OIT Systems Maintenance – Thursday, Jan 23 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, 01/23/2020 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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Two Factor Enrollment Update
Description of change: OIT will be updating the Single Sign On System’s 2Factor prompt to direct users to the Employee or Student enrollment page when accessing services such as Self Service and Workday if the user has not yet enrolled in 2Factor. Currently they are forced to enroll through the authentication Single Sign on System. This change will make sure users select their 2Factor preference and place them in the Duo Student group more reliably. ​
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Single Sign On, Duo 2Factor​
Expected End-user impact: During this time, users who access 2Factor services that force 2factor prompting (Workday, self service, etc.) will be directed to enroll in 2Factor by clicking one of two links at the bottom of the authentication page.

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Windows configuration and deployment system upgrade  (SCCM)
Description of change: OIT will be updating SCCM, the system providing configuration, deployment and updates to Windows clients to the latest version​
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: The system providing configuration, deployment and updates to Windows clients will be upgraded to the latest version​
Expected End-user impact: During this time, all OS deployments, app installs, windows updates from SCCM will be unavailable during the window​

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Server maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be updating the web server components of VIP to comply with security policies​
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: VIP Content Management System​
Expected End-user impact: During this time, users will be unable to load documents from the VIP content management system​

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Banner Integration
Description of change: ​OIT will be applying a new integration among three systems Banner, Medprocter (Immunization Office application) and Florida Shots(State immunization database)​.
The process has an outbound and inbound file between Banner and Medprocter.  The outbound file from banner to Medprocter contains all active students who has an IM hold.  The inbound file from Medprocter to Banner contains students who have met their immunization requirements and their IM hold will be released in Banner via this process (this includes and audit table to track an errors that may occur).
There is also an integration between Banner and Florida Shots to retrieve the FloridaShots ID for students who have an IM hold.  This FloridaShots ID is sent in the outbound file from Banner to Medprocter.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact expected

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Update to application load process for parent residency field
Description of change:  OIT will apply an update to correct incorrect parent residency values on a few previously submitted undergraduate applications due to a bug in the application loading procedure. It also fixes the logic used to load and calculate the parent residency field to prevent this error on new applications.
Downtime window start: 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:15 AM
Affected services: Banner
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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[Resolved] BHRIC Offline due to switch failure

The BHRIC is currently offline due to what appears to be a Firewall or Networking failure. We are investigating and will update this post as soon as we know more.

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Student 2Factor Enrollment and Prompt

Tbe student 2factor enrollment tool and prompt will be updated with new and improved messaging at 5 pm Friday November 22, 2019.

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[RESOLVED] TouchNet Payment Interruptions

This issue has been resolved.

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The TouchNet payment processing system is currently experiencing intermittent issues during the payment process.  

We are currently working on a resolution, and will update when it is resolved.

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Research Computing Resources

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.

 

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OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Oct 17 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, 10/17/2019 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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Delayed BHRIC Upgrade
Description of change:  ​Upgrade the Biomedical Research Informatic’s Cores Virtual  Infrastructure to ​​the latest versions.
Downtime window start: 8:00 PM (10/16)
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: BHRIC Virtual Desktop Infrastructure​
Expected End-user impact: Vmware View will lose access to vCenter during this process and users will be unable to spawn suspended or powered offed virtual machines.

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BHRIC Virtualization Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be applying patches on the BHRIC server environment
Downtime window start: 2:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: BRHIC VDI
Expected End-user impact: Most virtual desktops will be suspended starting at 2 am. So users accessing the cluster from 2 am to 6 am will need to wait while for their VM to start again should they wish to use it. Users will also need to wait slightly when they connect in the morning as most services will be suspended.

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Replace the current student type with the first admitted student type to the StarRez extract.
Description of change: Replace the current student type with the first admitted student type to the StarRez extract.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: StarRez housing system
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Spam Filter Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be updating the firmware for its spam filter appliances.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 4:00 AM
Affected services: Inbound FAU email smtp.fau.edu

Expected End-user impact: Email delivery may be delayed for inbound mail. The client may receive an error when sending mail to smtp.fau.edu during the change window.

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BANNER XE DB Upgrade 9.17.0 release and co-requisite releases
Description of change: Production Support will be promoting and installing the next version upgrade of the BANNER XE system and all of the updated versions of the Banner XE modules it supports
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: BANNER XE system
Expected End-user impact: The Banner system will be brought down during the actual installation of the code.

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Banner Immunization Change
Description of change: This is a new feature where Transient Students who have fulfilled their Immunization requirement at their home school will automatically have their Immunization (IM) hold released.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
Expected End-user impact: No enduser impact expected

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Banner job scheduling
Description of change: Update SSL certificate Appworx uses to communicate between the Java client and server. The latest version of Java is causing SSL errors with the client’s built in certificate.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Appworx production
Expected End-user impact: The Appworx master/master’s agent will need to be restarted to pick up the changes.​

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Banner Data change
Description of change: Change the OA (Orientation Advising) hold to CA (College Advising) hold
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services:
Expected End-user impact: No user impact expected

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AP Invoice SnapLogic Pipeline
Description of change: A new project that runs daily to create invoices in Workday based upon input files from a vendor.
Downtime window start: 6:30 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: None
Expected End-user impact: ​None

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[Resolved] Koko HPC Cluster

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.

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OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Oct 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, 10/10/2019 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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NuPark to Banner Payment Integration Update
Description of change: OIT will apply some updates to the integration between Banner and NuPark to automatically zero out charges in NuPark when charges are sent to Banner.
Downtime window start: 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: NuPark, SnapLogic, Banner​
Expected End-user impact: During this time, users who’s parking and traffic tickets have been sent to banner will no longer be able to pay their bills in NuPark. Those individuals will instead have to make their payments in self service Banner.

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Spam Filter Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be updating the firmware for its spam filter appliances.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 4:00 AM
Affected services: Inbound FAU email, smtp.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, email delivery may be delayed for inbound mail. Client may receive an error when sending mail to smtp.fau.edu.

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Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT is making some changes to FAU’s information resource server to improve resiliency.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:30 AM
Affected services: May impact services that rely on information being retrieved from oudp.fau.edu.
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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BHRIC Storage Maintenance
Description of change: OIT is updating the Jupiter HIPAA environment storage to the latest software release as it patches a stability bug.
Downtime window start: 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Jupiter BHRIC​
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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BHRIC User Profile and Group Storage
Description of change: OIT will swapping the storage server used on the Boca Campus for the Biomedical health research informatics core.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: BHRIC
Expected End-user impact: During this time, users with correctly mounted home directories (those using \\health.ad.fau.edu\bhric) should not experience any downtime.

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BHRIC Virtual Desktop outage

A network hardware failure took the BHRIC’s Virtual Desktops offline on Saturday the 5th. We have resolved the issue and are currently testing services to make sure they are online.

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OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. 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, 10/03/2019 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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Banner data change
Description of change: OIT will move all applicants, admitted students, and student records to College Of Science’s Exercise Science program from the College of Education.
Downtime window start: 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12:30 AM
Affected services: Banner curriculum data of students in Exercise Science major.
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be applying patches to several hosts.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Cisco Video Conferencing
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the services listed above will be unavailable.

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Account Self Service (accounts.fau.edu)
Description of change: OIT will be making configuration changes and restarts affecting Accounts Self-Service
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: ​Account Self Service (accounts.fau.edu)
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Server maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be making some changes to the frevvo forms and the accounts self service web sites to improve their resiliency​
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:30 AM
Affected services: frevvo forms sites, FAU account self services site​
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 back-end 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.

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FAU Alerts @fau.edu to @my.fau.edu
Description of change: OIT will be fixing a broken integration which renamed @fau.edu email address to @my.fau.edu to improve delivery time of FAU alert notifications. The new version of this integration runs in SnapLogic and connects to a more up to date directory server.
Downtime window start: 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:30 AM
Affected services: ​FAU Alerts
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Spam Filter Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be making a change to its spam filtering appliances.
Downtime window start: 8:00 AM
Downtime window end: 8:00 AM
Affected services: Inbound FAU email
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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