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Activity ID: 2629

Activity type

EMERGENCY ACTIVITY/OUTAGE:

Subject

OIT VMWare Farm - Multiple Services

Short description

Shutdown virtual systems for specific services, to reboot VMWare host.

Scope

Following services will be affected during this activity:

Shibboleth Authentication services

SecureID services

Roxen Web services UAF

Roxen Update (Edit) services UAF

Communigate Email services (SW email and groups)

SendMail email services

File Services (various file servers UAF and SW)

Google Apps @ UA (no new logins, current logins should be unaffected)

Banner Tuition Management Systems (TEST & PREP)

Status 1

Emergency Maintenance

Start day

Tuesday, 2-21-2012

Time:

05:00 pm

Recovery day

Tuesday, 2-21-2012

Time:

08:00 pm

Duration

Three hours with contingency time, actual service outages may be of a shorter duration.

Description

Shutdown of various servers hosting applications and rebooting the VMWare Host server to clear anomalies. Restart of hosts and validation that anomalies have been cleared.

Comments

Work performed by members of OIT ITS Technical Services and OIT Windows Server Administration departments.

Resolution

Shutdown servers hosting applications; reboot VMWare host servers. Restart servers hosting applications. Validate anomalies have been cleared.

Affected customers

Users of the services listed above.

Some services depend on the services listed above. A few of those include:

UAlaska login

UAF Library off campus login

UAF Websites

Authorized by

Ricky King OIT Windows Server Administration Manager