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The Telcom office is aware of scattered telephone problems after yesterday’s power outages. If you are having problems with your phone, please email telcom@potsdam.edu indicating the phone number.

At approximately 15:15 today, the campus experienced a global power outage. Power restoration began at 17:50, building by building. All core campus services remained online for the duration of the outage, with the exception of our Internet1/Internet2 connection. Our ISP reported problems well upstream of us. Internet connectivity was restored by approximately 18:16. At this time, nearly all campus services are functioning normally. A few edge network closets remain offline due to power, flooding, or HVAC issues.

Banner/BearPAWS will be down briefly for system maintenance beginning at 5:00pm. This scheduled outage should be less than 30 minutes.

Banner & BearPAWS services have been restored.

Banner and BearPAWS services have been restored.

Currently Banner and BearPAWS are down due to unexpected system problems. Technicians are working to resolve the problem – another message will be posted here when the problem is resolved.

Tonight at 7:30, BearPAWS and Banner Forms will be unavailable for approximately 10 minutes while a core system is rebooted.

An unexpected system fault caused a brief outage of various web services, notably www, www2, & online directory). This outage lasted a couple minutes while the system reset itself. At this point, all services should once again be functioning normally.

At approximately 3:51pm, a problem system in the Kellas DataCenter caused a LAN-wide network surge that had the effect of denying access to many campus services. This lasted only a few moments until the system was isolated.

Tonight the CMS and www.potsdam.edu will be unavailable beginning at 21:00 (9 pm) and lasting for approximately three hours while backend system maintenance is performed.