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Current Service Alerts - Wednesday 16-May-2012
Title Time Duration Impact Reason Description of Work Criticality Status
ECA Portal - ECA002 Exam Boards Phase 2

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16-May-2012
01:50PM - 02:10PM
20 minutes

At Risk
functionality put live for ECA002 Exam Boards Phase 2 functionality put live for ECA002 Exam Boards Phase 2 Medium Agreed - Short Notice
shortNotice


Forthcoming Service Alerts for the next 2 weeks
Title Date/Time Duration Impact Reason Description of Work Criticality Status
EUGEX, IDM and MyEd at risk

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17-May-2012
09:00AM - 05:00PM
8 hours

At Risk

required for implementing project DEI001 EUGEX, IDM and MyEd at risk, Thursday 17th May 09:00-17:00. High Planned
planned

QlikView Application Server Upgrade

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17-May-2012
02:00PM - 03:00PM

17-May-2012
03:00PM - 07:00AM
1 hour


16 hours

Outage


At Risk

Application upgrade to latest release The Qlikview application server will be uninstalled and the new release installed Low Agreed - Short Notice
shortNotice

Unidesk Servers - Security Patching

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18-May-2012
03:10AM - 03:25AM

18-May-2012
04:10AM - 04:25AM
15 minutes


15 minutes

Outage


Outage

Security patch install Due to security patching, the unidesk servers will each have a short outage on Friday 18th May between 03:00 and 05:00 while the servers are rebooted. Unidesk will be unavailable for a time during these hours. The 'at risk' period will continue until 09:0 Medium Agreed - Short Notice
shortNotice

EaStMAN JEC circuit move

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22-May-2012
07:45AM - 08:00AM

22-May-2012
08:00AM - 08:45AM
15 minutes


45 minutes

Outage


At Risk

Change of supplier for dark fibre link The primary EaStMAN link connecting Jewel & Esk College's Dalkeith campus to the outside world is being moved to a different supplier's infrastructure. Medium Agreed - Short Notice
shortNotice

Accommodation Services Applications unavailable

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From: 22-May-2012 - 08:00AM
To:      23-May-2012 - 12:00PM

From: 23-May-2012 - 12:00PM
To:      23-May-2012 - 05:00PM
1 day 4 hours


5 hours

Outage


At Risk

Upgrade infrastructure Accommodation Services Applications unavailable, from 08:00 Tuesday 22nd May until 12:00 on Wednesday 23rd May. Applications should be considered At Risk from 12:00 - 17:00 on Wednesday 23rd May. High Planned
planned

Polopoly unavailable

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30-May-2012
11:00AM - 12:30PM

30-May-2012
12:30PM - 05:00PM
1 hour 30 minutes


4 hours 30 minutes

Outage


At Risk

Deploy code regarding recaptcha A Polopoly outage will take place Wednesday 30th May 1100-1230 (further at risk 1230-1700). High Planned
planned

University Web Site - At Risk

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30-May-2012
12:00PM - 05:00PM
5 hours

At Risk

Deploy new recaptcha code University website at risk Wednesday 30th May 1200-1700 due to server work. No outage is expected. High Planned
planned

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Service Alerts for the past 2 weeks
Title Date/Time Duration Impact Reason Description of Work Criticality Status
Pre-cautionary restart of WebCT application

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15-May-2012
08:00AM - 09:00AM

15-May-2012
09:00AM - 10:00AM
1 hour


1 hour

Outage


At Risk

Pre-cautionary restart of WebCT to avoid possible java issues An outage of WebCT will take place on Wednesday 15th May - WebCT unavailable to all during restart (0800-0900, further 'at risk' 0900-1000). High Planned
planned

Moodle At Risk

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15-May-2012
09:00AM - 05:00PM
8 hours

At Risk

Resilience Testing Moodle at risk all day due to resilience testing being carried out by Technology Management. Medium Agreed - Short Notice
shortNotice

EaStMAN QMU circuit move

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15-May-2012
07:45AM - 08:45AM
1 hour

At Risk

Change of supplier for dark fibre link The primary EaStMAN link connecting Queen Margaret University to the outside world is being moved to a different supplier's infrastructure. Medium Agreed - Short Notice
Complete
completed-shortNotice

Corporate ColdFusion based applications at risk

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14-May-2012
04:00PM - 05:00PM
1 hour

At Risk

Configuration maintenance Corporate ColdFusion based applications At Risk. Monday 14th May 16:00-17:00. High Planned
planned

BOXI Application unavailable for some universe

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14-May-2012
09:00AM - 09:45AM
45 minutes

Outage

Application not responding BOXI application is unavailable. Medium Unplanned
unplanned

Widespread IS services disruption

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11-May-2012
01:00PM - 02:30PM
1 hour 30 minutes

Outage

Power interruption at JCMB Extensive service outage. Recovery operations are under way, expected recovery time for majority of systems 14:30. High Unplanned
unplanned

IDM processing delay

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From: 11-May-2012 - 12:45PM
To:      14-May-2012 - 10:45AM
2 days 22 hours

Degraded Service

Failure of IDM processing following KB power outage Issue resolved. High Unplanned
Complete
completed-unplanned

Accommodation Services Critical Patching

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10-May-2012
07:00AM - 07:15AM

11-May-2012
08:00AM - 08:30AM
15 minutes


30 minutes

Outage


Outage

Critical Patching Due to server work, Accommodation Services applications will face an outage Thursday 10th May 0700-0715 and Friday 11th May 0800-0830 (additional "at risk" period 0830-0900). High Planned
planned

Unidesk Outage

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11-May-2012
07:00AM - 09:30AM
2 hours 30 minutes

Outage

Patching Systems are restored and working again as of 9:30am Medium Unplanned
unplanned

Orthus & Midas Server Resources

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10-May-2012
08:30AM - 12:30PM

10-May-2012
01:00PM - 02:00PM
4 hours


1 hour

Degraded Service


Outage

Resource Issues with server Primary server for the orthus (IS) resources is down. All resources are running on second server. Shares and home drives may be unavailable or slower to respond. Resources will be moved over to primary server today at 1pm. High Unplanned
Complete
completed-unplanned

eExpenses

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10-May-2012
12:30PM - 12:35PM
5 minutes

Outage

n/a Application restarted High Unplanned
unplanned

PURE Unavailable - Upgrade to 4.12.4

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09-May-2012
10:30AM - 11:00AM

09-May-2012
11:00AM - 12:00PM
30 minutes


1 hour

Outage


At Risk

Routine Regular Upgrade procedure PURE Application will be upgraded on the 9th of May. There will be a service outage from 10:30 till 11:00 and a further "at risk" period between 11:00 and 12:00. High Planned
planned

EaStMAN Stirling hardware replacement

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08-May-2012
07:30AM - 08:15AM

08-May-2012
08:15AM - 09:00AM
45 minutes


45 minutes

Outage


At Risk

Switchover to new hardware EaStMAN Stirling hardware replacement, Tuesday 8th May 07:30-08:15. With a further 45 minute At Risk period from 08:15. Medium Planned
Complete
completed-planned

Accommodation Services unavailable

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08-May-2012
08:00AM - 08:30AM
30 minutes

Outage

Upgrade Kx from Kx2011.1 SP2 to Kx2011.1 SP3 The Accommodation Services application Online Contract will be upgraded on Tuesday 8th May (outage 0800-0830. High Planned
planned

WebCT restart

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07-May-2012
12:00PM - 01:00PM
1 hour

Outage

Powerlinks not responding WebCT restart due to a problem with powerlinks. Low Agreed - Short Notice
shortNotice

UniDesk Restart (Abertay, Edinburgh, St Andrews)

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07-May-2012
08:30AM - 08:45AM
15 minutes

Outage

Unidesk Performance Issues There will be a service outage for the Unidesk system on the 7th May 2012 between 08:30 and 08:45 to switch off debugging, the server will be restarted during this time. Medium Planned
planned

Webhost1 Downtime

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From: 05-May-2012 - 05:15AM
To:      06-May-2012 - 09:15AM
1 day 4 hours

Outage

Apache Error Webhost one was down on Saturday - 05 /05/2012 05:15 till 06/05/2012 09:15. Medium Unplanned
Complete
completed-unplanned

UniDesk unavailable

More info
04-May-2012
10:00AM - 12:00PM

04-May-2012
12:00PM - 02:00PM
2 hours


2 hours

Outage


At Risk

Update UK Federation details on live system to initiate shibboleth There will be a 2hr downtime on UniDesk on Friday 4th May, 10:00am-12:00pm. Further 'at risk' 12:00pm-14:00pm. This is due to work on the Self Service Portal implementation. High Cancelled
cancelled

EaStMAN Telford College circuit move

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04-May-2012
08:00AM - 08:15AM

04-May-2012
08:15AM - 09:00AM
15 minutes


45 minutes

Outage


At Risk

Change of supplier for dark fibre link The EaStMAN link connecting Telford College to the outside world is being moved to a different supplier's infrastructure. Medium Agreed - Short Notice
Complete
completed-shortNotice

ESSMU and CCTS Outage

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03-May-2012
05:00PM - 05:30PM
30 minutes

Outage

Server restart to correct a back-up problem Applications ESSMU and CCTS out of service for the duration of the outage. High Agreed - Short Notice
shortNotice

HR Unavailable - Applying patch for TYE

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03-May-2012
08:30AM - 01:00PM

03-May-2012
01:00PM - 04:00PM
4 hours 30 minutes


3 hours

Outage


At Risk

New patch for TYE12 needs to be applied The HR systems (Oracle HR and HR MyED channels) will be unavailable Thursday 3rd May 0830-1300 (further 'at risk' 1300-1600) due to server work. High Planned
planned

Pre-cautionary restart of WebCT application

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02-May-2012
08:00AM - 09:00AM

03-May-2012
09:00AM - 10:00AM
1 hour


1 hour

Outage


At Risk

Pre-cautionary restart of WebCT to avoid possible java issues An outage of WebCT will take place on Wednesday 2nd May - WebCT unavailable to all during restart (0800-0900, further 'at risk' 0900-1000). High Planned
planned

Exchange Restart - To resolve backup problem

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03-May-2012
08:20AM - 08:30AM

03-May-2012
08:30AM - 09:00AM
10 minutes


30 minutes

Outage


At Risk

Fix issue with back-ups Outage will be for a 10 minute period between 08:00 and 09:00. Restart Exchange due to a problem with the backup. Low Agreed - Short Notice
shortNotice

EUCLID Client Outage

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03-May-2012
08:00AM - 08:05AM
5 minutes

Outage

Restart Following Configuration Change There will be an outage of the EUCLID client on Thursday 3rd May at 0800 for 5 minutes. Medium Planned
planned

Regular Linux patching

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02-May-2012
08:00AM - 09:00AM

02-May-2012
09:00AM - 10:00AM
1 hour


1 hour

Outage


At Risk

Part of regular patching Due to server patching the systems listed below will be unavailable 0800-0900 Wed 2nd May ('at risk' until 1000): Central Wiki Service, Document Management (Serengeti), JIRA, Hosted Websites and Document Management (Serengeti), Mobile Campus, DRUPAL se High Planned
planned

SSL Certificate renewal

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02-May-2012
09:00AM - 02:00PM
5 hours

At Risk

SSL Certificate expiry Due to server work, the following are at risk Wednesday 2nd May 2012 0900-1400 (no actual outage envisioned): www.dlhe.careers.ed.ac.uk www.services.adminrae.planning.ed.ac.uk www.recruit.mis.ed.ac.uk www.kxweb.accom.ed.ac.uk High Planned
planned

ecdfnas service - slight risk of minor service dis

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02-May-2012
08:45AM - 09:15AM
30 minutes

At Risk

Critical security patching The ecdfnas service will be at slight risk of minor disruption whilst a critical security patch is applied (Wed 2nd May 0845-9015). Work completed without any disruption to service. High Planned
Complete
completed-planned

Moodle Application unavailable

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02-May-2012
08:30AM - 09:10AM
40 minutes

Outage

Part of regular patching Moodle application was unavailable after Linux patching took place in Moodle servers. High Unplanned
unplanned

Linux - Regular patching: MyEd and SOA at risk

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02-May-2012
08:00AM - 09:00AM
1 hour

At Risk

Part of regular patching Due to server work, MyEd and SOA are at risk 0800-0900 on Wednesday 2nd May. There is the potential risk that users of MyEd may lose their sessions, but this risk is very low. High Planned
planned

Serengeti eIntranet outage

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02-May-2012
08:00AM - 08:45PM
12 hours 45 minutes

Outage

Failure of document management system Investigation into core cause ongoing. High Unplanned
Complete
completed-unplanned

IDM processing delay

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02-May-2012
08:00AM - 11:00PM
15 hours

Degraded Service

Failed restart of IDM service following security patching Issue under resolution. Existing backlog of notifications remains to be cleared. High Unplanned
Complete
completed-unplanned

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