The Office of Information Technology will be upgrading NetApp storage filers tomorrow between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. Applications may see a 30 second pause while the filer fails over to its partner.
NetApp storage filer Upgrade, Tuesday Mar 3, 2015
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Feb 26 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, 02/26/2015 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 Maintenance
When: 3:00AM to 7:00AM
Affected services: There is no anticipated user/service impact
Affected systems: BANNER Production (FAUP)
Description of maintenance: The following updates will be installed in Banner Production: General 8.7.0 Upgrade, General 8.7.1 Upgrade, General 8.7.1.1 Patch, General 8.7.2 Upgrade.
User impact: There is no anticipated user/service impact.
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Update incoming email component of helpdesk software
When: 6:00AM – 6:15AM
Affected services: Emails sent to helpdesk (Team Dynamix)
Affected systems: boc22tmdynamix
Description of maintenance: OIT will be updating the Team Dynamix Email Service to a newer version to support the current version of Team Dynamix
User impact: Emails sent to the system will be delayed as the email service is upgraded
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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Email
[RESOLVED] Single-Sign On Issues
We are currently experiencing issues with Single-Sign On (SSO). This impacts all services that are using single-sign on – Blackboard, Self-Service, Gmail, Help Desk, Network Registration, and more. We are working on resolving the issue and will update as we know more.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
OIT
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. February 5 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, 02/05/2015 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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NWRDC DBC1 firmware upgrade
When: 3:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: All services will remain up during this process
Affected systems: nwrdcesxi16 to 26
Description of maintenance: OIT will be upgrading the firmware on some blades at our disaster recovery site. As a result, several services will be unavailable for approximately 4 hours.
User impact: We do not expect any end user impact
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PaperCut port and driver changes.
When: 4:00AM – 7:00AM
Affected services: PaperCut printing service
Affected systems: Boc22pcprt01
Description of maintenance: ACDI has recommended we change printer ports for our ‘Follow Me’ queues. In additional, we would like to test a different printer driver to see if that clears up some issues.
User impact: Printing via PaperCut will not be available during the downtime.
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Increase retention of items in Deleted Items folder for 365 users
When: 6:00AM – 6:00AM
Affected services: Mailboxes on Office365
Affected systems: N/A
Description of maintenance: OIT will be increasing the retention of items in the Deleted Items folder for 365 users from 30 to 90 days
User impact: No end-user impact is expected
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OIT Systems System Patches, Thurs. Jan 28 from 12:00AM to 7:00AM
The Office of Information Technology will be performing critical systems maintenance on Thursday, 01/28/2015 from 12:00 AM to 7:00 AM during the OIT maintenance window. This maintenance will require that numerous servers be rebooted and may result in longer then usual service disruptions.
The following services may experience periods of downtime between 3am and 7am. Directory Services (LDAP), Single Sign-on, Blackboard, FileLocker, Banner Self Service, Internet Native Banner (INB), DNS, Identity Manager, and the High Performance Computing Clusters.
Please note: Many systems such as Blackboard, Single Sign-on and Banner will remain online, however, users may experience reduced functionality during this maintenance period.
Echo360 Emergency Service Restart 4:45-5:00 PM EST
To whom it concerns:
Echo360 will be intermittently unavailable from 4:45-5:00pm EST.
The Echo360 service needs to be restarted to free a blocked thread that is preventing content from being ingested.
The 5-10 minute service restart will affect only:
**Instructors currently logged in and navigating ESS
**All users currently viewing previously captured Echo360 video recordings
**Any external media uploaded to ESS during the down-time window
A restart of the Echo360 service will not affect any captured classes currently being recorded.
All content will continue to be captured from the local Echo360 SCHD devices during the downtime.
Resolved – Password Synchronization currently not working from MyFAU
A password changed in MyFAU are currently not synchronizing with other systems. We are working on this issue and hope to have this resolved soon.
Update – This issue has been resolved. Passwords changes originating from MyFAU made earlier today, may still be un-synchronized. A new password change will need to be made.
Thank you for you patience and Happy Holidays!
[Resolved] Lists.fau.edu error messages
Many mailing list owners may have received numerous (400+) error messages sent from sympa@lists.fau.edu. The messages are automatically generated by Lists.fau.edu when a user’s email address is updated and may be ignored. Please note we are investigating a way to prevent these warnings in the future.
Example Message:
User {netid}@fau.edu could not change his member email address (new email address is {netid}@health.fau.edu) because he is included via a the following data sources: …
If you are able to do so, you should probably update these data sources with
this person’s new email address.
Posted in Email
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs., Nov. 20 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, 11/20/2014 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
Description of maintenance: UCS firmware upgrade. OIT will be upgrading the components of several systems to resolve bugs and add support for newer hardware.
User impact: No end-user impact is expected
Affected services: No services are impacted by this maintenance
Affected systems: boc22hv[01-14], boc22esxi[01-06], ieadata, as5, bba4, ecswins01, bba3, jira, boc22adfs, boc22mssqldev1, duo, bba8, idm4p, boc22cm102srv4, boc22cm102srv10, bbredis1, ibiweb, dhcpboc1, appadmin, labcam3, bba7, printonline, idm2, eprint2, boc22reports1, boc22mssql21, fauappsrv2, ieaweb, ldapboc1, boc22spapp1, remotecon, lintalon1, XenZDC2, XenAPP-Office, coeweb, boc22nasmvi, issdev, boc22dirsync, sacs, frevvo1, cas1, ecswins02, lintalon0, comvmsql01, ls-snap, shoutcast, FileLocker1, bbm1, labcam4, boc22mssql22, exchangeca03, ls-osd, ls-matlab, bba6, boc22mssql11, labcam5, bba9, taldev02, cosweb1, boc22vcenter1, migrate365, freeze, talonx2, acsmem04, as4, bba10, boc22spwfe1, gitlab, ugapp3, yakko, labcam2, frevvot, fauwebdev, lists, acsmem01,
bba1, comvmweb01, aptitudesrv, PapercutOffice, acsmem02, XenAPP00, comvmadi01, bba11, hpc, cuttlefish, bba2, dnsboc1, boc22pcprt01dev, XenLIC, madcat1p, filelocker2, Brian Test 1, mcclient, pinky, ugapp1, boc22adfsp, boc22pcapp01, XenSF1, boc22cm102srv1, XenSF2, controller, bba5, ugapp4, XenZDC1, jobs.finaid,
ugapp5, boc22mssql12, boc22pcapp02dev, boc22barr, r25-webservice, iss, boc22aptven, boc22cm102srv9, XenAPP01, visualsvn, boc22cm102vrt101mrtg, piwik1, boc22pcapp01dev, ugapp2, XenAPP02, labcam1
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When: 5:00AM – 6:00AM
Description of maintenance: OIT will be upgrading some software on controller.fau.edu. As a result, several services will be unavailable for approximately 30 minutes.
User impact:The following services will be unavailable for approximately 1 hour: OwlCard, Collections file prep site, FAU Reimbursements, Telephone bill payment
Affected services: OwlCard, Collections file prep site, FAU Reimbursements, Telephone bill payment
Affected systems: controller.fau.edu
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When: 8:00AM – 9:00AM
Description of maintenance: Upgrade disk and shelf firmware in NetApp filers bocana01 and bocana02. It is all done while the systems are up and running. No downtime is required. I would like to do it during the day next week.
User impact: No end-user impact is expected
Affected services: None
Affected systems: NetApp filers bocana01 and bocana02
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[RESOLVED] Password Synchronization Issues
We are currently experiencing an issue with password not synchronizing to all FAU services/systems after being reset. We are working to resolve this issue as soon as possible.
Please do not reset your password until this issue has been resolved.
We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.
OIT