(authorized delay of any activity)
Due to the high impact, high visibility and need for administrative applications and ITS services during specific times, ITS will continue to have moratoriums.
Because it is a fact that every department has a different heavy/critical workload period and it would be impossible to maintain our environment if moratoriums were called for all heavy/critical workload periods, it was agreed that the majority of the moratoriums will exist for systems and supporting services.
However, during midterm and final exams week, services used by students such as: pod access, Web access, printing services and email, must not be compromised and a moratorium will be in effect for those services.
ITS groups will continue to take the departmental needs into consideration when scheduling system changes, and not just during the moratorium period.
If Network or system changes must be made during the moratorium period, the responsible system group will schedule a period of time for testing by ITS staff prior to the workload demand by the students and administrative offices. Procedures for quickly backing out the changes or resolving problems must be in place.
CAVEAT: Should a hardware/software emergency occur, hardware and software changes will be made during the moratorium period. There are also predetermined stand-alone times that Network and System changes usually occur: Tuesday & Thursday from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m.
The ITS Alerts Web page will be used to keep track of the moratorium dates. These dates will then be announced at the Wednesday Change Control meetings, and will be confirmed with the functional groups on campus that will be affected by the moratorium.
Moratorium dates will occur during the following time periods:
Beginning the Friday at Midnight prior to the first week of classes and the entire first week of class, three times a year — Summer, Fall, Spring.
Pre-Registration period: Two weeks in the Fall beginning Midnight before Thanksgiving and two weeks in the Spring. The Spring pre-registration begin dates change each year.
Midterm and final exams week (six times a year).
Calendar Year-end payroll: the last business week of the year which should include the Friday and weekend before the last work week.