Shawn and Linda are upgrading our servers to Novell 4.11 and GroupWise 5.1. Prairie will be down from 1PM CDT, Friday Aug 15th, until 7PM CDT, Sunday Aug 17th. ITS will be using the time to perform an operating system upgrade. The install process will include reconfiguring the file systems as well as configuring the machine so that the vital parts of the operating system are mirrored. Abacus will be down from 5AM to 5PM on Sunday August 10th to upgrade the operating system from AIX 3.2.5 to AIX4.2.1.
Times are yet to be determined for the last two weekend downtimes.
Several other changes will take place during August which should have little or no impact on users. There will be no change in IP address for the primary name server. ITS is working with the Payroll and Registrar Offices to coordinate informing the NDSU campus of the Email addresses being added to the Administrative database. Mike Nix and his helpdesk workers are beginning to reload all student notebook computers with the updated software image. We have a site license for Ghost software.