On Friday morning, one of the Library’s Servers is being moved to the new Machine Room over on the Education Campus. This will disable some services. Hopefully the disruption will be over by 9.30 – 10.00 am.
What won’t work:
Dynamic Web Pages
Web forms (e.g. Interloans)
Remote access to databases
Meeting room bookings and Course bookings
a few other odds and ends.
A note about Saturday morning. The Horizon and Web services will be moving and neither will be available. However, we are hoping these will be up by 10 am when Education and PSL open. We will talk directly to these branches.
At 8 am on Friday 21st, ICTS will be restarting one of the servers that manages staff logins. If you are logging in at about that time, and you have problems, leave it for about 10 minutes and try again. If already logged in, you may lose access to your P: drive during the outage.
One of the boxes that LibGuides allows you to create is the RSS feed box. The process is fairly straightforward, and only requires you to add the RSS feed url to the box. I’ve added a feed to the School of Law collection to the Law Library’s LibGuides homepage – have a look if you’re interested.
The easiest way to get the URL for the RSS feed on the Repository is to visit the Repository (http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz) and drill down to the level you want. You’ll normally see a nice bright orange RSS feed icon. Click on the RSS 2.0 link and then copy the url. In the School of Law’s case, (and by way of example) the URL is http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/feed/rss_2.0/10092/707.
HOWEVER, this is a blunt tool and it may not suit you, as the collection level for the Repository is very broad. However, the idea is applicable to any other RSS feed, and you can still use the technique to tap into someone else’s subject-specific site, if the Repository doesn’t float your boat.
For much of Wednesday these two services will be unavailable. The physical servers on which they depend are being moved to the new data centre over at the Education site.
Details may change and I will confirm with affected staff on Friday but on Saturday there will likely be significant disruptions to staff networks – but students should be unaffected.
There will be no email for staff and no network drives on Saturday. Staff who try to log on to a PC on Saturday will get error messages and only a local profile. Some initial recommendations: leave front desk machines running on Friday night – there will be error messages about offline connections in the morning, but Horizon should be fine. At the moment, I’m not sure about Diebold.
Lin will ensure local profiles exist on front desk machines so that if they are logged off, they should re-connect well enough to use Horizon.
Staff and student fileserving will be unavailable between 0800 and 1300, 5/10/2008, while servers are being updated to implement the recommended remedy from HP to mitigate the issues experienced last Thursday.
We expect this to affect many staff P: and K: drives, and students with user codes starting with A,C,K,M,N,O,S,T,J,R.
A number of legal databases have been blocked on those Library PCs that do not require students to login (e.g. Express PCs). This is because these databases do not have Walk-in licences, and were being used by visitors in breach of their licences.
The databases are:
Brookers, Lexis/Nexis, Westlaw, CCH, Lawbook, Heinonline and AGIS.
