Universities of Wisconsin Administration facilitates the advancement of the support and implementation of information technology and library services in learning and administration across all Universities of Wisconsin campuses.

Planned System Outages

Systemwide IT outages

  1. UWSysNet Ciena 6500 Firmware Upgrade

    **Outage Description** On June 13th, 2025 between 20:00 and June 14th, 2025 03:00 Sysnet engineers will be upgrading the software on the Ciena 6500 optical nodes. While this will likely cause all circuits to bounce during FPGA upgrades, it will be done in a systematic way to avoid an outage of any campus. We will be reserving June 15th between 20:00 and June 16th 03:00 as a backup date in case all upgrades are not completed first night. **Workarounds** There are no known workarounds at this time. **Estimated time to resolution or next update** This outage will be updated as we receive new information.

  1. HRS- Human Resource System Outage

    HRS will be down for maintenance. HRS/EPM may be unavailable to users during this time. This also includes end user access to Self Service modules and Timesheet entry, as well as Applicants using Candidate Gateway. HRS batch processing is limited or suspended during this time. Maintenance processes in PeopleSoft require clearing application and web server cache. The HRS system to respond slowly, as cache is re-built, immediately following maintenance outages.

  1. Web Hosting (Linux Servers) Outage

    The Web Hosting (Linux Servers) service will be unavailable while maintenance is performed.

  1. Workload Automation Outage

    The Workload Automation service will be unavailable while maintenance is performed.

  1. DOT Fiber Maintenance - Verona,WI

    On 06/18/2025 between the hours of 00:01 - 06:00 CDT, UW Sysnet fiber providers will be relocating a segment of fiber on Hwy 151 between Verona and Mt. Horeb due to road work. During the maintenance, the following circuits will be down and traffic will rely on alternate paths: - 3 x 10G UW Whitewater Rock County to UW Madison via UW Platteville - 100G UW Platteville Gardner to UW Madison CSSC - 100G UW Whitewater to UW Madison via Platteville