In attendance: William Dougherty, NI&S-scribe and chair; Kimberley Homer-NI&S QA; Richard Quintin-DBAA; Jeff Kidd-CNS PR; Tim Rhodes-NI&S UAS; Steve Cox-CCS; Lucas Sullivan-UCS; Laurie Zirkle-NI&S App Admin.; Brian Long-SETI; Brad Tilley-ITSO (via telephone); Brian Jones-CNS; Bill deWindt-TLOS; Greg Kroll-IT Project Management Team; Richard Hach-NI&S; Chris Shively-CCS Manager. 

 

  • Further discussion and review of Change Advisory Board; Greg Kroll in attendance.  

 

In process or already completed: 

2-factor authentication enabled: 

major Enterprise Systems applications starting at 8pm on January 8, and by Scholar and Canvas on January 9. Details are at www.it.vt.edu/2factor

 

Scholar maintenance

Sat, January 8, 5am – 8am

 

TSM server canoe.cc.vt.edu down Sunday

Sun, January 10, 8am – 5pm

 

SETI Maintenance Window: UAS Maintenance of Middleware Java servers in Production

Mon, January 11, 5am – 7am; portion of maintenance performed; four LB servers still to be done. 

 

Wireless network maintenance in multiple buildings

Tue, January 12, 5am – 7am

 

Network maintenance in Lavery Hall

Tue, January 12, 6:00am – 6:30am

 

Computing.vt.edu

For those who log in to do edits -- (such as IT Status or make changes) will go behind 2FA, January 12, 8am.  


DNS machine maintenance

Wed, January 13, 6:30am – 7:30am

 

Central Services Maintenance

Sat, January 16, 5am – noon, but likely only take a couple of hours; included AD and Exchange

 

LDI (HokieMart) Production down for Maintenance January 17, 2016

Sun, January 17, 6am – 10am; going behind new F5 LBs

 

Test databases banner_preprod and vtfbanner_preprod unavailable Monday

Mon, January 18, 6am – 12pm; regular monthly meeting

 

WPPR data warehouse test database maintenance

Mon, January 18, 8am – 2pm; regular monthly refresh

 

 

NI&S App Admin: 

We are tentatively scheduling the physical replacement of yardbird.cns.vt.edu (DNS machine located in ISB) for Wednesday, January 13 around 0630.  Unavailability should be only as long as it takes the old machine to shut down and the new machine to boot, which is about the same amount of time as a reboot after patching.

The ICIC application (icic.copyright.vt.edu) is scheduled to be moved from the old load-balancers to the new F5 load-balancers on Friday, January 15, around 0630.

im.cc.vt.edu (IM service) project.cns.vt.edu, and wiki.cns.vt.edu will be patched and rebooted around 0630 on Thursday, January 14.  Downtime should not be long.

Sometime between now and Spring Break VT Alerts is planned to be moved behind LBs. May have to wait 'til Spring Break, but OEM will help set schedule. 

 

TLOS: 

There should be no more activity on Scholar until sunset in 2017 unless an emergency arises.

Echo360 is being upgraded in preprod; Once completed a brief interruption to take to production. 

 

Data Center: 

Will need to schedule a generator load in February to stay on the quarterly schedule; but it will just be the generator - no UPS maintenance - and should be "no big deal".

 

DBAA:

March 6th annual Banner upgrade is scheduled. More later.