The Campus has important Business Cycles where software and hardware changes and system resource intensive processes to < Enterprise Systems - link to the software applications / ITS services covered by these ITS guidelins> should be post-poned and processes run outside of core business hours (weekdays from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) to mitigate any issues with system changes or performance.

This list of important Business Cycles below is based off of the: Campus' Academic Calendar, direction from the ITS Director of Enterprise Technology, Chancellor's Office (CO) standards, additional CO requirements, and in consultation with the Releases, Upgrades, and Fixes team that is made up of representatives from various business groups across campus and ITS (see references at the bottom of this page).  The list is updated twice a year <date 1>, <date 2>, and as changes occur by the HSU ITS Change Management and Releases, Updates, and Changes teams.  The HSU ITS Project Office is responsible for maintaining the CO's Enterprise Calendar to inform them of potential PeopleSoft high traffic periods across all campuses since multiple campuses are sharing the same server resources.

Business Cycles with an asterisk (*) are also designated as 'peaks' by the Chancellor's Office and have guidelines specific to PeopleSoft Finance (CFS) and/or PeopleSoft HCM software applications (refer to the Business Cycle notes for details).

Planned ITS Server Maintenance (http://www.humboldt.edu/its/servermaintenance) and actual ITS System Outages (http://www.humboldt.edu/its/systat) can be found at their respective webpages. 

Please contact Josh Callahan, ITS Director of Enterprise Technology (josh.callahan@humboldt.edu / 707.826.3815) with any questions or comments about this information.

 References:
1. HSU Campus Calendar & Activities (updated annually) http://www.humboldt.edu/events/

2. Chancellor’s Office Production Operational Standards for Peak Utilization Standards (last updated August 9, 2010) http://cms.calstate.edu/06_Projects-Initiatives/06E_Performance/06E_PublicDocs/ProdOpsStandards4Peaks%2020010809.doc 

- 11/14/12 e-mail response from George Mansoor confirmed that Peak items are still the same.

- 9/12 CO introduced these Registration categories:

1.      “Registration – Appointment Blocks” : use this event type for any registration period with student registrations are organized and managed with appointment periods.
2.      “Registration – Open  with no Appointments/Unit  Cap Increases” : use this event for a registration period where no appointment blocks are defined and the campus is increasing the unit caps for students. If you could have a brief description on the change in unit campus that would be helpful.  This is the type of event we will likely want to focus on given recent experiences.
3.      “Registration – Open  with no Appointments/No Unit  Cap Changes” : use this event for a registration period where no appointment blocks are defined and campus will not be making any changes to unit caps.”

3. HSU's Green and Gold Calendar http://www.humboldt.edu/humboldt/images/uploads/greenAndGoldCalendar_2012-2013.pdf
 

4:  Annual e-mail message from the Chancellor's Office

5.  HSU Academic Calendar (updated annually) http://www.humboldt.edu/events/