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, 02/24/2022 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
Authentication Configuration Change
Description of change: OIT will be making a change to authentication requirements for certain users.
Downtime window start 2/24/2022 8:00 AM
Downtime window end 2/24/2022 8:00 AM
Affected services: Access to Office 365
Expected End-user impact: This will only impact OIT staff. OIT staff will need to re-authenticate to Office 365 applications to acquire a new token.
HPC Cluster Slurm Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will upgrade the HPC Clusters’ queuing system Slurm. There will be no downtime during this update.
Downtime window start 2/24/2022 6:00 AM
Downtime window end 2/24/2022 7:00 AM
Affected services: KOKO HPC Cluster, OnDemand, Jupyter Notebooks, Galaxy
Expected End-user impact: None expected, this upgrade will not cause any downtime.
BHRIC VMware maintenance
Description of change: BHRIC VMware will be undergoing maintenance
Downtime window start 2/24/2022 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 2/24/2022 5:00 AM
Affected services: BHRIC VMWare, vhelath, vheatlhon
Expected End-user impact: During the upgrade, BHRIC VMware, vhealth.fau.edu and vhealth.fau.edu on will be unavailable.
BHRIC storage maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance of the BHRIC storage system
Downtime window start 2/24/2022 2:00 AM
Downtime window end 2/24/2022 6:00 AM
Affected services: BHRIC VMWare VDI
Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during this upgrade