The essential summer works programme includes testing, upgrades, and the modernisation of many of Trinity’s IT infrastructure services.

It is not anticipated that any planned loss of service or downtime will be required but for the duration of the works some services will be running, for a short period, “at risk”.  An “at risk” period is when services have a higher risk of failing and being temporarily unavailable.   

Further information, including the actual dates and times, of this upcoming work will be added below, and this information will continue to be updated over the summer.

Types of works

Annual High Availability Testing

We will, once gain, complete high availability testing across our infrastructure.  These tests give us confidence that, in the event of an unplanned server or data centre failure, our services will continue uninterrupted and remain available to you. 

Upgrades

We will enhance and upgrade much of the central infrastructure such as our servers' operating systems, VPN, Load-Balancers, IPAM, MIM Identity Management system, VMware, email Exchange servers, Wireless and Data Centre systems. 

 

Planned works

  • Blackboard infrastructure upgrade - Tuesday, 4th August, 2am-4am
  • Implementation of new option of Turnitin Assignment feature with enhanced similarity report - Thursday, 13th August
  • Apply new SSL cert for anyconnect.tcd.ie VPN service - Thursday, 6th August  | 08:00 to 09:00
  • VPN ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance) upgrade and HA test - Tuesday, 18th August  | 08:00 to 12:00
  • Internet Firewalls upgrade and HA test - Thursday, 20th August  | 08:00 to 12:00

Completed works

  • Upgrade of central storage and NAS infrastructure -  Thursday 9th July | 07:00 to 12:00
  • Upgrade to DNS/DHCP servers, 2nd July
  • Upgrade Firewall Management VM, 2nd July
  • Upgrade to MyTrinityApps portal - 11th June, 08:30 to10:30
  • Linux Kernel Patching, 18th June
  • F5 load balancers BigIP Upgrade and Switchover Testing - 25th June
  • Annual HA (high availability) testing for www.tcd.ie on-prem, 25th June
  • PHP upgrade on www.tcd.ie web servers (on-prem) - Tuesday, 14th & 21st July
  • Disable student enrolment integration from CMIS into SITS - Monday, 20th July
  • Add new RSS publication types - Thursday, 23rd July
  • Apply new SSL cert to www.tcd.ie - Tuesday, 28th July