This maintenance is complete and all seems to be working as expected. On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 12:53 PM Irelann Anderson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > *Correction: date in body of original mail was wrong.* > > *What is happening?* > Starting at 6AM Sunday May 2nd 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] > > -- > Irelann Kerry Anderson phone: (207)581-3508 > Systems and Operations > Information Technology Services > University of Maine System > 5752 Neville Hall > Orono, Maine 04469-5752 > -- Irelann Kerry Anderson phone: (207)581-3508 Systems and Operations Information Technology Services University of Maine System 5752 Neville Hall Orono, Maine 04469-5752