Winter Break Network Service Interruptions

Winter Break Network Service Interruptions

The message below was originally sent to all Haverford community members on Thursday, December 18th at approximately 4:00 PM.

To: All Haverford Community Members
From: Networking & Systems via Sgray
Subject: Winter Break Network Service Interruptions
Impact Summary: Networking, Storage, and Webpublish Interruptions

Network Service Interruption Affecting Founders
Tuesday, January 6th from 6:00 AM to 7:00 AM (Winter Break)
From 6:00 AM to 7:00 AM on Tuesday the 6th, the Founders will experience several brief interruptions in network service while we replace fan modules in building networking hardware.  Each location or jack should only experience two 10 minute outages.

Network Service Interruption Affecting 710 College Ave.
Tuesday, January 6th from 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM (Winter Break)
From 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM on Tuesday the 6th, the 710 College Avenue will experience a brief interruption in network service while we replace a fan module in building networking hardware.  Each location or jack should only experience one 10 minute outage.

Webpublish Server Interruption
Friday, January  9th at 6:00 PM to Sunday, January 11th at Noon (Winter Break)
From Friday,  January 9th at 6:00 PM to Sunday, January 11th at noon, Networking & Systems will perform maintenance on disk partitions that support webpublish.haverford.edu.  During this maintenance period, web content creators will be unable to post changes on the college web site. In addition, individual and student group profiles on the college website will be unavailable for changes. The website management tool (/manage), used by privileged web publishers, will also be unavailable.  The college web site, www.haverford.edu, however, will continue to serve pages throughout the service interruption.

Storage Server Interruption
Friday, January  9th at 6:00 PM to Sunday, January 11th at Noon (Winter Break)
From Friday,  January 9th at 6:00 PM to Sunday, January 11th at noon,  Networking & Systems will perform maintenance on disk partitions that support the Storage server. During the maintenance period, the Storage server will be available in a read-only mode, which means that you will be able to view your files but not modify, save, or delete them.

If you have questions or concerns about these interruptions, please contact the Help Desk. (Please note, responses may be delayed until business hours on Monday.)
Telephone: 610-896-1480
Email: helpdesk@haverford.edu