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, 04/07/2016 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
Blackboard building block install
When: 5:00AM – 6:00AM
Affected services: Blackboard
Affected systems: Blackboard
Description of maintenance: OIT will install a new Pearson Building Block to facilitate Grade Synchronization between certain Pearson courses and Blackboard
User impact: This will require rolling restarts, so the downtime should be minimal, if any.
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Move jira/confluence to DMZ ip
When: 5:30AM – 6:00AM
Affected services: jira and kb (confluence)
Affected systems: jira.fau.edu / kb.fau.edu
Description of maintenance: We are changing the internet addresses of jira.fau.edu and confluence.fau.edu to allow access from outside of FAU.
User impact: Users of the jira project tracking system and of the oit confluence collaborative documentation site will not be able to connect
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Banner Student patch 8.9.1.2
When: 3:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: N/A
Affected systems: Banner Student module
Description of maintenance: This patch is necessary as support for the future installations of Banner XE (9)
User impact: No user impact is anticipated
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Banner Financial Aid 8.26.0 upgrade
When: 3:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: N/A
Affected systems: Banner Financial Aid
Description of maintenance: Install Financial Aid 8.26.0 upgrade in production. This is a critical upgrade release and the Financial Aid office has been waiting for it for several weeks. They need it in order to begin processing incoming student financial aid awards.
User impact: No user impact is anticipated