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Service Interruptions 2007


2007 Service Interruption History

Service Restored - UniMail Address Book and Preferences

Start Time 14 December 08:00 am
End Time
14 December 10:12 am - except Unimail Address Book and Preferences
19 December 1:30 pm - Unimail Address Book and Preferences
Service/s UniMail
Impact
During the outage users could not access UniMail
Notes This services was down due to the server hardware errors caused by the UPS failure
Notice Updated 20/12/07 11:30 am

Service Restored - UniWeb

Start Time 14 December 08:00 am
End Time
19 December 1:30 pm
Service/s UniWeb - access the Internet from residential colleges
Impact
During the outage users could not access the Internet from residential colleges
Notes This services was down due to the server hardware errors caused by the UPS failure
Notice Updated 20/12/07 11:30 am

Service Restored - Telephony VoiceMail

Start Time 14 December 2007 at 9:00 am
End Time
14 December 2007 at 9:40 am
Service/s Telephony VoiceMail
Impact
VoiceMail servcie was inaccessible
Notes
During this mornings scheduled electrical work in OMB PABX room, (to install extra A/C) the UPS failed. Consequently all services on single UPS power failed. This included voicemail services.
Due to continuing break fix work on the UPS, electrical disruptions may be experienced resulting in further loss of services.
Notice Updated 14/12/07 13:00 pm

Service Restored - IT Lotus Notes

Start Time 9 December 2007 at 8:59 am
End Time
9 December 2007 at 6:30 pm
Service/s IT Lotus Notes
Impact
IT Lotus Notes e-mail service was inaccessible
Notes
Abnormal termination of the system process
Notice Updated 10/12/07 9:30 am

Service Restored - myUNSW

Start Time 7 December 2007 at 5:35 pm
End Time
7 December 2007 at 6:10 pm
Service/s myUNSW
Impact
myUNSW inaccessible
Notes
MyUNSW site was down due to the server being congested due to the large volume of students attempting to log in to check their academic results
Notice Updated 10/12/07 8:30 am

Service Restored - Unimail

Start Time 6 December 2007 at approx 10:00 pm and 7 December 2007 at 1:50 pm
End Time
7 December 2007 8:45 am and 7 December 2007 at 4:40 pm
Service/s Unimail
Impact
Unimail was inaccessible
Notes
This service is down due to outage of Unimail server
Notice Updated 10/12/07 8:30 am

Service Restored - Telephony IVR and VoiceMail

Start Time 3 December 2007 02:30 pm
End Time
3 December 2007 4 pm for Telephony service (with exception of IVR), 5pm for IVR
Service/s Telephony service partial outage Impact primarily in Lower Campus
Impact
Telephony service and IVR
Notes
This service is down due to unexpected failure after storm lightning strike
Notice Updated 4 /12/07 8:15 am


Service Restored - Telephony IVR and VoiceMail

Start Time 21 November 2007 8:00 am, 22 November 2007 6:00 pm
End Time 21 November 2007 10:40 am, 22 November 2007 10:55 pm
Service/s Phone Number 93851333 - ITS Service Desk and other business units (Student Central, Facilities)
Impact Users could not contact the Service Desk via phone 93851333 or x51333
Notes The issue was related to lockup between PABX A and B
Notice Updated 23/11/07 8:15 am

Service Restored - Optus Blackberry E-mail Service

Start Time 6 November 2007 early morning
End Time 6 November 2007 1:00 pm
Service/s
Optus Blackberry E-mail
Impact
Users cannot use Optus Blackberry e-mail
Note The service is impacted due to the outage of Optus service
Notice Updated 6/11/07 3:50 pm


Service Restored - Intermittent Slow Performance of the Internet Access

Start Time 26 October 2007 4:30 pm
End Time 26 October 2007 6:15 pm
Service/s
Intermittent slow performance of the Internet access
Impact
Users may experience delays with accessing the Internet
Note The service is impacted due to unexpected failure.
Notice Updated 29/10/07 09:30 am

Service Restored - Network Connectivity in Particular Areas

Start Time 19 October 2007 9:34 pm
End Time 19 October 2007 10:21 pm
Service/s
Network Connectivity in Particular Areas:  
Building Affected: POW, F9a, Eurimbla Ave, CCIA, Blackdog, Bank Bld, Scientia, Samuels, Goodsell, Clancy, Bioscience, Bontay St, Arthur St, Petroleum Engineering, B13 User Environment, Library Level 13
Impact
During the outage network connectivity was inaccessible in the impacted areas
Notice Updated 22/10/07  11:00 am 

Service Restored - Turnitin Vendor Maintenance

Start Time 17 October 2007 8:00 pm and 18 October 6:00 pm
End Time 17 October 2007 11:00 pm and 18 October 10:00 pm
Service/s
Turnitin Vendor Maintenance
Impact
During the vendor maintenance Turnitin was not accessible
Notice Updated 19/10/07  8:40 am

Service Restored - Network Connectivity at Newton Building

Start Time 17 October 2007 6:00 pm
End Time 17 October 2007 7:00 pm
Service/s
Network Connectivity at Newton Building
Impact
During the outage users in the impacted area could not access data network 
Notice Updated 18/10/07  12:25 pm

Service Restored - eLearning Vista Slow Performance

Start Time 9 October 2007 09:10 am
End Time 11 October 2007 10:00 am
Service/s eLearning Vista Slow Performance
Impact
During the mentioned period of time users might experience slow performance of eLearning Vista; Discussion Tool in eLearning Vista was temporarily unavailable
Notice Updated 12/10/07  09:45 am


Service Restored - eLearning Vista

Start Time 7 September 2007 9:44 am and 1:00 pm
End Time 7 September 2007 11:00 am and 3:00 pm
Service/s eLearning Vista
Impact
During the outage users could not access eLearning Vista
Notice Updated 18/10/07  12:15 pm

Service Restored - UNSW Corporate Website WWW.UNSW.EDU.AU

Start Time 6 September 2007 09:00 am
End Time 6 September 2007 6:00 pm
Service/s UNSW web site www.unsw.edu.au
Impact During the outage users could not access the impacted web pages
Notice Updated 18/10/07 10.30 am

Service Restored - Network Connectivity at Law Library and Faculty of Law

Start Time 6 September 2007 09:45 am
End Time 6 September 2007 10:15 am
Service/s Network Connectivity at Law Library and Faculty of Law
Impact
During the outage users in the impacted area could not access data networtk
Notice Updated 18/10/07 10.40 am

Service Restored - Blackberry E-mail Service at UNSW

Start Time 1 September 2007 1:00 pm
End Time 3 September 2007 10:30 am
Service/s Blackberry E-mail Service at UNSW
Impact
During the outage the Blackberry E-mail Service was not accessible from mid-day Saturday 1st September.
Users should now get all the messages which were in their E-mail accounts but had not been delivered to their Blackberry devices since Saturday afternoon.
It should be noted that the date and time of the message shown on the Blackberry device is when the massage arrived on the device, however on the e-mail accounts the date and time is when it arrived in the mail box.
Thus a message which arrived on Sunday 2/9/07 in the mail, will show Monday 3/9/07 on the Blackberry, but when the message is opened it will show that the message was sent on Sunday 2/9/07.
There was no mail lost during the outage
Notice Updated 18/10/07 10.45 am


Service Restored - eLearning Vista

Start Time 17 August 2007 4:45 pm
End Time 17 August 2007 7:00 pm
Service/s eLearning Vista
Impact During the outage users could not access eLearning Vista
Notice Updated 18/10/07 10.50 am

Service Restored - Network Connectivity in Student Central, Internal Audit, Financial Services

Start Time 13 August 2007 8:30 am
End Time 13 August 2007 10:30 am
Service/s Network connectivity in Student Central, Internal Audit, Financial Services
Impact During the outage users in the impacted areas could not access data network
Notice Updated 18/10/07 10.50 am


Service Restored - Access to the UNSW IT Services

Start Time 24 July 2007 10:20 am
End Time 24 July 2007 10:40 am
Service/s Access to IT Services
Impact During the outage users could not access data network myUNSW, Unimail, eLearning and other IT Services
Notice Updated 18/10/07 11:15 am

Service Restored - myUNSW

Start Time 23 July 2007 09:30 am
End Time 23 July 2007 3:55 pm
Service/s Access to myUNSW
Impact
During the outage users could not access myUNSW.
Due to the high user demand and high system utilisation access to myUNSW was enabled to viable number of concurrent connections. 
Notice Updated 18/10/07 11:05 am

 
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