This issue has been resolved.
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We are currently experiencing an issue with the Citrix Receiver to access Virtual Apps. We are working with the vendor to resolve as quickly as possible.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
OIT
Due to a failure of A/C on the Jupiter Campus the Research Computing resources including Koko, Koko-login, KokoWin, and Samba drives are offline. Physical Plant is working on the issue and we have a long running project in place to prevent this type of failure in the future. If you have any questions please let us know.
The BHRIC’s vCenter server is showing to be unstable. We have a ticket open VMware and to resolve the problems this evening after hours.
The KOKO NFS server is back up and running. We are still monitoring the system and handling any reported issues. Should you experience problems with any Research Computing Service please submit a ticket.
The KOKO NFS server froze this evening and we are working on correcting the problem. We will send out an update shortly.
The KOKO NFS server froze this evening and we are working on correcting the problem. We will send out an update shortly.
The Employee MFA Enrollment Tool will be updated at 12:30 pm October 1st to correct a bug that is preventing courtesy accounts from logging in. The tool will be offline for a few minutes during this process.
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, 09/26/2019 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 Canvas Theme
Description of change: OIT will be correcting an issue that may redirect some Canvas users that do not have an FAU account to the Single Sign On page.
Downtime window start: 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:30 AM
Affected services: Canvas
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Banner/Owldone integration
Description of change: OIT will be applying some changes to add the Summer Jumpstart students to the Owldone views
Downtime window start: 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Account Self Service Updates
Description of change: OIT will be installing patches and updates to backend services related to the Accounts Self-Service portal.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Accounts Self Service – https://accounts.fau.edu, User Manager (um.fau.edu)
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. This change requires a rolling restart of services but should not cause any disruption in services.
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Banner Accounts Receivable upgrade/patch/administrative pages installation
Description of change: OIT will be installing patches and upgrades required by Accounts Receivable improve performance in Production.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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We will be updating the Employee MFA Enrollment form at 9 pm this evening September 23, 2019. During the update the url to the system will be updated to https://ssoauth.fau.edu/employee-mfa and a performance bug resolved. To aide in accessing the system a redirect will also be applied to the old site.
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, 09/19/2019 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 be applying an Oracle upgrade to MSOP production database. Several services and systems will be affected by this maintenance. Please see list of affected services below.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services:
ACH or VPAS
Mandatory Course Entry Quiz
accounts.fau.edu – Accounts Self Service
Canvas e-Grades
FAUGuest – Wireless network authentication for guests
4P Configurations – Admissions Status, Znumber page, ssoauth.fau.edu/*, egrades.fau.edu/*
Group Management – grouper
Phonebill application pre latest system
Password expiration
Network registration, talon.fau.edu/netreg, talon.fau.edu/networkregistrationadmin
Frevvo
New undergrad – Undergraduate Admissions
Owlapp – Graduate Admissions
Residency Project
OwlDone
Expected End-user impact: During this time, services listed above will be unavailable at times.
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Account Self Service Updates
Description of change: Installing patches and updates to backend services.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Accounts Self Service – https://accounts.fau.edu, User Manager (um)
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. We will be doing rolling restarts to ensure that services are available.
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Touchnet Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be installing the latest version of the BannerConnect component of Touchnet.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: Touchnet Payment services
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Database Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be applying the latest patch set to all production databases.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner production, Appworx, Harvest, ODS, FAU Warehouse, IEAP instance, WebFOCUS/ReportCaster
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the services listed above will be temporarily offline while the patches are applied.
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BHRIC Profile Server replacement
Description of change: One of the home directory servers used by the biomedical research information core has experienced a software failure in windows which prevents it from starting the windows login service. While this is still functional we must replace the server to resolve the issue without substantial downtime. During this maintenance period we will be adding the new server to the DFS cluster.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: BHRIC home directories and group directories
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Banner Table update
Description of change: OIT will be updating the SWRRULE table per the Registrar’s office request
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 3:30 AM
Affected services: SWRRULE table in Banner
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Banner Table update
Description of change: OIT will be updating the SORXREF Table
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 3:30 AM
Affected services: SORXREF table in Banner
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Security Update on Frevvo Filesystem Server
Description of change: OIT will be updating Tomcat to the latest version on Frevvo’s Filesystem Connector Server to patch Security Vulnerabilities.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Frevvo Filesystem Connector
Expected End-user impact: During this time, there will be minimal downtime document submissions to Andi and Andisec drives.
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The Biomedical Health Research Informatics Core experienced an error that prevented virtual desktops being rebooted, started, or migrated. The error occurred between 7:00 – 7:50 am August 22 and appears to have been resolved. For more information please contact the Research Computing team.