Help Desk Ticketing System Offline Saturday, Aug 1 between 7:00AM to 11:AM

Our help desk ticketing system will be unavailable on Saturday, Aug 1 between 7:00AM to 11:0AM due to an upgrade. During this time you will not be able to submit any help desk tickets.

OIT

Posted in Systems, Uncategorized

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. July 30 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, 07/30/2015 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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When: 3:00AM – 4:00AM
Affected services: accounts.fau.edu (Oracle Identity Manager (OIM)​)
Affected systems: ​boc22ora07, boc22oimp1, boc22oimp2
Description of maintenance: Moving storage for OIM production database (OIMP) to another aggregate in NetApp SAN.​
User impact: ​Users will not be able to reset their passwords or claim accounts during this time.

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When: 6:00AM – 6:30AM
Affected services: VIP document management system (Scanned Student and/or Faculty Records)
Affected systems: ​vip.fau.edu
Description of maintenance: OIT will upgrade the authentication server for the VIP Document Management System to comply with security requirements.
User impact: Momentary interruption of use of the vip document management system

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Posted in Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. July 23 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, 07/23/2014 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

When: 5:00AM – 5:45AM
Affected services: Blackboard
Affected systems: ​Blackboard
Description of maintenance: OIT will be updating the LiveText Building Block for Blackboard to fix an issue preventing instructors from linking their Blackboard courses with LiveText​
User impact: We do not expect any downtime unless we need to restart, though a restart should not be necessary.  If a restart is necessary the servers can be restarted individually so Blackboard would still not be down.

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When: 6:00AM – 6:15AM
Affected services:  https://assessment.fau.edu & https://devassessment.fau.edu​
Affected systems: ​ieadata & boc22mssqlfau
Description of maintenance: OIT will be moving some of IEA’s databases to a new system.​​
User impact: The following sites will be unavailable during the window:
https://assessment.fau.edu
https://devassessment.fau.edu

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Posted in Educational Technologies, Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. July 16 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, 07/16/2014 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Banner Financial Aid Workday Integration
When: 3:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: ​There is no anticipated user/service impact.
Affected systems: ​BANNER Production (FAUP)
Description of maintenance: Install Federal college work study Workday intergration process.
User impact: There is no anticipated user/service impact.

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WebFOCUS 8.1.04 Upgrade
When: 3:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: WebFOCUS and Leap Ahead​
Affected systems: ​​ibiweb4.fau.edu & BOC22ORA01.fau.edu
Description of maintenance: Upgrade WebFOCUS to version 8.1.04​
User impact: WebFOCUS and Leap Ahead will be unavailable during the upgrade.​

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LuminisSync Single MessageQueue
When: 5:45AM – 6:00AM
Affected services: OUD, LuminisSync, Luminis, Waveset, Active Directory, Oracle Identity Manager, Chessboard, CAS services.
Affected systems: ​boc22oudp01, boc22oudp02, mcsource.fau.edu​
Description of maintenance: All OUD to LuminisSync events will now go to oud.action queue instead of being split between oud.action and oud.highpriority ActiveMQ queues.
User impact: None​, some accounts were not being created in Luminis. This should correct that problem.

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IEA database migration
When: 6:00AM – 6:15AM
Affected services: http://iea.fau.edu/AssessmentDbase/ & http://iea.fau.edu/AssessmentDbase1314/
Affected systems: ​ieadata
Description of maintenance: OIT will be moving some of IEA’s databases to a new system.​
User impact: The following sites will be unavailable during the window:
http://iea.fau.edu/AssessmentDbase/
http://iea.fau.edu/AssessmentDbase1314/

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems

[RESOLVED] Password Resets currently not working

********* The issue with password resets have been resolved *******

 

We are currently not able to reset passwords at this time. We are working to resolve the issue and apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.

OIT

Posted in Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. July 9 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, 7/9/2015 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window.  In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted: ***************************************************
IronPort Upgrade
When: 6:15AM – 6:35AM
Affected services: None
Affected systems: None
Description of maintenance: ​Upgrade Ironport (bertx.fau.edu) to version 9.1.0-032
User impact: No end-user impact is expected

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Storage hardware relocation
When: 3:00AM – 3:30AM
Affected services: Labs fileserver, Labs webcam servers, Labs software licensing system, IDM, Grouper, Starfish, Talisma, Xitracs, Wildfly, R25, Team Dynamix incoming email, Crystal Reports, Financial Aid webserver​
Affected systems: as2, boc22dellome, boc22mbam, boc22nasmvi2, boc22omelab, boc22pernix1, boc22r25, boc22spapp2, boc22spwfe2, boc22tmdynamix, boc22vcenter2, bocdcfau02, bocdcirm02, cas2, comvmadi02, comvmsql02, comvmweb02, crystalreports, dhcpboc0, dnsboc0, evisionsprod, fauweb6, finaid, flashgordon, googlemigrate, grouper, groupert, idm1, idm-gateway-p, labcamsrv1, labcamsrv2, labcamsrv3, labcamsrv4, ldapboc0, lintalon2, ls1, ls3, Mastermind, metadata, osdlicsrv, scac, shibboleth1, starfish, talapp01, talapp02, talonx1, ugappt1, wildfly1, wildfly2, wildfly3,  wildflyadmin, xitracs​
Description of maintenance: OIT will be phyiscally moving the storage that supports a number of systems.
User impact: During the window these systems will be unavailable.​​

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Single-Sign On Usability Improvement
When: 3:00AM – 5:00AM
Affected services: Blackboard, Workday, Outlook web access, OwlApps (Google Applications and Gmail), Library Services. College of Business Media Streaming​, all signle sign on services.
Affected systems: cas1.fau.edu, cas2.fau.edu
Description of maintenance: The single sign on system will be updated to notify users that they cannot bookmark or leave the browse sitting on the single signon pages. ​
User impact: Single Sign On will be offline for 10 – 15 minutes during the upgrade. This downtime will prevent users for accessing the above services. ​

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Posted in Email, Systems, Uncategorized

Marketplace Payment System (TouchNet) Unavailable between June 29 at 4:00pm to July 2nd at 8:00am

Due to the fiscal year end close, as well as our conversion to Workday, TouchNet payment processing systems will be taken offline starting June 29th ,2015 at 4:00(pm) EST. The system will then be brought back online as of July 2nd, 2015 at 8:00(am) EST.  

This will cause any credit card or web-check payment attempts to fail on Marketplace Stores, uPay sites and TouchNet Ready Partner sites. As such, it may be advisable to place a notification message on your storefront or website.

Posted in Systems, Uncategorized

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. June 25 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, 06/25/2014 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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When: 5:00AM – 6:00AM
Affected services: MyFAU will be down during this time frame​
Affected systems: MyFAU
Expected end-user impact: MyFAU will not be accessible during the downtime window​.
Description of change: We will be modifying some webpages within MyFAU to update information as it regards to password changes

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When: 6:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected Services: Leap Ahead​
Affected Systems:  ibiweb4.fau.edu
Expected end-user impact: Leap Ahead unavailable during upgrade.​
Description of change: Upgrade Leap Ahead to new version

Posted in Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. June 11 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, 06/11/2014 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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When: 3:00AM to 6:00AM
Affected services: OS deployment from boc22cmsccm01​ – Reporting/patching/application push from boc22cmsccm01
Affected systems: ​boc22cmsccm01, boc22cmsccmsql
Description of maintenance: OIT will be installing ​a service pack for System Center Configuration Manager
User impact: This update will not affect the general campus community. For technical staff, the ​OS deployment/reporting/patching/application push will be unavailable during the window

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Posted in Systems

[RESOLVED] Helpdesk Ticketing System Slowness

We are currently experiencing slowness with our online helpdesk system (helpdesk.fau.edu). The vendor is working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

OIT

Posted in Systems