Present : William Dougherty-chair and scribe; Lylah Shelor-Facilities; Richard Quintin-DBAA; Joyce Landreth-UCS; Mary Dunker-SETI; Barry Linkous-CNS; Bill deWindt-Learning Technologies; Kimberley Homer-SETI; Brian Jones-CNS; Karen Herrington-IMS; Susan Brooker-Gross-IT Management; Randy Marchany-ITSO.

Facilities: Just a reminder that we will run a test on both data center generators on Sunday, February 19th, starting at 8am. The load transfer should be complete in 45 minutes or less.

Mike Moyer added in information about the eventual (yet to be scheduled) work to power on the new (third) electrical power feed. Although the work *should not* affect existing power, there is always a chance of some interruption. A date that will provide the least chance for disruption. Other work to tie-in shunt trip to the repo system will require a shutdown of some research equipment (HokieSpeed and SGI UV system). Mike will continue to gather info from the electricians to ensure work is staged correctly.

The group will start thinking about a date that might be less "offensive" and we will discuss this next meeting.

Discussion on how to post information re: planned (and unplanned) outages to a) one another, b) other IT reps, and c) our users. Mary is concerned that the IT Critical Dates calendar is not being used fully, although it is in more use than previously. What are our requirements? Can the wiki play a role?

Joyce shared that an upcoming change in the computing.vt.edu web site will provide a better status update for this type of thing.

Mary mentioned that Erv is in support of a hiring an intern to develop requirements and then perhaps determine if an app could be written (or found, open sourced or commercial) to provide the functionality that we need. Many questions evolved from this issue, but there is general support for the effort.

DBAA work scheduled for March:

  • 06:00Production databases unavailable on Sunday, March 4th https://apps.es.vt.edu/ons/event/edit/1047?date=2012-03-04
    • The following production databases will be unavailable on March 04, 2012 from 06:00 AM to 12:00 PM: VPRD RPRD LTPROD WPRD CMS GPRD During this time these databases will be upgraded to Oracle 11.2.0.3. Please note that Banner (PROD) and Vtfbanner (FPRD) will also be unavailable during this time, however, they will require a longer outage due to Banner installs. Therefore a separate notice will go out for those 2 databases. ### BEGIN VTMON ### or-prod-1/VPRD Database or-prod-1/RPRD Database or-prod-1/LTPROD Database whprod/WPRD Database rhythmyx/CMS Database gis-prod/GPRD Database ### END VTMON ###
  • 06:00Banner Production databases unavailable Sunday morning, March 4 https://apps.es.vt.edu/ons/event/edit/993?date=2012-03-04
    • The following PRODUCTION databases will be unavailable on Sunday, March 4, 2012 from 06:00 AM to 04:00 PM: PROD FPRD During this time these databases will be upgraded to Oracle 11.2.0.3. Also all Cobol, C, and SQR programs will be recompiled. The following Banner releases and patches will also be applied: General 8.5 Advancement 8.4.2 Posnctl 8.6 p1-1088asv_pos8060001 p1-11ejyqv_pos8060002 Payroll 8.6 p1-uajh03_pay8060001 p1-ryhxxt_pay8060103 p1-10x6mz9_pay8060101 Web Tailor 8.5 General Web 8.5 Employee Self-Service 8.6 p1-sulcx3_bwp8060001 p1-ujp1hp_bwp8060102 p1-10x7gez_bwp8060101 Alumni Self-Service 8.5.2 ### BEGIN VTMON ### banner/PROD Database or-prod-1/FPRD Database ### END VTMON ###
  • Also of note, Banner will be put behind CAS on Tuesday March 6, 2012.