Sat, 01 Feb 2014 12:32:38 +0200
During the Tuesday, February 4th maintenance window, maintenance work affecting a number of services will occur, starting at 5:30 PM:
- Firewall software updates: software on the firewalls which connect the Internet to the campus, SEALS and public networks will be updated. As the firewalls operate as a redundant pair, no noticeable outages are expected during this maintenance.
- Access switch software updates: the software on access switches in the following buildings will be updated. This will result in a network outage of approximately 5 to 10 minutes causing all network services (including IP telephones) to be unavailable.
- Main Library
- Campus Protection Unit
- Health Care Centre
- Africa Media Matrix
- RATT servers in Struben Data Centre
- All servers in Barratt Data Centre
- scifac.ru.ac.za
- The Greens (all buildings)
- Gavin Relly Postgrad Village (all buildings)
- Guy Butler House
- Centenary House
- Victoria Mxenge House
- Adelaide Tambo House and Annexe
- Ruth First House
- Server software updates: software on the servers which provide the following services will be updated, resulting in outages of approximately five minutes per server:
- DNS
- NTP
- DHCP
- Web proxy
- Incoming e-mail
- RU Single Sign-On service
- Registration system
- SMS
- RT
This maintenance work is being undertaken in the ITSC-approved scheduled maintenance window, and should be completed before midnight.
More information about maintenance windows and maintenance periods.