Central UNIX March 26 through 28, 1999 Down Time.

Starting time of service interruption: March 26, 5:00 PM
Ending time of service interruption: March 28, 6:00 PM

What is the Reason for this Service Interruption?

        A massive disk replacement on Central UNIX (moving to a new,
        larger EMC storage system), together with normal end-of-quarter
        data archiving, will necessitate this downtime at the end of
        quarter break.

Who is Affected by this Service Interruption?

        All users are affected. Faculty and staff preparing for Spring
        Quarter need to take this downtime into account in their
        planning.

What Services will be Affected and How?

        All Central UNIX services (email, Web, OpenTime, compilers,
        etc.) will be unavailable from 5 pm March 26 through 6pm March
        28.

        Service                     How Users will be affected
        OpenMail and OpenTime       OpenMail and OpenTime will be
                                    unavailable for the duration of the
                                    outage.
                                    In addition:
                                    Other mail to alias@calpoly.edu or
                                    mail to
                                    loginID@polymail.calpoly.edu will
                                    be delayed.
                                    Mail to all other addresses will be
                                    delivered.
        World Wide Web              Users will not be able to access
                                    the Cal Poly home page or any other
                                    pages housed on Central UNIX
                                    (www.calpoly.edu).
        Gopher                      Users will not be able to access
                                    any gopher pages housed on Central
                                    UNIX (gopher.calpoly.edu).
        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 fail to connect.
        SMTP Mail Server            Any mail client sending mail via
                                    smtp.calpoly.edu or
                                    mail.calpoly.edu will fail to
                                    connect.
        Central UNIX user login     Users will not be able to connect
        sessions                    to polylog1 or rodin.
        Xterminals                  Xterminals which are served via the
                                    Central UNIX cluster will be down.

What is the Expected Outcome of this Service Interruption?

        Consolodated disk storage for Central UNIX.