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

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