OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Nov 9 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, 11/09/2017 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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Database Maintenance  – MyFAU
Description of change: Migrating MyFAU (LUMP on mcoracle) database from Oracle Linux 5 to Oracle Linux 7 and moving from 131.91.20.0 subnet to 10.19.20.0.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: MyFAU​
Affected systems: mcoracle​
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the MyFAU portal will be unavailable.

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Server Maintenance  – OwlDone, SPOT, & OIM
Description of change: We will be moving the IP for several virtual servers from the old load balancer to the new load balancer hardware.​​
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: OIM, OwlDone and Spot
Affected systems: boc22igdadmp.fau.edu, boc22oimintp.fau.edu, boc22webprod.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, maintenance window SPOT, Owldone and OIM services will be unavailable.

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Server Maintenance  – Filelocker & Papercut
Description of change: We will be moving the IP for papercut.fau.edu, and filelocker.fau.edu from the old load balancer to the new load balancer hardware.​
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: filelocker and papercut
Affected systems: filelocker.fau.edu, papercut.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, filelocker and papercut will be unavailable. Filelocker users will not be able to access shared files during the outage. Users will not be able to print using the papercut service.

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Server Chassis Maintenance   – SSO
Description of change: OIT Systems team will be replacing a suspected faulty storage controller on one of our dell server chassis.
Downtime window start: 3:30 AM
Downtime window end: 5:30 AM
Affected services: SSO, DHCP, DNS, LDAP, Network Monitoring
Affected systems: Boca 96 VRTX, BOC96HV01, BOC96HV02, BOC96ESXI01, BOC96ESXI02, boc96dns, dhcpboc1, dhcpboc18, dnsboc1, ldapboc1, ldapboc1-el6, overwatch, shibboleth2p​
Expected End-user impact: During this time, services listed above will be unavailable during the maintenance window. Most services are redundant, however SSO may be intermittently unavailable.

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