(43920) Evanston Data Center Load Balancer Software Upgrade

Scheduled Maintenance Report for Northwestern Information Technology

Completed

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Posted Apr 16, 2025 - 23:00 CDT

In progress

Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Posted Apr 16, 2025 - 19:01 CDT

Scheduled

Northwestern Information Technology  will be upgrading software on Evanston load balancers.  Affected systems will experience a brief interruption as units are failed over during the upgrade process between 7:00pm and 11pm as work is completed.  This work is being performed to bring load balancer software up to a current release of software and mitigate several security vulnerabilities. This maintenance will affect those services that utilize the Evanston Data Center load balancer service. 
Those services include:
- AD Federation
- AD LDAP
- CAESAR
- Directory
- Exchange/Email/ Microsoft Collaboration Services
- myHR: Careers
- myHR
- myHR: Reports
- NU Financial
- InfoEd
- NUInfo/http://www.northwestern.edu
- NUValidate
- Registry
- Sharepoint
- Splunk
- Voicemail
- WebSSO
Posted Apr 09, 2025 - 07:50 CDT
This scheduled maintenance affected: Infrastructure (Load Balancing (Network Connectivity)).