News - Feb 2007

Feb 22 2007 - Blackboard was restored much sooner than we anticpated (late Thursday night).

Note: Due to the catastrophic nature of the disk failure, we were forced t o restore data from backup copies made very early on Thursday. Because of this , changes which you may have made between 1:00 A.M. and 11:00 A.M. on Thursday, Feb. 22 have been lost. We apologize for any inconveniences caused by the outage and the loss of Thursday's AM data.

Feb 22 2007 - Blackboard has had a major hardware failure and will likely be down for the remainder of the day. We are working to restore data to new hardware.

Feb 22 2007 - Blackboard will be down for several hours. We are working with our service provider to get it back up as quickly as possible.

Feb 22 2007 - 4pm Thursday 2/22/2007 The Blackboard system is down and will remain down until 8am Friday 2/23.

We have suffered an extremely unlikely simultaneous failure of two disk drives in a storage array that is critical to the Blackboard system. We are working as fast as possible to restore data to replacement hardware, but it will be a very time consuming task that we hope to complete by 8am tomorrow, Friday.

We sincerely regret the disruption of teaching and learning activities on Blackboard by students and instructors, and we understand the time-sensitive effect of the outage,

A number of ACCC staff are diligently working and doing everything in their power to put the system back in production as soon as possible.

Sincerely,

ACCC

Feb 22 2007 - Blackboard has been repaired much sooner than we had predicted.

HOWEVER: Because of the severe disk failures, we had to restore data from backup copies. Unfortunately any changes, additions, submissions which you may have made between 1:00 A.M. and 11:00 A.M. on Thursday, Feb. 22 have been lost. We apologize for the inconveniences caused by this outage and loss of Thursday's AM data.

Feb 22 2007 - Blackboard was restored much sooner than we anticpated (late Thursday night).

Note: Due to the catasrophic nature of the disk failure, we were forced to restore data from backup copies made very early on Thursday. Because of this, changes which you may have made between 1:00 A.M. and 11:00 A.M. on Thursday, Feb. 22 have been lost. We apologize for any inconveniences caused by the outage and the loss of Thursday's AM data.

Feb 21 2007 - Blackboard will be down for emergency maintenance today, Wednesday February 21, 2007 from 5 P.M. to 6 P.M. We will be replacing a part on a RAID controller.

Feb 15 2007 - There was a very short power glitch of the main feed on the UIC West Campus at 12:17 PM. ACCC service via UPS continued without interruption. Some minor side effects were noticed in remote locations such as wireless access points and at least one remote network switch.

Feb 14 2007 - One of our primary external routers locked up and lost connection to the internet and to other UIC routers. A reload was necessary. All network segments are back up. We are still investigation the incident with our ISPs. We apologize for the inconvience.

Feb 02 2007 - Icarus will be down for Daylight Savings Time patches starting at 5:25 pm on Sunday February 4th 2007. This will affect some people's email and personal webpages, as well as direct file and shell access to Icarus.

Go watch SuperBowl XLI. Icarus will be up before the game is over.