System Maintenance Schedule
To keep the IGC Networks running well, it's necessary to shut
the system down for short periods of time, at most twice a
week. We hope that by informing members ahead of time, they can
schedule their work accordingly and these periods will not pose
an inconvenience.
The weekly scheduled downtime maintenance periods are:
| Sundays |
6pm - 9pm (Pacific Time) |
| Wednesdays |
9pm - 11pm (Pacific Time) |
Here are a few clarifications regarding the
system
maintenance schedule:
- It will not be necessary to take the system down for
each scheduled maintenance time.
- When the system is taken down for scheduled
maintenance, the
downtime may not last for the entire scheduled period.
- The maintenance schedule was chosen after we analyzed
usage. The
times chosen for maintenance are the times of least system usage.
- Unexpected problems may arise which will cause the system to
be down at times other than the scheduled hours. Generally such
periods will last for no more than an hour and a half, usually
less than ten minutes.
- We will post a reminder message about upcoming system
maintenance, usually the day before the scheduled maintainence.
Each reminder message will only be shown to you once during the
login process, so please note the upcoming maintenance time
carefully.
- During the hour preceding the actual downtime, warning
messages will appear on your screen if you are online via our
'Text-Only-Interface.' This will enable you to log off before the
system shuts down.
NOTE: these warning messages currently won't be seen
when using IGC InterACT programs.
Here is what you
can expect prior to each scheduled system maintenance:
- Warning messages will begin up to an hour before the scheduled
maintenance, continuing right up to the time that the system goes
down.
- Logins will not be allowed 5 minutes before shutdown. You can
remain logged on right up until shutdown, but at shutdown you
will be automatically logged out.
- It is advisable to logout by hand instead of waiting for the
automatic logout.
For those who are still online when the automatic logout
occurs:
- If you are in Mail? or Conf?, the messages you have read
during your current session will reappear the next time
you use
the (u)nread command.
- If you are in Mail?, the messages which you had marked as (d)eleted
will still be there when you next login.
- If you are in Mail? or Conf? and (w)riting a message, your
partially composed message will be available to you the
next time
you log in and choose to compose a message.
Information about Downtime and other system outages can be
viewed in the conference 'igc.netnews' available to
IGC subscribers only, or on the IGC System Status web page
http://www.igc.org/igc/system-status
which is available for viewing by anyone with access to the www.
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