Description
Networking will be performing maintenance on the VPN to provide a more robust access for VPN. All VPN access will be unavailable during this maintenance.
Primary Contact: Steve Chapman - x4063
Description
In preparation for the 2021 spring semester, Information Technology Services (ITS) will be performing systems maintenance from Monday, December 28th through Sunday, December 31st. There will be many services affected at different times and dates, please see below:
| DATE | TIME | SERVICES IMPACTED |
| Monday, December 28th | 8:00AM to 3:00PM | |
| Install new network routers for the campus
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Internet access both to and from campus will be down. This includes wireless and residential life networks.
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| Tuesday, December 29th | 9:00AM to 1:00PM | |
| Software upgrades will be performed on systems supporting printing services | Intermittent outages including
desktop printing, copying/scanning/faxing and TritonPrint services. |
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| Tuesday, December 29th | 9:00AM to 5:00PM | |
| Software upgrades to servers supporting the Mitel phone system
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Brief interruptions with softphone client and call recording may occur during this time. | |
| Wednesday, December 30th | 8:00AM to 12:00PM | |
| Replace Data Center Firewalls | Brief outages to UMSL hosted systems will occur during this time. | |
| Wednesday, December 30th | 1:00PM to 5:00PM | |
| Windows/Linux Server Patching | Applications/Web Apps, Network-File Shares, Printing, SharePoint. UMSL Websites will be unavailable during this time. | |
| Thursday, December 31st | 3:00PM to 4:00PM | |
| Upgrade Network Switches | Brief & random network outages across campus as switches are upgraded – No networking or phone service until the upgrade is finished. |
Primary Contact: Ken Voss
Description
Networking team will be making changes to our internet connection to campus to prepare for future hardware replacement. During this change we will experience outages to internet and campus network. This will affect all network and telephone access.
A portion of this work was complete. The remainder will be re-scheduled
Primary Contact: Steve Anthoney & Steve Chapman
Description
Networking will be patching Identity Service hardware. The outage should have minimal effect on user authentication during the patching.
Primary Contact: Steve Chapman ext: 4063
Description
Networking will be migrating to new Identity Service hardware (User Authentication) Sunday morning. This migration will impact all Wireless and VPN connected devices requiring users to login.
Primary Contact: Steve Chapman x4063
Description
Networking will be upgrading the current VPN. We will need to take the VPN offline during the maintenance.
Any access through the VPN will be unavailable during this maintenance.
Primary Contact: Steve Chapman ext: 4063
Description
Networking team needs to update the trintonvpn.umsl.edu Certification. There should be little to no impact.
Primary Contact: Steve Chapman ext: 4063
Description
The Networking team will be replacing the VPN appliance during this outage to support more users. There will be no VPN access during this time.
Primary Contact: Steve Chapman x4063
Description
UMSL VPN and Guest wireless access is currently unavailable, we are working with the vendor to correct the issue.
Services have been restored
