OIT Planned Maintenance: Failover Test - Priority 1 Disaster Recovery Services

Scheduled Maintenance Report for Brown University

Completed

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Posted Feb 28, 2026 - 12:00 EST

In progress

Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Posted Feb 28, 2026 - 06:00 EST

Update

We will be undergoing scheduled maintenance during this time.
Posted Feb 27, 2026 - 15:16 EST

Scheduled

OIT is currently conducting a failover test of our Priority 1 Disaster Recovery services.

During this time, MyAccount is in maintenance mode and will not be available for services like password and account management. Group Management with Grouper are also unavailable.

There may be some interruptions to other services while they are being failed over to our Disaster Recovery site. Additionally, some services may be available in read-only mode during the test.

All services are expected to be tested and restored to normal operation by noon today.

Here is a list of the services that are being tested during this time:

• Active Directory
• Brown Kubernetes Engine (BKE)
• Domain Name Service (DNS) - External and Internal
• Kerberos authentication
• Keyserver software license manager
• LDAP Directory service (Auth, Directory, and Registry)
• my.brown.edu
• Network Address Translation (NAT)
• Network Time Protocol (NTP)
• Network Traffic Manager (Global and Local)
• RADIUS Network authentication
• Registered Mail Relay (Regmail)
• Shibboleth authentication
• Today@Brown
• VPN (Virtual Private Network)
Posted Feb 27, 2026 - 15:15 EST
This scheduled maintenance affected: Other (Other).