The MYFAU issue has been resolved.
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Occasionally when reaching a page on MYFAU, you may receive a “502 Bad Gateway”. We are looking into the issue and hope to have more information soon. In the meantime, refreshing the page seems to clear up the problem and allow you to load the page.
The MYFAU issue has been resolved. If you are still not seeing your links, please restart your browser or app and log into MYFAU again.
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Various role specific links are missing from MYFAU such as the email icons. We are investigating and will provide an update soon.
In the meantime you can access email with the following links:
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Office of Information Technology will be performing systems maintenance Monday November 26th, 2018 from 3:00 am until 7:00 am.
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Single sign-on (SSO)
Description of change: OIT will upgrade the Single Sign-On system as part of our identity management upgrade.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: sso.fau.edu, grouper.fau.edu, all SSO clients including Banner Self Service, Workday, Canvas, and many others.
Affected systems: Single Sign On Servers, Grouper
Expected End-user impact: During this time, some users may experience issues logging into numerous single sign-on authenticated services. Groups sync’s will be delayed while an initial sync is performed.
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, 10/18/2018 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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Application Maintenance – New Frevvo Servers
Description of change: Upgrade the University Form server from a virtual machine to a physical device. This will resolve a bug we are experiencing that causes the form service to crash.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Forms, Admissions Applications, Application Status Portal
Affected systems: frevvo server
Expected End-user impact: During this time, web users will not be able to submit or lookup the results of forms.
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Application Maintenance – Identity Management
Description of change: OIT will add the Preferred First Names as an optional attribute to SSO, apply Workday Employee Feed Bug fixes, and additional upgrades and patches which may require restart.
Downtime window start: 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Identity Management
Affected systems: Identity Management, LDAP
Expected End-user impact: During this time, these changes only affect back-end services and should not impact users.
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Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading several Banner modules, such as Student Financial Aid, General, Accounts Receivable, and Admin Commons
Downtime window start: 2:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
OIT Units involved in the change AS and DBA Teams
Affected services: Banner 8, Banner XE, Application Navigator and Self-Service
Affected systems: Banner
Expected End-user impact: During this time, users may not be able to connect to Banner and or Self-Service during the installation.
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Update license server to support new Office and Server versions
Description of change: OIT will be updating the Microsoft license server to support new versions of Office and Server
Downtime window start: 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:05 AM
Affected services: Windows and Office product activation
Affected systems: Windows licensing server
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected
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Canvas User Management Tool Update
Description of change: OIT will be applying an update to the Canvas User Management tool that is used by Continuing and Executive Education to manage their non-FAU accounts in Canvas.
Downtime window start: 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:10 AM
Affected services: Only the tool itself will be unavailable as the update is applied.
Affected systems: Only the tool itself will be unavailable as the update is applied.
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the users that use the tool will be unable to use it during the update. All of the users of the tool have been notified.
NOTE: This tool’s availability will in no way affect the availability of Canvas itself.
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Identity Management
Description of change: Install Oracle Critical Patch Updates for Identity Management environment. We ran out of time during the last maintenance window and these patches were held back.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Oracle Identity Manager, Password sync, Account Claiming
Affected systems: OIM servers
Expected End-user impact: Users will not be able to claim their accounts or reset passwords while the system is being restarted during the window.
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Issue is resolved and services are fully online.
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DHCP, DNS, Single Sign On, Network Monitoring, and EDURoam may experience delays and possible errors this morning due to an issue with a device in Building 96. Information Technology is working on resolving the issue and will update this notice as we learn more.
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, 10/04/2018 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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Identify Management
Description of change: Add HIPAA role to Oracle Identity Manager and sync to OUD
Downtime window start: 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Oracle Identity Manager
Affected systems: boc22oimp
Expected End-user impact: Password changes may be delayed a few minutes during the time. No services will be restarted.
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Application Maintenance – Forms.fau.edu user and role sync
Description of change: OIT will begin syncing all Employees and their roles into forms.fau.edu’s database one per day.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 3:00 AM
Affected services: forms.fau.edu
Affected systems: frevvo server
Expected End-user impact: During this time there is no end-user impact. After the change, users will be able to accurately route forms to employees as needed.
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Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on its server infrastructure.
Downtime window start: 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:30 AM
Affected services: DHCP, DNS, SSO, Network Monitoring, EDURoam
Affected systems: dhcpboc1, dhcpboc18, dnsboc1, ldapboc1-el6, overwatch, shibboleth2p, tatooine, boc96hv01, boc96hv02, boc96esxi01, boc96esxi02
Expected End-user impact: Affected services may either be down or partially degraded.
Issue has been resolved. You now should be able to log in to FAU services.
OIT
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We are currently experiencing issues with single-sign on. This impacts services such as Workday, MYFAU and Canvas. We are working on resolving the issue as soon as possible.
We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.
OIT
We will be performing a short update to the Admissions and forms server at 4 am Friday the 22th. These services will be offline for approximately an hour while we increase the resources allocated to the machine.
If you experience difficulty accessing forms.fau.edu or the admissions applications please contact the Help Desk at your earliest convenience.
We will be performing a short update to the Canvas Banner Grade Submission System at 5 am Friday the 22th. Banner Grade Submission (eGrades) will be offline for approximately 15 minutes during this period.
If you experience difficulty accessing Banner Grade Submission please contact the Help Desk at your earliest convenience.
Early this morning we experienced issues with single sign on. This affected several of our services such as Banner and FAU Self-Service.
The issue has been resolved and all services should be accessible at this time. If you continue having issues please contact the OIT Help Desk 561.297.3999.
We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused.
OIT