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, 06/29/2017 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
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Server maintenance – Application migration
Description of change: OIT is moving services from an unprotected network to a protected network
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: piwik, privateeye, privateeyetest, fauvcp, kiosk, swifttickets, notify, webferret, baselinelistentest, baselinelisten, macverter, sso-module, phonebill2, chessboard, mfa, password, pt, ach, netreg
Affected systems: Servers: talonx1, talonx2, lintalon0, lintalon1, lintalon2 – Bigip: talon.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the affected services will be unavailable
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Server maintenance – ODS upgrade
Description of change: OIT is upgrading ODS from version 8.5 to 9.0
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: ODS production environment. WebFocus won’t be able to connect to the ODS database.
Affected systems: odsprod
Expected End-user impact: During this time, ODS and WebFocus will be unavailable
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Banner maintenance – Financial Aid patches
Description of change: The Financial Aid office has requested the installation of the two referenced patches in Banner on June 29, 2017. The patches contain code for FISAP updates and updates to the Pell Grant disbursement process, both of which are critical to keeping Banner up-to-date and working in production.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Not applicable
Affected systems: Banner Financial Aid
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is anticipated
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Banner maintenance – Banner 8/Banner XE upgrades for Web Tailor and Application Navigator
Description of change: Installation of Web Tailor 8.8.2 upgrade and Application Navigator 2.1.0 upgrade. Web Tailor provides support for the Application Navigiator process and these two upgrades are required to allow access to both Banner 8 and Banner XE once the single sign on process is in place.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner SSB
Affected systems: Banner 8 Web Tailor module in production, Banner XE Application Navigator module in production
Expected End-user impact: During this time, Banner SSB will be unavailable
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Server Maintenance – Telephone billing server upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be performing server maintenance on the telephone billing server
Downtime window start: 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 1:00 AM
Affected services: Telephone billing
Affected systems: Boc22comm1
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is anticipated
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