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Appleton Tower complete shutdown on weekend of 29 June 2024
Essential maintenance work in Appleton Tower (AT) is scheduled for Saturday 29th June 2024. This involves replacing a faulty generator auto transfer switch in the main electrical switch room of AT, which serves the main data centre switchboard. The maintenance will require a complete electrical shutdown of AT, potentially lasting up to 8 hours. Consequently, this will affect the entire Appleton Tower, impacting lighting, doors, lifts, computing equipment and other facilities. Therefore, access to AT will not be permitted on this day.
Despite the Informatics Computing Team's efforts to minimise service disruption, several computing services will remain unavailable or at risk from Friday 28th June evening until Monday, 1st July 2024. A detailed list of affected services can be found in the links below. Given the fluid nature of the situation, the blog posts will be regularly updated with the latest information.
- AT June 29th 2024 Power Down – Services Unit
- AT June 29th 2024 Power Down – Research and Teaching Unit
- AT June 29th 2024 Power Down – Systems Unit
- Appleton Tower full power shutdown and User Support managed services
We regret any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding as this essential work is carried out to ensure the reliability of AT facilities.
Informatics services
Downtime for Informatics services is announced here or on the sys-announce list. It may also get a mention on the Computing Systems blog or on Mastodon at mastodon.social/@infalerts.
University services
Downtime for University-wide services is announced at IS status and alerts.