Cascade Server and Blogs.udmercy.edu

The Cascade CMS server and blogs.udmercy.edu server are currently down. Web Services is currently working to restore these services.

Update : 09/27/10 2:11 p.m.
Cascade and Blog services restored. Its continues to investigate cause of outage.

Law School conectivity 9/27/10

Network and internet connectivity has been restored at Law schoo.

ITS, NOC

Law School connectivity problem 09/27 7:30 a.m.

Morning check shows that Law School campus has network connectivity problem. ITS is working to isolate and solve this problem.
Sorry for possible inconvenience.

ITS

McNichols Wireless - UPDATE

Wireless service at the McNichols Campus has been restored.

-ITS, NOC

McNichols Wireless

McNichols campus wireless services is currently experiencing and outage. ITS staff is working on a solution.

Outage Resolved

An internal issue with our DHCP server was preventing users from logging in this morning.  The issue has been resolved.  Any user still unable to log in should restart their computer.  If log in is still not possible, please contact the ITS Helpdesk.

TITANNET Network Issue

There was a slight networking issue that made TITANNET (shared drives and logon server) to become unresponsive for a period of time. The server was reset as part of fixing this issue. Since this server is setup for persistent connections, it should have reconnected your machine as soon as the server was back online.

However, if you are currently receiving an "offline" folders message in your taskbar, you will need to restart your machine and log back into the domain. Total estimated downtime was about 10 minutes.

- ITS

Bandwidth Reallocated based on Term to Date Utilization

As we typically do, the allocations for bandwidth have been adjusted based on usage patterns during the first part of the term.  ITS monitors bandwidth usage closely and adjusts our allotment accordingly to ensure bandwidth is available where needed.  Please note, speeds should be fine.  We have seen more than a small number of computers that are operating slower than optimal and this appears to be the result of rogue toolbar installs as well as other programs (spyware, malware, virus’, etc.).  To improve your performance, please fine tune your systems configuration and applications.

 

Reports on performance (good or bad) are welcomed.  Please indicate location and computer details when submitting a response.  Please feel free to post to this blog entry or e-mail its@udmercy.edu.

 

Hotmail is working

 

Blackboard is online 09/13 at 7:50 a.m.

Scheduled maintenance on Blackboard system is finished. We expect this intervention to positively impact overall performance of this system. Thank you for your cooperation.

ITS

Titan Connect Email Access - Update

Access to the Titan Connect email has been restored.

UDM ITS

Titan Connect Email Access

There is an ongoing access issue with TitanConnect email. Web and client access is down at this time. ITS staff are being notified.

Any updates to this issue will be posted on this blog.

UDM ITS

Hotmail Blocked Yet Again

We appear to be blocked by hotmail yet again. Again, and again, please refrain from giving out your user code and password to anyone.

Update -

Service to hotmail has been restored as of 12:00pm Sunday Sep. 12, 2010.

Problems with bouncing e-mails solved 09/10 8:15 a.m.

ITS manage to remove block on udmercy.edu e-mails. Again, please don't give your user ID and/or password, you use to access UDM resources, to ANY unsolicited provocation, no matter how convincing or genuine it may appear.

ITS

Blackboard maintenance scheduled Monday 10/13 7:30 - 8:00 a.m.

Blackboard needs couple of adjustments on software side; to activate these, system restart is required. We expect this service outage to be no longer than 30 minutes. This maintenance action is planned for Monday morning, starting at 7:30 a.m. If you are using Blackboard at this time, please close your work and log out to prevent loss of data.

ITS

MSN Hotmail e-mail bounce 09/10 7:30 a.m.

MSN (Microsoft) Hotmail is rejecting udmercy.edu e-mails. ITS is working to remove MSN block as soon as possible. We sorry for your inconvenience; please keep in mind that this is result of UDM users providing spammers/phishing action with user ID and password to their account. Users doing this are not only inconveniencing rest of the UDM community, they open the door to their sensitive personal data.

ITS

Content Database Server Online

The content database system has been returned to service.

Content Database Server Failed

The Content database server is experiencing a hardware issue. We are working to resolve the issue. Online inquiries, application processing, parking permits and the auctor content management system are currently down due to this issue.

Update: Hardware replacement parts are running late. ETA now 2:00 p.m.

Update: Our hardware vendor expects to be on site at 12:30 p.m. with replacement parts.

MSN - Hotmail e-mails rejected 09/07 7:30 a.m.

For yet another breach in e-mail accounts, our e-mails to MSN ISP, and possibly others, is rejected.

ITS is working to restore normal service.

ITS

INB problem corrected

This morning some users experienced a problem with trying to go to INB from titan connect. This has been corrected. Thanks, ITS Dept.