF in the Helpdesk and HNS groups will have access to make exceptions for specific cases.

On Monday, Jul 16th, at 9:00pm, the campus webserver will be unavailable during a migration to new hardware. This will impact the sites residing on: www, www2, www3, secure, events. During the majority of the migration, visitors to these sites will be redirected to a maintenance page encouraging them to try back later. There will be periods where this will not be possible. This maintenance period has a 2 hour window.

On Monday 7/9/2007 at 6:00am our I2SP will be doing maintenance that may impact our Internet2 connectivity intermittently for about 30 minutes.

Problems with our ISP have been resolved.

Our ISP is experiencing equipment failure. They have identified the problem and are working on it.

We are experiencing an Internet outage. We are working with our ISP to rectify the problem.

The campus webform processor has been in various states of disarray from sometime last evening until about 5:15pm this evening. Two different problems impacted its ability to process forms and send e-mails: one which was discovered and rectified early this morning, and the other which wasnt reported until later in the afternoon, and fixed at 5:15pm. CTS will be implementing additional protections to prevent/mitigate this problem in the future.

Printing is now back online.

Printing will be offline for up to an hour starting at 5PM today for hardware migration.