| Service |
Maintenance Schedule |
Services Affected |
| Administrative Systems |
Maintenance is scheduled as needed. Machines are typically down from 7 p.m. Friday through 7 a.m. the following Monday. Definitive decision to perform maintenance is determined that week. Key users are notified in advance. If critical patches become available, machines may be taken down on short notice--sometimes less than 48 hours.
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The following services may be affected by this maintenance:
- Oracle Financials
- Decision Point Data Warehouse
- Student Information System (SIS)
- Human Resource Information System (HRIS)
- Human Resources Data Warehouse
- Talent Management System
- FCE
- Alumni systems
- Electronic Data Management
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Andrew Calendar
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Daily between 4:00 - 4:30 a.m.
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Calendar is available but READ-ONLY during the maintenance window.
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Friday evenings between 10:00 p.m. - 6:30 a.m.
COMMENTS: This maintenance window is used sporadically.
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Depending on the type of maintenance to be performed, the Calendar program may be inaccessible during this time. |
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Saturdays between 3:00 - 6:30 a.m.
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The Calendar program is inaccessible during this time. |
| Andrew File System |
Sundays between 4:00 -5:00 a.m. |
AFS directories and volumes may not be accessible. |
| Andrew Web Publishing System |
Wednesdays and Thursdays between 4:00 - 5:00 a.m.
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Publishing through AWPS may not be available during this time, however, web pages published on www.cmu.edu are accessible. A computing news announcement will be made if the maintenance window is being used. |
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First and third Saturdays of each month between 7:00 - 9:00 a.m.
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| Andrew Windows |
Sundays between 6:00 - 9:00 a.m.
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It is possible that ANY of the following services could be affected, however, the following effects are typical:
Services that may be affected:
- MyFiles
- Roaming Profiles
- My Dept Files for DSP (File Servers)
The following services run on replicated servers; it is possible but unlikely that they would be affected:
- Active Directory
- Pharos Printing
- WINS
Services with limited impact (only affect specific groups):
- Microsoft Exchange Email System and BlackBerry Enterprise Server
- Windows Media Services
- WSUS (Windows Software Update Service)
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| Blackboard |
As necessary, on off-peak Saturdays from 6:00 - 8:00 a.m. Maintenance notices are posted on the Blackboard web site.
COMMENTS: There is no set maintenance schedule since maintenance work is avoided during peak usage times (e.g., beginning of the semester or finals week).
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Blackboard may not be available.
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| Content Management System (CMS) |
Last Wednesday of each month from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.; additional maintenance announced as needed. |
Creating, editing and publishing webpages. |
| Directory |
Maintenance is performed as needed. Any outages will be announced via normal computing news channels (e.g., official.computing-news, portal). |
Directory , Official Info, Preferred Info and What Others Can See are unavailable.
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| Keyserver License Server |
Friday evenings from 10:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. Saturday mornings. |
This is a redundant service and there normally should not be any downtime. |
| NetDev Servers (DHCP, DNS, NetReg, etc.) |
Saturdays between 6:00 - 7:00 a.m. |
Various web services provided by the network group, including NetReg and NISC, may be unavailable during this maintenance window. All real-time critical services are designed to be fully functional during this time, including DNS, DHCP, and Authbridge. |
| Network |
First and third Saturdays of each month between 5:00 - 6:00 a.m.
COMMENTS: When necessary, other outages may occur. Notice will be provided, typically two weeks in advance.
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Depending on the type of maintenance to be performed, ANY of the following MAY be affected; there may also be additional unforeseen effects. Details on the effects of a specific maintenance outage are included in announcements which are posted on the Computing Services news page.
- Email Services (reading and sending, Webmail)
- Blackboard
- Andrew Calender Services
- File Services (AFS, DFS, MyFiles and some departmental servers)
- Web Services (Carnegie Mellon Portal, www.cmu.edu, www.andrew.cmu.edu,
some departmental web servers)
- Web Publishing Systems (AWPS, www.andrew.cmu.edu)
- Dialup and VPN Networking
- Software license servers (serving licenses for: 3D Studio Max, Adams, ANSYS, FrameMaker, IMSL, IronCAD Maple, MathCAD, Mathematica, Matlab, Maya, ProEngineer/ProMechanica, SolidWorks, S-Plus)
- Network Registration Systems (NetReg, QuickReg, AuthBridge)
- Andrew & Cluster Printing
- Unix, Linux, and Sun4 .andrew server pools
- All Computing Services Clusters Machines
- All Andrew workstations
Typically NOT affected, but exceptions are possible:
- External Internet connectivity (on-campus computers connected via wired or wireless Ethernet)
- DNS & DHCP
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| Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) |
Tuesdays and Fridays between 6:30 - 7:30 a.m. |
Depending on the type of maintenance to be performed, ANY of the following MAY be affected; there may also be additional unforeseen effects. Details on the effects of a specific maintenance outage are included in announcements which are posted on the Computing Services news page.
- ANY service that requires external Internet connectivity (e.g., web browsing outside of www.cmu.edu, reading email from off-campus, VPN service, etc.)
- Commodity Internet connectivity
- Research connectivity
- External e-mail (e-mail will be held then delivered once maintenance is complete)
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| Portal |
First and third Thursdays of each month between 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
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Portal may not be available. A computing news announcement will be made if the maintenance window is being used.
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| Thursdays between 2:00 - 3:00 a.m. and between 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. |
This is a portal reboot and DOES NOT result in any portal down time. |
| www.andrew.cmu.edu |
Thursdays between 4:00 - 5:00 a.m. |
Publishing through www.andrew may NOT be available during this time and web pages within www.andrew may not be accessible. |
