Winter Quarter Break System Schedule

The following schedule are the anticipated down times that will be
occurring during the upcoming weeks including Winter Quarter Break.

o       Install Oboe Ethernet adapter.  This adapter will be used with a
        future campus mail hub.
        Sunday, December 11, 8am - 12noon

o       Cluster Ethernet Upgrade.  The AIX cluster's Ethernet segment
        will be split into two segments with each machine attached to
        its segment via an Ethernet switch.
        Monday, December 12, 7am - 10am

o       End-of-quarter archives.  All user files are backed up for the
        end of the quarter archives.  To ensure a complete backup, no
        logins are allowed during this period.
        Saturday, December 17, 8am - Sunday, December 18, 12noon

o       RISC memory upgrades.  Oboe's upgrade to 512Mb should become
        permanent at this time and all of the other sites will be
        brought up to 192MB.  This event is dependent on the arrival of
        the hardware.
        One day during Monday, December 19 - Thursday, December 29

o       User Deletion process starts.  AIX Support staff will begin the
        process of identifying accounts that are candidates for
        deletion.
        Monday, December 19

o       Loss of Campus power.  The entire campus power grid is having
        maintenance performed that will result in power outages during
        the 23rd of December.  As a result, systems will be shutdown the
        night before and brought back on-line (barring environment and
        hardware complications) by noon on the 24th.
        Thursday, December 22, 5pm - Saturday, December 24, 12noon

o       NFS Automounter.  NFS Automounter is being added to the 6 model
        5x0 RISC systems to make NFS filesystem mounts more reliable.
        Oboe's filesystem mounts will remain as they are on all other
        sites due to the constant traffic on those mounts for email.
        Sunday, January 8, 8am - 12noon

o       OBOE YP master.  Target date for moving YP master from the old
        AIX site zeus to oboe
        Saturday, January 14, 8am - Monday, January 16, 8am

Changes to the above schedule will be noted as necessary in the message
of the day and/or system news.