During the Tuesday, 5 October maintenance window, maintenance work affecting a number of services will occur, starting at 5:30 PM and being completed before midnight. The following work is planned:
Switch software updates: software on the access switches in the following buildings will be updated. Within each building, all network services (including IP telephones and Wi-Fi access) will be unavailable for a period that's expected to be around 20 minutes.
Adelaide Tambo House and Annexe
Botha House
Canterbury House
Cory House
Dingemans House
Fine Art Annexe
Founders Lodge
Gavin Relly Postgraduate Village
Hobson House
John Kotze House
Lilian Britten House
Matthews House
Milner House
Old Laundry, Gilbert St
Phelps House
Salisbury House
Truro House
Waainek Tick Research Site
Winchester House
PaperCut software update: the PaperCut print accounting software will be upgraded. It is expected that printing to network-connected printers will be unavailable for around an hour.
Server software updates: software on the servers which provide the following services will be updated, resulting in outages of up to 15 minutes per server:
DNS
DHCP
NTP
RT
Web proxies
Registration system
Incoming e-mail
Outgoing e-mail
IMAP e-mail mailboxes
Webmail
Mailing lists
SMS
Provisioning (web proxy autodiscovery)
Wi-Fi and VPN authentication
CHERTL Evaluation Assistant
Network graphs
Network monitoring
Terminal Four content management system
RU Single Sign-On system
Main web server (www.ru.ac.za, etc)
University administration and meal booking systems
SEALS Library consortium services
Network printing services (iPrint/PaperCut)
File servers/home directories (gnu, serval)
While we try to publish a list of all service-affecting work here in advance, the list should not be considered exhaustive and other low impact work may also be undertaken during the maintenance window.
This maintenance work is being undertaken in the ITSC-approved scheduled maintenance window.