*What is happening?* Starting at 6AM Sunday July 19th at 6AM we will apply security updates to NameO and NameP and reboot them and then stop the LDAP servers to rebuild the LDAP databases. We will do these one at a time and verify that things are working as expected before doing the other one. We anticipate each machine being down for less than 5 minutes and the LDAP server on each being down during the rebuild for less than 5 minutes. These machines provide DHCP, DNS and LDAP services. Most services should be unaffected since we have redundant servers, however, there may be brief interruptions in the ability to log in to some services. *How long will it take?* We expect this work to take about 10 to 15 minutes per server. There will be a delay between the two as we verify that all is well. As mentioned above, the actual outage of service should be shorter. *Why is this work necessary?* For security and support reasons we need to keep our systems running on recent well supported operating systems and standards. The LDAP databases become fragmented over time and a rebuild is required to bring them back to full efficiency. What happens if the work is not successful? We will back out to snapshots of these machines taken prior to application of the changes. For Support of UMS software, services, or systems please contact IT Support Services at 800.696.4357 or by email: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> . -- Irelann Kerry Anderson phone: (207)581-3508 Systems and Operations Information Technology Services University of Maine System 5752 Neville Hall Orono, Maine 04469-5752