University Systems service status
University Systems makes every effort to inform the university community of any issues affecting the services that we offer. Messages regarding planned maintenance or unexpected outages of our services are shown below.
Select one of the options below to stay informed:
COMPLETE: OnlineAcademicCommunity update (WITH outage)
Posted on April 23, 2014 at 12:48:43 pm by markv@uvic.ca
Effective date: April 24, 2014 at 07:30:00 am(9 hours ago)
Effective 9 hours ago: COMPLETE: We will be updating https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca 2014Apr24 at 0730. It will be offline for up to 15 minutes, followed by cosmetic changes to the OAC home (main site) throughout the day.
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University Systems
Network Equipment Upgrade - Service Affecting for ALL Research Connectivity
Posted on April 24, 2014 at 09:44:58 am by ysavard@uvic.ca
Effective date: May 10, 2014 at 09:00:00 am(15 days from now)
Effective 15 days from now: Network Equipment Upgrade - Service Affecting for ALL Research Connectivity
Maintenance Window
Start: Saturday May 10, 2014 09:00
End: Saturday May 10, 2014 17:00
Downtime and Degraded Service During the Maintenance
Up to 5 hours of downtime for most campus research connectivity (including lightpaths from CANARIE, dedicated VLANs from BCNET and access to and from all research sites outside of British Columbia) is expected during the maintenance window.
Access to TRIUMF and universities within BC will be degraded.
Upgrade Details
CANARIE 100 Gigabit Core Network Upgrade - BCNET VICTX Upgrade
CANARIE, the national research network provider is upgrading their optical multiplexing equipment located at the BCNET Victoria Transit Exchange (VICTX) on May 10th. A completely new chassis will need to be installed in order to upgrade the network to 100GE technology.
Communication
NETS will be contacting and communicating with the affected research groups directly in order to provide more details in advance. We will also notify research groups and update this informed once the maintenance is completed on May 10th.
Commodity Internet Access
This upgrade will have no effect on commodity internet access. Some research sites usually reached over the dedicated research network may be available over the commodity internet during the maintenance window.
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Network Services
Enhanced Virus Checking on Inbound Email Servers
Posted on April 24, 2014 at 01:55:41 pm by wparr@uvic.ca
Effective date: April 24, 2014 at 04:00:00 pm(57 minutes ago)
Effective 57 minutes ago: 16:30 - Successful implementation
Will apply additional virus/spam/phishing detection on the inbound edge sendmail servers.
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If you require assistance, please contact the Computer Help Desk at:
helpdesk@uvic.ca
(250) 721-7687
http://helpdesk.uvic.ca
Clearihue A004
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William Parr
DCS
Scheduled Server Maintenance: remote.uvic.ca
Posted on April 24, 2014 at 04:01:05 pm by bheth@uvic.ca
Effective date: April 24, 2014 at 07:00:00 pm(2 hours from now)
Effective 2 hours from now: Required system updates will be applied to two of the three farm 'remote.uvic.ca' Windows Terminal Servers beginning at 19:00 PDT, Thursday, April 24, 2014:
- MOUSE
- WOLF
The services and client groups affected by the system updates include:
- remote.uvic.ca, Windows Terminal Services users
Active users of the two servers will be notified with an in-session message 15 minutes prior to being logged out. Disconnected, logged out, or new connections to 'remote.uvic.ca' will be directed to the third server 'moose' which has already been updated and is not affected by this maintenance.
Regular service will resume by 21:00 PDT.
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If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail sysadmin@uvic.ca.
Thank you,
Data Centre Services
UVic Systems