Institutional Knowledge

Wherein we see insanely high portal usage on the first day of school.

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It took only a week for portal traffic to settle into it’s normal pattern.

Of course, it’s still quite busy. I expect an average day this semester will only have a high of 800 concurrent users. We’re still hitting just over 1,000.

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Today was the first day of fall 2006 term and boy is our portal tired! The ramp up to today is interesting, so I will use pretty graphs to illustrate.

Saturday saw a fairly large uptick in traffic, but we barely broke the 400 user barrier. The most interesting thing in the Saturday graph […]

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We have a nice system of “rolling restarts” that allows us to update portal servers without introducing any “real” downtime for users. We introduce a pre-upgraded server to the pool and that server takes on all new sessions. The two server already in the pool don’t get any new users and “drain” as […]

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It’s been too long since my last IK post. Last week was spent planning the upgrade from uPortal 2.4.2 to 2.5.2 and that took the whole week, although to be fair, a large number of the tasks that got planned also got completed. The week before that I was in Vancouver for the […]

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Recently I listened in on a webinar (a WebEx presentation + conference call) given by RedDot and UNICON on how they integrated content management (provided by RedDot) with a portal (Academus, provided by UNICON). Besides being a sales pitch for the two products (Why buy one when you could get two at twice the […]

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We’re running a little experiment over here in MLIB 410. We’ve created a uPortal Development blog as a means for communicating with the uPortal community and anyone else interested, the processes, discoveries, tips, and tricks that we encounter while maintaining our Portal application.

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Reflecting on Pat’s thoughts with regards to the new portal I can’t help but think back to how I perceived the portal design and content decision making process.

Let me give you a hint: 1) in a vacuum and 2) by committee.

We cannot assume people will want our information, even if we know they need our […]

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This morning the portal was finally stripped of it’s New monicker. It also got a fresh new banner. I eagerly await the Chico News & Review article about how the new banner just isn’t the old banner and that the portal just isn’t what it used to be.

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Monday was hoppin’. Tuesday, not so much. This place should be empty by tomorrow.

Although, you might actually be looking for the Finals Week Schedule.

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