IT Services

On Thursday, September 24, 2020, from 5:30 a.m. to 6:30 a.m., DGIT’s Network Services team will be migrating the existing wireless network in the School of Dentistry building to DGIT’s services. This migration will result in improved wireless performance and seamless coverage throughout the Dentistry building and the Center for Health Sciences. 

Network Services will be migrating Vlan79 (128.97.98.128/26 network) configured on the Data Center environment to the new Infrastructure on September 30th, 2020 from 6:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m.  This will impact UCOP switches, as well as ITS LDAP servers that reside on this network. Services on these hosts will be intermittently available during the migration.

On Monday, September 21st, two configuration changes will be made for the UCLA Zoom instance.

IT Services -- Network Services will be performing a software code upgrade on the Datacenter nexus switches on Sunday, September 27, 2020 from 12:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. The upgrade is required to fix a software vulnerability. We'll be upgrading the code on one DCN device at a time, and no outage is expected for the dual-attached hosts as traffic will be re-routed through redundant devices. There's a potential brief connection disruption while the traffic is being re-routed.

UCLA IT Services — Network Services will be performing maintenance to Campus Backbone border routers on Sunday, September 27, 2020 from 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The border routers' connections to CENIC will be re-configured to trunks to accommodate VLANs to Internet2 for Radware. No network interruption is expected during the maintenance window as traffic will be routed away from each connection prior to changes.

On Thursday, September 10, 2020, from 5:30 a.m. to 6:30 a.m., DGIT’s Network Services team will be migrating the existing wireless network in the Fielding School of Public Health building to DGIT’s services. This migration will result in improved wireless performance and seamless coverage throughout the building and the Center for Health Sciences. 

To better use Zoom's Cloud Recording capability, IT Services will be working with the CCLE (Common Collaboration and Learning Environment) team to install an integration on Monday, September 7th to improve meeting and webinar recording management and workflow.

UCLA IT Services — Network Services will be performing maintenance to the Campus VPN servers on Thursday, August 27, 2020 from 12:01 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. The AnyConnect software on the Campus VPN servers will be upgraded to version 4.9.01095 and all clients will automatically auto-update after connecting. Campus VPN service is not expected to be interrupted during the maintenance window.

Network Services will be migrating Vlan79 (128.97.98.128/26 network) configured on the Datacenter environment to the new infrastructure on Thursday, August 27th from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. This will impact UCOP switches, as well as ITS LDAP servers that reside on this network. Services on these hosts will be intermittently available during the migration.

UCLA IT Services — Network Services will be performing maintenance to the Campus VPN servers on Friday, July 31, 2020 from 12:01 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. The AnyConnect software on the Campus VPN servers will be upgraded to version 4.9.00086 for macOS clients. Campus VPN service is not expected to be interrupted during the maintenance window.

UCLA IT Services -- Network Services will be performing emergency wireless network maintenance on Wednesday, July 22, 2020 from 8:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. 

IT Services will be performing wireless network maintenance on Sunday, July 26, 2020 from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

UCLA IT Services -- Network Services will be performing maintenance to the Campus VPN servers on Monday, July 20, 2020 from 12:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. The AnyConnect software on the Campus VPN servers will be upgraded to version 4.9.00086. Campus VPN service is not expected to be interrupted during the maintenance window.

UCLA IT Services -- Network Services will be performing campus wireless authentication server maintenance on Sunday, July 19, 2020 from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. The servers will be restarted one at a time, and there is no expected interruption of service during the maintenance window.

UCLA IT Services -- Network Services will be performing a software code upgrade on the Data Center firewall appliances on Sunday, June 28, 2020 from 12:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. In addition, the ASA code running on the appliances will also be upgraded. The code will be upgraded on one DCN firewall at a time, and no outage is expected as traffic will be re-routed through the redundant firewall appliances. There could be a potential connection disruption while the traffic is being re-routed and the upgrade is being performed. 

UCLA IT Services -- Network Services will be performing maintenance to the Campus VPN on Sunday, June 14, 2020 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and from 9:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. Two VPN appliances will be removed from the cluster and dedicated for departmental VPN use. Campus VPN service is not expected to be interrupted, however some users may need to reconnect to the VPN during the maintenance window.

UCLA IT Services – Network Services will be performing maintenance to the GACnet captive portal to use new radius authentication servers on Tuesday, June 16, 2020 from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. Users who are currently authenticated during the maintenance window will remain connected. A brief interruption to new users' login/authentication could be expected during the maintenance window.

The maintenance that ServiceNow had originally scheduled for this Friday, June 12, has been postponed to July 17, 2020.