December, 2014
Updates to McAfee intrusion prevention system
Dec. 15, 2014—On Dec. 17 from 6 to 8 p.m., Vanderbilt IT Security Operations analysts will make configuration changes in the McAfee Network Security Manager to integrate the Network Threat Behavior Analysis (NTBA) sensor with the intrusion prevention system (IPS) sensors, which filter incoming and outgoing traffic. Though this could potentially affect the community at large, no...
VUIT Scheduled Maintenance: AVST Voicemail Servers
Dec. 10, 2014—VUIT will upgrade the AVST voicemail servers beginning Saturday, Dec. 13 at 10 p.m. and ending Sunday, Dec. 14 at 4 a.m. There will be an approximate five-minute outage to the voicemail system between 2 and 4 a.m. During the outage, users will not be able to access or leave voicemails. Voicemails received during the...
VUIT Scheduled Maintenance: Windows Environment
Dec. 10, 2014—Vanderbilt IT will install Microsoft security patches on Windows servers on Sunday, Dec. 14 from midnight to 6 a.m. During this time frame, the following systems will be briefly unavailable while the servers are rebooted. apphost1a its-hcwnap80 (apphost2) SQL Cluster jump01, strawberry (windows jump boxes) wins1, wins2 EPO Magic prt1, prt2 VUIT-hosted SharePoint sites vCenter...
VUIT Scheduled Maintenance: Migrate VMs to new ESX cluster
Dec. 10, 2014—Vanderbilt IT will migrate two VMs (STRAWBERRY and ITS-SCLNRA01) from the Stevenson data center to the VUH data center Monday, Dec. 15, between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Both the jump box STRAWBERRY and the bastion host ITS-SCLNRA01 will be unavailable for approximately 30-40 minutes. While these servers are down, access JUMP01 as a substitute...
VUIT Scheduled Maintenance: Mailbox Server Lifecycle
Dec. 4, 2014—Vanderbilt IT will lifecycle the hardware on Microsoft Exchange servers ITS-HCWNEM106 and ITS-HCWNEM107 beginning Friday, Dec. 5 at 10 p.m. and ending Saturday, Dec. 6 at 6 a.m. The servers will be unavailable between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. Emails will be queued and later released to users’ inboxes once the lifecycle is complete. Affected...