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2024/09/17 - Scheduled maintenance, 17 September
 

During the Tuesday, 17 September maintenance window, maintenance work will affect certain services, starting at 5:30 PM and being completed before midnight. The following work is planned:

  • Terminal Four: software on the server hosting Terminal Four will be updated. We expect an outage of an hour during which time it will not be possible to change content managed by Terminal Four (already published web pages will still be accessible).

  • Access switches: software will be updated on the network switches in the buildings listed below. All network services (including Wi-Fi and IP telephones) will be disrupted in those buildings. We expect the work will be completed in 30 minutes per building.

    • 26A, 70, 74 African St

    • 29, 33 South St

    • 3, 5, 6 Gilbert St

    • 5 Prince Alfred St

    • ABET Lab

    • Adamson Annexe

    • Allan Webb dining hall

    • Building Maintenance HQ

    • Catering and Housekeeping HQ

    • Chessington Flats

    • College House

    • Day Kaif

    • Drostdy Barracks (Linguistics and Applied Language Studies)

    • Facilities and Infrastructure Division offices

    • Founders dining hall

    • Furniture and Equipment Stores

    • Grounds and Gardens HQ

    • Health Care Centre

    • Health Suite

    • Institute for Nanotechnology Innovation

    • King Field clubhouse

    • Law Clinic

    • Maintenance Stores

    • New House annexes 1 and 4

    • Politics and International Studies Building

    • PSAM Building

    • Psychology Clinic

    • Salisbury House

    • Stables

    • Starling House

    • Swimming Pool office

    • The Hangar

    • The Retreat (Humanities Faculty offices)

  • Internet edge routers: the software on one of the two edge routers will be updated. No noticeable outage is expected as all network traffic should be handled by the other edge router.

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.

 


Terminal Four update has been completed successfully.

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