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ITS Services Status

Current Service Interruptions


5/23/2013
10:58 AM
RESOLVED: Javamail/FTPMail - outbound email routing change EXTENDED
Service Restored

The maintenance was completed at 10:45 am.


The maintenance is extended until 10:45. No user impact seen.

5/23/2013
10:34 AM
uTexas Identity Manager (TIM) PROD Maintenance - Thursday 5/23/13 9:00pm-9:30pm
Unplanned Maintenance

We will be doing maintenance on the TIM PROD systems tonight, Thursday 5/23/13 between 9:00pm and 9:30pm. 

No user impact is expected during this period, but we will provide an update should any occur.

5/22/2013
6:41 PM
RESOLVED: UDCC Out-of-Band Network Maintenance extended
Service Restored

Work 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.

4/11/2013
4:48 PM
UTBackup Application issue
Under Investigation

ITS 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. 

Past Service Interruptions

Upcoming Maintenance

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12:01 AM - 2:00 AM
Blackboard maintenance window
Service: Blackboard
Description: Regularly scheduled Blackboard maintenance window
12:01 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)
12:01 AM - 6:00 AM
SharePoint Maintenance Window
Service: SharePoint
Description: Service availability may be intermittent during the maintenance window.
9:00 PM - 10:00 PM
OAASPROD Patching
Service: Oracle
Description: We will be matching the oaasprod database to correct a SQL tuning bug
All Day
UDC C Chiller Service
Service: University Data Center
Description: Redundant Systems down for maintenance.
No Service interruption
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Task Manager Planned Maintenance
Description: On Wednesday, April 25, from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., a Task Manager feature update will be migrated to production. There will be no interruptions to service or batch processing during this time.
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)
All Day
UDC C Chiller Service
Service: University Data Center
Description: Redundant Systems down for maintenance.
No Service interruption
7:00 AM - 10:00 AM
EWDE - SecureDoc Service Maintenance Window
Service: Enterprise Whole Disk Encryption
Description: Recurring maintenance window for SecureDoc services and servers.
12:01 AM - 2:00 AM
Blackboard maintenance window
Service: Blackboard
Description: Regularly scheduled Blackboard maintenance window
12:01 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)
12:01 AM - 6:00 AM
SharePoint Maintenance Window
Service: SharePoint
Description: Service availability may be intermittent during the maintenance window.
7:00 AM - 7:30 AM
ID Photo Gateway Planned Maintenance
Service: ID Photo Gateway
Description: On Tuesday, May 1st from 7:00am - 7:30am the ID Photo Gateway will undergo routine scheduled maintenance. Users should experience no interruption in service.
7:00 AM - 7:30 AM
Virtual ID Cards Planned Maintenance
Service: Virtual ID Cards
Description: On Tuesday, May 1st from 7:00am - 7:30am the Virtual ID Cards will undergo routine scheduled maintenance. Users should experience no interruption in service.
7:00 AM - 7:30 AM
Student Photo Roster Planned Maintenance
Service: Student Photo Roster
Description: On Tuesday, May 1st from 7:00am - 7:30am the Student Photo Roster will undergo routine scheduled maintenance. Users should experience no interruption in service.
7:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Utility Relay Testing UDC C
Service: University Data Center
Description: Annual Service Utility relay testing
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Planned maintenance on qual.its.utexas.edu
Service: UT Direct Q/A environment
Description: Upgrading web server software to latest release.
No downtime or interruption of service expected.
7:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Utility Relay Testing UDC C
Service: University Data Center
Description: Annual Service Utility relay testing
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
University Directory (White Pages) Routine Maintenance
Service: University Directory (White Pages)
Description: The University Directory (White Pages) will be undergoing routine maintenance. No interruption in service is anticipated.
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Add capacity to Commodity ESX cluster
Service: Virtual Servers
Description: Add 3 servers to Commodity VMware vSphere cluster to increase VM capacity on Wed May 2 9-9:30am.

No impact to existing VMs is expected.
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Emergency upgrade of the Mail Filtering Service
Service: Mail Filtering Service
Description: The mail filtering service will be upgraded to the latest software release from the vendor to fix a bug that has been affecting us. No service outage is expected during the upgrade due to the load ... (more)
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Define Internals/Enterprise Workflow Planned Maintenance
Service: DEFINE Internals/Enterprise Workflow
Description: Planned maintenance to deploy necessary fixes and user enhancements. A small percentage of users may experience a very limited interruption in service during this maintenance period.
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 - 10:30 PM
Unix-based virtual Web hosting maintenance
Service: Web Publishing on Unix
Description: Between 10:00 and 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 2nd, servers handling a subset of Unix-based virtual Web hosting sites will undergo maintenance to reallocate server resources. During this period ... (more)
7:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Utility Relay Testing UDC C
Service: University Data Center
Description: Annual Service Utility relay testing
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Planned maintenance on beta.dp.utexas.edu
Service: UT Direct development environment
Description: Upgrading web server software to latest release.
No downtime or interruption of service expected.
9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Commodity cluster BIOS/PERC patching
Service: Virtual Servers
Description: We will be rotating vSphere servers out of production on Thurs 5/3 9am - 9pm to apply BIOS and PERC firmware updates.

This is to remediate the issue that caused a server to panic a few weeks ago.
8:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Patching ESXi server BIOS/Perc firmware
Service: Virtual Servers
Description: Applying firmware and BIOS updates to the ESXi servers at suggestion of Dell.
7:00 AM - 10:00 AM
EWDE - SecureDoc Service Maintenance Window
Service: Enterprise Whole Disk Encryption
Description: Recurring maintenance window for SecureDoc services and servers.
7:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Customer Survey update
Service: Footprints Incident Tracking System
Description: Adding and updating customer-facing text in both the questions and instructions included on the survey page sent to customers of the 'ITS Incident Management' and 'ITS Managed Desktop Support' ... (more)
12:00 AM - 1:00 AM
Mainframe maintenance window
Service: Mainframe
Description: The UT Austin mainframe will undergo planned maintenance early Sunday morning beginning shortly after 12:00 AM midnight and lasting approximately 1 hour into Sunday morning. UT Direct, applytexas.org,... (more)
12:01 AM - 2:00 AM
Blackboard maintenance window
Service: Blackboard
Description: Regularly scheduled Blackboard maintenance window
12:01 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)
12:01 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
TIM Scheduled Maintenance
Service: EID
Description: Routine maintenance on QUAL and PROD. No service impact is expected.
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Apollo Maintenance in TEST/QUAL
Service: Apollo
Description: Apollo maintenance will take place in the TEST and QUAL environments. Changes are not expected to impact the user.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
DHCP Server Maintenance
Service: Campus Network
Description: Networking will be performing a hardware upgrade on the campus DHCP servers. The servers are set up in a redundant configuration and will be serviced one at a time. No service interruption is ... (more)
6:00 PM - 11:59 PM
Storage Array maintenance
Description: The CX4 storage array will undergo non-disruptive maintenance. This will include patching and transparent load redistribution.

No customer impact is expected.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
FTP Server Maintenance
Service: FTP Server
Description: Networking will be moving the server "ftp.utexas.edu" to new hardware in the UDC-C data center. The server will be brought up in parallel with the existing server in advance to minimize service ... (more)
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)
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Austin DNS server migration
Service: Austin Active Directory
Description: An Austin DNS server, backup01.austin.utexas.edu, will be migrated to new hardware.

Due to redundant servers, no customer impact is expected.
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Planned maintenance of dpdev1.dp.utexas.edu
Service: UT Direct development environment
Description: Upgrading web servers software to latest release.
No downtime or interruption of service expected.
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Austin DNS server migration
Service: Austin Active Directory
Description: An Austin DNS server, backup02.austin.utexas.edu, will be migrated to new hardware.

Due to redundant servers, no customer impact is expected.
10:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Log4Natural Planned Maintenance
Description: The Log4Natural team is planning a migration to production next Thursday, May 10th, between 10:00pm and 10:30pm. There should be no interruption to logging during this maintenance.
The migration ... (more)
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
attwifi Maintenance
Service: Wireless and Wired Public Internet Access
Description: AT&T will be performing maintenance on their system that controls traffic on the "attwifi" wireless network. This will not affect any of the UT wireless networks ("restricted" or "guest"). Visitors ... (more)
7:00 AM - 10:00 AM
EWDE - SecureDoc Service Maintenance Window
Service: Enterprise Whole Disk Encryption
Description: Recurring maintenance window for SecureDoc services and servers.

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