Mediasite Update

The vendor will be updating Mediasite to the latest release during the scheduled maintenance window on September 23, between 1:01 AM and 5:00 AM EDT. Extended downtime is not expected. However, Mediasite may be unavailable for brief periods during this time.

Posted in Canvas / LMS, Lecture Capture

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Sept. 21 from 12:01AM 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, 09/21/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:


Network Maintenance – VPN
Description of change: OIT will be making security changes to all VPN services.
Downtime window start: 09/20/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/20/2023 1:00 AM
Affected services: VPN
End-user impact: If a user is using one of the EOL operating systems (Win 7, Win 8.1, macOS 10.14, and macOS 10.15) they will not be able to connect to VPN and receive an error message to check the OS version.


Network Maintenance – Firewall
Description of change: OIT will be rebooting a firewall.
Downtime window start: 09/20/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/20/2023 3:00 AM
Affected services: Azure SSO, Azure Kubernetes, Azure BigIP, Azure CL Connect, Omeka web server, Azure PD Smart Cop
End-user impact: SSO and other Azure hosted services will be unavailable.


Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT is making a secure web (https) setting change to comply with policy requirements
Downtime window start: 09/21/2023 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/21/2023 6:15 AM
Affected services: Banner web virtual hosts
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected.


Grants Era Portal Maintenance
Description of change: Maintenance work will be done on the Division of Research Grants Era Portal web application. Identified software will be removed from the server that hosts this web application.
Downtime window start: 09/21/2023 9:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/21/2023 10:00 AM
Affected services: Grants Era portal
End-user impact: Division of Research users


Deploy Load jobs of CLT test scores
Description of change: New jobs and modifications to the EDI process will be implemented to load CLT test scores to Banner.
Downtime window start: 09/21/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/21/2023 12:05 AM
Affected services: Banner and EDI jobs
End-user impact: Applicants who have taken CLT test will have their scores loaded to Banner


Banner program change
Description of change: OIT will apply Fall update for Banner FA counselor function.
Downtime window start: 09/21/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/21/2023 1:00 AM
Affected services: Banner Financial Aid
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected


Execute purge process for five tables in Production
Description of change: Ellucian, a third-party vendor, will execute the purge process to remove data older than 280 days from five tables in Banner Production.
Downtime window start: 09/21/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/21/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected


Posted in Uncategorized

Resolved – Single Sign On (SSO) Service Interruption

Update:

Our single sign on (SSO) service is now fully restored and working as intended. If you have any issues with services, just close all your browser windows and re-try logging in. Thank you.

Original Post:

We have detected an issue with our single sign on (SSO) service where users may be getting a 503 error and not able to sign-in to new applications. Our single sign on service is now routing to a backup location. Users may need to close all browser windows and start a new session to ensure they can login correctly. Users already logged into applications, should not be impacted. We are now working towards restoring our main services for single sign on. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Posted in Uncategorized

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Sept 14 from 12:01AM 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, 09/14/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:


Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the two virtual load balancers to newer versions.
Downtime window start: 09/14/2023 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/14/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: This will impact all services currently being handled by the load balancer from www.fau.edu, banner, talon, OnBase, lmsapps, and other services. The impact should be a blip as the services fail over to the other load balancer.
End-user impact: Faculty, staff, students, departments, all of FAU.


Upgrade OwlForms (OwlAdminPages)
Description of change: OIT will upgrade OlwForms (OwlAdminPages) to latest version to be up to date with new features and security updates.
Downtime window start: 09/14/2023 5:00 PM
Downtime window end: 09/14/2023 6:00 PM
Affected services: OwlForm (OwlAdmin Pages)
End-user impact: OwlForm Admin users


Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems

[RESOLVED] fauwpa2 wireless network issue

We are currently experiencing an issue connecting to the fauwpa2 wireless network. We are working to resolve the issue. Thank you

Posted in Network and Telecom

[RESOLVED] TouchNet Systems Maintenance, Friday, September 22nd from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM

The TouchNet payment processing system will be undergoing maintenance -Starting from 3:00am to 7:00am (EST) Friday, September 22nd. This affects student payment services (Bill+Payment), as well as all Marketplace Stores, uPay sites and TouchNet ready partner payment services. We expect all systems to be back online no later than 7:00 am (EST) that morning. When the system is back up and ready to go, we will notify you. You may wish to place warnings on your website, or take your store offline. If this scheduled downtime creates a conflict for your operations, please feel free to contact us at FIS@fau.edu for further discussion. Expected End-user impact: During this time all student payment services (Bill+Payment), as well as all Marketplace Stores, uPay sites and TouchNet ready partner payment services will be unavailable during this maintenance cycle.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Workday

[NETWORK DISRUPTION] – Boca Raton Campus – 9:35 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.

The Boca Raton campus experienced network disruptions between 9:35 a.m. and 9:45 a.m. today due to hardware issues. These disruptions may have prevented users from accessing FAU technology services as well as access to the internet from most FAU campuses.

Posted in Canvas / LMS, Network and Telecom

Success Network (EAB Navigate) is currently experiencing slow response times.

The Success Network (EAB Navigate) system is currently experiencing slow loading of search results and reports. The vendor has been notified and we will post an update as we have additional information.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems, Uncategorized

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Sept 7 from 12:01AM 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, 09/07/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:


Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT is upgrading software for our email servers
Downtime window start: 09/07/2023 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/07/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: Email
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected


Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on Banner from 1:00 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. on September 7, 2023. Banner will not be available during this time to allow the Ellucian support team to install several module upgrades/patches/administrative pages update to the latest Financial Aid releases for FISAP processing.
Downtime window start: 09/07/2023 12:01 AM
Downtime window end: 09/07/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: During this time, Banner will be unavailable


REDCap Update
Description of change: This is a routine REDCap update. REDCap will be offline during update.
Downtime window start: 09/07/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/07/2023 2:00 AM
Affected services: REDCap
End-user impact: REDCap will be unavailable during this time


Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Email, Research Computing, Systems

Touchnet – Banner connection issue

We are currently experiencing issues with the connection between Banner and Touchnet payment system. Payments are being processed successfully, however due to the connection issue, student payments and changes may not be accurately reflected in the Student Account Balance in the Touchnet and Student Self Service portals.

We are currently working with Touchnet to identify and resolve the issue and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Uncategorized