During the Tuesday, 22 October maintenance window, maintenance work will affect certain services, starting at 5:30 PM and being completed before midnight. The following work is planned:
Sage 300 People: software on the server providing this service (including employee self service functions such as leave requests) will be upgraded. It is expected to be unavailable for at least an hour.
Hosted journals: software on the Open Journal Systems server will be updated. We expect that the server will unavailable for an hour.
VPN service: software on the router which provides VPN services will be updated. An outage of ten minutes is expected.
Wireless links: software on point-to-point wireless link devices will be updated. This will cause internet outages of up to 20 minutes in the following buildings:
Mandalay-off-High
One on Luke, Three on Luke
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.