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ITIM Daily Report for February 15, 2007

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The calendar view of scheduled changes is available at itim.tamu.edu/calendar

Changes Scheduled for the next seven days - changes are also documented at enhancement.tamu.edu

C1. Population of new fields in the "people" branch of LDAP over a 4 day period starting on February 17.
C2. Replacement of a network router for WERC - February 17.
C3. Maintenance on the cache batteries for the SAN array applications - February 18.

Departmental Changes (CIS resources) for next seven days -

No departmental changes scheduled between February 15 - 22.

Completed Changes -

CC1. Switch to backup CAS server to implement daylight savings time updates - February 15 - COMPLETED AS SCHEDULED.

Problems of Major Impact - significant problems are also documented at problem.tamu.edu

No problems reported.

Changes Scheduled for the next seven days:

C1. Starting at about midnight on Saturday, February 17, the Open Systems group is scheduled to begin populating several new fields in the people branch of the LDAP directory services application. On February 17, the following fields will be added and data subsequently added between February 17 and 21.

C2. On Saturday, February 17 starting at 7:00 a.m. network communication in the WERC will be disrupted to perform the replacement of a network router. The process is expected to take about 5 hours and should be completed by 12:00 (noon) on February 17. All network connections (except the WERC Open Access Lab) will experience a disruption in communication during the router replacement process.

C3. On Sunday, February 18, starting at 7:30 a.m., maintenance is scheduled to be performed on the batteries that support the cache for the SAN arrays that support the following customers: Evans Library, MLANS and Open Systems. The maintenance is expected to be complete by about 9:00 a.m.

Departmental Changes for the next seven days:

No departmental changes scheduled between February 15 - 22.

Completed Changes

CC1. At 12:10 p.m. on Thursday, February 15, the OpenSystems group performed a restart of the CAS services to implement the backup server that has the vendor mods for the daylight savings adjustments. The OpenSystems group then applied the updates to the previous production CAS server and performed a reboot on it. No disruption in service is was experienced. Customers likely had to resign-on to get a new CAS ticket.

Problems of Major Impact

No problems reported.

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