SEAS Computer and Network Services Outages
This page will catalog planned and recent interruptions in SEAS computer and network services.
| Start Time | End Time | Planned? | Additional Notes |
| 11/16/09 1:00PM | 11/16/09 1:30PM | Yes | The SEAS email server SSL certificate will be updated. Some older mail programs may require that you accept the new certificate. |
| 10/7/09 7:00AM | 10/7/09 8:00AM | Yes | We will be upgrading some network hardware in the Towne building, which may cause brief network outages in Towne. |
| 9/19/09 9:15PM | 9/19/09 11:30PM | No | A power outage caused many of our servers to go down for several hours. Service was restored by 11:30PM. |
| 8/20/09 7:00AM | 8/20/09 8:00AM | Yes | We will be upgrading some network switches in the GRW building, which may cause brief network outages in GRW. |
| 8/18/09 7:00AM | 8/18/09 8:00AM | Yes | We will be upgrading some network switches in the Levine building, which may cause brief network outages in Levine. |
| 7/14/09 7:00AM | 7/14/09 9:00AM | Yes | The AirSEAS/SEASNet registration site running on troll.seas.upenn.edu will be unavailable while it is upgraded to the new Penn Weblogin authentication |
| 7/11/09 7:00AM | 7/11/09 10:00AM | Yes | We will be upgrading the main SEAS file server with new hardware to improve performance and storage capacity. This file server contains all the user home directories and central "project" disk space. |
| 6/25/09 8:00PM | 6/26/09 2:00PM | No | The hardware running the WebDAV server died and had to be replaced. |
| 5/21/09 7:30AM | 5/21/09 7:45AM | Yes | There will be a short network outage to the new SIG computer graphics lab while we upgrade the connection. This outage should last less than 15 minutes. |
| 5/21/09 7:00AM | 5/21/09 7:00AM | Yes | We will be updating the configuration on the core SEAS router. We do not expect this to result in any network downtime, but are performing this work during an early-morning maintenance window in case something goes wrong. |
| 5/19/09 7:00AM | 5/19/09 7:05AM | Yes | There will be a very brief network outage to the SEAS network link into FBA while we relocate a fiber jumper. We expect this outage to last less than 5 minutes. |
| 5/5/09 7:00AM | 5/5/09 8:00AM | Yes | We plan to test the automatic failover of our primary SEAS network link over to a secondary link. If this works as expected, there will be two very brief network blinks between SEAS and the rest of campus. |
| 4/29/09 7:00AM | 4/29/09 8:00AM | Yes | We will be upgrading some hardware serving the Distributed Systems Lab (DSL) in Moore. Network connectivity will be disrupted between DSL and everywhere else during this time. |
| 4/4/09 9:00AM | 4/4/09 10:20AM | No | Power outage caused disruption to many SEAS network services. |
| 4/1/09 7:00AM | 4/1/09 8:00AM | Yes | Network hardware upgrade in Towne. There will be a brief loss of network connectivity for basement and second floor of Towne Building. |
| 3/31/09 2:20PM | 3/31/09 2:40PM | No | Network outage affected all SEAS network services, including email. No mail was lost. |
| 2/20/09 7:40PM | 2/20/09 8:30PM | No | Mail sent in Webmail was delayed for up to one hour. No mail was lost. |
| 2/18/09 11:10AM | 2/18/09 11:25AM | No | A hardware failure caused network downtime on the 3rd-5th floors of GRW. Service was restored within 15 minutes for most users. |
| 2/11/09 7:30AM | 2/11/09 9:30AM | Yes | Webmail will be down so it can be upgraded. |
| 1/28/09 7:00AM | 1/28/09 8:00AM | Yes | Router replacement will couse brief network outages in LRSM and Towne buildings |
| 1/7/09 7:00AM | 1/7/09 11:00AM | No | Eclipse filer was down, which affected many websites and web services |
| 12/18/08 6:00AM | 12/18/08 8:00AM | Yes | Network downtime for switch upgrade |