Computer Services @ Davis

Well, let's see - on Monday our web server choked, as I've already outlined in a previous post. Pretty much the rest of the week was spent doing various things to get everything back up and running. At present I believe everything is fixed with two minor(?) exceptions. First, we need to do some cosmetic work on EZProxy (that is the program that allows you to login to Ebsco and Firstsearch, among others). Second, some files in some classes on Moodle are gone. My mission on Monday is to go through the process of restoring those files. Please bear with us as we work through this process. I guess the silver lining is that we've never had a complete webserver failure before. Therefore we weren't really sure how long it would take to restore, we now have a much better idea. I'd like to sort of put together a "response plan" so that in the future we can have a much faster turn around if (let's be honest - when) something like this happens again.

Have a great weekend everyone. Hopefully come Tuesday we'll only have to deal with minor cosmetic fixes to EZProxy.

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Calvin Park
System Administrator