Monthly Archives: April 2007

Explanation of Blackboard Outage, Mon April 16th 10:30-11:50pm

By Glen Parker | Published: April 17, 2007
Monday night around 10:30pm, a problem with the memory on the database server was encountered. This caused all Blackboard connections to the database to close, rendering Blackboard unavailable at this time. A restart of the database was required, and Blackboard was restored to full operation by 12 midnight. The exact nature of the problem [...]
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Blackboard 7.2 Upgrade Announcement – Updated

By Glen Parker | Published: April 13, 2007
myUSF, USF’s customized implementation of the Blackboard Academic Suite, is to be upgraded to the latest version of Blackboard, 7.2. This software provides new features, as well as additional important performance enhancements that have been made to the system. myUSF will be unavailable as of 2pm Friday, May 11th, until 8am Sunday, May 13th. [...]
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New Blackboard Database Server

By Glen Parker | Published: April 6, 2007
Last night while all but 30 of you were sleeping, I snuck in during the scheduled Blackboard maintenance period and installed new a database server. The old server was a Sun V880, which had 8 1.0Ghz UltraSparc3 processors and 32Gb Memory. This worthy workhorse of a database served us well for 3 years, having never [...]
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