July 31, 2008
IT service outage rescheduled to Saturday
The power upgrade to Freehafer Hall on July 26 was interrupted because of an unanticipated electrical problem. The work is rescheduled for Saturday (Aug. 2). All central IT services are scheduled to be down Saturday from 4 p.m. until 8 a.m. the next morning.
Up-to-date information on the outage is available at https://www.itap.purdue.edu/newsroom/detail.cfm?NewsId=1751. The Web page will be available until 4 p.m. Saturday.
The original date was selected to minimize end-of-semester impact, but because of the electrical problem the work could not be completed. This weekend's outage is urgently needed to complete the power upgrade and reconnect the data center to the power grid.
The outage will close ITaP instructional computing labs. There will be no access to Exchange, Purdue home directories, shared files or folders, email, Blackboard Vista, Software Remote, Purdue Air Link wireless Internet connections, Purdue or ITaP Web pages, VPN service, or OnePurdue SAP or Banner. The outage is also expected to prevent campus users from accessing any IT service that requires a Purdue career account login and password.
The upgrade project replaces two electrical transformers with larger units needed for supporting additional IT data center loads.