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
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Date and Time |
Maintenance |
Service Outage |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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Dec 28th - 10am - 11am |
Upgrade VPN appliances |
There could be multiple < 15 minute outages for VPN connectivity, but is not expected. |
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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 |
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Dec 28th - 11am - Noon |
Firewall upgrades (VT, CA, and PCI Enclave) |
None. Will leverage HA to ensure connectivity |
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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 |
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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 |