SWAN Library Staff:
We have reports of widespread problems with the catalog and search results. SirsiDynix support is investigating.
Thank you for your patience.
Aaron Skog
SWAN Executive Director
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5122
Fax: 630.734.5056
aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:aaron.skog@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
SWAN Library Staff:
The Symphony server was restarted Saturday at 7:00PM (I am still not certain why I wrote in my 4:20PM SWANcom that it would be "Sunday") and a portion of the reindexing took place last night.
This means library staff will continue to see errors in Workflows related to searching. However, there should not be as many as we continue to process these in batches. For example, records that staff added this week may not be fully searchable today, and when doing a browse search, you may see the message "Heading keys need to be indexed first."
For library staff on Sunday: if you encounter any problems, please send them to help(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:help@swanlibraries.net> or if you encounter a major problem (circulation down, wide-spread problems within your library) you can call 630-734-5153 and the call will be directed to our emergency support.
Aaron Skog
SWAN Executive Director
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5122
Fax: 630.734.5056
aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:aaron.skog@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
SWAN Library Staff:
The Symphony ILS will restart at 7:00PM tonight. The rebuild of the search index will start soon afterwards.
The work will be complete prior to all libraries opening for business on Sunday.
Aaron Skog
SWAN Executive Director
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5122
Fax: 630.734.5056
aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:aaron.skog@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
SWAN Library Staff:
The re-index work continues. We completed a portion of the processes requires overnight. This will be a multi-day project unfortunately as SWAN is processing large data changes.
The update from yesterday applies to today, Saturday:
This means library staff will continue to see errors in Workflows related to searching. For example, records that were imported yesterday may not be fully searchable today, and when doing a browse search, you may see the message "Heading keys need to be indexed first." After speaking with SirsiDynix support this morning, we have received confirmation that we can continue to add records to the catalog, but may continue to experience anomalies in searching. All records, whether added previously or today, should be searchable by title control number or an item barcode. *Newly added items will appear in Enterprise search results.*
We apologize for the inconvenience to staff. Libraries can continue to circulation material normally. *This will not have an effect on circulation, and should be unnoticed by the public.*
We will confirm the successful completion of our overnight processes tonight and tomorrow morning.
Aaron Skog
SWAN Executive Director
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5122
Fax: 630.734.5056
aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:aaron.skog@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
SWAN Member Library Staff:
Our maintenance on the Symphony server has concluded and WorkFlows is once again available for use.
Thank you for your patience.
Steven Schlewitt
SWAN IT Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5130
Fax: 630.734.5056
steven.schlewitt(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:steven.schlewitt@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
From: Steven Schlewitt
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 2:58 PM
To: swancom(a)list.swanlibraries.net; swantech(a)list.swanlibraries.net
Subject: Symphony Production Server Maintenance TONIGHT (4/24) After 9pm
Importance: High
SWAN Member Library Staff:
After the close of our libraries this evening, we're planning a scheduled system maintenance, beginning at 9:30pm, which will leave the Symphony WorkFlows production server unavailable until tomorrow morning around 7am. During that time, the Enterprise OPAC will still be accessible and fully functional for patrons and staff - this maintenance will only affect WorkFlows.
We apologize for the inconvenience and greatly appreciate your patience during these scheduled outages.
Steven Schlewitt
SWAN IT Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5130
Fax: 630.734.5056
steven.schlewitt(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:steven.schlewitt@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
Please route to appropriate staff:
The clean hold shelf lists will be delivered on Monday, and should be available at your library's email alias (ex. ams(a)notices.swanlibraries.net<mailto:ams@notices.swanlibraries.net>) by 9:00 AM on Monday, April 27th. Please monitor your email on Monday morning.
Rebecca Malinowski
SWAN Special Projects Coordinator
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5157
Fax: 630.734.5056
rebecca.malinowski(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:rebecca.malinowski@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
SWAN Member Library Staff:
After the close of our libraries this evening, we're planning a scheduled system maintenance, beginning at 9:30pm, which will leave the Symphony WorkFlows production server unavailable until tomorrow morning around 7am. During that time, the Enterprise OPAC will still be accessible and fully functional for patrons and staff - this maintenance will only affect WorkFlows.
We apologize for the inconvenience and greatly appreciate your patience during these scheduled outages.
Steven Schlewitt
SWAN IT Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5130
Fax: 630.734.5056
steven.schlewitt(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:steven.schlewitt@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
To All Library Staff:
As reported earlier today, the issues with dynamic indexing in Symphony have been resolved. This means that added records should be immediately searchable in Workflows as expected.
SWAN and SirsiDynix are continuing to make batch updates to records as part of our migration cleanup. The large volume of these changes affects our overnight processes, which must run completely and in a specific sequence for Workflows and Enterprise to function correctly. In order to prevent these processes from running too long (effectively getting in each other's way), updated records will be run through the processes in sized nightly batches over several days. What this means for library staff is that some changes that have taken place in Workflows may not be picked up in Enterprise as quickly as expected.
We have also seen On-Order items back in the Onshelf Item Wizard today, which we think was related to the indexing issues we saw today, and anticipate will be resolved tomorrow.
We have seen a number of tickets come in with example barcodes, control numbers and/or screenshots, which have been very helpful in identifying and resolving issues. Thank you all again for your reports. Please continue to send reports and questions to help(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:help@swanlibraries.net> or open a ticket at http://swan.railslibraries.info/otrs/customer.pl.
Rebecca Malinowski
SWAN Special Projects Coordinator
Reaching Across Illinois Library System
Burr Ridge Office
Phone: 630.734.5157
Fax: 630.734.5056
rebecca.malinowski(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:rebecca.malinowski@railslibraries.info>
http://www.railslibraries.info
SWAN Member Library Staff:
Our maintenance on the Symphony server has concluded and WorkFlows is once again available for use.
Thank you for your patience.
Steven Schlewitt
SWAN IT Manager
Reaching Across Illinois Library System
Burr Ridge Office
Phone: 630.734.5130
Fax: 630.734.5056
steven.schlewitt(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:steven.schlewitt@railslibraries.info>
http://www.railslibraries.info
From: Steven Schlewitt
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 2:47 PM
To: swancom(a)list.swanlibraries.net; swantech(a)list.swanlibraries.net
Subject: Symphony Production Server Maintenance TONIGHT (4/23) After 9pm
Importance: High
SWAN Member Library Staff:
After the close of our libraries this evening, we're planning a scheduled system maintenance, beginning at 9:45pm, which will leave the Symphony WorkFlows production server unavailable until tomorrow morning around 6am. During that time, the Enterprise OPAC will still be accessible and fully functional for patrons and staff - this maintenance will only affect WorkFlows.
We apologize for the inconvenience and greatly appreciate your patience during these scheduled outages.
Steven Schlewitt
SWAN IT Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5130
Fax: 630.734.5056
steven.schlewitt(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:steven.schlewitt@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
Just a quick reminder - maintenance on the Symphony server will begin in just a few minutes.
Thank you,
Steven Schlewitt
SWAN IT Manager
Reaching Across Illinois Library System
Burr Ridge Office
Phone: 630.734.5130
Fax: 630.734.5056
steven.schlewitt(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:steven.schlewitt@railslibraries.info>
http://www.railslibraries.info
From: Steven Schlewitt
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 2:47 PM
To: swancom(a)list.swanlibraries.net; swantech(a)list.swanlibraries.net
Subject: Symphony Production Server Maintenance TONIGHT (4/23) After 9pm
Importance: High
SWAN Member Library Staff:
After the close of our libraries this evening, we're planning a scheduled system maintenance, beginning at 9:45pm, which will leave the Symphony WorkFlows production server unavailable until tomorrow morning around 6am. During that time, the Enterprise OPAC will still be accessible and fully functional for patrons and staff - this maintenance will only affect WorkFlows.
We apologize for the inconvenience and greatly appreciate your patience during these scheduled outages.
Steven Schlewitt
SWAN IT Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5130
Fax: 630.734.5056
steven.schlewitt(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:steven.schlewitt@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net