Emergency Internet Maintenance from Midnight until 6:00 am on 4/13 and 4/14

Due to emergency third-party fiber maintenance from the vendor that provides Internet and network connectivity to FAU, there will be work performed that will sporadically affect connectivity to the campus from midnight until 6:00 a.m. on 4/13 and 4/14. We are making efforts to ensure that services are available as much as possible through the maintenance by utilizing backup internet connections and disaster recovery procedures. However, there may be intermittent and sporadic losses of connectivity due to the nature of the outage.

Thank you

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OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. April 7 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, 04/07/2016 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Blackboard building block install
When: 5:00AM – 6:00AM
Affected services: Blackboard
Affected systems: ​Blackboard
Description of maintenance: OIT will install a new Pearson Building Block to facilitate Grade Synchronization between certain Pearson courses and Blackboard
User impact: This will require rolling restarts, so the downtime should be minimal, if any.​

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Move jira/confluence to DMZ ip
When: 5:30AM – 6:00AM
Affected services: jira and kb (confluence)
Affected systems: ​ jira.fau.edu / kb.fau.edu​
Description of maintenance: We are changing the internet addresses of jira.fau.edu and confluence.fau.edu to allow access from outside of FAU.
User impact: Users of the jira project tracking system and of the oit confluence collaborative documentation site will not be able to connect​

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Banner Student patch 8.9.1.2
When: 3:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: N/A
Affected systems: ​Banner Student module
Description of maintenance: This patch is necessary as support for the future installations of Banner XE (9)
User impact: No user impact is anticipated

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Banner Financial Aid 8.26.0 upgrade
When: 3:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: N/A
Affected systems: ​Banner Financial Aid​
Description of maintenance: ​Install Financial Aid 8.26.0 upgrade in production. This is a critical upgrade release and the Financial Aid office has been waiting for it for several weeks. They need it in order to begin processing incoming student financial aid awards.
User impact: No user impact is anticipated​

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RESOLVED: Echo360 Service Restart — Media Upload Issue

The issue which was preventing Echo360 lecture captures and external media uploads from processing and publishing has been resolved.

 

 

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[COMPLETED] – TouchNet Systems – Maintenance Notification – Wed. March 16 from 3:00AM to 7:00AM

*****UPDATE*****

TouchNet systems has completed their maintenance. All systems are back online and ready for regular use.

 

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TouchNet will be performing routine server maintenance from 3:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. on Wednesday 3/16/2016.

All student payment services and marketplace sites will be unavailable during this time.

 

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OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. March 10 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, 03/10/2016 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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ePrint 2-factor authentication
When: 4:00AM – 6:00AM
Affected services: ePrint
Affected systems: eprint.fau.edu​
Description of maintenance: OIT will enable Duo 2-factor authentication ​for the ePrint URL https://eprint.fau.edu
User impact: There will be no access to ePrint during this time​

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CAS Login Patch
When: 5:00AM – 6:00AM
Affected services: CAS
Affected systems: cas1, cas2, cas3​
Description of maintenance: OIT will update the single sign on system to prevent users from entering a space before or after their username. This will improve usability by stopping users from receiving an error when logging in.
User impact: None, these a clustered and the patch will be applied to one at a time. ​

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Upgrade Ironport servers bertx and berty from Version: 9.7.0-125 to Version: 9.7.1.066
When: 5:00AM – 6:30AM
Affected services: None
Affected systems: None
Description of maintenance: Upgrade Ironport servers bertx and berty from Version: 9.7.0-125 to Version: 9.7.1.066
User impact: ​Possible delay in receiving mail

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Liebert battery replacement at Jupiter, RF 219
When: 4:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: None
Affected systems: None
Description of maintenance: Emerson is replacing all 40 batteries in the Liebert unit in RF 219.
User impact: None, the unit will be on standby and should be powered by the backup generator if there is a power failure.​

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Resolved – MyFau unavailable

We are experiencing some technical difficulties with the myfau portal.  Currently working on the problem.   We apologize for the inconvenience.

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[RESOLVED] Network Outage – All services and campuses affected

 All network and services have been restored.  A software bug on the University core router caused the extended outage.
We apologize for the impact this extended outage has caused.
OIT
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OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. March 3 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, 03/03/2016 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 – 6:00AM
Affected services: Chessboard Account Management, Multi Factor Authentication Enrollment, Google Password Change Tool, Network Registration, Network Registration Administrator, Waveset Identity Manager, Graduate Admissions Admin Console, Metadata Management for Saml2/Shibboleth, eGrades, Admissions Application View in INB, GitLab, Grouper, the Google to Exchange Migrator, Frevvo Forms, Talisma and others email relay
Affected systems: appadmin, chessboard, ​cuttlefish, ds2p, idm1, idm2, idm4p, grouper, jenkins, lintalon0, lintalon1, lintalon2, lintalon3, madcat1p, metadata, shibboleth3, sepiidae (observium), talonx1, talonx2, wildfly1, wildfly2, wildfly3, wildflyadmin, gitlab, googlemigrate, frevvo1, flashgordon (email relay)
Expected end-user impact: Each service will be offline for 5 – 10 minutes
Description of change: Due to a critical patch needing to be applied numerous Linux systems run by the Middleware team will be rebooted.
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When: 5:00AM – 6:00AM
Affected services: Frevvo Forms
Affected systems: forms.fau.edu​, frevvo1.fau.edu
Expected end-user impact: Improved access on mobile devices when viewing online forms.
Description of change: We are patching our theming tool to better support mobile devices.
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When: 3:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: Not Applicable
Affected systems: Banner Financial Aid
Expected end-user impact: No user impact is anticipated

Description of change: Install all outstanding Banner Financial Aid upgrades/patches in production. The upgrade is an emergency release from Ellucian and the patch corrects a problem with disbursements.

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When: 3:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: OS deployments through SCCM, Microsoft updates to SCCM managed clients, Remote control and reporting to SCCM managed clients
Affected systems: boc22sccm, boc22cmsccm01, boc22sccmsql​
Expected end-user impact: All SCCM affected services will be unavailable during the window​
Description of change: OIT will be migrating OIT’s System Center Configuration Manager​ implementation to a new version on a new system
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When: 6:00AM – 6:15AM
Affected services: Mailboxes on Office 365​​
Affected systems: N/A
Expected end-user impact: No end-user impact is expected​
Description of change: OIT will be enabling litigation hold (archiving) for users with mailboxes on Office 365​
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When: 6:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services:  Exchange on-prem, Exchange 365​

Affected systems: exchangeca01, exchange 365​

Expected end-user impact: No end-user impact is expected​

Description of change: OIT will be making changes to the on-prem and cloud based mail systems to prepare for the migration of College of Science users

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When: 6:00AM – 6:15AM
Affected services: Office 365 for health users​
Affected systems: N/A
Expected end-user impact: No end-user impact is expected​​
Description of change: OIT will be reassigning licenses for health users on Office 365 since the functionality included with E3 and Exchange Plan 2 licenses are now available in Education Plus licenses​

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OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. February 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, 02/25/2016 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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Update and restart of Linux servers
When: 3:00AM to 6:00AM
Affected services: Password sync, account creation and claiming
Affected systems: boc22ora07 (OIMP), boc22ora03 (MSOP, IDMP), boc22oimp1, boc22oimp2, boc22oimwebp1, boc22oimwebp2
Description of maintenance: Due to a critical patch that needs to be installed on all Linux systems, we will need to restart the production OIM and IDM database and application servers
User impact: Passwords will not synchronize during this time so we recommend not changing your password until after the maintenance window is done.

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Update and restart of MyFAU
When: 3:00AM to 6:00AM
Affected services: MyFAU
Affected systems: MyFAU
Description of maintenance: OIT will restart the database servers for MyFAU due to new patches being installed.
User impact: Users will not be able to access MyFAU during this time.
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Update and restart of Linux servers
When: 3:00AM to 6:00AM
Affected services: Banner: Selfservice and INB
Affected systems: bannerprd, sctcache[1-8], sctforms[1-2]
Description of maintenance: Due to a critical patch that needs to be installed on all Linux systems, we will need to restart the production banner database and application servers
User impact: No access to banner

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OIT Systems Maintenance, Thursday, Feb 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, 02/11/2016 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 SSO Manager upgrade
When: 5:00AM – 6:00AM
Affected services: Banner self-service​
Affected systems: Banner application servers​
Description of maintenance: Upgrade Banner SSO Manager from 8.1.5 to 8.2​
User impact: Banner self-service may become unavailable for a shot period of time during the upgrade

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Migrate Jupiter and HBOI network support systems to new hardware
When: 5:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: ​Netreg, DHCP, DNS, LDAP for Jupiter and HBOI campuses
Affected systems: ​ldapjup1, ldapjup2, dnsjup1, dhsjup2, dhcpjup1, dhcpjup2, jup17pcprt01, jup17hv01, jup17hv02
Description of maintenance: OIT will be migrating several systems that support user authentication and network services on the Jupiter and HBOI campuses to new hardware
User impact: ​DHCP, netreg, and Papercut printing services will be down on the Jupiter and HBOI campuses while the migration occurs.

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