An RFQ is in progress to acquire a replacement UPS with capacity to provide sufficient and reliable electrical service to the Hill Center Data Center for the foreseeable future. We hope to have the new equipment provisioned and installed by May, 2012.

Tuesday May 22, 2012 - Proposed Hill Center Downtime for Life Safety Systems Testing and Certification

Testing and certification of the Emergency Power Off (EPO) configuration, is required by life safety regulations. This requires taking the machine room down for several hours.

As a result of this scheduled down time, all services running in Hill Center will be offline during this maintenance window, including University web sites, fac/staff/student email, Sakai services, RUWireless, RUMail, etc.

This maintenance window will include a relatively short power disruption and an extended downtime for services, infrastructure upgrades, and maintenance.

We intend to use our alternate email communications plans to provide frequent status updates on our progress and expected completion times.

Central Systems and Services staff members provide enterprise email, web, and file services to the University community. The group also provides Unix and Linux system administration support and consulting services to departments.

The Network Operations division of CSS provides support to
all public computer labs on the New Brunswick campus, public lab printing support University wide, as well as wireless network design and maintenance.

CSS also sponsors the Open System Support Group. OSS offers excellent developmental opportunities for students who work with full time staff on IT projects.