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, 12/17/2020 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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Voice Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the software on the voice servers.
Downtime window start: 12/17/2020 7:00 PM
Downtime window end: 12/18/2020 3:00 AM
Affected services: Desk Phone Connectivity
Expected End-user impact: During this time, some phones may lose connectivity for 10-30 seconds while they switch to the backup servers.
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Database Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing storage maintenance on the boc22mssqlfau2 Microsoft SQL Cluster. Databases located on CIFS shares will be moved to iSCSI.
Downtime window start: 12/17/2020 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12/17/2020 7:00 AM
Affected services: The following databases on the boc22mssqlfau2 cluster will be offline for a short period while moved:
InternationalServices
COE Production
COE Development
propel
PSLA
ITNClient0310_samp
ITNCommon
ITNClient0310_prod
USA
FabLab
StudentAffairsDB
BDRegistrar
Expected End-user impact: During this time, services connecting to the databases listed above may go offline or need to be restarted during the maintenance.
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Client Configuration Change
Description of change: OIT will be making a change to which computers receive VPN settings.
Downtime window start: 12/17/2020 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12/17/2020 5:00 AM
Affected services: Group Policy
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Research Computing Scheduler Upgrade
Description of change: Research Computing will be upgrading the scheduler used to control jobs on the cluster. This upgrade should resolve several problems preventing GUI and MPI applications from running correctly.
Downtime window start: 12/17/2020 8:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12/17/2020 5:00 PM
Affected services: Research Computing Cluster
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the cluster will be offline while we apply this update to all compute nodes, login nodes, images, and dependent services.
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Update applicant’s email on UG Application
Description of change: OIT will enable a new Appworx job for the Admissions Office to manually update an applicant’s email address on their UG application.
Downtime window start: 12/17/2020 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12/17/2020 7:00 AM
Affected services: None
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Snaplogic upgrade
Description of change: OIT will upgrade Snaplogic to the newest version
Downtime window start: 12/17/2020 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12/17/2020 5:00 AM
Affected services: All Snaplogic pipelines
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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