As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday, March 16th and Saturday, March 17th. While many of the systems will be patched without any service disruption, there are some systems which require the downtime of key services. The schedule below outlines which key services will be offline and for how long.
Friday, 3/16/2018 between 5pm and 8pm (most systems will only be down for a short period during this time):
Saturday, 3/17/2018 between 10am and Noon(most systems will only be down for a short period during this time):
Please let us know if you have any concerns or questions.
Thanks!
Tim Champ
Manager of Unix Infrastructure
UMBC DoIT
]]>On Thursday, March 15th starting at 2pm LDAP-Master and Webadmin will be taken down for system maintenance. During this time account creations and password changes will be unavailable. Account authentication and logins will not be affected during this downtime.
The maintenance window will allow staff to apply needed security and application updates. The outage window is expected to last two hours with services being restored by 4pm on Thursday, March 15th.
During the outage window account creations will be queued and then processed upon restoration of services. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our Technology Support Center at x53838.
]]>Congratulations to DoIT Assistant Vice President Joe Kirby, who has been selected to receive the 2018 Presidential Distinguished Staff Award. Along with other recipients and their families, Joe will be honored at the Presidential Faculty and Staff Awards celebration on Wednesday, April 4, at noon in the UC Ballroom. The award also includes a one-time, $2,500 addition to pay.
“I am truly honored to be recognized and grateful for the opportunity to work at UMBC,” says Kirby, who was also recognized for 30 years of service to the campus in 2016.
Kirby is now the third DoIT staff member to receive the Presidential Distinguished Staff Award, following Kevin Joseph, Director of Business Intelligence in 2014, and Vice President of IT and Chief Information Officer (CIO) Jack Suess in 2004.
“Over Joe’s career, he has made many significant contributions to UMBC and DoIT,” said Suess in his nomination letter for Kirby. Among other things, Suess credited Kirby for leading DoIT’s efforts to prepare the campus for the potential ramifications of a Year 2000 (Y2K) “bug,” moving UMBC away from using Social Security Numbers (SSN) as a unique identifier in our IT systems, and evangelizing the use of Request Tracker (RT) as a way to improve campus (not just DoIT) support.
“Joe is a leader who works with many staff behind the scenes to help them use technology to provide better service and support to our UMBC community,” says Suess. “I'm thrilled the campus has recognized Joe's contributions to UMBC through this award!”
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