Division of Information Technology (DoIT)
Institutional Group • 992 people
0

Server downtime on October 26th from 8:00am to 12:00 noon

DoIT will be moving several servers to a different location within our data center to provide them with better cooling and to utilize our space and power more efficiently. In order to accomplish this we will need to have short outages on several key systems. Individual services listed below should only be down for around 30-45 minutes each. All the outages will occur within the window listed below. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and we appreciate your patience as we


Sunday October 26th, 8am to Noon

  • Access to Cyrus and UMBC Webmail (accounts not migrated to UMBC Gmail)

    • All mail will be queued up and delivered after the server is brought back online

  • myUMBC lite page will be up resulting in reduced myUMBC functionality

  • The new web hosting environment will be partially down (pages will be available but any database calls will not work)

  • Student mySQL databases will be offline

  • Userpages will be unavailable

  • Wiki will be unavailable

  • License5 will be down (autodesk, cadence, idl, schrodinger, xilinx, mathematica)

  • Perseus will be unavailable

  • Lists will be unavailable

  • Webadmin will be unavailable



There will be no data loss during the outage and no user action is required prior to the downtime. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Technology Support Center at x53838.