Information Technology Services Advisory Page Status

All Systems Operational

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Our technology advisory page provides up-to-date information about the operations of Vancouver Island University's Information Technology systems and services. Scroll down for scheduled maintenance and incident history.

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Computer Accounts and Files Operational

Email Operational

Network: Internet, Wireless, and Wired Operational

Printing Operational

Telephone System Operational

Websites and Learning Tools Operational

VIULearn (D2L) Operational

Library Services Operational

University Website (viu.ca) Operational

InVIU Operational

Student Self-service: My Student Record Operational

Administrative Systems Operational

Student Records (SRS) Operational

Financial Records System (FRS) Operational

HR/Payroll/Employee & Applicant Portal (Stargarden) Operational

Admin Systems Portal (VIUWeb) Operational

Operational

Degraded Performance

Partial Outage

Major Outage

Maintenance

Scheduled Maintenance

Maintenance: VIU Websites; No Service Interruption Jul 6, 10:00-15:00 PDT

What is impacted: VIU Websites. Our Web team performs updates to our Drupal Web Content Management System.
Level of impact: No Interruption. While no outage is expected, saving content during this timeframe within the Drupal platform may be slower.
Timing: 10am to 3pm, every Wednesday
Preparation: None
Posted on Jun 29, 13:39 PDT

Maintenance: IT Client and Ticket Portals; Service Interruption Jul 8, 21:00 - Jul 9, 00:00 PDT

What is impacted: IT Client and Ticket Portals; Every Friday our vendor performs maintenance on the servers hosting the IT Ticket System (https://ithelp.viu.ca) and the IT Client Portal (https://technology.viu.ca).
Level of impact: Service Interruption. Employees will be unable to access the above sites/services during the maintenance window.
Timing: 9pm to 12:00 am, every Friday.
Preparation: None required. If you need to submit an IT Request during the maintenance window please e-mail ithelp@viu.ca. Once the maintenance is complete, an IT request will automatically be created based on your e-mail and you will be e-mailed a ticket number.
Posted on Jul 5, 11:55 PDT

Maintenance: B250 Power Outage; Level of Interruption Jul 9, 08:00-11:00 PDT

What is impacted: B250 Power Outage; The electrical meter in building 250 is being repaired.
Level of impact: Closed to occupancy. No one will be permitted in the building during the maintenance period. Devices that lost power during the outage may need to be turned back on.
Timing: 8am to 11am, Saturday, July 9.
Preparation: Before leaving for the weekend, employees in B250 save their work and shut down their computers. When returning to work after the outage, please remember to power back on your computer.
Posted on Jun 29, 14:26 PDT

Maintenance: VIU Websites; No Service Interruption Jul 13, 10:00-15:00 PDT

Past Incidents

Jul 5, 2022

No incidents reported today.

Jul 4, 2022

Maintenance: VIUTube and Kaltura Capture; Change to Content Creation

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jul 4, 12:00 PDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 4, 09:01 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: VIUTube Uploads and Kaltura Capture; Creation and uploading of content will be disabled on viuvideos.viu.ca. Users can upload and record new media entries using the new VIUTube interface.
Level of impact: New Workflow for adding content. Once this work is completed, the new VIUTube platform will be accessible using the VIUTube links on the VIULearn homepage and course navigation bars.
Timing: 9am to 12pm, Monday, July 4.
Preparation: None required. For more information please check out the updates on the CIEL blog: https://wordpress.viu.ca/ciel
Jun 29, 14:16 PDT

Jul 3, 2022

No incidents reported.

Jul 2, 2022

Maintenance: IT Client and Ticket Portals; Service Interruption

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jul 2, 00:00 PDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 1, 21:00 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: IT Client and Ticket Portals; Every Friday our vendor performs maintenance on the servers hosting the IT Ticket System (https://ithelp.viu.ca) and the IT Client Portal (https://technology.viu.ca).
Level of impact: Service Interruption. Employees will be unable to access the above sites/services during the maintenance window.
Timing: 9pm to 12:00 am, every Friday.
Preparation: None required. If you need to submit an IT Request during the maintenance window please e-mail ithelp@viu.ca. Once the maintenance is complete, an IT request will automatically be created based on your e-mail and you will be e-mailed a ticket number.
Jun 29, 13:36 PDT

Jul 1, 2022

Jun 30, 2022

No incidents reported.

Jun 29, 2022

Maintenance: VIU Websites; No Service Interruption

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jun 29, 15:03 PDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jun 29, 10:00 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: VIU Websites. Our Web team performs updates to our Drupal Web Content Management System.
Level of impact: No Interruption. While no outage is expected, saving content during this timeframe within the Drupal platform may be slower.
Timing: 10am to 3pm, every Wednesday
Preparation: None
Jun 22, 10:30 PDT

Maintenance: Server Restarts; Service Interruption impacting employees and students

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jun 29, 07:00 PDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jun 29, 06:01 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: VIU Services including wordpress.viu.ca, and some services internal to IT. All VIU Linux servers are receiving monthly updates and must be restarted. For the VIU community, wordpress.viu.ca would be most visible service impacted.
Level of impact: Service Interruption. All services listed will be unavailable for up to 15 minutes during the maintenance window.
Timing: 6am to 7am, Wednesday, June 29.
Description: All Linux servers are receiving monthly updates and must be restarted.
Preparation: Please close these systems and all applications connected to these systems before 6am. Do not use these systems between 6am to 7am.
Jun 22, 14:00 PDT

Jun 28, 2022

No incidents reported.

Jun 27, 2022

Maintenance: VIU Online Service Logins; Service Interruption

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jun 27, 22:00 PDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jun 27, 21:00 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: VIU Online Account Logins; VIU Technicians are installing security updates to our login server. Logins to VIU Online services that use the login page https://adfs.viu.ca/ may display an error message while the updates are being installed. Services that use this login include: UBW, Unit4, Hireserve, Zoom, VIULearn, Starrez, VIUVideos, Co-Cirrucular Involvement App, WeVu.video and internal VIU Enterprise Applications located at https://isapp.viu.ca/.
Level of impact: Service Interruption. Unless already logged into these services, you will not be able to login to them until after the maintenance is complete.
Timing: 9pm to 10pm, Monday, June 27.
Preparation: If you need to maintain access to these services during the outage, please log into them before the maintenance window begins.
Jun 22, 14:55 PDT

Maintenance: VIU Email; Service Interruption

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jun 27, 11:00 PDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jun 27, 10:00 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: VIU Email including Webmail, Outlook and 3rd Party Mail Apps; Technicians are updating VIU's e-mail servers. This updates the encryption used between clients and our VIU e-mail server.
Level of impact: Service Interruption. All services listed may be unavailable for up to 1 hour during the maintenance window.
Timing: 8pm to 9pm, Monday, June 27.
Preparation: You will still be able to access your e-mail during the maintenance window but you may see certificate warnings, or errors. It is recommend you close your e-mail app and wait until the maintenance window is complete. It is possible after the maintenance window some devices may still display certificate warnings. Please reboot the device and try again before contacting the IT Service Desk for assistance.
Jun 22, 14:54 PDT

Jun 26, 2022

No incidents reported.

Jun 25, 2022

Maintenance: IT Client and Ticket Portals; Service Interruption

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jun 25, 00:00 PDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jun 24, 21:00 PDT

Jun 24, 2022

Jun 23, 2022

No incidents reported.

Jun 22, 2022

Maintenance: VIU Websites; No Service Interruption

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jun 22, 15:00 PDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jun 22, 10:00 PDT

Jun 21, 2022

Account Maintenance Tool - Error Message

Resolved - This incident has now been resolved.
Jun 21, 10:27 PDT

Update - Most account tools have returned to normal, and error messages should not be popping up. The only exception is the Temporary Account Creation Tool, which is still being worked on.

Next update: 10:30am, June 14.
Jun 20, 15:13 PDT

Identified - Employees may receive a "stream not readable" error when using VIU Employee Account Maintenance Tools or the Student Record System.

Please note, the action you were doing when the error pops up, will complete.
Eg: When creating a computer account, the error pops up. The computer account will still be created, despite this error.

Technicians have determined the source of the error, and are working to remediate it.

Resolution time: Unknown.
Next update: 3:30pm, today.
Jun 20, 10:14 PDT

Maintenance: Software Update; Computer Restart

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jun 21, 01:00 PDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jun 18, 01:00 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: Employee and student computers; Updates for Office 2016 are being installed.
Level of impact: Computer restart. Installations and restarts will only occur during maintenance windows.
Timing: beginning 1am, Saturday June 18. Continuing until all computers updated.
Preparation: Software updates can cause computers to restart. We recommend that you save and close your work at the end of every day then log off or restart your computer. Do not shut down your computer systems or they will not receive the updates. Your system may not update the first night and may update any of the following nights depending on update load.
Jun 15, 13:38 PDT