Maintenance Events & System Downtime


July 12, 2012 - What happened to Resume Builder/Answer?

The Army completed its transition to the DoD Enterprise Recruitment Tool (USA Staffing) effective, 1 May 2012.  USA Staffing is the single hiring process and tool used by all DoD components.   Effective, 12 July 2012 applicants no longer have access to Resume Builder.   Applicants will be able to view the status of self-nominations from the old system via USAJOBS - My Account - Application Status.

Personally Identifiable Information (PII) contained in applications retained in Army Resume Builder/Answer system will be securely retained as required by regulation for a period of 5 years. Once retention requirements are met the PII will be destroyed per federal, DoD and Army guidelines.


Portal Downtime: Thursday Morning

On Thursday mornings each week, the Portal may be taken out of service from 6:00-7:00am Eastern
for regularly scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.


System/Network Maintenance: Monthly Maintenance Weekend (MMW) Downtime

There is a system/network maintenance event scheduled for one weekend every month.
Server and application downtime specifics will be posted no later than COB 72 hours before the event:


Next MMW Event:    Fri Feb 22 through Sun Feb 24

The CPOL Portal will be Unavailable during this period.

Production systems will go down starting Friday at 9:00 pm and will become available again on Sunday at 5:00 pm. All applications will be unavailable during this period, including, but not limited to:

Business Objects,
CHRABC,
FASCLASS,
WASS/CivFors
WASS State Department.

AG1CP (Belvoir) local network resources such as share drives and network printers will be unavailable from 0800 Saturday until 0800 Sunday for patches and drive expansion.

Please note that we are now operating on a standardized monthly maintenance schedule. As such, ALL applications will be unavailable from Friday 9:00 PM (Eastern) until Sunday 5:00 PM (Eastern) on all subsequent maintenance weekends. We believe that this standardization will facilitate long-term planning by both our IT staffs as well as our customers in the field, and result in substantially fewer last-minute schedule modifications.

Future Monthly Maintenance Weekend (MMW) Dates:
                    (Tentative dates - details to be announced)

March 2013           Fri Mar 15 through Sun Mar 17
April 2013              Fri Apr 19 through Sun Apr 21
May 2013               Fri May 17 through Sun May 19
June 2013             Fri Jun 14 through Sun Jun 16
July 2013               Fri Jul 12 through Sun Jul 14
August 2013         Fri Aug 16 through Sun Aug 19
September 2013  Fri Sep 20 through Sun Sep 22
October 2013        Fri Oct 18 through Sun Oct 20
November 2013    Fri Nov 22 through Sun Nov 24
December 2013    Fri Dec 13 through Sun Dec 15

As always, we appreciate your understanding and cooperation!

        (NOTE: All listed times are Eastern Standard Time)