IU Webmaster News
Reserved maintenance window:Webserve/Siteshare: Sundays, 12:00am - 8:00am
Janus (mysql.iu.edu): Sundays, 12:00am - 9:00am
Streaming Servers: Sundays, 5:00am - 10:00am
Server restarts:
Webserve: Sundays, 6:00am - 7:00am
Siteshare: Daily, 5:00am
Janus (mysql.iu.edu): Sundays, 6:00am - 7:00am
Updated May 16, 2012
- Webserve Maintenance Scheduled
Several central web hosting services will be unavailable on Sunday, May 20 from 12:00am to 8:00am due to scheduled system maintenance. Systems affected include: WCMS, Webserve, MyPage and Analog web usage reports for webmasters. <updated on May 16, 2012 > - Webserve Maintenance Scheduled
Sites hosted on Webserve (www.iu.edu, www.indiana.edu, www.iub.edu, www.iupui.edu, www.iuk.edu, www.iun.edu) and mypage.iu.edu may be unavailable between Saturday, March 10, at 11:30pm and Sunday, March 11, at 1:00am. <added on March 7, 2012 > - Weblog Maintenance Scheduled
Webserve Weblog Reports (http://www-reports.iu.edu) will be unavailable on Sunday, February 26, due to scheduled system maintenance. <added on February 20, 2012 > - Central Web Servivce Upgrade
UITS is preparing to upgrade the operating system on central IU Web hosts from RedHat Linux 4 to RedHat Linux 5. <added on January 19, 2012 > - Closed for Thanksgiving Break
We will be closed on November 24th and November 25th, 2011. We will be open on Monday, November 28 as per normal business hours. <added on November 23, 2011> If you have any questions during this time you may e-mail us. - Virtual Host billing - just to let you know.Web virtual host service billing is in process for the 2011-12 fiscal year. If pertinent, please make sure your finance office is aware of the $125.00 annual fee for a virtual host URL. <added on November 10, 2011>
- Recording - Privacy Notice
Info-share
- Info-share: Web Site Privacy Notice Generator (9/13/11)
Join fellow IU Webserve publishers for a demonstration of the IU Privacy Notice Generator and discussion of what this policy requires of all IU Web publishers. <added on August 31, 2011> - Webinar: Cascade Server 6.10 new features
Hannon Hill will present a webinar Tuesday August 30, 2-3pm on the latest feature release of Cascade Server 6.10. The webinar will demo the new features in 6.10 and be followed by a Q&A session. <added on August 26, 2011> - WCMS Info-share
This discussion will focus on best practices for indexing and media feeds in Cascade Server, implementing a privacy notice with Site Builder, and customizing the search box included with Site Builder. Scheduled for Thursday, August 11th. <added on August 11, 2011> - Streaming Media Maintenance
IU Streaming media services will be unavailable on Sunday, July 24, from 12:00am to 2:00am due to scheduled system maintenance. <added on July 20, 2011> - Security and your Webserve account
Message from IU Webmaster, We won't: Asking you to divulge your passphrase is a violation of university policy. You should: Remove older verisons when you install software in your Webserve Web space. <added on July 6, 2011> - IPv6 Day Notice
In preparation for adopting a new internet protocol (IP) address scheme which is known as 'IPv6', the Internet Society is sponsoring a "World IPv6 Day". World IPv6 Day will take place on June 8, 2011. <added on June 2, 2011> - Webserve, Siteshare, MyPage maintenance scheduled
Access to Webserve, the IU central web publishing server, along with Siteshare, and MyPage may be briefly unavailable on Sunday, May 8, between 6:00am and 8:00am due to scheduled system maintenance.<added on May 04, 2011> - Privacy Notice Announcement
The University Information Policy Office has developed the Web Site Privacy Notice Generator to help you draft a privacy notice for your web site.<added on April 21, 2011> - Retirement of Real/QuickTime Streaming Servers
UITS will retire the legacy Real Media and QuickTime streaming servers on July 31st 2011. <added on April 12, 2011> - IU Web Account Update Requested
Over the next few months we will be upgrading the OS, Apache, and programming languages; and changing the authentication methods on the IU central web servers. <added on March 23, 2011> - Difficulties accessing multiple
services due to scheduled
maintenance
The HNAS (Network Attached Storage) service will be unavailable on Sunday, March 13, from 12:00am to 6:00am due to scheduled maintenance. <added on March 3, 2011> - Difficulties accessing Webserve via Siteshare
Users are experiencing difficuilties when attempting to access Webserve via the Siteshare service. This affects access to mapped network drives to Webserve. System administrators are working to restore the service. <added on January 24, 2011> - We will be closed on December 24th and December 30th
We will be open during regular business hours during the holidays except Friday, December 24th and Friday, December 30th in which we will be closed. <added on December 14, 2010> - Difficulties accessing some webmaster.iu.edu
services
Update: This issue has been resolved. Users are experiencing difficulties accessing some services via the http://webmaster.iu.edu website. System administrators are working to restore services. <added on December 9, 2010> - Webtest Maintenance Scheduled
Update: This issue has been resolved. Webtest will undergo maintenance on Thursday, November 18. During this time connections to Webtest will intermittently be unavailable. Further updates will be provided here or you may contact the IU Webmaster with any questions regarding this outage. <added on November 18, 2010> - Webtest Maintenance Scheduled
Update: This issue has been resolved. Webtest will undergo maintenance on Tuesday, November 16. During this time connections to Webtest will intermittently be unavailable. Further updates will be provided here or you may contact the IU Webmaster with any questions regarding this outage. <added on November 16, 2010> - Webtest Currently Unavailable
Update: This issue has been resolved. Webtest is currently unavailable. This impacts the serving and publishing of web content in the test environment. System administrators are working to restore the service. <added on November 11, 2010> - Webtest Maintenance Scheduled
Webtest will undergo maintenance on Thursday, November 11 for approximately one hour sometime between 9:30am - 12pm EST. Further updates will be provided here or you may contact the IU Webmaster with any questions regarding this outage. <added on November 11, 2010> - Webtest Currently Unavailable
Update: This issue has been resolved. Webtest is currently unavailable. This impacts the serving and publishing of web content in the test environment. System administrators are working to restore the service. <added on November 10, 2010> - IU Search Maintenance
Update: This issue has been resolved. The Google Search Appliance is down due to a problem with software update. This affects anyone using IU search and any developer using search5.iu.edu or search2.iu.edu in their search forms <added on November 8, 2010> - New Webserve Account Managment Tool
On November 8, UITS Enterprise WebTech Services will release a new account management tool that will enable Webserve account owners to more easily perform Web administrative functions. <added on November 5, 2010> - Important Change to Backups on Webserve
Beginning Thursday, November 4, 2010, UITS will no longer back up directories in Webserve accounts that are named "tmp" or "cache", including their subdirectories. <added on November 2, 2010> - Cascade Server: Site Managers
Training
Training led by UITS IT Training and Education is coming up next week on October 13-14 in Bloomington at the main library. <added on October 6, 2010> - Announcing new IU Certificate Authority
The University Information Security Office (UISO) is announcing a new partnership with the InCommon Certificate Service providing free unlimited SSL server certificates to IU units.
<added on September 22, 2010> - BFusion/BFlex 2010
Hands-on training for developers and designers from industry leaders coming to IU. You will not find a more effective and cost-effective professional development opportunity.
<added on September 7, 2010> - Two PCI Meetings: September 7 at IUB and September 14 at IUPUI
The University Information Security Office (UISO) and the Office of the Treasurer invite you to a PCI presentation and discussion covering a variety of credit card, payment card, and e-commerce topics. <added on September 3, 2010> - PHP Upgrade and MySQLi installation
A new version of PHP(5.2.14) along with MySQLi is now available on Webserve. <added on August 16, 2010>
- phpMyAdmin Upgrade
A new version of phpMyAdmin is now available on Webserve. <added on May 27, 2010> - Position Available: IU Webmaster Support Specialist (Hourly)
We are seeking an individual to assist the IU Webmaster team in supporting IU's central web server. <added on May 21, 2010> - New: Webserve test environment
"Webtest" allows you to test and develop web sites and applications prior to moving them into production on Webserve.<added on May 19, 2010> - WCS Authoring Server Upgrade
Scheduled between 7:00am - 7:30am EDT, Thursday April 29th. A slight disruption of service may occur but the Authoring server will still be available. <added on April 28, 2010> - Siteshare Maintenance Scheduled
Rescheduled: Siteshare will undergo maintenance on Wednesday,April 21 from 5:00am to 5:05am EDT in order to upgrade the version of Samba from 3.0.32 to 3.4.7. <updated on April 20, 2010> - Web Account Update Requested
Posted confirmation of the recent request to update Web account records. <added on April 9, 2010> - MySQL Service Reminder
Reminder to MySQL account owners "You must backup your database regularly". <added on December 11,2009> - HNAS Maintenance Scheduled on
November 8th
Sites hosted on Webserve (www.iu.edu, www.indiana.edu, www.iub.edu, www.iupui.edu, www.iuk.edu, www.iun.edu) and mypage.iu.edu may be unavailable between Saturday, November 7, at 11:30pm and Sunday, November 8, at 4:00am. <added on November 2, 2009> - Web application moving
On Thursday evening, October 29th, the account application system for Webserve (central web server accounts) will be moved from Libertas (an aging independent server) to an account on Webserve. <added on October 28, 2009> - MySQL Upgrade Complete
Production MySQL services upgraded to MySQL5. <added on October 26, 2009> - MySQL Upgrade
The mysql.iu.edu service will be unavailable on Sunday, October 25th from 12:00AM to 8:00AM. <added on October 21, 2009> - MySQL 5 Migrations Information
Recently announced, the version of MySQL currently available on the central server will upgrade to MySQL 5.0 in October. <added on September 28, 2009> - Cascade Server WCMS presentation
This session will introduce you to Cascade Server and the web content management system at IU and how web content management fits in IU's web infrastructure. Scheduled for Wednesday, September 23rd. <added on September 22, 2009> - Central Mysql servers scheduled maintenance 9/20/09
The production databases on mysql.iu.edu will be unavailable from 12:00am to 2:00am on September 20th in order to ensure data consistency when making the copy to the MySQL 5 upgrade environment. <added on September 16, 2009> - Delayed Analog processing for August 2009
Due to high volume web traffic and limited resources, August month-end processing (trend and computer format report generation) will be delayed till later in the month. <added on September 4, 2009> - Data center maintenance, outage Sept.
11
Most UITS services will be unavailable from 4am to 5am on Friday, Sept, 11, due to scheduled maintenance of the IU Bloomington data center. This outage will include Webserve, Triton/Callisto, and streaming media. <added on September 2, 2009> - IU Webmaster moving to FootPrints for issue tracking
On Tuesday, August 18th, we will be moving to the FootPrints issue tracking application for the handling of email support requests. Our email address will not change. The only change will be to the formatting of the messages you receive from us. <added on August 17, 2009> - August WCMS Info-share Planned Mark your calendars to attend the WCMS info-share at the IMU in Bloomington on Tuesday, August 4th. <added on July 29, 2009>
- IU Search utility maintenance scheduled<added on July 28, 2009>
- Resolution to Web usage report issues is underway<added on June 10, 2009>
- Over the weekend (June 6th) there were processing issues for June web usage reports. <added on June 9, 2009>
- Interruption of network services hosted on the IUB campus (6/14/09)Interruption of network services hosted on the IUB campus (6/14/09) <added on June 4, 2009>
- Interruption of network services hosted on the IUPUI campus (6/13/09)Interruption of network services hosted on the IUPUI campus (6/13/09) <added on June 4, 2009>
- WCMS maintenance scheduled for April 30,
2009
The Cascade Web CMS will be unavailable Thursday morning from 7:30am - 9:00am to provide for service maintenance. <added on April 29, 2009> -
WCMS April Info-Share
If you are interested Cascade Server and the direction of web content management at IU, please mark your calendars for this Thursday. <added on April 20, 2009> -
Siteshare Authorization Maintenance Site
Restored
System administrators have restored the Siteshare Authorization Maintenance Site. <added on March 20, 2009> - Siteshare Authorization Maintenance Site
Down
The Siteshare Authorization Maintenance page is currently unavailable due to emergency maintenance. <added on March 19, 2009> -
Triton (mysql.iu.edu) maintenance
scheduled
Triton (mysql.iu.edu) will be unavailable for a brief period of time between 12:00AM and 1:00AM on Sunday, March 8, 2009 due to virtual infrastructure migrations. <added on March 5, 2009> -
Web Usage Reports - Maintenance Scheduled
On Thursday, March 5, 2009 from 7:00AM - 8:00AM EST, Analog reports (http://www-reports.iu.edu) will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance. <added on March 3, 2009> -
Siteshare Authorization Maintenance Site
Restored
The Siteshare Authorization Maintenance page was down to fix an issue that cause an outage of the service yesterday. <added on February 27, 2009> - Siteshare Authorization Maintenance Site
Down
The Siteshare Authorization Maintenance page is currently down to fix an issue that caused an outage of the service today. <added on February 26, 2009> - Log Processing Issues You Should Be Aware
Of
If you are using Analog Web usage report data to evaluate and monitor the activity of your IU Web site, please read this service announcement. <added on January 16, 2009>
