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, 08/29/2019 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
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the Oracle Identity Manager database to the latest version12cR2.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Oracle Identity Manager, Account provisioning, Password resets
Expected End-user impact: During this time, users will not be able to reset passwords or claim accounts.
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Account Self Service Updates
Description of change: OIT will be installing patches and updates to backend services related to the FAU account self-services portal (accounts.fau.edu)
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services:
Accounts Self Service – https://accounts.fau.edu
User Manager – internal help desk tool
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Database Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the MSOP production database to the newest version – 12cR2
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: ACH or VPAS, Mandatory Course Entry Quiz, Accounts Self Service, Canvas Electronic Grading “Banner Grade Submissions” in Canvas, Wireless network authentication for guests, 4P Configurations, Group Management, phonebill application pre latest system, password expirations, network registration, network registration admin, Frevvo, Undergraduate Admissions, Graduate Admissions, Residency Project, OwlDone
Expected End-user impact: During this time, services that listed above will be unavailable at times.
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uAchieve Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be installing updates to support uAchieve functionalities
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: uAchieve/DARS
Expected End-user impact: During this time, while the system is restarted users will not be able to view or submit audits.
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Mail Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the software on its spam filtering appliances.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 4:00 AM
Affected services: Inbound FAU email, Mail relay for smtp.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, mail delivery may be delayed or impacted during the maintenance window.
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Self-Service wording change
Description of change: OIT will be making changes to Financial Aid SSB pages.
Updated Financial Aid Award texts in Financial Aid Self-service pages.
Changed Financial aid Award to Financial aid offer in every SSB pages.
Changed Award year to Academic year in every SSB pages.
Changed Aid year to Academic year in every SSB pages.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner Financial Aid Self-Service
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Enhance NCAA Financial Aid Information upload process
Description of change: OIT will be enhancing the NCAA Financial Aid information upload process.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: Student Athletics Department
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Touchnet Maintenance
Description of change: The latest version of the BannerConnect component of Touchnet will be installed in production.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: Touchnet Payment services
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Database Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will apply the latest Oracle patchset updates to all production databases
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner production, Appworx, Harvest, ODS, FAU Warehouse, IEAP instance, WebFOCUS/ReportCaster
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the services listed above will be temporarily offline while the patches are applied.
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Banner XE Admin page SWATTYP update
Description of change: OIT will be adding additional fields to the SWATTYP Banner view. These fields include subscores to swattyp view and minor change on admin page swattyp to display them all
Downtime window start: 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12:00 AM
Affected services: Owl Forms
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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OwlForms maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be applying some filters to OwlForms (SWAETBL) to support the Registrar’s Office.
Downtime window start: 11:45 PM
Downtime window end: 12:00 AM
Affected services: OwlForms
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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