OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. May 30 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM

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, 05/30/2024 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on Banner from 12:01 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. on May 30th. Banner will not be available during this time to allow the Ellucian support team to install the updates.
Downtime window start: 05/30/2024 12:01 AM
Downtime window end: 05/30/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner Admin, Self-Service, Registration
End-user impact: Banner will be unavailable during this time. All end users of Banner will be impacted

Server Migration: Transcript Request, OwlFiles, and Owl Residency Portal
Description of change: The following services will be migrated to a new host: Transcript Request, OwlFiles, and Owl Residency Portal
Downtime window start: 05/30/2024 6:30 AM
Downtime window end: 05/30/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: Transcript Request, OwlFiles, Owl Residency Portal
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during this time

Modifications to the process of Slate decision posting to Banner
Description of change: Modifications have been made to the process of posting admission decisions from Slate to Banner.
Downtime window start: 05/30/2024 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 05/30/2024 8:00 AM
Affected services: Banner and Slate
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during this time.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Uncategorized

OIT Systems Maintenance, 5/22 & 5/23 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM

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 Wednesday, May 22 and Thursday, May 23, 2024 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Printing services maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading printing services used in the computer labs, library, and web printing on Wednesday, May 22nd, between the hours of 6:00 AM and 9:00 AM.
Downtime window start: 05/22/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 05/22/2024 9:00 AM
Affected services: Papercut services including printing from lab and library computers as well as web printing from fauprint.fau.edu.
End-user impact: Printing services in the labs, library, and fauprint.fau.edu will be intermittently unavailable during this upgrade.

Server maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing server maintenance affecting uAchieve/DARS access and audits.
Downtime window start: 05/23/2024 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 05/23/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: uAchieve/DARS
End-user impact: uAchieve/DARS will be unavailble during this time.

REDCap maintenance
Description of change: Research Computing will be performing Maintencace on REDCap. During this time REDCap will be offline for all users
Downtime window start: 05/23/2024 9:00 PM
Downtime window end: 05/24/2024 6:00 AM
Affected services: REDCap and any API’s that may interact with REDCap
End-user impact: During this time REDCap will be put into maintenance mode. Users will see “REDCap is down for Maintenance” if they try to get to any REDCap login or survery.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Research Computing, Systems

[Completed] Papercut printing service down for maintenance Wednesday 5/22/24 from 6AM-9AM

The upgrade has been completed and Papercut is now online.

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We will be performing some service enhancements that will require the Papercut service to be intermittently offline between 6AM and 9AM on Wednesday the 22nd. This will affect printing in the library, as well as the computer labs. In addition, web printing from fauprint.fau.edu will also be affected during this window.

Posted in Instructional Technologies, Systems

Network Switch Upgrade – Tuesday, May 21 from 5:00 AM to 7:00 AM

Network Switch Upgrade
Description of change: OIT’s Networking team will be upgrading one of the data center switches. Multiple servers and services will be unavailable during this time.

Downtime window start: 05/21/2024 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 05/21/2024 7:00 AM

Affected services: The following services will be impacted during the upgrade:
Web server
Transcript Request, Personal Information
OwlDocs, OwlFiles, Owl Residency Portal
OwlDone, SPOT
Mandatory Course Entry Quiz, Guest Wireless SMS, Account Claiming SMS
Owlcard software licensing
Graduate College MyPoS
Sunapsis
Johnson Controls / Siemens
Canvas
Crestron configuration tool
Citrix desktop and apps via apps.fau.edu
OIT Lab Camera System
Library Admin Workstation
Squid Proxy for Voice VLAN
Monitoring for Networking
OIT Systems Desktop
XLerator & db server
Google User Migration
Registrar Office email campaign server
eduroam radius server
Radius
Campus Recreation – Fusion Software
LDAP
Automation
FAU Tax software
Load balancer related
Dell OME
PowerBI on-prem data connector
Remote desktop
Splunk sandbox
NetApp cloud connectors
Email distribution
Admin server
DNS
WatchdogEX Monitoring System
PD Access Control
Grants ERA Web portal

End-user impact: The listed services will be unavailable during this time. Please note, other services not listed above may be impacted as well. If you encounter an issue, please try again after the upgrade has been completed.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Educational Technologies, Email, Instructional Technologies, Network and Telecom, Research Computing, Systems, Uncategorized

[Resolved] Zoom -> Mediasite Imports

The Zoom to Mediasite import tool has been repaired and is now importing designated Zoom recordings in to Mediasite. OIT is continuing to monitor the tool for stability.

Please note that only Zoom recordings made on or after May 1st will be imported. Failed recordings made before this date will need to be manually transferred by downloading from Zoom and uploading into MyMediasite.

Posted in Canvas / LMS, Lecture Capture, Video Conferencing

Boca Network Disruption

Boca campus had a brief network disruption from 11:00am to approximately 11:10am today, service should be restored.

Posted in Uncategorized

[Resolved]Fort Lauderdale Campus Connectivity Outage

A fiber outage has been detected at the Fort Lauderdale campus, a ticket with the service provider has been opened and we are awaiting resolution.

Posted in Network and Telecom, Uncategorized
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