OIT will be performing network maintenance from 5:00 a.m. until 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday March 11th from 5:00 a.m. until 6:30 a.m. During this time, network connectivity on the following campuses will be interrupted for up to 20 minutes during the maintenance window: Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, and the NWRDC data center located in Tallahassee. All campuses may experience short interruptions in connectivity to the internet during the maintenance window.
[NETWORK MAINTENANCE] Wednesday March 11th from 5:00 a.m. until 6:30 a.m.
Posted in Network and Telecom
[NETWORK MAINTENANCE] Monday March 9th from 11:00p.m. until 4:00 a.m. Tuesday March 10th
OIT will be performing network maintenance starting at 11:00 P.M. and lasting until 4:00 a.m. During this time, there will be sporadic interruptions to network connectivity on the Boca Raton and Jupiter campuses. The Jupiter campus will experience the majority of the interruptions due to the nature of the maintenance. While we anticipate the network maintenance to be completed early in the maintenance window, the entire window is reserved for resolving any issues that may arise.
Posted in Network and Telecom
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thursday, March 5 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, 03/05/2020 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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Server configuration change
Description of change: OIT will be changing a parameter on it’s storage system to make inter-system communication more secure
Downtime window start: 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:15 AM
Affected services: All Services
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected
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Data Warehouse-Related Software Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading third-party software components used for data processing by FAU data warehouse.
Downtime window start: 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 4:15 AM
Affected services: Should be no impact on services. Data warehouse jobs will be disabled during the installation.
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected
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Convert all upper case Spriden names to mixed case Spriden names
Description of change: OIT will make changes to correct upper case names to mixed case. The TEST score loading process is populating all upper case first, last, middle names to Spriden names. This need to be corrected in backend. Make data load of names in SPAIDEN be mixed case.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services:
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected
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WebFocus Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will update the NLS setting in WebFOCUS Codepage from “U.S English/Western European” to “UTF8.” This change is necessary to correct the wrong characters on the SPOT reports.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 3:10 AM
Affected services: WebFOCUS/Leap Ahead Production environment.
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. This change does not involve downtime
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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems