UCLA IT Services — Network Services will be replacing the Campus Backbone distribution router at Anderson with a new hardware on Sunday, March 5, 0600-1800. Departments are not expected to experience a network outage as the primary distribution router at CSB1 will be intact and will provide connectivity.
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Network Services will be replacing the Campus Backbone distribution router at CSB1 with a new hardware on Sunday, January 29, 0600-1800. Departments with a single BGP connection only to the CSB1 distribution router will experience an outage.
IT Services is pleased to share that Apple has confirmed the release of received confirmation from Apple that they released an update to address the peer-to-peer issue affecting Wi-Fi connectivity for Apple MacBook M1/M2 devices and Apple Mobile devices.
Network Services will be replacing the Campus Backbone distribution router at CSB1 with a new hardware on Sunday, December 11, 2022, from 6 a.m. - 6 p.m.
On Monday, November 28, at 8 p.m., the Network Engineering team will be updating the radius.auth.ucla.edu SSL certificate used for the eduroam wireless network as part of following security best practices. No downtime is anticipated, but users may be prompted to trust a new certificate.
In keeping with my monthly commitment to you, I’d like to share the IT Services Executive Dashboard. To accompany our monthly status, I’ve collected a few notable highlights for you:
My commitment is to ensure that our academic, administration and research partners are provided with a monthly, campus-wide view of our IT Services (ITS) project portfolio as outlined in our IT Executive Dashboard.
As we embark on the Digital Campus Roadmap this fiscal year, I want to ensure that all of our academic, administration and research partners throughout UCLA have full visibility to our portfolio.
Confluence Server has been updated and patched; the service is back online.
This is the final reminder about the changes coming to the look and feel of the Duo Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) prompt when logging in to services with UCLA Single Sign-On (SSO).
As part of the ongoing VMware Virtual Cloud Datacenter (VCDR) project, all VMs will be replicated over to VCDR starting on May 17.
UCLA utilizes Duo Security as our vendor for MFA integration, and the company has announced an updated version of the MFA prompt named “Universal Prompt.” To address a critical security vulnerability, UCLA needs to convert to Universal Prompt on Tuesday, May 24, 2022.
UCLA IT Services — Network Services will be performing maintenance to Campus Backbone core router on Sunday, April 24, 6:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Core router at Anderson site will be replaced with a new hardware. No network interruption is expected during the maintenance window as traffic will be routed to redundant paths.
We'd like to raise awareness about a serious vulnerability with Google Chrome and Chromium based browsers such as Microsoft Edge. Please see the details below. In short, all affected users need to update and restart the browser to resolve the vulnerability.
ITS would like to make you aware of a planned voice router replacement scheduled for Sunday, March 6, 2022, from 7 a.m. – 4 p.m. The voice router's current hardware and software within one of ITS' primary service locations must be replaced before it reaches End of Service (EoS)/End of Life (EoL), in order to continue to provide reliable voice services.
