We intend to upgrade Horizon over 14-15 Dec. Please let Library IT know asap if the following will cause problems

Monday 14 December
4.00pm – All Horizon staff users except Lending Desks to log out. No reports to be run after this time
5.05pm – Horizon will go down for an hour, when it comes back it will be slower than usual
After 9.00pm – Horizon will be down for 2 hours to run database checking
Tuesday 15 December
Horizon and the catalogue will be up and down from 7.00am-11.30am. HIP (catalogue) will be upgraded while the custom views in Horizon are being fixed and staff test the Horizon upgrade. LIbrary IT will run dayend.

For users this will affect the catalogue, parts of the Library website that are dynamically created from Horizon and some Library applications such as interloans. While the catalogue will be available for large chunks of this upgrade, it will be going up and down without warning and when up will be slower than normal.

Apart from Lending, LIbrary staff should expect to have no access to Horizon from 4.00pm Monday to noon on Tuesday.

As we are upgrading Horizon, Sybase, HIP and Java, we need to do this upgrade when Library, SirsiDynix and ICTS staff are available so we will not be able to do it in the weekend as usual.

There is not a lot of immediate benefit in this upgrade but it does put us on the latest Sybase and Java versions which provided administrative and security benefits as the current version of Sybase is no longer supported.

We are still looking for testers, please contact Donna or Peter if you are available to do testing.
Cheers, Anne