Hurricane Rita Aftermath

The University of Houston fared well through Hurricane Rita. We are remaining closed the beginning of this week to ensure that our students, faculty and staff can return to the Houston area safely. President Gogue and the Emergency Management team have worked to identify services that are needed prior to staff returning on Wednesday afternoon and classes resuming on Thursday. The following is an update to our previous messages:


Residential Students
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University of Houston students, including special needs students, living in dorms and university apartments may begin returning to campus today, Monday, September 26, 2005, beginning at noon for all housing units except Cambridge Oaks, which will be open at 5 p.m. today. However, Bayou Oaks is currently without water and alarm systems and therefore students will not be able to move back into that facility until repairs can be concluded. Bayou Oaks students should contact 713-747-3834 for updates and we will send a notification to students as soon as we have a time for Bayou Oaks re-opening. You must be prepared to present your student ID to security when you return to your building.


All Students
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All classes will resume on Thursday, September 29, 2005.
Announcements will be made later about make-up plans for the missed classes.


Staff
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Staff should return to their offices at noon on Wednesday, September 28, if at all possible to make ready for Thursday classes. You may return to your office earlier if you have your staff ID to show security.


Faculty
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Faculty may return to their buildings and labs prior to the start of classes on Thursday. You must also have your faculty ID available to show security.


Services
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Food service will be available at Oberholtzer Hall Cafeteria for all residential students, faculty and staff who are on campus as of noon on Monday. Moody Towers cafeteria will begin service at 5 p.m. Monday evening. You may pay with your food card if you have a food plan or with cash if you do not.

The M.D. Anderson Library will be open Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Wednesday beginning at 12 noon with regular hours for the rest of the week. Electronic access to the library should be available by late Monday afternoon.

Mail service will resume on Wednesday afternoon.

The Charter School will resume classes on Thursday morning.

The Child Care Center will resume operation on Wednesday at noon.

President Gogue and the University administration wish those driving back to Houston a very safe trip.

TLC² Re-entry Plan

Luckily we survived without any physical damage to property.  TLC² assessment teams are at PGH today Monday September 26, 2005.  The Austin Team will be leaving later this afternoon so we hope to have the clusters up ASAP and make a good start at having business services up and going.  Please call your direct report supervisor for your work schedule.  If you cannot reach them please call the TLC² information line at 832-859-3169 and if no answer leave your name, phone number and a message.

TLC² West Annex is Homeward Bound

TLC² West Annex is closing and moving the servers back to Houston late Monday September 26, 2005.  TLC² management would again like to show its gratitude and thanks to the kind staff at ICES and the University of Texas at Austin for its help and generocity.  J. Tinsley Oden's staff made the relocation of servers seem effortless and their kindness helped in a time of adversity.

TLC² West Annex Opens for Business

University of Texas at Austin's Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) is hosting TLC² servers in the wake of Hurricane Rita.  ICES Director J. Tinsley Oden opened up access state of the art facilities for TLC² to operate during Hurricane Rita.  TLC² would like to recognize the generosity and collegiality shared by the ICES Center. http://www.ticam.utexas.edu/

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Please find below business continuity procedures should the main TLCC servers become unavailable due to Hurricane Rita;

The following servers shall remain online at UofH;

Web Server www.tlc2.uh.edu (There is a hurricane link, check regularly it for TLC² latest instructions)

Mail Server http://mail.tlc2.uh.edu (You can access your mail through your browser designated users have SSH access)

F&A File server tlcadm01.tlc2.uh.edu SSH, designated users only

Should the above servers, or for those of you that use UH mail, the UH mail servers fail we will have a secondary set of servers located in Austin which will be available Friday midnight;

These servers will be implemented in two stages;

Stage 1. Accessible through ip Address;

Web Server http://128.83.67.220 (There is a hurricane link, check regularly it for TLC² latest instructions)

Mail Server http://128.83.67.221 (You can access your mail through your browser designated users have SSH access)

F&A File server http://128.83.67.222 SSH Designated users only

Stage 2. DNS change-over. (Should the outage be prolonged DNS shall be changed to “point” to the new ip address’s.)

Web Server www.tlc2.uh.edu (There is a hurricane link, check regularly it for TLC² latest instructions)

Mail Server http://mail.tlc2.uh.edu (You can access your mail through your browser designated users have SSH access)

F&A File server SSH, designated users only

Until normal operations resume;

Pete Rosales is your webmaster prosales@tlc2.uh.edu

Mark Huang is the system administrator tihuang@tlc2.uh.edu cell 713 829 8811

G. Paul Roberts Manager for escalation gproberts@tlc2.uh.edu cell 281 830 9257

NOTES – IMPORTANT

1. TEST YOUR TLC² MAIL ACCESS LET MARK KNOW IF YOU NEED HELP
2. CHECK THE TLC² HURRICANE PAGE REGUALLY FOR INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION