Sakai Unavailable for Maintenance - Wed., Nov. 27, 6am

*** UPDATE *** November 27, 6:06am PT - Sakai is back online. The planned maintenance is complete.

*** UPDATE *** November 27, 6:00am PT - Sakai is currently offline for planned maintenance. The Sakai Support team is working to restore this service by 7:00am (if not before).

WHAT:  Sakai Unavailable for Maintenance

WHEN:  11/27/19  Duration:  6:00am - 7:00am PT

Description:  On Wednesday, November 27, Sakai (sakai.plu.edu) will be out of service from 6:00am to 7:00am (US Pacific Time) for maintenance. Please plan accordingly. If you have any questions, contact sakai@plu.edu.

Service(s) Impacted:  Sakai

Estimated Time to Resolution or Next Update:  Wed., Nov. 27, 6:00am

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RESOLVED: Banner Self-Service Currently Unavailable

WHAT: Banner Self-Service

WHEN: Thursday, November 14th, 1:00pm

WHERE: On & Off Campus

Current Status: Resolved

Description: UPDATE:  Access to Banner Self-Service has been restored.  The root cause of this issue has not been determined however I&TS staff will continue to monitor and research the situation.

At approximately 1:00 pm today, Thursday, November 14th, I&TS began to receive notification that Banner Self-Service is unavailable.  Members of the Information Systems team are currently working to identify the issue and hope to have a resolution soon.  This message will be updated as soon as more information is available or when the issue has been resolved.

Service(s) Impacted: Banner Self-Service

Workarounds: None




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Journals @ PLU not working for some EBSCO and ScienceDirect databases

WHAT: Journals @ PLU not working for some EBSCO and ScienceDirect databases

WHEN: 11/12/2019


Current Status: Open

Description: Links to some EBSCO and ScienceDirect journal titles in Journals @ PLU are going to the portal pages for these databases instead of to the journals they should be linking to.

Service(s) Impacted: Library

Workarounds: Look up the journals in the main library catalog, or use the EBSCO or ScienceDirect links on the library home page.


Root Cause / Continuous Improvement: To be determined.



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Sakai Unavailable for Maintenance - Fri., Nov. 15, 6am

*** UPDATE *** November 15, 6:39am PT - Sakai is back online. The planned maintenance is complete.

*** UPDATE *** November 15, 6:00am PT - Sakai is currently offline for planned maintenance. The Sakai Support team is working to restore this service by 7:00am (if not before).

WHAT:  Sakai Unavailable for Maintenance

WHEN:  11/15/19  Duration:  6:00am - 7:00am PT

Description:  On Friday, November 15, Sakai (sakai.plu.edu) will be out of service from 6:00am to 7:00am (US Pacific Time) for maintenance. Please plan accordingly. If you have any questions, contact sakai@plu.edu.

Service(s) Impacted:  Sakai

Estimated Time to Resolution or Next Update:  Fri., Nov. 15, 6:00am

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RESOLVED: Address Updates in Banner Administrative Pages and Self-Service

WHAT: Address Updates in Banner Administrative Pages and Self-Service

WHEN: Friday, November 8, 2019

WHERE: On and Off Campus

Current Status: Open

Description: UPDATE: The issue has been resolved.  All data entry is working as expected.
The October postal update for Clean Address was applied to Banner production late on November 7th.  This update appears to have created an issue with generating new, or updated existing addresses.  Users will get error messages in Administrative Pages and Self-Service when entering or updating addresses, but are not prevented from saving the records as unverified.

We have an urgent ticket with Runner Technologies and hope to have a resolution soon.  This post will be updated when the issue is resolved.

Service(s) Impacted: Banner Administrative Pages, Banner Self-Service

Workarounds: None





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Internet Service Provider Outage - Thurs., Oct. 15, 02:00AM-06:00AM

WHAT: PLU Internet Service Provider Maintenance

WHEN: 10/15/20  Duration: Periodic between 2-5AM

WHERE: Internet service in and out of campus

Current Status: Open

Description: One of PLU's Internet Service Providers will be performing maintenance on some of their equipment that supports one of our internet connections.  This work is scheduled between 2:00AM and 6:00AM Thursday morning, October 15th.

PLU has multiple ISP connections and has designed our connectivity to utilize all links whenever possible.  During this maintenance, our Internet service will be switched to our secondary ISP for all traffic. However, during the transition periods users may experience disruption to their connections.

Service(s) Impacted: Campus Internet Service

Workarounds: Secondary ISP should handle most of our Internet service needs.

Next Update:  Following completion of maintenance and confirmation from our ISP.

Check https://www.plu.edu/status/ for periodic updates.