The TouchNet payment processing system will be undergoing maintenance -Starting from 3:00am to 7:00am (EST) Friday, December 11th. 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.
TouchNet Systems Maintenance, Friday, December 11th from 3:00AM to 7:00AM
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Dec 3 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, 12/03/2020 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
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Server Upgrades – Pay-for-print (Papercut)
Description of change: Papercut will be migrated from the current production environment to a new production environment. As part of the upgrade, please take note: Papercut will be offline for 3 days, from 12/2/2020-12/4/2020, while all hardware and software is upgraded and tested.
Downtime window start: 12/2/2020 8:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12/4/2020 5:00 PM
Affected services: Papercut printing.
Expected End-user impact: During this time, users will not be able to use Pay-for-print (Papercut) services
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Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the firmware on its spam filters.
Downtime window start: 12/3/2020 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12/3/2020 4:00 AM
Affected services: Inbound FAU email. Outbound email via smtp.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, sending email using smtp.fau.edu may fail.
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Add the Student HIPAA indicator column to OIM view
Description of change: OIT will add a student HIPAA indicator in the identity management system.
Downtime window start: 12/3/2020 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12/3/2020 5:00 AM
Affected services: Not Applicable
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Confluence Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will upgrade our Confluence installation
Downtime window start: 12/3/2020 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12/3/2020 7:00 AM
Affected services: kb.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, KB.fau.edu (Confluence) used by OIT will be offline.
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Change Path of Home Directories HPC
Description of change: OIT is going to change IPA home directories to keep Ceph from enumerating invalid home directories
Downtime window start: 12/3/2020 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12/3/2020 5:30 AM
Affected services: Home directories on HPC
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact expected.
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Pay-for-print unavailable due to maintenance – 12/2 at 8:00am – 12/4 at 5:00pm
The pay-for-print service will be unavailable due to maintenance and necessary upgrades starting Wednesday, Dec 2 at 8:00am until Friday, Dec 4 at 5:00pm.
During this time, you will not be able to submit print jobs via pay-for-print.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
OIT
[Resolved] AWS Issues affecting Canvas and Related Tools
[6:50 AM] This issue has been resolved.
Canvas and Respondus LockDown Browser have reported issues due to problems with Amazon Web Services (AWS). FAU students and teachers may experience problems accessing parts of Canvas or LockDown Browser exams. There is no reported time frame yet for a fix for this issue. Updates will follow as we get them.
[RESOLVED] Possible connectivity issues to network/Internet
[NETWORK OUTAGE RECOVERY] Late Friday Afternoon 4:15 through 5:30
FAU experienced unplanned network connectivity issues between 4:15 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. today. Network connectivity has been restored, but OIT may still be working to restore some services that may have been impacted.
eGrades and University Forms
eGrades and the University Forms (frevvo) are currently experiencing an outage and may not work as expected. We are investigating the problem and will update this notice soon.
[NETWORK MAINTENANCE] Boca Raton Campus – Thursday November 19th from 5:00 a.m. until 5:10 a.m.
OIT will be performing emergency network maintenance on the Boca Raton campus tomorrow morning from 5:00 a.m. until 5:10 a.m. During this time, network connectivity may be briefly interrupted on the Boca Raton campus.
[RESOLVED] TouchNet Systems Maintenance, Thursday, November 19th from 3:00AM to 7:00AM
The TouchNet payment processing system will be undergoing maintenance -Starting from 3:00am to 7:00am (EST) Thursday, November 19th. 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.
[Completed] Network maintenance on Wednesday November 11 at 5:30 am
The network maintenance scheduled for Wednesday, November 11 has been completed.
Thank you