Columbia University Information Technology

Service Alerts

Starting Saturday morning, March 8th at 12:00 AM and ending Monday, March 10th at 8:00 AM, CUIT has scheduled routine maintenance on the Main Campus’s ROLM Phone System. This scheduled maintenance is expected to be completed on-time.

From 7 AM to 8 AM on March 10th, clients will experience a brief loss of Rolm analog fax services.

CUIT apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause, but this action is necessary to ensure a more reliable service.  If clients continue to experience issues after the service-interruption hours, please contact the CUIT Helpdesk at:

Web:     http://cuit.columbia.edu/support

Phone:   212-854-1919

Email:     askcuit@columbia.edu

For a list of active and future Service Alerts, please visit http://cuitalerts.columbia.edu/.

CUIT is performing necessary maintenance on the Quantum tape library used by our backup services. The tape library will be unavailable during the maintenance window (11:30 am to 1:30 pm on Monday, March 10th). This scheduled maintenance is expected to be completed on-time.

This maintenance will have no impact on normal backup operations. However, during the maintenance window data restore services may not be available or may be delayed, depending on whether the data resides on physical tape or virtual tape.

CUIT apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause, but this action is necessary to ensure a more reliable service. If clients continue to experience issues after the service-interruption hours, please contact the CUIT Helpdesk at:

Web: http://cuit.columbia.edu/support

Phone: 212-854-1919

Email: askcuit@columbia.edu

For a list of active and future Service Alerts, please visit http://cuitalerts.columbia.edu/.

CUIT will be applying OS patches to the Central servers at 4 a.m. March 4th and 5th.  Because these services are clustered, actual downtime each day will be limited to a single failover lasting approximately one minute.  

CUIT apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause, but this action is necessary to ensure a more reliable service.  If clients continue to experience issues after the service-interruption hours, please contact the CUIT Helpdesk at:

Web:     http://cuit.columbia.edu/support

Phone:   212-854-1919

Email:     askcuit@columbia.edu

For a list of active and future Service Alerts, please visit http://cuitalerts.columbia.edu/.

CUIT will be applying OS patches to the Domain Controllers for the Alpha domain at 4 a.m. March 4th and 5th.  Because these hosts are redundant, no service interruption is anticipated.

For questions about this event, please contact the CUIT Helpdesk at askcuit@columbia.edu, or call 212-854-1919.

To see all active and future Service Alerts, please visit http://cuitalerts.columbia.edu/