OIT has announced that they will be performing Emergency System Maintenance from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM, Tuesday, January 6, 2009. Details are provided below:

-----Original Message-----
From: System Operator [mailto:operator@fantasy.oit.gatech.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 5:11 PM
To: oit-availability@lists.gatech.edu
Subject: Emergency System Maintenance due to network issues earlier today(01/06/09)

SUBJECT

Emergency SystemMaintenance due to network issues earlier today (1/6)

MAINTENANCE WINDOW

Tuesday(01/06/09) from 18:00 until 21:00

WHAT IS HAPPENING?

Due to a networkproblem that happened around 1:00 pm this afternoon,

many campusservices were unavailable, or sporadically unavailable,

until about2:15pm. Since then, services areavailable, but some are

in degradedmode. This maintenance window is torestore those services

to completefunctionality.

WHO IS AFFECTED?

The followingservices will potentially be impacted, but where possible

OIT will dorolling restarts so that multi-homed services (such as

webauth)

should still beavailable:

Webauth (used forauthentication for MyGatech, T-square, and other web

services)

Campus directoryservices

Passport

Pharos PrintingServices (Cluster Pay-for-Print)

OIT Windows FileServer

OIT Website

CoE Matrix VLAB

EFFECT(S) OF DOWNTIME:

Due to themulti-homed nature of most services, only a few should be

impacted

(such as the OITwebsite).

ACTIVITIES NECESSARY AFTER DOWNTIME:

None should benecessary.

QUESTIONS?

If you havequestions after the maintenance is

complete, pleasecontact the OIT Network Operations

Center at404-894-4669