DoIT will be performing a variety of important maintenance procedures on the campus infrastructure on Sunday, Jan. 6 and then again on Sunday, Jan 13. Campus should not plan on having access to the affected systems during their specific outage windows.

JANUARY 6, 2008 MAINTENANCE:
Network Infrastructure: Midnight – 8 a.m.
Storage Infrastructure: 5:30 a.m. – noon

This maintenance will specifically impact:

• WiscCal, MyUW and WiscMail/WiscMail Plus web interface (although you should still be able to access your email through Eudora, Thunderbird, Treo (VersaMail), Apple Mail during this time frame)
• Cypress
• D2L Testing
• DoIT CBS
• DoIT LAN
• NWServices (Admissions Email, Dermatology File Sharing)
• Fastar
• MyWebspace
• VMWare (and attendant virtual hosts)
• Web Hosting

Database Infrastructure: 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.

This maintenance will specifically impact the Oracle database UWP1, affecting:

• CHRIS (Classified Human Resources Info Systems)
• DARS
• DoIT Tech Store
• DoIT Web Site
• ISIS central communication Web site
• NetID activation/modification/deactivation
• PVL system
• Wisconsin Union Event Calendar
• WebDAS
• Various departmental web applications and resources including the CALS ARS content management system
• For a full list of affected UWP1 services, see: http://kb.doit.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=840.

JANUARY 13, 2008 MAINTENANCE:
Server infrastructure: 6 – 11 a.m.
My UW-Madison: 6 – 11 a.m.

Please contact Charlene Krembs if you have any questions.

Charlene Krembs
Director, CALS Administrative Computing Services
(608) 262-6108
ckrembs@cals.wisc.edu

The full article about the maintenance outage can be found on the DoIT website at: https://www.doit.wisc.edu/news/story.asp?filename=944