The TouchNet payment processing system will be undergoing maintenance -Starting from 3:00am to 7:00am (EST) Friday, December 11th. This affects student payment services (Bill+Payment), as well as all Marketplace Stores, uPay sites and TouchNet ready partner payment services. We expect all systems to be back online no later than 7:00 am (EST) that morning. When the system is back up and ready to go, we will notify you. You may wish to place warnings on your website, or take your store offline. If this scheduled downtime creates a conflict for your operations, please feel free to contact us at FIS@fau.edu for further discussion. Expected End-user impact: During this time all student payment services (Bill+Payment), as well as all Marketplace Stores, uPay sites and TouchNet ready partner payment services will be unavailable during this maintenance cycle.
TouchNet Systems Maintenance, Friday, December 11th from 3:00AM to 7:00AM
[NETWORK OUTAGE RECOVERY] Late Friday Afternoon 4:15 through 5:30
FAU experienced unplanned network connectivity issues between 4:15 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. today. Network connectivity has been restored, but OIT may still be working to restore some services that may have been impacted.
eGrades and University Forms
eGrades and the University Forms (frevvo) are currently experiencing an outage and may not work as expected. We are investigating the problem and will update this notice soon.
[RESOLVED] TouchNet Systems Maintenance, Thursday, November 19th from 3:00AM to 7:00AM
The TouchNet payment processing system will be undergoing maintenance -Starting from 3:00am to 7:00am (EST) Thursday, November 19th. This affects student payment services (Bill+Payment), as well as all Marketplace Stores, uPay sites and TouchNet ready partner payment services. We expect all systems to be back online no later than 7:00 am (EST) that morning. When the system is back up and ready to go, we will notify you. You may wish to place warnings on your website, or take your store offline. If this scheduled downtime creates a conflict for your operations, please feel free to contact us at FIS@fau.edu for further discussion. Expected End-user impact: During this time all student payment services (Bill+Payment), as well as all Marketplace Stores, uPay sites and TouchNet ready partner payment services will be unavailable during this maintenance cycle.
[NETWORK MAINTENANCE] Boca Raton Campus – Sunday November 15th from 5:00 a.m. until 7:30 a.m.
OIT will be performing maintenance on core network equipment on the Boca Raton campus from 5:00 a.m. until 7:30 a.m. this upcoming Sunday. During this time there may be intermittent connectivity to networked services on the Boca Raton campus, connectivity from Boca Raton to the internet, and connectivity from Boca Raton to other campuses.
OIT Maintenance, Thurs. Nov 12 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, 11/12/2020 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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Database Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will apply the October 2020 Oracle patchset updates to all production databases
Downtime window start: 11/12/2020 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/12/2020 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner production: Admin Pages (Forms), Application Navigator, Banner Access Manager, Banner self-service, Touchnet – Payments/Deposits
Workflow, uAchieve – DARS, FLVS, Transcripts
Appworx
Harvest
ODS
FAUDW Warehouse: DWPROD-OwlDone, DWPROD-FinancialAid Attendance Survey
IEAP Warehouse
WebFOCUS/ReportCaster
OIM: Account claiming, Password resets
MSOP Instance:
ACH_PROD: ACH or VPAS
GBP_PROD: Mandatory Course Entry Quiz
WORKDESK_PROD: accounts.fau.edu – Accounts Self Service
CANV_EGRADES_PROD: Canvas Electronic Grading “Banner Grade Submissions” in Canvas
FAUVISITOR_PROD: Wireless network authentication for guests.
FREVVOAPI_PROD: 4P Configuration, Admissions Status, Znumber page, ssoauth.fau.edu/*, egrades.fau.edu/* (except egrades itself)
GROUPER_PROD: Group Management – grouper.fau.edu
PHONEBILL_PROD: Phonebill application pre latest system.
PWDEXPIRE_PROD: Password expiration
REG_PROD: network registration, talon.fau.edu/netreg, talon.fau.edu/networkregistrationadmin, DHCP Logger
FREVVO61_PROD: Frevvo
NEWUNDERGRAD_PROD: Undergraduate Admissions
OWLAPP_PROD: Graduate Admissions
OWLRESIDENCY_PROD: Residency Project
ONBOARDUSR: OwlDone
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the listed services will be temporarily offline while the patches are applied. Some applications may need to be restarted after the maintenance is complete.
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Confluence Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will upgrade Confluence to the latest version
Downtime window start: 11/12/2020 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/12/2020 7:00 AM
Affected services: kb.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, Confluence (kb.fau.edu) will be offline.
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Copy Decrypted AP Files to Admissions Folder on ANDISEC
Description of change: OIT will apply a new process for loading AP test scores for Admissions Office
Downtime window start: 11/12/2020 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/12/2020 5:00 AM
Affected services: None
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Insert school codes into SWREDIT table
Description of change: OIT will make some changes to the SWREDIT table in Banner to insert school codes.
Downtime window start: 11/12/2020 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/12/2020 5:00 AM
Affected services: Sending out EDI Transcript Requests
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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OnBase Registrar Form for Change of Name
Description of change: OIT will release new Registrar form and workflow for Change of Name form.
Downtime window start: 11/12/2020 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/12/2020 12:00 AM
Affected services: OnBase
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. After the change, students will be able to securely submit change of Name request, which will ease workflow for students and Registrar office.
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Residency Code Updates
Description of change: OIT will update residency query to post back to the correct SGDSTDN record.
Downtime window start: 11/12/2020 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/12/2020 12:00 AM
Affected services: Owl Residency Custom App
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. After the change a better and more accurate process will be in place for students and Residency team.
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Update Degree Applicable Package
Description of change: OIT will update code to provide more accurate degree applicable courses for students
Downtime window start: 11/12/2020 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/12/2020 12:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. After the change, more accurate degree applicable courses will be available for students.
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[RESOLVED] OIT Help Desk Ticketing System Unavailable
UPDATE: The emergency maintenance has been completed and the OIT help desk system is back online.
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The OIT Help Desk ticketing system is currently unavailable due to emergency maintenance performed by the vendor. We expect the system to be back online momentarily.
OIT
Wellness Attestation Report not currently updating
We have identified an issue with the Attestation reports updating properly. Please disregard the overdue email notifications you may have received. We are working to resolve as soon as possible.
OIT
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Oct 29 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, 10/29/2020 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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Enable additional security controls for Microsoft Teams
Description of change: OIT will be enabling additional controls for Teams to allow users to select a higher level of security
Downtime window start: 10/29/2020 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/29/2020 6:05 AM
Affected services: Microsoft Teams
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. After the change existing Teams will be able to enable guest access
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Server Upgrades
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading Papercut production from 20.0.0 to 20.0.4 in order to fix a bug that is in the 20.0.0 software.
Downtime window start: 10/29/2020 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/29/2020 7:00 AM
Affected services: Papercut printing
Expected End-user impact: During this time, users will not be able to print using the FAU Pay-for-Print service.
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Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on 2 web/app servers.
Downtime window start: 10/29/2020 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/29/2020 6:00 AM
Affected services: boc22cfprod1: expo, cfadmin, SecureRedirect, Directory, Crosswalk, FacStaffAlert, NetLookup, ServiceAwards, Transient, SoftLic, TechFee, VPAS, GradeMan, OBIGen, SoarIn4, tuna1p: https://atlantic.fau.edu/library/admin, https://atlantic.fau.edu/FrevvoAPI,
https://atlantic.fau.edu/library/capstone/capstoneStudent/create, https://atlantic.fau.edu/library/admin/etd/student/create
Expected End-user impact: During this time, services hosted by these servers will experience downtime. Ideally we only expect about 10-15 minutes of downtime for each server.
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Sensitive info purge from Banner database
Description of change: Create a process to purge Banner sensitive info such as SSN, driver’s license records, direct deposit records of non-students, non employees, and applicants that applied more than five years ago.
Downtime window start: 10/29/2020 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/29/2020 12:00 AM
Affected services: Banner tables
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. Sensitive information will be deleted from Banner database
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Oct 15 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, 10/15/2020 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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Server Maintenance – Success Network (Starfish)
Description of change: OIT will be adding data storage space to a backend processing server for the Success Network (starfish).
Downtime window start: 10/15/2020 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/15/2020 7:00 AM
Affected services: Success Network/Starfish Advising web site components
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user is expected. However, if downtime is necessary to correct problems, then students cannot make appointments with advisors and advisors cannot document their appointments.
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Banner 8X/XE Financial Aid Regulatory upgrade/admin pages releases
Description of change: This upgrade release and administrative pages release are required for regulatory compliance.
Downtime window start: 10/15/2020 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/15/2020 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner Financial Aid will be unavailable during the maintenance window
Expected End-user impact: During the brief downtime, users may receive an error message when uding the administrative pages.
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Server configuration change
Description of change: OIT will be modifying parameters of the storage system at NWRDC to increase security
Downtime window start: 10/15/2020 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/15/2020 6:05 AM
Affected services: All services at Northwest
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Research Computing Master Node Move
Description of change: OIT is updating research computing master nodes ip address.
Downtime window start: 10/15/2020 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 10/15/2020 6:00 AM
Affected services: Koko HPC Cluster
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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