During the Tuesday, March 3rd maintenance window, maintenance work affecting a number of services will occur, starting at 5:30 PM and being completed before midnight. The following will occur:
  • Printing services: the servers which provide iPrint printing services will be unavailable for a period of up to an hour.
  • Access control: software on all smartcard access control systems will be updated. This will cause two periods of approximately five minutes in which doors will not unlock using the smartcard readers. The following buildings will be affected:
    • Africa Media Matrix
    • Bangor House
    • Biko Building
    • Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Building
    • CSD
    • Eden Grove
    • Education (new building)
    • ELRC
    • Geography Building
    • Hamilton Building
    • Health Suite
    • Library
    • New Arts Building
    • Physics Building
    • Struben Building
    • Theatre Building

    Note that the fingerprint access control system will not be affected by this maintenance.
  • Server software updates: software on the servers which provide the following services will be updated, resulting in outages of up to 20 minutes per server:
    • DNS
    • DHCP
    • NTP
    • RT
    • Web proxies
    • Registration system
    • Incoming e-mail
    • Outgoing e-mail
    • E-mail mailboxes
    • Webmail
    • Mailing lists
    • SMS
    • Apple Software Update Server
    • Provisioning (web proxy autodiscovery, telephone provisioning)
    • Wi-Fi and VPN authentication
    • CHERTL Evaluation Assistant
    • Network graphs
    • Guest network access
    • Network monitoring
    • RU Single Sign-on
    • Terminal Four content management system
    • VPN access
This maintenance work is being undertaken in the ITSC-approved scheduled maintenance window. More information about maintenance windows and maintenance periods.