IS Alerts
Today's Alerts
| Title | Time | Impact | Affected Services | Description | Criticality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maintenance of micro services machine Infrastructure | Mon 31-Aug-26, 08:00 Until Mon 31-Aug-26, 09:00 |
1 hour Degraded Service | The nginx package will be updated on the mserv machines. | Low | |
| Mon 31-Aug-26, 09:00 Until Mon 31-Aug-26, 10:00 |
1 hour At Risk | ||||
| Brief period of Pure downtime | Sat 29-Aug-26, 07:00 Until Sat 29-Aug-26, 16:00 |
9 hours At Risk |
| At some point during Saturday 29 or Sunday 30 August there will be a short Pure outage as Elsevier perform their monthly server patching. Pure will be down for 10-15 minutes at some point between 0700 and 1600 on one of these days whilst the application is restarted.There should be no noticeable outage for the Pure portal (Edinburgh Research Explorer). | Low |
| Sun 30-Aug-26, 07:00 Until Sun 30-Aug-26, 16:00 |
9 hours At Risk | ||||
| Blogs.ed Service Unavailable | Wed 12-Aug-26, 09:30 - Ongoing |
18 days, 20 hours, 1 minute Outage |
| Due to an ongoing incident the Blogs.ed service will remain unavailable until IS are confident the service is safe and secure. We cannot provide a specific date for restoration, but we are working urgently to resolve this. Users will not be able to access the service during this time. We will update this service alert accordingly. User with account have been updated on the 21st August via email. The blogs and learn user groups have been updated on the 21st August with further information. | High |
| Collaborate screen sharing not working in Chrome (32-bit) | Tue 02-Jun-26, 12:00 - Ongoing |
89 days, 17 hours, 31 minutes Degraded Service |
| Users of Chrome 32-bit are unable to use "Share Application/Screen" in Collaborate. The user sharing the content will be able to see it but participants in the session will see a black screen. Users of Chrome 64-bit are not affected. Workaround: Other supported browsers are not affected by this issue so we recommend switching to Edge (Firefox is not supported by Collaborate) until further notice. | Medium |