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Bartle Library will be open on Dec. 26-28 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please note: Due to a planned computer center power outage, computers will not be available on Dec. 26 and Dec. 27. Materials can still be checked out during this time.
Posted by dvose at 03:32 PM
An emergency power generator will be installed in the Computer Center on December 26 and 27. This means that central computer and campus network resources will not be available during this time. Once installed, the generator will guard important central equipment from future power failure events.
Desktop and laboratory computers operating as stand-alone devices outside the Computer Center will not be affected. The services that will be unavailable include:
1. The entire campus wired and wireless networks.
2. Electronic mail will be down, as will email forwarding to external mail servers.
3. Blackboard.
4. All Binghamton administrative applications (Oracle HR and Finance, Banner and CICS applications).
5. Pharos print system in Pods and Information Commons.
6. Software that requires access to a license manager (Matlab, ANSYS, Fluent, Solid Edge).
7. Kronos and the Card Access System.
8. Library on-line bibliographic resources.
9. Shared network storage devices (aka "H" drive or "S" drive).
People attempting to connect to the binghamton.edu web server will be redirected to the backup server at BCC which will contain a message explaining the situation. E-mail sent to binghamton.edu mail addresses will normally be held by the sending server. Users who anticipate critical email communications during this time should warn correspondents of the outage and may want to have alternate e-mail services for this period. When our servers are once again up, there is likely to be an extraordinary amount of mail that will have to be processed. Expect some initial delays.
For questions or concerns, please contact Norm Quinn at 7-6105.
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