The TouchNet payment processing system will be undergoing maintenance -Starting from 3:00am to 7:00am (EST) Friday, April 23rd. 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.
[RESOLVED] TouchNet Systems Maintenance, Friday, April 23rd from 3:00AM to 7:00AM
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. April 15 from 12:00AM 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, 04/15/2021 from 12:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
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Student Information System (Banner) Financial Aid Upgrade
Downtime window start 4/15/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end 4/16/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: BANNER 8X/XE
Expected End-user impact: The Banner system will be unavailable during the installation of the new codes/patches.
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Email Server Upgrade
Downtime window start 4/15/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 4/15/2021 4:00 AM
Affected services: Inbound FAU email, smtp.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: Email delivery may be delayed for inbound mail. Clients may receive an error when sending mail to smtp.fau.edu during the change window.
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OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. April 8 from 12:00AM 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, 04/08/2021 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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WebEx and Single Sign-on Maintenance
Downtime window start: 4/8/2021 6:30 AM
Downtime window end: 4/8/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: WebEx and Single sign-on (SSO)
Expected End-user impact: The SSO services will be restarted one server at a time so users may experience session errors during this time. WebEx sign-on may experience sign-on issue during this time while the certificate is swapped out.
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Student Advising System
Downtime window start: 4/8/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 4/8/2021 12:30 AM
Affected services: Student Advising System
Expected End-user impact: No user impact is anticipated
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Banner Maintenance
Downtime window start: 4/8/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 4/8/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: StarRez housing system
Expected End-user impact: No user impact is anticipated
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BHRIC VDI Maintenance
Downtime window start: 4/8/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 4/8/2021 2:00 AM
Affected services: BHRIC VMware VDI, https://vhealth.fau.edu , https://vhealthon.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: User may experience loss of connectivity to the BHRIC VDI.
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[RESOLVED] – Help desk system – Service interruption
**UPDATE**
This morning we received confirmation from Teamdynamix that this issue has been resolved and services have been fully restored.
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Teamdynamix is experiencing issues with their DNS provider. This may cause issues connecting to helpdesk.fau.edu and helpdesk.fau.edu/tdnext.
We will update this post as more information becomes available.
OIT
WORKDAY 2021R1 – Inbox and Notification Count Not Updating After Action (known issue)
Please note that Workday has identified an issue that is causing the count of inbox and notifications to not change after taking action on an Inbox item or marking a Notification as Read
In the WD 2021R1 Release there is a defect in Cross Application Services, Notifications and Alerts, User Experience
Workday has provided a workaround for this defect until they have corrected the problem. They recommend that you refresh your browser to see an updated count of inbox and notification items.
We will provide an update as soon as we receive one from Workday.
[Resolved] FAU experiencing internet issues
UPDATE: The issue has been resolved and users should be able to connect without issues now.
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FAU is currently experiencing internet problems that may make it hard or slow to connect to systems and sites. It is being investigated and will post an update when we have more information.
OIT Systems Maintenance – Thurs. March 4 from 12:00AM 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, 03/04/2021 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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Banner table for EZ Advising Data
Description of change: OIT will create a new Banner table to store Advising data.
Downtime window start: 3/4/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 3/4/2021 1:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
Expected End-user impact: No user impact is anticipated during this time.
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[RESOLVED] TouchNet Systems Maintenance, Friday, February 26th from 3:00AM to 7:00AM
The TouchNet payment processing system will be undergoing maintenance -Starting from 3:00am to 7:00am (EST) Friday, February 26th. 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.
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Feb 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, 02/25/2021 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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Moving Virtual Machines on the HPC Cluster
Description of change: OIT will be moving several virtual machine on the HPC cluster.
Downtime window start 2/25/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 2/25/2021 6:00 AM
Affected services: completesystems1, NFSv4 testing up19-beegfs-bridge, rna3d
Expected End-user impact: These servers will be offline during the maintenance window as we are migrating them to a new virtual machine cluster.
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HPC Cluster Centos 7.9 Update
Description of change: OIT will update all compute nodes on the HPC cluster to the latest version of Centos 7.9 including an upgrade to the Cuda 11.2 drivers.
Downtime window start 2/25/2021 8:00 AM
Downtime window end 3/4/2021 8:00 PM
Affected services: All research computing compute and GPU nodes.
Expected End-user impact: As compute nodes drain of tasks they will automatically reboot into a new disk image. This will impact users start time for jobs and will impact GPU gobs and MPI jobs which may need slight configuration changes.
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Appworx Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will updatie JDK for Appworx production master and master agent.
Downtime window start 2/25/2021 6:00 AM
Downtime window end 2/25/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: Appworx production
Expected End-user impact: Appworx will temporarily be offline while restarting the services.
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Banner Financial Aid 8.39.1.1 and 8.39.1.2 regulatory updates
Description of change: OIT apply regulatory updates for Pell table and Direct Loan.
Downtime window start 2/25/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 2/25/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: Not Applicable
Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during this time.
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pdate OwlForm: SWAHSCH
Description of change: OIT will populate the Calculated GPA into the Admissions GPA field for EDI transcripts OwlForm: SWAHSCH
Downtime window start 2/25/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 2/25/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: Not applicable
Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during this time.
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Add data to Admissions PopSel view
Description of change: OIT will add new data fields on Admissions PopSel view for test score codes AP66, AP68, PMPF1 and PMPF2 flags (Y/N) to indicate if students have taken exam course.
Downtime window start 2/25/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 2/25/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: Not applicable
Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during this time.
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OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Feb 18 from 12:00AM 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, 02/18/2021 from 12:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
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Server Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the operating system on its authentication servers.
Downtime window start: 2/18/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 2/18/2021 6:00 AM
Affected services: Active Directory (computer login)
Expected End-user impact: During this time, authentication to active directory may be delayed and there might be possible intermittent authentication issues on the Boca campus.
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Database Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be applying the January 2021 Oracle patchset updates to all production databases
Downtime window start: 2/18/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 2/18/2021 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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