Santa Clara University

The last remaining system to be migrated to the virtual environment was the Commonspot authoring server.  That's now completed, and authoring and replication have been re-enabled.

As mentioned in this week's Site Administrator meeting, we're planning to migrate the remaining www servers to the virtual environment. This had been planned for Tuesday, Feb. 22nd, but has been rescheduled for early morning on March 1st.

The database server used by Commonspot is scheduled to be upgraded on Thursday morning (3/25/10), beginning at 6 am.  During the upgrade, Commonspot pages that rely on dynamically-generated content from the database will not be displayed.  We expect that the upgrade process will take less than an hour.

The blog system has been updated to include email notification for blog comments.  When a blog comment is submitted, an email will be sent to the contact email address set for a blog.  You can manage comments, as well as set your blog's contact email address, through the Blog Manager system.

We're planning an application server upgrade on the cms server on Thursday (10/1) morning.  The upgrade is scheduled to start at 8am and should be completed by mid-morning, Authoring access will be unavailable during the upgrade.  Sorry for the short notice on this system upgrade - the new version of the application server should improve the performance and server stabiity issues we've been seeing in recent weeks.

The Commonspot database server will be offline for maintenance for a brief period of time on Wednesday evening, Jan. 14th.  We expect the actual outage to be for 15 minutes or less.  Commonspot pages will not be served from the cms or www web servers during the outage.  Commonspot authoring will be disabled on the cms server between 9 and 11pm on Wednesday, to avoid interference with the database server maintenance process.

The Commonspot web and database servers have moved from the IT building to the new Data Center, in advance of the major migration for university systems planned for this weekend. With the cms web and database servers already in place, we should have a stable and available Web presence throughout the weekend.

The Web, database, and directory servers that support the www.scu.edu Web system are moving from their current location in the Information Technology building to the new Data Center in the Learning Commons.

A new Web site has been created to catalog SCU-related blogs. The SCU Blog Index lists blogs published by SCU individuals and organizations, and includes those managed within Commonpost, the Webpages personal publishing system, as well as blogs hosted outside of the SCU network.

We've experienced a few problems on the www Web servers due to network connectivity issues. Periodically, the web servers aren't able to connect to Commonspot's database server, resulting in error messages displayed on www.scu.edu. A software patch is scheduled to be installed on 1/30 at 7pm to resolve this issue.