OIT will be performing network maintenance on the Boca Raton and Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute campuses from 4:00 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. Maintenance at Harbor Branch campus is expected to be completed before 5:00 a.m. During the maintenance window, connectivity will be sporadic including 10-15 minute outages affecting network services and internet connectivity on the Boca Raton and HBOI campuses. We will post an update when all maintenance is concluded.
Network Maintenance – Boca Raton and HBOI Campuses – Friday July 14th from 4:00 until 7:00 a.m.
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. July 13 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, 07/13/2017 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
Server maintenance – ANDISec file server
Description of change: OIT will be migrating a file server from one platform to another. The file server will be unavailable during the window
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: file shares on andisec
Affected systems: andisec
Expected End-user impact: During this time, andisec file server will be unavailable. Any automated jobs that copy or read files from andisec will fail during the window.
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Application maintenance – Application server migration
Description of change: OIT are moving network registration services between networks
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: netreg
Affected systems: networking.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time networking.fau.edu may be unavailable.
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Server Maintenance – vWorkspace
Description of change: Perform maintenance on the underlying vWorkspace system.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: vWorkspace BHRIC VDI
Affected systems: boc22-s-vws1, boc22-h-hy1, boc22-s-hy2, boc22-s-hy3, boc22-s-hy4, boc22-s-hy5, jup17-s-hy1, jup17-s-hy2, jup17-s-hy3
Expected End-user impact: During this time, users will not be able to login to their desktops.
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Server Maintenance – WebFOCUS
Description of change: WebFOCUS will be taken offline to make some configuration changes
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 3:15 AM
Affected services: WebFOCUS production
Affected systems: ibiweb4.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, WebFOCUS will be temporarily unavailable.
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Server maintenance – Apply Updates to Virtualization Hosts
Description of change: OIT will be applying updates to our virtualization hosts.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
Affected systems: boc22esxi46-48.fau.edu, boc22esxi54-56.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, Banner may experience service interruption.
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