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May 18 brief computing services outage (5/6/08)

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May 18 computing services outage (posted 5/6/08)

For 15 minutes, 7-7:15 a.m., on Sunday, May 18, many central computing services will be unavailable.

Affected services include e-mail, the Cornell University web site (www.cornell.edu), Cornell University Library online services, CUinfo, Blackboard, the Electronic Directory, Cornell mailing lists, PeopleSoft, and many others.

Please see the complete list.

In addition, 8 buildings will not have access to the Internet or the campus networks during this 15-minute outage: 301 and 312 College Avenue; Duffield Hall; Rhodes Hall, Phillips Hall - Submicron Complex; Schuyler House; Seneca Place; and Upson Hall.

This brief outage is necessary so that Cornell Information Technologies can upgrade router software.

During the outage, concerns or questions can be directed to 255-9900, and the status of the outage can be checked online.

Computing services unavailable for 15 minutes during May 18 shutdown
(7:00-7:15 a.m.)

This list represents many, but not necessarily, all of the services that will be affected.

• E-mail services, including Eudora, Thunderbird, WebMail, and
uPortal.Cornell E-mail (all mail will be delivered when outage is over)
• eList (Cornell's mailing lists)

• Directory services (including Electronic Directory, LDAP, and Who I Am)

• Cornell University web site (www.cornell.edu)
• CUinfo (www.cuinfo.cornell.edu)
• Blackboard
• Cornell University Library online services
• Course sites hosted on Instruct1
• Course Technologies web hosting
• Faculty Support Services discussion boards
• HeinOnline law journals (heinonline.org)
• Instruct3/Research accounts and web sites
• Instructional streaming audio/video service
• Law School services on LAW1 server

• Computing at Cornell web site (www.cit.cornell.edu)
• Cornell events calendar
• CU People web pages
• CyberTower (cybertower.cornell.edu)
• EZ-Backup
• Lab of Ornithology web wite (www.birds.cornell.edu)
• Net-Print (printing in labs, public spaces)
• NUBB (Network Usage-Based Billing)
• Oracle Calendar

• PeopleSoft
• Human Resources and Facilities web services
• Many administrative systems [COLTS II and Kronos, Conflict of Interest, CoursEnroll, Faculty Advisor, Grad School systems (Field Reports, RUR, SCSC), Joint Records Processing, Just the Facts, PEDL (Position and Employee Data Lookup), Registrar Transcripts, SES (Student Employment System), SJP (Student Job Postings), SPD (Staff Position Description), WTL (Warning and Termination Letters)]

• Active Directory
• ARTS imaging
• CATS (Asset Transfer System)
• CIT FTP server
• CITFS
• CornellC mainframe
• EZ-Print
• EZRA (Easy Research Administration)
• GuestID self-service
• Identity Management Developers web site
• Identity Management Request Tracker
• KEW HR Data Access
• kProxy
• NetID Administrator
• NetID Manager (activation, password reset)
• Pinnacle billing
• Policy Acknowledgment Architecture
• Request Tracker (RT)
• ResNet registration server
• Remedy
• Shibboleth
• SourceForge
• SSL certificate service
• UseNet
• Vantive
• VPN