Planned Maintenance Works
Work Type: Firewall Update
Maintenance Window
Date: Sunday 08/03/2026
Start time: 07:00am GMT
End time: 08:00am GMT
Description of Works
IT Services will be applying a security update our core firewall. During the maintenance window we will need to restart the firewall, When this happens there will be a complete Internet outage and loss of all services. The outage will result in an estimated loss of service of 10-15 minutes.
The restart is planned between 7.00 and 08.00am GMT this Sunday morning 08/03/2026
Services Unaffected
Themis, Zoom, and Microsoft Office online are all hosted in the cloud and will not be affected by these works
Services Affected
This outage will affect most other services including the services below which will be unavailable during the maintenance window.
• Internet access (Only on South Circular Road campus)
• Griffith.ie
• VPN Access
• Moodle / Videos of Recorded Classes
• MyGriffith
• Knuth (Computing Science)
• Editshare (Create Arts & Screen Media)
• Printing
• On campus Wi-Fi
• Student & Staff network drives
• Mercury Halls Of Residence Platform
Regards,
IT Services