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, 01/21/2021 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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uAchieve Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be making code changes to student interface library to pull additional student attributes from Banner into uAchieve.
Downtime window start: 1/21/2021 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 1/21/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: uAchieve/DARS Degree Auditing
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the uAchieve site may be unavailable for a short period of time.
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Single Sign-on Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be converting the InCommon metadata provider in Shibboleth from the legacy aggregate to their new MDQ service.
Downtime window start: 1/21/2021 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 1/21/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: Single Sign-on
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be applying updates to virtualization hosts.
Downtime window start: 1/21/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 1/21/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: Cisco meeting and videoconferencing services.
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the videoconferencing services will be unavailable.
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HPC Cluster Storage Addition
Description of change: OIT will be adding low priority storage to the HPC cluster as a means to offer additional storage for researcher scratch drives.
Downtime window start: 1/21/2021 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 1/21/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: HPC clusters
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Update Financial Aid Counselor Function for 2021
Description of change: OIT will be applying updates for 2021 : assign Financial Aid Counselors to students.
Downtime window start: 1/21/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 1/21/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: Not Applicable
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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REDCap upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading RedCAP from 10.0.18 to 10.7.0 for security reasons.
Downtime window start: 1/21/2021 12:05 AM
Downtime window end: 1/21/2021 6:00 AM
Affected services: RedCAP
Expected End-user impact: During this time, RedCAP will be unavailable.
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