IT Status

Networking will be performing OS updates on Westville’s border firewalls to resolve issues with logging and to stay up-to-date with security advisories.

There will be no impact to network services due to redundancy

Start:  11:00 pm, Wednesday, 11/19/2025

End:    2:00 am, Thursday, 11/20/2025

Several Purdue and non-Purdue websites and services were unavailable due to a global outage affecting Cloudflare. Affected sites included (but not limited to) BoilerLink, eFax, and any page using Captcha prompts.

Start: 5:50 am, Tuesday, 11/18/2025
End: 11:30 am, Tuesday, 11/18/2025

Some devices were unable to access the main PNW website and other services that use pnw.edu as their domain (i.e. pnw.edu, pnw.edu/status).  This appeared to only affect devices on-campus, primarily on Google Chrome (although the error can occur on other browsers).

This error could be bypassed by some users by manually adding the “www.” at the beginning of the address, i.e. “www.pnw.edu”, or by using a link to reach the page.

Start: 10:20am, Thursday, 11/06/2025
End: 1:00pm, Thursday, 11/06/2025

Networking will be enabling a new uplink for the switch stack in the Gyte 52 telecom room.

This will briefly interrupt network (wired, wireless, and VoIP) service for the east side of Gyte’s ground and first floors

Start:  5:00 pm, Saturday, 11/01/2025

End:    6:00 pm, Saturday, 11/01/2025

Networking will be addressing a server that handles authentication for eduroam on the Westville campus.

Users will be intermittently unable to connect to eduroam in Westville while changes are being made.

Wired service and attwifi will be unaffected, No impact is expected.

Start:  10:00 pm, Monday, 10/27/2025
End:    11:00 pm, Monday, 10/27/2025

Networking will be changing the voice vlan which CHC uses, which will temporarily interrupt voice service, while phones restart to apply the change. This change is being done in order comply with the e911 requirement to locate end users in the event of emergency.

Start: 8:00pm, Thursday, 10/23/2025
End: 9:00pm, Thursday, 10/23/2025

PNW Enterprise Applications team will apply Banner upgrades to the production database.

The following applications will be unavailable for maintenance:
• Banner
• Cognos
• MyPNW Portal
• Degree Works
• Unitime

Start: 5:00 PM, Saturday, 10/25/25
End: 11:00 PM, Saturday,  10/25/25

Networking will be re-addressing a network authentication server in the Westville campus during the below maintenance window. Users will be briefly unable to connect to Eduroam in Westville during the maintenance. This will not affect ATT WiFi or wired connections.

Start: 11:00pm, Monday, 10/20/2025
End: 1:00am, Tuesday, 10/21/2025