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Servers: Veritas, Champion, Webserve
Reserved maintenance window: Sundays, 12:00am - 9:00am
Server restart: Sundays, 6:00am - 7:00am

Updated May 20, 2008

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  • Web Accounts have been deactivated
    At noon Tuesday, May 20, all web accounts that were not migrated and for which the owner has not contacted the Webmaster, were disabled. <added on May 20, 2008>

  • Web accounts to be disabled on May 20th
    Effective noon Tuesday, 5/20/08, all non-migrated accounts for which the owner has not contacted Webmaster will be disabled. <added on May 19, 2008>

  • Nearing End of Web Account Migration.
    Message to Champion & Veritas accounts that have not migrated to the new Linux server, 'Webserve". <added on May 8, 2008 >

  • Finalize Web Migration -- Second Notice
    Web migration dateline reminder. Includes instruction for the utility for resetting the Network passphase if the current network passphrase is unknown or forgotten. <added on April 17, 2008 >

  • Finalize Web Migration
    The new central web server environment is open for account migration effective today, March 28th. Account owners have until May 12th to complete the migration. Accounts which have not completed the migration by May 12th will be deactivated and archived. <added on March 28, 2008>

  • Web Migration Timeline Clarification
    We have received some questions about the web migration plans announced earlier this week. We hope this clarification will help.<added on March 11, 2008>

  • Linux Server Testing
    We are ready to begin testing all Veritas and Champion web server accounts on the new Linux-based web server environment.<added on March 6, 2008>

  • Migration to Begin in March
    Migration beginning in March <added on February 21, 2008>

  • Infoshare Q&A
    Questions and the answers from the Migration Infoshare as well a link to the meeting video archive. <added on February 13, 2008>

  • Web Account Migration Infoshare
    While this presentation is an overview of the sequence of events taking place, we will also discuss the steps you will need to take to prepare for the migration. <added on January 20, 2008>

  • Web Migration Schedule Change Notification
    The migration dates to the new Linux web server for Veritas and Champion accounts has been changed. The original target date announced for account owners to begin migration, December 31, 2007, has been moved to February 5, 2008. <added on January 17, 2008>

  • Veritas to Use Network Passphrases in New Linux Environment
    In January, as accounts are migrated to a new Linux web environment, the login password for your Veritas account will change. The login password for the web account will become the Network ID passphrase for the group account.<added on December 4, 2007>

  • Veritas & Champion Migration Schedule
    UITS is pleased to announce that the new IU Web system infrastructure will soon be available. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment will offer enhanced reliability and security, increased disk quota, and updated software.<added on November 21, 2007>

  • Triton Migration Scheduled for November 18, 2007
    Triton, commonly known as 'mysql.iu.edu', will be moved to a virtualized Linux platform. <added on November 8, 2007>

  • Callisto Migration Scheduled for November 1, 2007
    Callisto, commonly known as 'mysql-test.iu.edu', will be moved to a virtualized Linux platform. <added on October 31, 2007>

  • Veritas, Triton, Callisto Passphrase Change
    Accounts on Veritas, Triton, and Callisto to use passphrase authentication on the new servers. <added on October 28, 2007>

  • IU Web Usage Reports - Changes for Fall 2007
    Pie charts are here! They are part of your web usage reports on a new, faster Linux processing platform with the latest version of Analog. <added on October 12, 2007>

  • More space on Central Web Servers this fall!
    As accounts move into their new Red Hat Enterprise Linux web space, the default disk space on Champion and Veritas increased to one gigabyte. <added on August 9, 2007>

  • Veritas moving behind Zeus load balancers
    Central web servers are moving behind two Zeus ZXTM load balancers over the next two weeks as the migration of the central IU Web servers continues. <added on July 19, 2007>