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: Server Restarts; Service Interruption impacting employees and students Jul 28, 06:00-07:00 PDT

What is impacted: VIU Services including ithelp.viu.ca, learnsupport.viu.ca, wells.viu.ca and wordpress.viu.ca
Level of impact: Service Interruption. All services listed will be unavailable for up to 15 minutes during the maintenance window.
Timing: 6:00 am to 7:00 am Wednesday
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 6:00am. Do not use these systems between 6:00am to 7:00am.
Posted on Jul 21, 14:34 PDT

Past Incidents

Jul 27, 2021

No incidents reported today.

Jul 26, 2021

No incidents reported.

Jul 25, 2021

No incidents reported.

Jul 24, 2021

No incidents reported.

Jul 23, 2021

No incidents reported.

Jul 22, 2021

Maintenance: Student Printing; No Interruption

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jul 22, 16:15 PDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 22, 16:00 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: Student Printing at Powell River and Cowichan Campuses; We are updating the Print Servers for Cowichan and Powell River.
Level of impact: No Interruption.
Timing: 4pm, Thursday, July 22.
Preparation: None
Jul 21, 14:55 PDT

Jul 21, 2021

No incidents reported.

Jul 20, 2021

No incidents reported.

Jul 19, 2021

Maintenance: Network and Internet Services; Service Interruption

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jul 19, 23:00 PDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 19, 09:01 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: VIU wireless networks VIU-Secure, VIU-Guest and EduRoam – Technicians will be installing updates to our wireless authentication server. There should be no interruption to user connectivity.
Level of impact: No interruption.
Timing: 9:30am to 11:30pm pm, Monday, July 19.
Preparation: None.
Jul 14, 15:28 PDT

Access to VIU Network Drives (Departmental drives, U Drives) impacting employees and students.

Resolved - This incident is resolved.
Jul 19, 08:41 PDT

Update - We will continue to monitor until Monday,

Next update 9:30am, Monday, July 19
Jul 16, 16:44 PDT

Monitoring - Technicians have a fix in place, and are monitoring it to confirm it is working.

IF you still cannot connect to Network Drives or if you Student Computer Profile looks odd when logging in on campus, please reboot the computer and try again.

Next update: 3pm, Friday, July 16
Jul 16, 08:19 PDT

Investigating - Employees and students may be unable to access VIU Network Drives such as U-Drives and Network Shares.

If you are on-site on a VIU computer, please try login off , and back on. This should restore your access.
From off-site access over VPN, please try turning the VPN off, wait a few seconds, and then re-connect.

If the above steps do not restore your access, please contact the IT Service Desk.

The issue started occurring at 10am. If you have logged in any time after 10am today, you should not be impacted.

Resolution time is currently unknown.

Next update: 3pm today.
Jul 15, 11:25 PDT

Maintenance: Student Record System; Service Interruption impacting employees and students

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jul 19, 00:00 PDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 17, 00:01 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: VIU Student Record System (SRS) will be offline for maintenance.
Level of impact: Service Interruption. SRS and related e systems will be unavailable during maintenance window.
Timing:12am, Saturday, July 17 to 11:59pm, July 18.
Preparation: Please complete any work in SRS and log out prior to the maintenance window. Wait until after the maintenance window to log back in.
Jul 16, 09:43 PDT

Jul 18, 2021

No incidents reported.

Jul 17, 2021

Jul 16, 2021

Employees are unable to connect to VIU VPN via tunnel.viu.ca

Resolved - This has been resolved, and Employees can resume VPN connections over tunnel.viu.ca.
Jul 16, 14:23 PDT

Investigating - Currently employees cannot make a VPN connection to the VIU network via tunnel.viu.ca.

Technicians are currently investigating.

If your VIU device has GlobalProtect installed, or you are connecting via personal device you may follow the instructions here to set it up: https://technology.viu.ca/help/vpn

Resolution time is currently unknown.
Next update will be by 4pm today.
Jul 16, 13:47 PDT

Jul 15, 2021

Maintenance: VIU Network Shared Drives ; No Interruption

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jul 15, 10:14 PDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 15, 10:00 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: Access to VIU Network Shared Drives – Technicians will be performing changes to improve security when employees access VIU Network Drives. There should be no interruption in access while the changes are made.
Level of impact: No Interruption.
Timing: 10apm to 10:30 am, Thursday, July 15.
Preparation: None.
Jul 14, 15:30 PDT

Maintenance: VIU GlobalProtect VPN; Service Interruption

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jul 15, 00:10 PDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 15, 00:01 PDT

Scheduled - What is impacted: VIU Global Protect VPN Service – IT is performing updates the GlobalProtect VPN tool. The software will update automatically on employee devices.
Level of impact: Service interruption. During the maintenance window, employees may be disconnected from VPN, and have to re-connect.
Timing: 12am to 12:10am, Thursday, July 15.
Preparation: If working remotely via VPN, please save your work prior to the maintenance window.
Jul 14, 15:33 PDT

Jul 14, 2021

No incidents reported.

Jul 13, 2021

No incidents reported.