System maintenance will be performed from 10 p.m. this Saturday, July 31 until 8 a.m. Sunday, August 1 in order to complete electrical upgrades to the Cook Data Center. Details are as follows:
10 p.m. – Peoplesoft and Blackboard will become unavailable.
12 midnight – The entire Cook Data Center will be without power resulting in all network and computing services to the campus being unavailable. See partial list below.
8 a.m. – Target completion time, at which point all services will be restored to campus.
Services that will be offline:
All network and computing systems hosted from the Cook Data Center will be unavailable, including but not limited to the following:
? Faculty/staff e-mail
? Student e-mail
? Peoplesoft Campus Solutions and Financials
? Blackboard
? Campus website
? Inside.towson.edu
? Network connectivity to buildings
? Access to the Internet from campus
? Access to Towson services from the Internet
? All hosted systems in the Cook Data Center
When maintenance is complete, a post will be made to the OTS alerts website, {http://alerts.towson.edu}. (Keep in mind that due to the nature of the maintenance, this website will not be available during the maintenance).
As a reminder, the Office of Technology Services? maintenance window is every Sunday from 6 a.m. to noon. Because of the scope of this project, an alternate maintenance window was chosen to limit the impact to campus. Faculty and users are advised to keep this maintenance window in mind when planning events, assignments and deadlines.
If you have any questions about the outage, please contact the OTS Operations Center at 410-704-2438.
