ITS System Announcements

For an explanation regarding the network outage on Tuesday, 9/2/2008, please go to: https://itsinfo.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2008/09/03/network-outage-on-922008/

Here is what we know so far about the network outage on Tuesday, 9/2/2008: Around 8:30 AM, ITS staff began receiving email notifications indicating that there was unusually high activity on electronic portfolio that was stressing our databases. One of the databases was restarted at around 8:40 AM to handle this issue, everything returned back … Read more

Continuing work on the network issues of today may cause brief network interruptions today shortly after 5 PM.

The Cyrus mail server is now operational. Users may notice a delay in mail delivery of up to 2 hours as all queued mail is delivered. Thank you

The Cyrus mail server is experiencing difficulties causing users to be unable to access their accounts. We are working to resolve the issue and will post an update as events progress. Thank you

All blogs (blogs.wesleyan.edu powered by wordpress) will be unavailable Tuesday Sept 9 from 7:00-7:30 AM

We will be performing the following network maintenance on Friday, August 23rd at 8:00am. 1) Changing the configuration of our Connecticut Education Network gateway to allow for increases in our Internet connection speed. 2) Changing a configuration on our firewall to eliminate a potential networking loop. During the maintenance, connectivity to the Internet and the … Read more

Dear Wes Community: On Sunday August 17th from 6:00 AM to 12:00 noon, ITS will be applying an upgrade and security patches to several Web Applications. The University web pages will not be affected. The Portfolio will also remain up — although some applications within it will not. Individual applications may not be down the … Read more

Some of the users received an email claiming to come from CNN.com containing top stories from CNN. When the user clicks on any of the links, the user is taken to a website that installs a virus/worm on your computer that can potentially affect your computer. ITS has taken steps to identify and remove these … Read more

The following list of software will be unavailable Wednesday August 6th from 7:00 AM – Noon. SAS, Stata, Matlab, HLM, Lisrel, Gauss, and Repec The server’s operating system will be upgraded and logins will not be permitted.