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, 10/19/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
Server maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be making some server changes to improve the stability of the load balancers.
Downtime window start: 10/19/2023 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/19/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: This will impact all services currently being handled by the load balancer from www.fau.edu, banner, talon, OnBase, lmsapps, and other services.
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected as the change be done one at a time and failing over to the load balancer that was modified.
Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing server maintenance on several core systems.
Downtime window start: 10/19/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/19/2023 4:00 AM
Affected services: MyOwl Services, Owl KPIs,Owl Files, Undergraduate Application
End-user impact: During this time, the undergraduate application, MyOwl Services, Owl KPIs, and Owl Files will be unavailable.
BHRIC VMware maintenance
Description of change: Research Computing will be performing maintenance on the BHRIC VMWare infrastructure.
Downtime window start: 10/19/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/19/2023 3:00 AM
Affected services: BHRIC VMware
End-user impact: During this time, VM’s in the “avaliable” state will be able to be logged into with no issues. However, Computers that are powered off or need a recompose will not be available until vcenter come back online
Server Maintenance
Description of change: Moving eGrades Production to Kubernetes
Downtime window start: 10/19/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/19/2023 4:00 AM
Affected services: eGrades
End-user impact: eGrades will be unavailable during this time.
Upgrade OwlForms (OwlAdminPages) to new version of Grails
Description of change: OIT will upgrade the framework to latest version to be up to date with new features and security updates.
Downtime window start: 10/19/2023 5:00 PM
Downtime window end: 10/19/2023 6:00 PM
Affected services: OwlForm (OwlAdmin Pages)
End-user impact: OwlForm Admin users