Network Upgrade Schedule
Over the next few weeks the ITS department will be making critical network upgrades in response to recent network related issues. This work will be scheduled outside regular University hours, and notifications to our users will be sent in advance of each planned upgrade.
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Timeframe |
Change |
End user impact |
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Date: June 21, 2022 |
Migration of Research DMZ network traffic to the new network infrastructure. |
Successful without incident. |
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Date: June 25, 2022 |
Migration of Wireless network traffic to new network infrastructure. |
Successful without incident. |
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Date: July 09, 2022 |
Migration of MRU publicly accessible servers network traffic including MyMRU, Mtroyal.ca, Blackboard, Banner SSB to the new network infrastructure. |
Successful without incident. |
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Date: July 16, 2022 |
Migration of the end user campus network traffic to the new network infrastructure. |
Successful without incident. |
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Date: Aug. 13, 2022 |
Both internal traffic to the Internet, as well as Internet traffic to internal systems. Includes all workstations, data centre networks and DC zones. Does NOT include public-facing services (e.g., DMZ traffic) or wireless. |
Successful without incident. |
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Date: Sept. 10, 2022 |
A very small number of services will be impacted as follows: Math and Computing VPN access and Broadcast Interstellar.
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Successful without incident. |
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Date: Oct. 6th, 2022 |
Upgrade of internal virtual switches in the data centre virtualization environment, with a possible brief interruption to network traffic - of a few milliseconds - on non-critical systems.
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Successful without incident. |
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Date: Oct. 11, 2022 |
Upgrade of internal virtual switches in the data centre Oracle virtualization environment, with a possible brief interruption to network traffic - of a few milliseconds.
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Successful without incident. |
| Date: Oct. 13, 2022 Time: 2100 - 2200 |
Upgrade of internal virtual switches in the data centre PCI virtualization environment, with a possible brief interruption to network traffic - of a few milliseconds. | Successful without incident. No end user impact. |
| Date: Nov. 02, 2022 Time: 2100 - 2300 |
Software upgrade of the SSO software on auth.mtroyal.ca. A rolling upgrade is planned with services available at all times, only a few second pause when switching to the new version. | Successful without incident. No end user impact. |
| Date: Nov. 30, 2022 Time: 1630 - 2330 |
Migration of all the DMZ servers to the ACI cluster will occur during the 7-hour-long change window. | Successful without incident. No end user impact. |
| Date: Jan. 04, 2023 Time: 1630 - 2100 |
Configuration GARP setting on DMZ network, ACI environment.
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Successful without incident. |
This schedule and status of these network changes will be updated as details become available.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding those changes, please contact the MRU IT Service desk at 403.440.6000 a nd itservicedesk@mtroyal.ca.