Ongoing maintenance

We will be carrying out planned network migration work across our data centres from 31 March to 2 April, moving a number of systems onto new network infrastructure.

A maintenance window will take place each day between 09:00 and 11:00, during which there may be brief interruptions to some services. No downtime is expected outside this window.

Services that may be briefly affected include:
- Aruba ClearPass
- Canteen Services
- Computational Teaching Systems
- DRAX AMX
- Network ESXi
- N...

SAMIS is now back online following the upgrade.

SAMIS (and therefore the Panopto Scheduler) is now back online following the upgrade.

We are carrying out a phased migration of on-campus file storage from our existing systems to new storage solution. This work will take place over several weeks and may cause planned, temporary disruptions to some shared file services.

This migration moves file storage onto a modern, fully supported platform, improving reliability, security, and long-term sustainability of shared file services.

Maintenance ended

Due to quarterly software and security updates to the underlying service infrastructure, these services will briefly be unavailable during this time. This essential maintenance ensures that the systems remain secure, reliable, and up to date with the latest vendor patches.

This issue has now been successfully resolved. The change to load new account details into iTrent was implemented yesterday, and the overnight process completed successfully. All accounts that failed to be created over the past few days have now been added and should be working as expected.

Due to quarterly software and security updates to the underlying service infrastructure, these services will briefly be unavailable during this time. This essential maintenance ensures that the systems remain secure, reliable, and up to date with the latest vendor patches.

The REDCap server will undergo an incremental update at this time. During the installation and subsequent restart, the system may be unavailable for up to 10 minutes. This update helps ensure the continued security and functionality of the application.

Due to maintenance to maintain network security and stability, there may be brief losses of network connectivity in the following locations:

• 1 East
• 2 East
• 3 East
• 4 East
• 4 East South
• 6 East
• 8 East
• Boiler House
• Carpenters Workshop
• Norwood House
• Sports Hall

Disruption should be minimal, as devices will be moved between access points during the upgrade. However, some users may experience a short outage at some point during the process.