UDit Alerts
Alerts are notifications of changes to the normal business of the University of Dayton's central IT systems. UDit maintains many of the systems you rely on every day. On occasion, we must disable a service for a short time for regular upkeep and maintenance. We strive to cause as little inconvenience to you as possible. Alerts informs you of planned downtimes in advance, new system requirements and services, unplanned outages and other timely IT information.
11/09/09
Sporadic Network Downtimes Sat., Nov. 14, 6 a.m. - 12 p.m.
What: Systems and network updates and maintenance
When: Saturday, November 14 from 6:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Affected Areas: All campus network resources, e.g. Lotus Notes, Novell drives, Isidore, Colleague, IFAS, will be sporadically unavailable during the downtime window. External internet resources will be unaffected.
If you have any questions/concerns, please contact the UDit Help Desk at 229-3888 or e-mail helpdesk@udayton.edu.
11/03/09
Web Registration Work-Around for Problem with Immediate Verification
What: Web Registration
When: On-going
Affected Areas: Web Registration
Additional Information:
Students are registering for courses but the Schedule view does not show they are registered even though they are, in fact registered. We have been working with the vendors, both Datatel and IBM, over a period of time to resolve this problem but have not had success. The only fix that has had any impact is run overnight, every night to update the day's schedule changes.
Students can verify their registrations immediately after registering by going to Web Advisor at webadvisor.udayton.edu, logging in, and selecting Transcripted Courses/Grades. At the beginning of the transcript, registered courses are listed. If you would like greater detail on this problem, please see Technical Updates.
11/03/09
Internet Downtime in Residential Areas Wed., Nov. 4, 6 a.m. - 7 a.m.
Downtime is needed for maintenance to the residential Internet connection. Internet access to external resources from campus residences will be unavailable during the downtime window. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the UDit Help Desk at 229-3888 or e-mail helpdesk@udayton.edu.
10/20/09
Internet Service in Residential Areas at Capacity;
Message to Students from UDit CIO, Dr. Tom Skill
The student residential Internet connection has been hitting its maximum capacity over the last few nights. UDit is well aware of this "bandwidth" capacity problem and have been planning for a 50% increase in bandwidth since early last summer. We anticipate expanding the residential bandwidth from 200 Mb to 300 Mb in early November.
While much of the traffic is typical academic and social data uses, we have noticed a substantial increase in the number of users who are streaming high-definition videos over the residential network. As you might guess, this kind of use really consumes our bandwidth and since the network is a shared community resource, all users suffer when the network capacity is exceeded.
If you do find that the Internet connection from your residence is working very slowly, you may want to consider using the network in the Rec Plex, KU, the Library or any other academic buildings. The academic-side of campus has a separate network that is typically under-used in the evenings and at night (when the residential network is very busy).
We know that it is much easier to work from home and that is why we are expanding the residential bandwidth. However, we have limited resources to support things like HD movies, so unless we reduce those uses, we may never be able to ensure a speedy residential network.
The staff at UDit is working hard to ensure that you have an available and robust network to support your academic needs. Please feel free to share your suggestions with us on how we might better serve you.
Isidore Downtime 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. Saturday, October 18.
The Isidore server will be taken offline for a couple hours to allow UDit technicians to upgrade the memory in the application server. Please let us know if this will interfere with any of your classes. Call the UDit Help Desk, 937-229-3888.
9/22/09
Postpone Windows 7 & Snow Leopard Upgrades
UDit recommends you delay upgrading to Windows 7 or Snow Leopard until they are tested by UDit. Like all other operating system upgrades, UDit is testing Windows 7 and Snow Leopard for compatibility with our existing supported software and systems.
When we confirm that UD supported software applications and systems work seamlessly with the new operating systems, we will notify you that they are available for deployment. We anticipate that distribution and support of Windows 7 and Snow Leopard will occur during the spring term. Until then, our help to you on these operating systems is on a best-effort basis and may require service fees.
8/5/09
New UD Network Access Requirement
Attention ALL students --
Effective August 5, 2009, Information Technologies is implementing new requirements for accessing our campus network. Please work through the instructions at http://community.udayton.edu/udit/access_the_network_landing.php to avoid any connectivity issues.
Go to Access the UD Network >>
Please contact the UD Help Desk at 937-229-3888 or pchelp@notes.udayton.edu if you have questions.
* All other users (faculty, staff, contractors, guests, etc.) will be affected beginning November 3, 2009.
NOTE: These requirements will ONLY apply when you are on campus.
