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

 

 

 

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