Saturday August 30, 1997

Power Outage to Affect Building 14 (Computer Science)

Starting time of service interruption: 5:30 AM
Ending time of service interruption: 8:00 AM

What is the Reason for this Service Interruption?

        ITS has been informed of a power outage that will occur between
        6:00 AM and 8:00 AM on Saturday morning, August 30, 1997.  The
        power outage will be of an undetermined duration.  Machine room
        Un-interruptible Power Supplies (UPS) have a fifteen minute
        cycle limitation, with an unknown duration, its been deemed
        safer to take the system down.

Who is Affected by this Service Interruption?

        All users.

What Services will be Affected and How?

        All services including OpenMail and OpenTime will be unavailable
        during this time to allow for moving the filesystem. This
        filesystem affects many of the cluster services so these
        services will be unavailable during the migration to prevent
        loss of data. These services include, but are not limited to

	Service                         How Users will be affected
	OpenMail and OpenTime           OpenMail and OpenTime will be
	                                unavailable.  The Web interface for
	                                OpenMail will also be unavailable.
	                                All incoming mail from outside
	                                OpenMail will be delayed for the
	                                duration of the outage.
	World Wide Web                  Users won't see pages housed on the
	                                Cal Poly central web server
	                                (www.calpoly.edu) or links to pages
	                                that are referred to off of the
	                                central web server.
	Gopher                          Users will not be able to access
	                                documents on the Cal Poly gopher
	                                server. This includes pages referred
	                                to by other gopher and web servers.
	UNIX Mail                       PINE, Elm and UNIX mail on Central
	                                UNIX will not be available
	POP Server                      Any pop client (Netscape, Eudora,
	                                etc.) pointing to pop.calpoly.edu will
	                                be refused.
	SMTP Mail Server                Any mail client sending mail via
	                                smtp.calpoly.edu or mail.calpoly.edu
	                                will be refused.
	Central UNIX user login         Users will not be able to connect to
	sessions                        cymbal, flute, harp, trumpet, tuba, or
	                                violin.
	Xterminals                      Xterminals which are served via the
	                                Central UNIX cluster will be down.

What is the Expected Outcome of this Service Interruption?

        No services will change as a result of this outage.