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Maintenance reference #6672

Information Notification

NES will be bringing online two new Ul Border Routers on October 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM.

• No traffic from existing Ul Border routers will be moved during this activity.
• No traffic impact to UIHC is expected.
• NES will be enabling routing protocols on the new border routers to confirm proper operation.
• The new devices will ingest the current route tables from the existing border routers, but no traffic will be directed to
  them at this time.
• This activity is strictly to validate routing protocol ingestion and ensure stability before future cutover.

ITS Research Services continues to troubleshoot ongoing performance/hardware issues with itf-rs-store36.hpc.uiowa.edu. We will need to take a maintenance to replace several hardware components. This work will require the system being fully powered down and taken out of the rack to service. 

Due to the nature of this work, we cannot provide a time frame on how long the server will be unavailable. At minimum we anticipate this being unavailable for 4-6 hours. We will provide updates as we complete critical stages of work on maintenance day. 

Linux software mirrors will be down for maintenance during this period.

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Maintenance reference #6676, #6788

Top Hat has scheduled maintenance on the first Sunday of every month, from 4:00 AM CT to 7:00 AM CT.

During the maintenance window, Top Hat will be unavailable and visitors to app.tophat.com will see a maintenance page.

We want to let you know that the Top Hat platform will undergo a service disruption beginning tonight at 7:00 PM CDT and lasting until approximately 7:00 AM CDT tomorrow. During this time, you may experience slower performance, and in some cases, temporary inaccessibility to courses.

Please rest assured that no data—including course content, student submissions, or grades—will be lost or compromised.

We understand this downtime may cause disruption, and we truly appreciate your patience and understanding as we work to improve the performance of the Top Hat platform. If you have any questions or

This maintenance involves security updates for file operations that could cause temporary disruptions while downloading files. New Quizzes may also be affected. Maintenance is expected to last up to 180 minutes.