In attendance: William Dougherty, NI&S-chair and scribe; Mike Hodge-VTOC; Karen Herrington-IMS; Bill Dooley-DBAA; Mike Moyer-NI&S; Bill deWindt-LT; Kimberley Homer-SETI; Susan Brooker-Gross-IT Administration.
CNS-Brian Jones: Network Engineering will be continuing the network refresh project and announcements will be going out to the VT-DNET list of network liaisons as usual to announce these. Letters to members of the departments will be going out regarding their ability to convert to Gigabit to the desktop as a result of this refresh.
DBAA/Enterprise Systems-Bill Dooley:
Effective today, forms are being redirected to new Web Logic server. Redirection is setup, but a Java update may be necessary for some users to take advantage of the new system.
Enterprise Systems has the following maintenance scheduled for Sunday, July 24:
- The joker server will be rebooted between the hours of 6am - 7am.
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*The following production databases on Joker will be unavailable on
Sunday, 24 July 2011 from 6:00 AM to 7:00 AM:
vatech
The following production web applications will also be unavailable
during this maintenance:
Budget Tuition
Automated Application Promotion (AAP)
Automated Request Processing (ARP)
Harvest repository
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- The Robin server will be rebooted between the hours of 6am - 7am in preparation for drop/add opening on August 6. Immediately following the reboot; software for the Banner Document Management System will be upgraded between the hours of 7am - 4pm. This requires and outage of the Banner production database.
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*Due to maintenance the following databases will not be available 6:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Sunday, 24 July 2011:
banner
vtfbanner
The following production web applications will also be unavailable
during this maintenance:
AIS Application Promotion (AAP)
Automated Request Process (ARP)
Internet Native Banner
IMS Password Change Application
Leave Entry And Reporting System
Make A Gift Today (University Development)
Self-Service Banner (Hokie Spa, Hokie Plus, Hokie Team)
Timetable Of Classes
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Chair has posted this date and info on the IT Critical Dates calendar.
Facilities-Lylah Shelor: Sunday, July 20th, issues; Load transfers caused an oil pressure problem so a new gauge will be installed tomorrow on the 600KVA unit. A different issue occurred on the 1000KVA generator; battery capacitors will be replaced as soon as they are received. No real issue as load was accepted.
UCS/VTOC-Mike Hodge: Load due to password expiration is slowly starting to abate. 1000 calls was the high watermark on 7/6/11. Levels outstripped a fall rush period. Volunteers will be solicited for this activity in the future, and trained in advance. This training can be leveraged for fall rush as well. Statistics will be supplied.
*Learning Technologies-Bill deWindt:*The July branch of Scholar (new code) will be rolled out this Saturday. Only visible change is the disclaimer about acceptable use at login.
Data Center-Mike Moyer: Has to replace the IMAP cert. Due to recent issues with cert generation, he will be careful.
SETI-Kimberley Homer: August 28th EJBCA will be updated (this issues certs).