On Tuesday, March 5, 2013, we will have a scheduled downtime from 6:00am to 7:00am EST.
UPDATE: This downtime did not happen and the work has been postponed to March 19, 2013.
Who is affected:
- Users of the public login machines (soak, wash, rinse, spin, tux, opus), certain CS websites (jobs, kiosk, msdnaa, search, wiki), database servers, runscript, CAS, lpdrelay (printing), labpc machines (Friend Center fishbowl lab) and the ionic cluster.
What is happening:
- These hosts will receive a critical security update and be rebooted.
Why is it happening:
- There is a critical kernel security patch available for our Springdale hosts. It addresses a specific security vulnerability. As this is a kernel update, all machines must be rebooted. Actual expected downtime should only be a minute or two for each host to reboot.