Monthly Archives: February 2009

Maintenance update Feb 26, 2009

Project Name: NAS reboot
Priority: First
Project Participants: Damian Silvera, Richard Henderson
Projected Downtime: 60-240 minutes per NAS
Server(s) Affected: nas-04, nas-05, nas-02
Service(s) Affected: file services / network shares
Objective: maint and scanning, etc

status: Successful

Project Name: Exchange connector redirect
Priority: Second
Project Participants: Wil Montero, David Piniella
Projected Downtime: 5 minutes for reboot of exchange boxes
Server(s) Affected: exchange-0*, exchvs, exblce-01, exblce-02
Service(s) Affected: outbound mail
Objective: relay outbound mail through mail gateway

status: Successful

Scheduled Maintenance Feb 19, 2009

Project Name: DNS server updates
Priority: First
Project Participants: David Piniella
Projected Downtime: 1hour
Server(s) Affected: DNS-01
Service(s) Affected: DNS services from dns-01.law.miami.edu; dns-02, dns-03 will handle DNS services for the Law School networks but queries directly to DNS-01 may be intermittently affected.
Objective: keep software updated/security updates

status: Successful

Project Name: MySQL replication
Priority: Second
Project Participants: David Piniella
Projected Downtime: 1hour
Server(s) Affected: mysql-01, mysql-02
Service(s) Affected: Services using mysql-01 as their DB host (currently video devices only)
Objective: setup automatic replication from mysql-01 to mysql-02.

status:unsuccessful

Scheduled Maintenance Feb 12, 2009

Project Name: wiki update
Priority: First
Project Participants: David Piniella
Projected Downtime: 30-45 min total (~15 min per wiki)
Server(s) Affected: wiki.law.miami.edu
Service(s) Affected: n/a
Objective:security update for mediawiki software
status: failed but mitigated; XSS vulnerability requires live installer on server, which we do not have.

Project Name: linux server updates
Priority: Second
Project Participants: David Piniella
Projected Downtime: 1hour
Server(s) Affected: web-01, dns-01, dhcp-01
Service(s) Affected: none, other servers will assume functions while these are updating. www, dns and dhcp servers as above affected.
Objective:keep software updated/security updates
status: successful.

Project Name: blog update / mysql cluster test
Priority: Third
Project Participants: David Piniella
Projected Downtime: 45 min total
Server(s) Affected: blog.law.miami.edu
Service(s) Affected: n/a (test blog)
Objective: move test blog DB to mysql cluster
status: failed; evaluating reason for failure

Project Name: Attach Enterprise Vault server to SAN
Priority: First
Project Participants: Wil Montero, Richard Henderson
Projected Downtime: 2-3 Hours
Server(s) Affected: KVS-01 and Exchange-01
Service(s) Affected: Archived mail and student email on Exchange-01.
Objective: Expand storage capacity for archived mail.
status: successful