ITIM Daily Report for February 16, 2007
Table of Contents
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. Update to the Access control lists (ACLs) for LDAP - Saturday,
February 17.
C3. Replacement of a network router for WERC - February 17.
C4. Reboot of itim-feeds.tamu.edu to apply a maintenance update -
February 18.
C5. Application of daylight savings time patches to the Unix shell
server - oldschool.tamu.edu - February 18.
C6. 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 16 - 23.
Completed Changes -
No changes completed between 5:00 p.m. on February 15 and 5:00 p.m. on
February 16.
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.
eduPersonPrincipalName
eduPersonAffiliation
eduPersonPrimaryAffiliation
eduPersonScopedAffiliation
tamuEduPersonAffiliation
tamuEduPersonScopedAffiliation
C2. Starting at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, February 17, the OpenSystems
group is scheduled to update the Access Control Lists (ACLs) for the
campus LDAP servers. The process is expected to take about 1 hour and
should be completed by 8:30 a.m. The updates are required to remove the
ACLs no longer being used.
Intermittent interruptions could be experienced for the LDAP
authentication services during the maintenance period. Customers could
also experience a brief period when edits to Directory Services entries
will be unavailable.
C3. 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. The
maintenance is scheduled to be performed by the CIS Network group.
C4. On Sunday, February 18, at 7:00 a.m., a reboot of the
itim-feeds tamu.edu system is scheduled to be performed. The itim-feeds
system supports the Student Security Awareness Training application. The
reboot is required to apply a maintenance update and is scheduled to be
completed by 7:05 a.m.
C5. On Sunday, February 18, starting at 7:00 a.m., the OpenSystems is
scheduled to apply maintenance to the Unix shell server
(oldschool.tamu.edu). The process is scheduled to take a maximum of
about 3 hours and should be completed by 10:00 a.m. The maintenance
involves the application of the vendor patches for daylight savings
time.
C6 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. The maintenance will be performed by the OpenSystems
group.
Departmental Changes for the next seven days:
No departmental changes scheduled between February 15 - 22.
Completed Changes
No changes completed between 5:00 p.m. on February 15 and 5:00 p.m. on
February 16.
Problems of Major Impact
No problems reported.
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