Blog from June, 2012

JIRA outage June 22, 2012 1700 June 24, 2012 1600

JIRA will be unavailable June 22, 2012 from 5:00 PM through June 24, 2012 4:00 PM. During this outage JIRA will be upgraded to version 4.4.5 and thereafter integrated with the new Crowd version.

The JIRA upgrade from version 3.13.5 requires a 4.2 and 4.3 upgrade before reaching 4.4.5. During each upgrade JIRA may be intermittently available but should be considered unavailable until the outage conclusion is announced.

Please send comments or questions to apps-admin@slac.stanford.edu.

Ernest Denys
IT Applications Administration Group
Computing Division
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Beginning Friday June 22 at 5:00 PM PDT through Sunday June 24 Crowd, Confluence, SLAC Forum, and JIRA will be unavailable for application upgrades and integration. The outages are scheduled as follows;

  • Crowd unavailable June 22 from 5:00 PM - 11:30 PM.
    • During this outage Crowd will be upgraded to version 2.4.2.
  • Confluence unavailable June 22 from 5:00 PM - 11:30 PM.
    • Unavailable during Crowd upgrade and thereafter to integrate with new Crowd version.
  • SLAC Forum will be unavailable for authenticated log ins June 22 from 5:00 PM - 11:30 PM.
    • Unavailable during Crowd Upgrade.

Confluence and SLAC Forum may be intermittently available but should be considered unavailable until the outage conclusion is announced.

  • JIRA unavailable June 22 from 5:00 PM through June 24 4:00 PM.
    • During this outage JIRA will be upgraded to version 4.4.5 and thereafter integrated with the new Crowd version.

The JIRA upgrade from version 3.13.5 requires a 4.2 and 4.3 upgrade before reaching 4.4.5. During each upgrade JIRA may be intermittently available but should be considered unavailable until the outage conclusion is announced.

Please send comments or questions to apps-admin@slac.stanford.edu.

Ernest Denys
IT Applications Administration Group
Computing Division
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Crowd, Confluence & JIRA Outage June 13, 2012

Crowd, Confluence and JIRA will be unavailable Wednesday June 13, 2012.

  1. Crowd and JIRA from 6:00 PM - 7 PM PDT.
  2. Confluence from 6:00 PM - 9 PM PDT.

During the outage all application and database servers used by these applications will be rebooted in order to load a new kernel which addresses security vulnerabilities. The outage for Confluence will be extended so Apps-Admin can perform system administration maintenance work. Confluence will be intermittently available and should be considered unavailable.

Please send comments or questions to apps-admin@slac.stanford.edu.

Ernest Denys
IT Applications Administration Group
Computing Division
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Confluence Outage on June 12 2012

Confluence will be unavailable on Tuesday June 12, 2012 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM PDT.

During the outage apps-admin will perform system administration maintenance work. Confluence will be intermittently available and should be considered unavailable.

Please send comments or questions to apps-admin@slac.stanford.edu.

Ernest Denys
IT Applications Administration Group
Computing Division
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Confluence Wiki Changes on June 6, 2012

Install update and new plugins;