OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Sept 12 from 3:00AM to 7:00AM

Office of Information Technology will be performing routine systems maintenance which includes but is not limited to rebooting Windows servers as deemed necessary, installing critical patches and other health checks on Thursday, 09/12/2013 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

When: 3:00AM – 5:00AM
Affected services: Talisma, SharePoint, Graduate application, fsaAtlas, SCAC, vCenter, Xitracs, PrivateEye, SCOM, SCVMM, College of Education sites, Owlcard, Housing sites, EMS, TicketMaster sites, ePrint
Affected systems: sqlnode01, sqlnode02, eprint, scvmm, scom, mssql1, mssql2, taldb01, archticsdb01, archticshv001
Description of maintenance: We are relocating several physical systems in the datacenter. The following services will be interrupted for a short period of time during the window: Talisma, SharePoint, Graduate application, fsaAtlas, SCAC, vCenter, Xitracs, PrivateEye, College of Education sites, Owlcard, Housing sites, EMS, TicketMaster sites, ePrint
User impact: The services listed above will be unavailable for approximately 5-10 minutes during the maintenance window

When: 3:00AM – 4:00AM
Affected services: DHCP (from networking), Networking wireless control system, WINS, Exchange IMAP and POP3, Filelocker, ISS website, Lab camera and licensing systems, PrintOnline
Affected systems: acsmem02, acsmem04, adcon, aptitudesrv, aptitudesrv 2008r2, as4, boc22cm102srv1, boc22cm102srv10, boc22cm102srv4, boc22cm102srv9, boc22cm102vrt101mrtg, boc22cm102wcs10, boc22mssql11, boc22mssql12, boc22mssql21, boc22mssql22, comvmadi02, comvmsql02, comvmweb02, ecswins01, ecswins02, exchangeca03, fauappsrv1, fauweb2, fauwebdev, FileLocker1, FileLocker2, freeze, hpc.fau.edu, idm2, iss, issdev, jobs.finaid, labcam1-5, lintalon0, ls-matlab, ls-osd, ls-snap, mcclient, printonline, remotecon, remotecon2, sqltesthost01, STS- template, STS-Base_x64 clone, ugapp1.fau.edu, vcboc02
Description of maintenance: We are modifying the network connection on the Cisco UCS to allow for greater bandwidth.
User impact: We do not expect any end-user impact however the services and systems listed above could be affected momentarily if an issue is encountered.

When: 5:45AM – 6:15 AM
Affected Services: Blackboard
Affected Systems: Blackboard
Description of Maintenance: Blackboard has released an update to the Software Updates module.
User Impact: Blackboard’s Cloud and Social Profile tools may be inaccessible during this time.

When: 5:00AM – 6:00AM
Affected services: wise.fau.edu
Affected systems: wise.fau.edu
Description of maintenance: The server wise.fau.edu is being upgraded.
User impact: End users will not be able to access wise.fau.edu directly to update either their personal or departmental web pages. This ONLY affects those who connect to wise.fau.edu directly. Those who use omniupdate will be unaffected.

When: 3:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: Banner Production
Affected systems: Banner FAUP
Description of maintenance: The Financial Aid 8.17.2.2 patch will be installed in Banner production.
User impact: No downtime is expected.

 

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