Systems Status

00:00 - 02:00
Network Engineering will be revising the UGA campus DNS server configurations to no longer resolve RFC1918 IP Addresses to the public.

Impact On End Users
Internal DNS resolution should remain unaffected, however, there is the possibility that DNS service to some users could be disrupted.

Actions Being Taken
EITS Network Engineering staff will alter the configuration of the UGA campus DNS servers to no longer resolve RFC1918 IP Addresses to the public.

Estimated Resolution Time
2 hours

02:30 - 04:30
Code on border firewalls along with the datacenter cluster ones needs to be upgraded.

Impact On End Users
(1) When Boyd border firewall goes down, there will be about a 2 minutes internet connectivity outage. (2) Any already established sessions will need to be re-established on Peabody border firewall (3) When Boyd border firewall comes back up, all sessions that were established on Peabody border firewall will need to be restablished on Boyd's. (4) When datacenter firewall cluster is rebooted, there may be up to a 10 minute connectivity outage.

Actions Being Taken
2:30: Reboot Peabody border firewall 3:00: Reboor Boyd border firewall 3:30: Reboot Boyd datacenter firewall 3:32: Reboot Peabody datacenter firewall

Estimated Resolution Time
4:00

00:30 - 04:00
Patches are being applied to the operating system for maintenance reasons.

Impact On End Users
Applications which may be unavailable, or limited in function, during this maintenance include IMS systems accessed with Hummingbird as well as many web based applications that connect to the mainframe. Other mainframe services include, but not limited to, TSO, IMS, DB2, OASIS, tape/print services, and MVS batch.

Actions Being Taken
A backup of the operating system will be made. Once completed, patches will be applied to the OS. Once completed, a reload of the mainframe is necessary for the patches to work.

Estimated Resolution Time
Downtime will start at 12:30 am and should be done before 4:00 am