CS Network Status

This page lists both active and recently closed CS network alerts. If you would like more information about an alert, or if you have an issue you would like to report, send email to helpdesk [-at-] cs [dot] umd [dot] edu or call extension 52720.

Current Active Alerts

1 current active alerts

Updated Issue Summary Impact
07.02.2025 15:43 Maintenance work on our AVW datacenter firewall on 07/06/2025 from 10am to 12pm

All users of CS IT services housed in our datacenter may notice two network outages lasting fewer than 5 minutes each.

Moderate

Past Alerts

Updated Issue Summary Impact
05.30.2024 08:30 Wed. 05/29/2024 9 pm - 10:30 pm: upgrade Identity servers.

We are performing upgrade of our Identity Servers. Some operations like updating passwords may not work properly during this upgrade.

Light
05.29.2024 14:45 Mon. 5/27: OS updates and server reboots

A few servers will recieve OS updates followed by a server reboot. Minor disruption. For details of specific servers, Please refer to email sent 5/24 @ 2:39 w/ Subj. "Mem'l Day, 5/327:Low impact maintenance" (yes typo was in the email that was sent.)

Light
04.04.2024 17:05 Printer Maintainence Apr. 4th 5PM-5:30PM

Printers in Iribe will be shortly unavailable. 

Moderate
03.20.2024 14:09 Spring Break: CSD System Maintenance (multiple days)

Daily maintenance scheduled 3/16 - 3/19. Dates 3/17 - 3/19 will impact commonly used services. Dates 3/16 & 3/18 most will see no disruption with minimal disruption for specific users. Please refer to email w/ Subject includes "Maintenance" sent on 3/15.

Moderate
03.11.2024 16:40 Mar. 11 1:40PM - 2:30PM Emergency Maintainence

Department websites and directories were unavailable due to storage server issues.

Heavy
01.05.2024 09:11 Dec 25-31 - Minor Network Changes

We will be making some changes to address an issue found during our failover testing on Sunday. We don't expect users to notice any issues. We will announce further failover testing to confirm the issue has been resolved.

Light
12.24.2023 15:48 Dec 24, 2PM-8PM - Network Failover Testing, no singificant impact expected Moderate
12.18.2023 18:56 Dec 17 9PM-12AM: Router Firmware Upgrades - Minimal Traffic Disruption Moderate
12.05.2023 08:40 Emergency Maintenance Window for NFS servers 9 -12 pm

Our team is performing necessary updates and configurations that will increase our NFS servers' performance and reliability of the service. However, there will be a brief downtime for CSD websites, CS VPN and DHCP.

Heavy
11.28.2023 11:55 Emergency Maintenance Windows for the NFS servers.

NFS servers would be running in degraded mode. Our department is working actively on resolving the issues that are affecting our services. 

Heavy