Previously resolved Service Status postings:
Starting Thursday, December 26 at 10:00 p.m. until Friday, December 27 at 6:00 a.m., ITS will be updating the software and hardware that controls campus wireless access (e.g. MWireless). During this time, users may have trouble connecting to the campus WiFi networks.
Further updates about this maintenance can be found on the ITS Service Status page.
On Saturday, December 21 from 6:00 to 10:00 a.m., the Climate and Space Research Building will undergo electrical maintenance. During this time, lighting and general power may be unavailable is some areas.
The CAEN computer lab located in LBME 1310 will be closed indefinitely on Monday, December 16 at 7:30 a.m. while the first floor of the building is remodeled. Work is tentatively expected to be completed by Fall 2020.
For further information on this remodel, refer to the Biomedical Engineering department web page.
From Thursday, December 12 at 7:30 a.m. until Wednesday, January 8 at 8:00 a.m., the CAEN computer lab located in NAME 134 will be closed for renovation.
Update 1/8/20: The room has been opened for course use, but the computer installation has been delayed. We will update this posting once the computers are installed and ready for student use.
On Saturday, December 21 at 11:00 p.m., ITS will perform maintenance on the U-M AFS servers.
During this maintenance, CAEN users may have trouble accessing their AFS home directories and logging into CAEN Linux computers (including the Login/VNC servers).
Further updates and information on this maintenance can be found on the ITS Service Status page.
On Saturday, November 23 at 10:50 a.m., U-M lost power to the MACC data center during a fire inspection. This impacted many services hosted at the MACC, as well as many College of Engineering and departmental systems. Power has been restored and services are slowly coming back up, starting with core services such as the network.
The software licenses for a number of software titles provided by Siemens are scheduled to expire at midnight on Sunday, December 1. CAEN has renewed these licenses and is just waiting on Siemens to deliver the new license files. We expect to have them before the end of the week, and we are posting this notice as a precautionary measure.
Software titles impacted by this outage:
This outage will impact use of these Siemens software titles in CAEN Labs, in the Duderstadt Center, and in College of Engineering department and private labs.
On Thursday, December 5 from 5:00 to 7:00 a.m., there will be a disruption in Wi-Fi service for the Duderstadt Center while ITS performs maintenance. Further information about this outage can be found on the ITS Service Status page.
On Thursday, November 14 between 5:00 and 8:30 a.m., maintenance has been scheduled for servers that support the CAEN Lab Software Environment (CLSE). This maintenance is intended to apply recent operating system and software application updates, and install patches for software vulnerabilities.
The following CLSE services may experience an outage during the above maintenance timeframe:
After maintenance on the U-M AFS file servers that provide the home directories on CAEN Linux computers and remote login/VNC servers, users may have had trouble logging in. All of the servers have been rebooted to address this problem.