Network Engineering

Mailman successfully upgraded and here is a mail to show that it works!

During this coming Monday, July 21, 2008 between 0400-0600, work will be
done on the Eugene/Corvallis/Pittock portion of the optical ring. All
transport paths are covered with a redundant circuit and all traffic
will re-route during the maintenance window with minimal, if any,
traffic interruption.

This is expected to be the final maintenance window for the 10GigEther
upgrade project for the NERO Optical Backbone.

If you have any questions and/or concerns, please contact the NERO NOC at:

email: noc@nero.net
voice: 541.346.6376

Thanks,

David

Due to complications from software errors that occurred early last
Saturday morning, we are forced to shutdown/restart the Banner
Production database at 5:30 p.m. tonight (14-JUL-2008). Any jobs
running at that time will be terminated. We expect service to return by
5:45 p.m.

We apologize for the inconvenience this will cause to the campus
community.

OSU Enterprise Computing
Tom Hartsook
541-737-3158

We have resolved the routing issue affecting some websites. There is a bug (CSCea70203) with the IOS code running on the new border router that affects networks accessed via the default-network command. We have implemented a workaround.

Thank you,
Chris

Christopher Giem
Senior Network Engineer
Network Network Engineering Infrastructure
Oregon State University
Desk  541.737.9933
Pager 541.507.1173

From: Gaylon

Service(s) affected: So far we know of a few websites on campus that people off campus are having issues accessing.

We have got several phone call this morning about people not able to access OSU webpages. Our Engineers are looking into and hope to have it resolved soon.

Outage Window: n/a

Reason for outage:
n/a

Impact:

Departments affected: OSU hosted websites

Locations affected: Off campus access to OSU webpages

Applications affected: OSU hosted Webpages from off campus.

Network Outage Policy
http://oregonstate.edu/net/info/policy/outagepolicy.php

If you have questions or concerns about this outage, please contact Network Engineering at net (at) oregonstate.edu.

The CWS MySQL database server will be offline from 1:00am to 1:05am on Tuesday, July 15th 2008 to apply a security update.

Websites which do not rely upon database connectivity will be completely functional during this maintenance.

Drupal websites which use a database back end will default to serving up a local cached copy of their content during this 5 minute outage.

Websites which do rely upon database connectivity will experience an outage during this 5 minute window, where attempted queries will fail.

We apologize for the short notice of this upgrade.

Please let me know if you have any questions,

Matthew Peterson
Central Web Services

The border router upgrade was successful. The actually down time was
from 22:06:37 until 22:45:42.

Thank you,
Chris

NERO experienced an outage on our backbone link to the NERO Bend Hub
this morning, July 11, 2008, between 0058 and 0115. The backbone link
vendor is being contacted but no reason for the outage has been reported
as of yet. More information to follow as it becomes available.

If you have any questions and/or concerns, please contact the NERO NOC at:

email: noc@nero.net
voice: 541.346.6376

Thanks,

David

From: Ed Lim

Service(s) affected: Mailing list hosted on lists.oregonstate.edu

We will be upgrading mailman to a newer version on sunday (7/20/2008) to address a couple of bugs.

Outage Window: 7AM-Noon

Reason for outage:
Upgrading mailman to a newer version to address some bugs

Impact:

Departments affected: Any department that has mailing lists hosted on lists.oregonstate.edu

Locations affected: N/A

Applications affected: Mailman

Network Outage Policy
http://oregonstate.edu/net/info/policy/outagepolicy.php

If you have questions or concerns about this outage, please contact Network Engineering at net (at) oregonstate.edu.

Over the next two to three weeks, NERO will be upgrading the NERO
Optical Backbone equipment to provide for 10G wavelength support.

During this coming Monday, July 14, 2008 between 0300-0600, work will be
done on the Eugene/Salem/Pittock portion of the optical ring. All
transport paths are covered with a redundant circuit and all traffic
will re-route during the maintenance window with minimal, if any,
traffic interruption.

Additional notices will be sent regarding the specifics for the second,
and possibly a third, maintenance window for the remaining segments.

If you have any questions and/or concerns, please contact the NERO NOC at:

email: noc@nero.net
voice: 541.346.6376

Thanks,

David