OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Oct. 21 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, 10/21/2021 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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Server Maintenance
Description of change: ​OIT will be moving 2 servers to different hardware.
Downtime window start 10/21/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 10/21/2021 6:00 AM
Affected services: ​eduroam and wireless logins
Expected End-user impact: During this time, logins for eduroam and wireless will fail.

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Gitlab Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on the OIT Gitlab instance for upgrades and patches. It may become unavailable for periods during the scheduled down time.​
Downtime window start 10/21/2021 5:00 AM
Downtime window end 10/21/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: ​Gitlab
Expected End-user impact: ​Developers may not be able to connect to the Gitlab repositories during this time.

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Password Expiration Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance to the Password Expiration services. This maintenance will modify the expiration exclusion group to include all users that opt-in for forced multi-factor/Duo authentication on all services.
Downtime window start 10/21/2021 6:00 AM
Downtime window end 10/21/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: ​Password Expiration
Expected End-user impact: ​No user impact expected.

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Banner Financial Aid Maintenance
Description of change: ​Banner will be undergoing maintenance to upgrade the Financial Aid 8X and XE modules. The system will be unavailable during maintenance.
Downtime window start 10/21/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 10/21/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: ​​BANNER 8X/XE Financial Aid modules
Expected End-user impact: ​The Banner system will be brought down during the actual installation of the new release code.

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