There will be a brief outage on Sunday due to some work being done in the new Data Center — notice from IR (emphasis ours):
Due to relocation of servers to the new Data Center, the following services will be unavailable for short periods during the hours of 7:30 – noon on Sunday, Sept 5.
WebEvent, Library Systems, Content Management System (CMS), RoyalPo (outgoing email)
So make sure you’re not planning to send any emails or access Angel on Sunday morning. We’ll let you know if we hear any changes to the outage schedule.
Some of the on-campus network seems to be down. matrix.scranton.edu is accessible, but royaldrive and my.scranton.edu are not. This is affecting the authentication system as well, so logging on to the computers with your scranton ID my not be possible. Access to off-campus websites is unaffected. I have been told that the Help Desk is aware of this situation, but no further information is available at this time. Anyone with additional info, please pass it along.
UPDATE 1:00PM : Everything seems to be back working. royaldrive, e-mail, and my.scranton all seem to be accessible.
Jason Wimmer notifies us about some Angel Downtime this weekend
Due to the ongoing construction project of the AMH computer room, ANGEL will be unavailable to all users between the hours of 7:00AM – 12:00PM on Saturday, August 14.
We just heard through the grapevine that everyone is supposed to stay off of Royal Drive “until further notice” due to a server migration taking place – but we haven’t seen any official notices about this outage. We’ll post details as we hear them.
Update: As of 9:15am on July 20th, we’ve heard that the Royal Drive migration has been successfully completed – so use of Royal Drive can be resumed.
Another outage announcement, from Network Infrastructure (emphasis ours):
Power Shutdown Impacting IR Services
As related to the construction of a new Data Center in Alumni Memorial Hall, substantial modifications to electrical services will require downtime affecting nearly all Information Resources services. The power shutdown will begin at 11PM on Friday, July 9 and end at 7PM on Saturday, July 10. Internet service, Email, ResNet and all enterprise services such as Banner will not be available during the power shutdown. Users outside of our campus will not be able to reach online services with the exception of our emergency website. Cisco Voice over IP telephones will be functional during the maintenance window. Please plan accordingly.
Announcement of a service outage, from Network Infrastructure (emphasis ours):
Internet service will be unavailable between Monday, June 14th at 11:00pm and Tuesday, June 15th at 6:00am as network providers relocate their premise equipment at Alumni Memorial Hall. While the maintenance window is seven hours in duration, the actual service outage is likely to be shorter. During the service outage, on-campus users will not have access to Internet sites and services and users outside of the campus will be unable to reach University of Scranton sites and services. The University of Scranton maintains an alternate Web site to ensure that external users can continue to get some essential content.
