Service Notes

NEW UPDATE - SPSS is now working.  Thank you for your patience!

UPDATE - The Student Computing environment is back online, and all Virtual Apps are functioning, with the exception of SPSS.  ITS is aware of the issue, and is working to resolve the issue ASAP.

Again, we apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

At 9:20 am today, the network server that handles the Virtual Apps for the Student Computing environment will need to be restarted to fix an existing issue cuasing several Vritual Apps to be unavailable.

We apologize for any inconvenience, and thank you for your patience.

Update - As of 10:13 PM, all services have been fully restored, and should be available.

Again, we apologize for any inconvenience, and thank you for your patience.

Starting at 9:00 PM this evening, ITS will be performing necessary maintenance on several network servers.  The services that may be affected are:  Faculty and Student Printing and Virtual Desktops.  The maintenance is projected to last around 2 hours.  Some services may be available during this period, but may become unavailable at any point during this time.  An update will be posted when services are fully restored.  We apologize for any inconvenience, and thank you for your patience.

DegreeWorks upgraded environment has continued to be unstable since the upgrade. We believed we had it stablized but reports started coming in regarding access issues. We do know that you need to use a Chrome browser (IE and FireFox aren't working at this time).

We are working with support on the upgraded web server issues. Currently we have not identfied the source of the problems. We will continue to work with Ellucian support to resolve the issues with DegreeWorks and provide updates as we have more information.

To try to restore some needed services, we've come up with a temporary work around that at the moment seems to be working. We'll put it in place in TruView over night. If you need access today, please contact me directly.

We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused and we appreciate your patience as we work through this.

TruView will be restarted at 11:00 a.m. today to restore single sign on to DegreeWorks.

Power service has been flickering in the over night hours - The Student Union Network and University Farm network have been offline when stable power is not available. 

At approximately 12:19 PM today, the primary DNS server, which handles name resolution for internal and external resources, encoutered an issue and stopped responding.  ITS identified the issue, and took corrective actions.  DNS service was restored at 12:30 PM.  We apologize for any incovenience, and thank you fpr your patience.

As of 11:10 DegreeWorks services were available to campus. We had some limited availability off and on the last couple of days but the TruView integration which is used by most of campus was not functioning following the upgrade. DegreeWorks is upgrades and available now. We appreciate everyone's patience was we work with Ellucian support to resolve these issues.

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The DegreeWorks upgrade has been completed but we are having issues with the upgraded environment. We are working with Ellucian support to try to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.

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DegreeWorks services are down. We are upgrading the DegreeWorks application. Services are expected to be down until approximately 6pm.

All Truman WordPress sites will be updated at approximately 9:30 p.m. during tonight's maintenance window. Any downtime should be brief. This includes all personal and organizations sites using WordPress, blogs.truman.edu, wp-internal.truman.edu, and www.truman.edu.

The load balancer for the primary linux web server will be restarted during Thursday's maintenance window. Downtime should be very brief. Affected sites include www.truman.edu, cvc.truman.edu, avstats.truman.edu and api.truman.edu. 

At 4:00AM the wireless network will be unavailable campus wide for a period of one to five minutes. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

OTRS is currently experiencing slow service. We will be restarting the server momentarily to clear any problematic processes on OTRS.

ORIGINAL SERVICE NOTE:
We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

The primary University Internet Connection through MORENet is currently experiencing issues. The issue has been reported to MORENet and the is currently state wide through their network. We will provide an update when available.

Today, at approximately 8:15 am, Network services in Missouri Hall may experience a brief outage. ITS has identified an issue with the Truman Network in Missouri Hall, and will be resolving the issue. Affected areas will be both Wireless and Wired connections in Missouri Hall. The outage should be about 15 minutes, during which Network connections may be off. We apologize for any inconvenience, and thank you for your patience.

Tonight, during the regularly scheduled ITS Maintenance Window, Faculty/Staff E-mail will be unavailable for 15 to 30 minutes starting at 8:00PM. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

All Truman WordPress sites will be updated at approximately 9:30 p.m. during tonight's maintenance window. Any downtime should be brief. This includes all personal and organizations sites using WordPress, blogs.truman.edu, wp-internal.truman.edu, and www.truman.edu.

UPDATE - The outage will not begin until around 1:00 am. Sorry for any confusion.

Tonight, starting at 12:00 am, Student Printing Services will be unavailable. The outage should be 2-3 hours, and will be campus wide. Once service has been restored, an update will be posted. We apologize for any inconvenience, and thank you for your patience.