During the Tuesday, 22 August maintenance window, maintenance work will affect certain services, starting at 5:30 PM and being completed before midnight. The following work is planned:
Distribution routers: the routers serving all buildings in the area listed below will be replaced with newer models. All network services (including Wi-Fi and IP telephones) will be disrupted in this area for an expected outage of less than 15 minutes. In the event of unforeseen problems, it may take up to two hours to revert to the previous routers.
Hill campus: all buildings which are on the south side of Prince Alfred St, from New House and further to the west.
Storage systems: software on storage switches will be updated. No noticeable outage is expected, though an unexpected failure during the upgrade would cause an outage affecting almost all services. This work was previously planned for 15 August, but had to be deferred.
This work is being conducted during a minor maintenance period. Should there be a compelling reason why this work should not go ahead as planned, please contact support@ru.ac.za before 3:00 PM on Tuesday.