Mid-Term maintenance (March 17–20) will include network security enhancements, cloud migrations for web reliability, and supercomputer hardware inspections; most services remain unaffected, with brief intermittent outages limited to specialized supercomputer web portals.
Enterprise Network: Network Segment Streamlining
- Schedule: Wednesday, March 18 | 8:00 AM – 12:00PM
- User Impact: None. No interruption is expected.
- Description: Removing network segments that are no longer needed. This maintenance procedure will ensure the network runs smoothly and eliminate unnecessary components.
Enterprise Network: Security Enhancements
- Schedule: Tuesday, March 17 | 8:00 AM – 12:00PM
- User Impact: None. No downtime is expected.
- Description: Moving building automation and fire alarm networks into a new network security zone to improve traffic security and visibility.
University Website: Migrating redirect handling to AWS Cloud service
- Schedule: Wednesday, March 18 | 8:00 AM – 12:00PM
- User Impact: None. No interruption is expected.
- Description: Migrating the majority of our web redirects to Amazon Web Services (AWS). This change will ensure redirects remain accessible even if campus experiences Internet connection issues.
¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ Supercomputer Migration of Web Services and Machine Maintenance
- Schedule: Wednesday, March 18-20 | 8:00 AM – 3:30PM
- User Impact: Brief interruption of ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ Supercomputer web services is expected.
- Description: Web services of the ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ Supercomputer will be restarted. Web services that may be intermittently unreachable during maintenance days include gitlab.colgate.edu, ​​jupyterk8s.colgate.edu, litellm.colgate.edu, docs.supercomputer.colgate.edu, data201.colgate.edu, dataanalysis1.colgate.edu, ajpdatabase.colgate.edu. Machines may need to be restarted during hardware inspection, and the login nodes of the ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ Supercomputer may be restarted as necessary during maintenance days. Ondemand at ondemand.colgate.edu may be intermittently unreachable on March 18 between 9-10AM. Ondemand at turing-login.colgate.edu may be intermittently unreachable on March 19 between 9-10AM. Upon hardware inspection machines may have to be restarted.
Enterprise Network: Network Segment Streamlining
- Schedule: Friday, March 20 | 7:00 AM – 9:00AM
- User Impact: None. No impact on user network access or services is anticipated.
- Description: Rewiring a section of the first-floor network closet in Ho Science Center.
WRCU Studio: Power work
- Schedule: Tuesday, March 17 | 8:00 AM – 5:00PM
- User Impact: None. No interruption is expected for the WRCU transmitter or on-air programming.
- Description: Replacing the Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for the WRCU studio.
Check back for any updates to this schedule.
If you have any questions, or experience any issues, please reach out to the ITS Service Desk.