Due to recent changes in the Daylight Savings Time start dates for Australia, system restarts are required for several major environments to make sure they display time accurately. As these affect important systems such as assignment submission, they cannot be delayed till our next scheduled outage.
 ITD would like to advise that from tomorrow morning the following systems will be briefly restarted:
Blackboard and Sakai, the online teaching system
Uportal, the student entry page
Confluence, the staff wiki site
Archibus, the FMS planning site
Minor systems such as:
Eportfolio, eReserve, Student ID Card application, FMS Key manager, MFD credit system and the payments gateway, and the Courses and Units catalogue.
These systems will be restarted one after the other, so while the whole process may take an hour, each major system is expected to be down for no more then 10 minutes and minor ones less.
The outage will start at 7am, Friday the 3rd of October 2008. Systems will be offline for no more than 10 minutes and the whole process will take approximately an hour.
