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, 10/15/2020 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 Maintenance – Success Network (Starfish)
Description of change: OIT will be adding data storage space to a backend processing server for the Success Network (starfish).
Downtime window start: 10/15/2020 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/15/2020 7:00 AM
Affected services: Success Network/Starfish Advising web site components
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user is expected. However, if downtime is necessary to correct problems, then students cannot make appointments with advisors and advisors cannot document their appointments.
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Banner 8X/XE Financial Aid Regulatory upgrade/admin pages releases
Description of change: This upgrade release and administrative pages release are required for regulatory compliance.
Downtime window start: 10/15/2020 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/15/2020 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner Financial Aid will be unavailable during the maintenance window
Expected End-user impact: During the brief downtime, users may receive an error message when uding the administrative pages.
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Server configuration change
Description of change: OIT will be modifying parameters of the storage system at NWRDC to increase security
Downtime window start: 10/15/2020 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/15/2020 6:05 AM
Affected services: All services at Northwest
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Research Computing Master Node Move
Description of change: OIT is updating research computing master nodes ip address.
Downtime window start: 10/15/2020 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/15/2020 6:00 AM
Affected services: Koko HPC Cluster
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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