IT Announcement – Disaster Recovery Testing Scheduled for May 28, 2022
The Division of Information Technology will be conducting the annual IT Disaster Recovery (DR) testing of critical services which will involve the following:
- Disconnecting the campus connectivity to internet and critical services to simulate a disaster interruption.
- Failover the following critical services to the DR site:
- Campus Website (home page)
- Campus Portal
- TitanOnline
- Single Sign-on service (Shibboleth, ADFS)
- Cloud based applications will continue to function during the DR test:
- O365 (Email, MS Teams, OneDrive)
- Canvas (Learning Management System)
- Dropbox
- Zoom
- Changes to the following campus phone services (desk phone, softphone)
- Incoming calls to campus will go to voicemail
- Outbound and internal extension calls will be operational
- 911 calls will go to local emergency line (Fullerton Police Department)
- Codeblue and elevator emergency phones will go to UPD Dispatch
- Test the functionality of the DR site applications
- Restore Internet connectivity to the campus
- Test functionality of the campus critical services
You may experience service interruptions during the testing period.
Please visit the IT Disaster Recovery website for more information.
When?
Saturday, May 28, 2022, 8:00AM – 8:00PM