Blackboard Outages
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Maintenance Schedule. UTC Online server maintenance occurs nightly from 3:45-4:00am and normally also the second Friday of each month from 5:00-7:00am (sometimes the third Friday of the month). The system may not be available during these times. Do not schedule or take tests during these times. A record of outages is kept below for reference. |
| Date | Type | Downtime | Comments |
| 5/17/2013 | Offline | 5:00-6:11am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 5/8/2013 | Offline | 12:00am-5:00pm | Upgrade is complete. Downtime to upgrade Blackboard version to release 9.1 Service Pack 9 |
| 5/7/2013 | Offline | 8:00am-11:59pm | Downtime to upgrade Blackboard version to release 9.1 Service Pack 9 |
| 4/12/2013 | Offline | 5:00-6:02am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 3/15/2013 | Offline | 5:10-6:09am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 2/15/2013 | Offline | 5:00-6:12am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 1/11/2013 | Offline | 5:00-6:10am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 12/14/2012 | Offline | 5:00-6:01am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 11/16/2012 | Offline | 5:00-6:04am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 10/12/2012 | Offline | 5:17-6:36am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 9/14/2012 | Offline | 5:00-6:25am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintnenace |
| 8/17/2012 | Offline | 5:00-6:02am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 8/10/2012 | Offline | 9:00am-1:30pm | Planned downtime. Collaboration tools offline to migrate VM to new host. |
| 8/1/2012 | Offline | 12:00-1:56am | UTC Network Outage (Planned) |
| 7/31/2012 | Offline | 11:45-11:59pm | UTC Network Outage (Planned) |
| 7/28/2012 | Offline | 5:20-9:58pm | UTC Network Outage (Planned) |
| 7/13/2012 | Offline | 4:00-6:07am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 6/15/2012 | Offline | 5:00-6:59am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 5/11/2012 | Offline | 4:17-6:59am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 5/4/2012 | Offline | 5:00-6:12am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 3/23/2012 | Offline | 8:30-8:45am | Planned downtime. Collaboration tools offline to patch VMWare Host. |
| 3/16/2012 | Offline | 3:00-5:46am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 2/17/2012 | Offline | 5:14-6:59am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 1/13/2012 | Offline | 4:00-6:05am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 1/6/2012 | Offline | 5:00-6:15am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 12/21/2011 | Offline | 12:00am-12:30pm | Upgrade is complete. Downtime to upgrade Blackboard version to release 9.1 Service Pack 6 |
| 12/20/2011 | Offline | 8:00am-11:59pm | Downtime to upgrade Blackboard version to release 9.1 Service Pack 6 |
| 11/11/2011 | Offline | 5:00-6:45am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 10/13/2011 | Offline | 5:00-5:47am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 9/30/2011 | Offline | 11:40am-12:05pm | Brief downtime caused by error on the database server |
| 9/16/2011 | Offline | 5:00-5:52am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 8/26/2011 | Offline | 9:00-11:59pm | Blackboard services were available. Access was limited due to campus network outages. |
| 8/16/2011 | Offline | 6:25-7:30am | Downtime to replace hardware components |
| 8/12/2011 | Offline | 5:00-6:35am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 8/7/2011 | Offline | 2:55-3:25pm | Unexpected outage due to fileserver error |
| 8/3/2011 | Offline | 5:00am-12:35pm | Blackboard systems maintenance; announced outage was from 5:00-7:00am, but unexpected issues caused this maintenance to run longer than expected |
7/15/2011 |
Offline | 5:00-6:05am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
6/17/2011 |
Offline | 6:00-7:00am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 5/29/2011 | Offline | 6:30-9:33am | Blackboard systems maintenance; announced outage was from 6:30-9:00am, but unexpected issues caused this maintenance to run longer than expected |
| 5/20/2011 | Offline | 5:30-6:30pm | Blackboard systems maintenance |
| 5/19/2011 | Offline | 6:45-6:52am | Downtime to install a critical Blackboard software fix |
| 5/13/2011 | Offline | 6:00-6:24am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
Pilot Stage - Spring 2011 and earlier |
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| 4/25/2011 | Chat Service | 7:30-7:50am | Brief downtime on just the Blackboard chat services' hardware (chat, virtual classroom) |
| 4/15/2011 | Offline | 6:00-6:40am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 3/23/2011 | Offline | 7:00-7:07am | Brief downtime to apply user interface fix for instructors |
| 3/12/2011 | Upgrade/Offline | 6:00am-10:19am | Upgrade is complete. Downtime to upgrade Blackboard version to release 9.1 Service Pack 4 |
| 3/11/2011 | Offline | 6:04-6:56am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 2/11/2011 | Offline | 6:04-6:44am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 1/14/2011 | Offline | 5:00-5:57pm | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 12/17/2010 | Upgrade/Offline | 5:00-9:01am | Upgrade is complete. Downtime to upgrade Blackboard version to release 9.1 Service Pack 3 |
| 12/10/2010 | Chat Service | 8:55-9:11am | Brief downtime on just the Blackboard chat services' hardware (chat, virtual classroom) |
| 11/19/2010 | Offline | 4:30-4:35pm | Brief downtime for Blackboard operating systems fix |
| 11/12/2010 | Offline | 6:30-6:50am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 10/15/2010 | Offline | 6:34-7:00am | Regular Blackboard and operating systems maintenance |
| 9/29/2010 | Offline | 5:30-5:36pm | Necessary hardware configuration changes will be applied during this brief downtime. |
| 9/17/2010 | Upgrade/Offline | 5:00-7:15am | We have upgraded this server to the latest Blackboard release (9.1.482.2). |
| 8/24/2010 | Outage | 7:30am-11:07am | The servers were rebooted in an attempt to fix the course modules issue. After the servers' reboot, the web servers could not connect to the database server. The issue was finally located, fixed, and web service has been restored. |
