Outage Category
VUIT Scheduled Maintenance for Collaboration servers
Mar. 29, 2018—Beginning at 10:00 p.m. on Friday, March 30, ending Saturday, March 31, at 6:00 a.m., Vanderbilt IT will install Microsoft Windows Server security updates on Exchange and Lync servers. This scheduled maintenance will require a reboot of the servers after updates are applied. The maintenance will ensure the continued security of Windows operating systems. Redundant...
VUIT Scheduled Maintenance to Install Windows OS Patches
Mar. 22, 2018—From 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. on Sunday, March 25, Vanderbilt IT will install Microsoft Windows operating system patches on several general servers. This scheduled maintenance will require a reboot of the servers after patches are applied. The maintenance will ensure the continued security of Windows operating systems on the servers. Redundant systems are patched...
Greek Row Fiber Cable Cut Update:
Mar. 15, 2018—A fiber optic cable in the Greek Row area was damaged by construction activity as previously reported. VUIT contractors have completed the repairs. The following buildings are on-line and network services should now be completely restored. Alpha Chi Omega Alpha Delta Pi Alpha Omicron Pi Alpha Tau Omega Baptist Student Union Delta Kappa Epsilon Delta Tau Delta Kappa...
Greek Row Fiber Cable Cut Update:
Mar. 15, 2018—The following buildings are on-line and network service should be normal: Alpha Tau Omega Delta Kappa Epsilon Pi Beta Phi Sigma Alpha Epsilon Others will gradually be coming on-line with planned 100% by 6:00 p.m.
Import Certificate Chain from Google
Mar. 15, 2018—Beginning at 7:00 p.m., Friday, March 16, the VUMC IT Identity team will import Google’s complete certificate chain to resolve SSL Handshake Exception issues. This will resolve intermittent issues when accounts are created in the Student Registration Application. This procedure is expected to require downtime of AccessVU tools and applications, beginning at approximately 7:30 p.m....
Greek Row Fiber Cable Cut Update:
Mar. 15, 2018—Crews continue to repair the damaged fiber affecting network services to some Greek Houses and Baptist Student Union. New estimated recovery time is 4:00 p.m. Thursday 3/15.
Greek Row Fiber Cable Cut Update:
Mar. 14, 2018—9:00 p.m. Update: Crews continue to work on the damaged fiber cable. Work will continue through the morning with an estimated time of resolution of 12:00 noon.
Network Service Outage to Greek Row Area
Mar. 14, 2018—A fiber optic cable in the Greek Row area has been damaged by construction activity. VUIT has contractors working on the repair. The recovery time is unknown at this time. Buildings affected are: Alpha Chi Omega Alpha Delta Pi Alpha Omicron Pi Alpha Tau Omega Baptist Student Union Delta Kappa Epsilon Delta Tau Delta Kappa...
VUGmail Outage – Update
Mar. 7, 2018—Last night as of 11 p.m. CST, Gmail mail delivery is back to normal. Emails sent from non-Vanderbilt accounts to VU Gmail accounts between March 5 at 5 pm to March 6 at 11 p.m. have been stored. VUIT is currently working on a solution to deliver those messages as soon as possible.
VUGmail Outage
Mar. 6, 2018—On March 5, at approximately 5:00 p.m., mail flow to Gmail for undergraduate VU students have stopped. Technicians are working to restore mail flow and deliver messages queued in the meantime. Mail flow can expect to be restored within the next few hours. Efforts to deliver queued messages will begin thereafter.
AccessVU scheduled downtime on Wednesday, Feb. 21
Feb. 20, 2018—On Wednesday, Feb. 21, from 8:45 to 11 p.m., VUMC IT will deploy server patches to reduce security vulnerabilities. As a result, AccessVU will experience a period of downtime between 8:45 and 9:45 p.m. During the downtime, account creation, management and password change functionality will be unavailable via AccessVU. Authentication will continue to work normally....
VUIT Scheduled Maintenance to Install Windows OS patches on AVST voicemail servers
Feb. 12, 2018—From 12 a.m. to 3 a.m. on Feb. 18, Vanderbilt IT will install Microsoft Windows 2008 operating system patches on AVST voicemail servers. This scheduled maintenance will ensure the continued security of Windows operating systems on these servers. Upon patching, VUIT will restart the CallXpress server. Patching of the CallXpress System Server (VUIT-HCWNAP130) will cause...
VUIT Scheduled Maintenance to Install Windows OS patches on AVST voicemail servers
Nov. 16, 2017—From 1 to 5 a.m. on Nov. 19, Vanderbilt IT will install Microsoft Windows 2008 operating system patches on AVST voicemail servers. This scheduled maintenance will ensure the continued security of Windows operating systems on these servers. Upon patching, VUIT will restart the CallXpress server. Patching of the CallXpress System Server (VUIT-HCWNAP130) will cause...
Legacy web server outage impacting a number of websites
Oct. 5, 2017—On Wednesday, Sept. 28, a number of websites on a VUIT legacy web server became unavailable. VUIT will restore service to sites on a priority basis. Contact your VUIT support provider for additional information.
AccessVU to be unavailable from 2 to 5 a.m. on Sept. 24
Sep. 21, 2017—From 2 to 5 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 24, VUMC IT will redirect its AccessVU identity systems to point to new AVUPROD database servers. During the three-hour change, university and Medical Center users will not be able to utilize AccessVU admin and end user tools (including tools to change passwords). This change will not impact...