The annual FAB/EB power systems testing will happen on Wednesday, June 19th, 2019. The work will begin at 8pm and could last as long as 4am. In case problems crop up during the procedures, they have reserved Thursday night (June 20th) as well. If they decide to do further tests on Thursday night, we will [...]
[Note, this is happening before the scheduled building power down scheduled for this day at 8pm.] On Wednesday night (June 19th) after 5pm, we will be patching all our Ubuntu (and possibly some Red Hat) Linux systems. Various Ubuntu Linux desktops in some research labs and cubicles will also be affected. The outages will be [...]
On Tuesday, June 18th (during the week of the break), we will be applying patches to some of our networking equipment. The work will begin at 8pm and we’re reserving a 3 hour outage window. (If everything goes well, things should be wrapped up sooner.) During the work, people on wired or wifi networks in [...]
Primary notification of upcoming system or network downtimes, outages, or changes are through e-mail. Depending on circumstances, we will give as much advance notice as possible. The mailing lists for faculty/staff are populated by the departments. The distribution scope for MCECS students typically uses your enrollment status in the current or previous term. The DOWNTIMES [...]