We have been closely monitoring processes running on the PSUNXPM Server.  We will be extending the schedule to leave the server up 1 additional hour each morning, until 7:00 am.  Also, due to the database bounce on Friday mornings, the PSUNXPM server will be brought down at 3:00 am and back up at 5:00 am on Fridays.  These changes should help to allow more nightly batch processes to finish each night.  This schedule change is effective today. Here’s the revised server schedule:

Mon. 6pm  – Tues. 7am

Tues. 6pm  – Wed. 7am

Wed. 6pm  – Thurs. 7am

Thurs. 6pm – Fri. 3am

Fri.  5am    – Fri.  7am

Fri. 6pm     – Mon. 7am (Server available all day Sat. and Sun.)

We will continue to monitor all processes on the PSUNXPM Server and make adjustments as necessary to provide as little negative impact on student services as possible.

Several colleges have expressed concerns about not being able to run certain batch jobs during the day.  We understand your concerns.  I think we will all agree that students are our first priority.  We must do everything that we can to make certain students are able to register for classes and make payments without experiencing system slowdowns. Most students register and make payments over the web.  The same tables are accessed during this web activity as those that are used in the nightly batch processes.  When colleges run resource-intensive processes that update/insert/delete these same tables, then system resources are not available for students and they may not be able to access the system or may be timed-out.  In addition, when more than one college runs a process that updates/inserts/deletes records on the same tables, system performance can be affected.

We realize that you may be accustomed to running these processes during the day; however, these processes can be run during the evening hours.  We suggest that you review your current business processes and look for ways you can modify it so that these batch processes can be run at night (6 pm - 7 am).  For example, if you are accustomed to running reports or creating an output file after the batch process has completed, then you might want to consider running those processes first thing the following morning.