ITS Announces Maintenance Schedule for Holiday Break
Middlebury’s Information Technology Services office has announced the following service outages for the upcoming holiday recess.
ITS Holiday 2016 Maintenance Schedule
Date and Time |
Maintenance |
Service Outage |
Dec 26th - 27th |
Fiber related preventative maintenance in the basement of Pearsons Hall |
Data service will be out for the following buildings: Hadley-Milliken Kelly-Lang LaForce Hall Pearsons Hall 26 Blinn Lane 132 Blinn Lane Adirondack House |
Dec 26th ½ day. |
Install LIM & Siemens fiber equipment in KDR to restore telephone service after determining there are no good pairs on the 50-pair copper cable running from Service to KDR. |
Service is already out on most of the 8 lines affected by the bad cable pair. There may be a brief outage of a few seconds on the telephone system at the beginning of the work. It would not affect 700 Exchange, Bread Loaf campus, or Snow Bowl. |
Dec 26th - 9am - Noon |
PaperCut Upgrade |
Printing will be unavailable during the maintenance |
Dec 27th - 8am - 4pm |
SAN OS Upgrade |
No service outage is planned |
Dec 27th - 9am |
Move network connection for Middfiles cluster |
Up to 5 minute outage for Middfiles access |
Dec 27th - 9am - 10am |
Reboot NAS clusters |
Up to 20 minute outage for Middfiles access and other NAS based shares |
Dec 28th - 8am - 10am |
Upgrade border routers |
There could be multiple < 5 minute internet connectivity outages as routes converge, but it is not expected |
Dec 28th - 9am |
Move network appliance within the Voter data center |
No service outage. Moving where a control appliance is within the data center. |
Dec 28th - 10am - 11am |
Upgrade VPN appliances |
There could be multiple < 15 minute outages for VPN connectivity, but is not expected. |
Dec 28th - 10am - Noon |
Replace network equipment in Emma Willard |
The following buildings will have no network connectivity for up to 15 minutes: Emma Willard 46 South St 48 South St Green Metal Building Track Hut |
Dec 28th - 11am - Noon |
Firewall upgrades (VT, CA, and PCI Enclave) |
None. Will leverage HA to ensure connectivity |
Dec 28th - 1pm - 2pm |
Network switch upgrades |
The following buildings will have no connectivity for 5 minutes during reboot: Coffrin Hadley-Milliken Kelly-Lang Porter-House Ridgeline-Suites Ridgeline-Townhouse-Center Ridgeline North Ridgeline South |
Dec 28th - 2pm - 4pm |
Network switch upgrades |
The following buildings will have no connectivity for up to 10 minutes during reboot: 70-Hillcrest Fieldhouse South Haddock (DFL access ports) 26-BlinnLane 132-BillLane BL-Milkhouse BL-Theatre-Northend CFA Fletcher GolfCourse-Maintenance Mscs-adk-conltrane mscs-MFH298 mscs-RAJ RecyclingCenter videoconferencing |