[tech] Major Network Outage 20th December

[Mitchell Pomery]

Some time today UWA has announced that there will be a planned major 
network outage this weekend. I've only found out about it as I was going 
to raise an incident for IPv6 being broken.

See the message below for more details.

Thanks,
Mitchell Pomery

2015 President
University Computer Club

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BUSINESS INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
PLANNED OUTAGE – Major Core UWA Network Upgrade

Date: Sunday, 20 December 2015

Time: 08:00 – 15:00

Description: As part of the UWA IT Transformation Program, major changes 
to the UWA IT network (Network Consolidation project) are required to 
improve network resiliency and reliability. This initial project phase 
will result in an extended network outage campus wide between 08:00 and 
15:00 on the 20th of December, which will prevent access to all systems. 
As this work is being performed on UWA’s core network infrastructure, 
access to UWA services and applications cannot be guaranteed for the 
entire duration of the work. It is extremely important that this work be 
undertaken during this low usage period. BITS will make all efforts to 
minimise outage times and impact on all users of UWA IT services.

Affected areas: All Campuses

Affected services:
• Wireless Services
• Staff and Student Email access
• UniConnect VPN
• Internet and Website Access
• askUWA
• Student Printing
• Pheme
• Lecture Capture System
• Access to all UWA Applications (including – but not limited to – ESS, 
Callista, LMS, Alesco, PeopleSoft)
• Telephony Services except QEII and University Hall (Note: if UWA 
Security need to be contacted in case of emergency during this period, 
please ring 08 6488 2222)