Scheduled Power Outage (Jun 2012)

Electricity in the Kaiser and MacLeod Buildings is off for maintenance. Several ECE services, such as SMTP (outgoing e-mail), SMB (Windows network drives), download, and mirrors, are unavailable. Other services are operating at reduced capacity.

The scheduled outage window is 8 am to 8 pm, though service may be restored sooner.

The original e-mail announcement:

Hi,

On June 9, 2012, there will be a planned electrical outage affecting many buildings in this area of campus including ICICS, Kaiser and MacLeod. Power will be unavailable from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM and the buildings will be closed and locked (ie. no fob access and everyone is to vacate the building for safety reasons).

Offices and labs: The technical staff request that people shut down equipment (computers, printers, etc) in their offices when they leave before the outage. Please unplug the equipment to avoid potential damage from power spikes when electricity is restored. If you will be away from your office during the week leading up to the outage, please contact help@ece.ubc.ca to request that your equipment be turned off by the staff.

ECE's core services: Servers and network connectivity to the rest of campus and the Internet will be off for an hour or two before the outage and resume as quickly as we can afterwards. Mail service, and department-provided compute services will be unavailable. We will attempt to maintain a minimal web presence.

Chris Dumont - Manager, Technical and Physical Resources