ITS Services Status
- 5/22/2013
6:41 PM - RESOLVED: UDCC Out-of-Band Network Maintenance extended
Service RestoredWork has been completed.
Maintenance is extending 15 minutes.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Networking will be conducting network maintenance to replace the two Cisco Catalyst 6500 service chassis used to provide the out-of-band (OOB) service to UDCC. During each chassis replacement, the connected switches will be unavailable resulting in a loss of connectivity to DRAC, LOM, and other OOB interfaces for the duration of the outage. Each chassis will be replaced one at a time.Note: Firewall services provided by the chassis will remain operational during the maintenance due to the resilient design.
- 5/22/2013
10:00 AM - RESOLVED: Emergency Maintenance Starting: WorldSpace Sync application
Service RestoredMaintenance completed.
WorldSpace Sync (https://worldspace.its.utexas.edu/) will be unavailable from 9:30 - Noon today for some unscheduled updates.
- 5/22/2013
9:59 AM - RESOLVED: uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) PROD Maintenance - Wednesday 5/22/13 9:00am-10:00am
Service RestoredMaintenance is completed.
Maintenance is starting.
We will be doing maintenance on the TIM PROD systems on Wednesday 5/22/13 between 9:00am and 10:00am.
No user impact is expected during this period, but we will provide an update should any occur.
- 4/11/2013
4:48 PM - UTBackup Application issue
Under InvestigationITS Staff determined a small number of customers are using Archive Encryption setting “448-bit encryption with custom 448-bit key” and may experience authentication issues. Until further notice UTBackup customers should not enable this setting. Our investigation continues and updates will be provided as they develop.
UTBackup authentication and connections from the desktop application are unavailable to some customers. This applies only to individuals who enabled private encryption key option “448-bit encryption with custom 448-bit key” in their application’s security settings. Customers impacted by this condition are unable to log into the desktop application and all backups for affected devices have stopped.
| 12:00 AM - 6:00 AM | Blackboard Weekly Maintenance Service: Blackboard Description: Weekly maintenance event for Blackboard (courses.utexas.edu). The service may be degraded or down during this time. |
| 12:00 AM - 6:00 AM | Austin Disk Services Planned Maintenance Window Service: Austin Disk Services Description: Customers utilizing the following dependent services may be affected: * Austin Disk shares (user home directories and departmental shares) * Stat Apps Server (user profiles, redirected documents ... (more) |
| 12:00 AM - 6:00 AM | Austin Exchange Message Service (AEMS) Planned Maintenance Service: Austin Exchange Messaging Service Description: This maintenance includes any or all of the following maintenance tasks: * Installation of security updates and hotfixes. * Moving of user mailboxes to different mailbox databases to better ... (more) |
| 12:01 AM - 6:00 AM | SharePoint Maintenance Window Service: SharePoint Description: Service availability may be intermittent during the maintenance window. |
| 6:30 AM - 7:00 AM | PROD uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) Routine Maintenance Service: uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) Description: We will be conducting routine maintenance on the PROD TIM systems. Users of the EID Self Help Application or the EID Administrative Application may experience connection resets during the ... (more) |
| 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM | Monthly JIRA Application Maintenance Service: Jira Description: JIRA will undergo application maintenance every 1st Tuesday monthly. |
| 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM | UT Virtual Servers: Network Resiliancy testing Service: Virtual Servers Description: Systems in conjunction with Networking will be performing an isolated network resiliancy test on Tue 3/5/13 from 10am - noon. No service outages are anticipated as only VMs and server under test ... (more) |
| 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM | TEST and QUAL uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) Routine Maintenance Service: uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) Description: We will be conducting routine maintenance to test the redundancy of our networking. If the test is successful, there will be no impact. If the test is unsuccessful there may be a period of lost ... (more) |
| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | ERP Web Infrastructure Maintenance Window Service: ERP UI Web Infrastructure Description: ERP UI, ERP Application Registry, ERP UI Site generator application upgrades occur during this time. Minimal impact on users should be expected. |
| 10:00 PM - 11:59 PM | Web Central Scheduled Maintenance Service: Web Central Description: The servers and software associated with www.utexas.edu, custom websites hosted on Web Central, and Web publishing on UNIX (UTS, uts.cc.utexas.edu) will undergo scheduled maintenance. During this ... (more) |
| 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | uTexas Enterprise Directory (TED) routine maintenance Service: uTexas Enterprise Directory (TED) Description: Routine maintenance on TED (The uTexas Enterprise Directory) will be done at this time. No interruption of service is anticipated, however updates to TED may be suspended periodically during this ... (more) |
| 9:00 AM - 11:00 PM | vDesk TETTNANG memory swap Service: Virtual Servers Description: putting Tettnang into maintenance so core can test memory. |
| 6:00 PM - 11:59 PM | Blog Service Weekly Maintenance Service: University Blog Service Description: Scheduled maintenance may occur weekly on Wednesdays between 6 p.m. and midnight. To the maximum extent possible, installation of service, application, and security updates will be performed during ... (more) |
| 12:01 AM - 1:00 AM | Planned maintenance for SQL03 Service: Microsoft SQL Server Description: ITS MSSQL Server will undergo maintenance to improve stability. SQL Server databases on SQL03 (including Adobe Connect) will be unavailable for some part of this maintenance. |
| 9:00 AM - 11:00 PM | vDesk HALLERTAU server downtime for memory swap Service: Virtual Servers Description: placing server into maintenance and shutting down so core can swap memory around and test for errors. |
| 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Relocate F5 load balancer Service: Core Network Services Description: One of the F5 load balancers will be relocated to another datacenter. User visible impact is not expected. This move will improve our high availability configuration. This maintenance had been ... (more) |
| 6:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Footprints Weekly Maintenance Service: Footprints Incident Tracking System Description: Application or OS patching and updates. |
| 7:00 AM - 10:00 AM | SecureDoc service and server maintenance Service: Enterprise Whole Disk Encryption Description: Recurring maintenance window for SecureDoc services. |
| 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM | PROD uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) Routine Maintenance Service: uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) Description: TIM PROD will be undergoing routine maintenance. Mainframe and web users of the PROD TIM system may experience two 5-10 minute outages during the maintenance period. EID logins will not be affected. |
| 12:00 AM - 6:00 AM | Blackboard Weekly Maintenance Service: Blackboard Description: Weekly maintenance event for Blackboard (courses.utexas.edu). The service may be degraded or down during this time. |
| 12:00 AM - 6:00 AM | Austin Exchange Message Service (AEMS) Planned Maintenance Service: Austin Exchange Messaging Service Description: This maintenance includes any or all of the following maintenance tasks: * Installation of security updates and hotfixes. * Moving of user mailboxes to different mailbox databases to better ... (more) |
| 12:01 AM - 6:00 AM | SharePoint Maintenance Window Service: SharePoint Description: Service availability may be intermittent during the maintenance window. |
| 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM | Mainframe maintenance window Service: Mainframe Description: The UT Austin mainframe will undergo planned maintenance early Sunday morning beginning shortly after 01:00 AM and lasting approximately 1 hour into Sunday morning. UT Direct, applytexas.org, ... (more) |
| 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM | Mainframe Stunnel maintenance Service: Mainframe Stunnel Description: We will be conducting maintenance on the stunnel servers. Some clients with long running stunnel connections to the mainframe may experience a brief interruption in service. |
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | UT Direct credit card maintenance Service: UT Direct Description: We're replacing a server to the credit card processing. No user impact expected. |
| 6:00 PM - 11:59 PM | Blog Service Weekly Maintenance Service: University Blog Service Description: Scheduled maintenance may occur weekly on Wednesdays between 6 p.m. and midnight. To the maximum extent possible, installation of service, application, and security updates will be performed during ... (more) |
| 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM | Mainframe stunnel maintenance Service: Mainframe Stunnel Description: We will be conducting maintenance on the stunnel servers. Some clients with long running stunnel connections to the mainframe may experience a brief interruption in service. |
| 10:00 PM - 6:00 AM | Footprints Server migration Service: Footprints Incident Tracking System Description: Migrating the footprints ticketing system to a new application server. Service will be unavailable. |
| 10:00 PM - 6:00 AM | Footprints Server migration Service: Footprints Incident Tracking System Description: Migrating the footprints ticketing system to a new application server. Service will be unavailable. |
| 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM | ITS Jabber Service Update Service: ITS Help Desk Description: The ITS Jabber service will be down for maintenance. The Help Desk will be fully-functional but Live Chat with the Help Desk is now unavailable. |
| 6:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Footprints Weekly Maintenance Service: Footprints Incident Tracking System Description: Application or OS patching and updates. |
| 7:00 AM - 10:00 AM | SecureDoc service and server maintenance Service: Enterprise Whole Disk Encryption Description: Recurring maintenance window for SecureDoc services. |
| 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM | WebSpace planned database maintenance Service: WebSpace Description: The database server for WebSpace will undergo routine software maintenance. WebSpace will be unavailable while this maintenance is being performed. We expect this maintenance window to be exercised ... (more) |
| 12:00 AM - 6:00 AM | Blackboard Weekly Maintenance Service: Blackboard Description: Weekly maintenance event for Blackboard (courses.utexas.edu). The service may be degraded or down during this time. |
| 12:00 AM - 6:00 AM | Austin Disk Services Planned Maintenance Window Service: Austin Disk Services Description: Customers utilizing the following dependent services may be affected: * Austin Disk shares (user home directories and departmental shares) * Stat Apps Server (user profiles, redirected documents ... (more) |
| 12:00 AM - 6:00 AM | Austin Exchange Message Service (AEMS) Planned Maintenance Service: Austin Exchange Messaging Service Description: This maintenance includes any or all of the following maintenance tasks: * Installation of security updates and hotfixes. * Moving of user mailboxes to different mailbox databases to better ... (more) |
| 12:01 AM - 6:00 AM | SharePoint Maintenance Window Service: SharePoint Description: Service availability may be intermittent during the maintenance window. |
| 7:00 AM - 7:05 AM | MSSQL Maintenance - SQL01 Service: Microsoft SQL Server Description: There will be a brief interruption in SQL Server availability for SQL01 to complete a resiliency enhancement. |
| 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM | Mainframe stunnel maintenance Service: Mainframe Stunnel Description: We will be conducting maintenance on the stunnel servers. Some clients with long running stunnel connections to the mainframe may experience a brief interruption in service. |
| 10:00 PM - 12:00 AM | Monthly Group E-Mail Maintenance Service: Group E-Mail Description: Monthly maintenance window for the Group E-mail server. |
| 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM | QUAL uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) Routine Maintenance Service: uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) Description: We will be conducting routine maintenance on the TIM QUAL servers. We don't anticipate any impact to users. |
| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | ERP Web Infrastructure Maintenance Window Service: ERP UI Web Infrastructure Description: ERP UI, ERP Application Registry, ERP UI Site generator application upgrades occur during this time. Minimal impact on users should be expected. |
| 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | UT Direct Planned Maintenance Service: UT Direct Description: UT Direct will be performing planned maintenance to deploy user-requested enhancements and bug fixes. A small percentage of users may experience a very limited interruption in service. |
| 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM | Wiki Service Monthly Maintenance Description: Scheduled maintenance for the University Wiki Service occurs the third Tuesday of the month from 6 p.m. - 10 p.m. To the maximum extent possible, installation of service, application and security ... (more) |
| 9:30 PM - 10:00 PM | FTPMail - new version Service: Mainframe Email Description: FTPMail is the Java program that re-transmits email sent through EMN$MAIL on the mainframe. A new version, with the ability to log email contents of any failed transmission, will be deployed. No ... (more) |
| 10:00 PM - 11:59 PM | Web Central Scheduled Maintenance Service: Web Central Description: The servers and software associated with www.utexas.edu, custom websites hosted on Web Central, and Web publishing on UNIX (UTS, uts.cc.utexas.edu) will undergo scheduled maintenance. During this ... (more) |
| 7:30 AM - 8:00 AM | UDCC Network Security Enhancements Service: University Data Center Description: The UDCC core switches will have the management security protection updated to the latest configuration revision. There is no expected outage from this work. |
| 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | uTexas Enterprise Directory (TED) routine maintenance Service: uTexas Enterprise Directory (TED) Description: Routine maintenance on TED (The uTexas Enterprise Directory) will be done at this time. No interruption of service is anticipated. Updates to TED might experience a small delay. |
| 6:00 PM - 11:59 PM | Blog Service Weekly Maintenance Service: University Blog Service Description: Scheduled maintenance may occur weekly on Wednesdays between 6 p.m. and midnight. To the maximum extent possible, installation of service, application, and security updates will be performed during ... (more) |
| 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM | UT Lists planned maintenance Service: UT Lists Description: The UT Lists mailing list service at utlists.utexas.edu will undergo routine service maintenance. List mail delivery and access to the Web GUI at https://utlists.utexas.edu may be unavailable during ... (more) |
| 6:30 AM - 7:00 AM | PROD uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) Routine Maintenance Service: uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) Description: We will be conducting routine maintenance on the TIM PROD system. Users accessing the EID Self Help Application or the EID Administrative Application may experience connection resets during the ... (more) |
| 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Urchin Planned Maintenance Window Service: Web Analytics: Urchin Description: Planned monthly maintenance window for Urchin. |
| 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | AEMS Network Resiliency Testing Service: Austin Exchange Messaging Service Description: Network resiliency via NIC teaming will be tested by temporariliy disabling half of the network connections to AEMS mailbox server EXMBX01. No user impact is expected; but, if there is, it will be ... (more) |
| 7:00 AM - 10:00 AM | SecureDoc service and server maintenance Service: Enterprise Whole Disk Encryption Description: Recurring maintenance window for SecureDoc services. |
| 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM | WebSpace planned database maintenance Service: WebSpace Description: The database server for WebSpace will undergo routine software maintenance. WebSpace will be unavailable while this maintenance is being performed. We expect this maintenance window to be exercised ... (more) |

