IRM 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, 11/17/2011 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during IRM maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
When: 4:00 AM – 6:00 AM
Affected Services: MyFAU Google Application Portal, Phonebill, Identity Manager, OPSView
Affected Systems: LinTalon0, LinTalon1, LinTalon2, Cuttlefish.fau.edu (opsview), IDM1 – IDM4
Description of Maintenance: We will be applying Red Hat patches on these servers. Some will require a reboot.
Service Interruption: Yes, each service will be offline for approximately 15 minutes.
When: 5:00 am – 6:00 am
Affected Service: Blackboard.fau.edu
Affected Systems: Bba1, bba2, bba3, bba4, bba5, bba6, bbc1, bbc2, bbm1, bbx1, and bbx2
Description of Maintenance: We will be applying a patch to prevent access denied errors and locks when users take exams.
Service Interruption: Yes, Blackboard will be offline while the changes are applied.
When: 3:00 AM – 3:30 AM
Affected Service: IDM
Affected Systems: idm-gateway-p
Description of Maintenance: We will be increasing the memory assigned to this system.
Service Interruption: Yes, brief interruptions of service are expected for password syncs.
When: 3:00 AM – 7:00 AM
Affected Services: Xitracs, IDM, SharePoint, Blackboard, NetReg, Lists, VisualSVN, Broadcast.fau.edu
Affected Systems: bbx1, bbx2, xitracs, dhcpboc1, enterprise, idm2, idm-gateway-p, ldapboc1, lintalon3, lists, nsboc1, talon0, visualsvn
Description of Maintenance: We will be moving these systems to different virtual machine hosts, to facility the creation of a Hyper-V cluster.
Service Interruption: Yes, brief interruptions of service are expected for password syncs, SharePoint, NetReg, DNS, Xitracs, VisualSVN, Blackboard, Broadcast (COB streaming)
When: 6:00 AM – 7:00 AM
Affected Service: None external
Affected Systems: Internal vlan 50 IPs for unix racks 8 and 9
Description of Maintenance: Old vlan 50 switches are being replaced by newer ones
Service Interruption: Possible interruption of backups and any other traffic that rely on the 10.50.64.x subnet
When: 6:00 AM – 7:00 AM
Affected Service: None external
Affected Systems: All machines that participate on the vlan 50 subnet
Description of Maintenance: Reconfiguring of 7210 SAN and subsequent testing to resolve flooding problem during vmware operations on esxi003
Service Interruption: Possible interruption of backups and any other traffic that rely on the 10.50.64.x subnet