Echo360 Service Restart

Echo360 will be intermittently unavailable from 6:30 am – 7:00 am.
The Echo360 service needs to be restarted to eliminate  tapestry cache corruption within ESS.    During the downtime, users will be unable to access ESS,   the EchoCenter Portal,  view Echo recordings,  or publish any captures from the Personal Capture application.

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[completed] Emergency Internet Maintenance from Midnight until 6:00 a.m.

The emergency Internet maintenance scheduled for 9/11/2014 has been completed.

Thank you

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OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Sept 11 from 3:00AM – 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, 09/11/2014 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 – 5:00AM
Affected services: The listed Blackboard tools will may be unavailable durning the update, and may continue to be unavailable until after Blackboard is restarted
Affected systems: Blackboard​
Description of maintenance: OIT will be updating as many of the following Building Blocks as possible during the downtime window: Software Updates, Cloud Profiles, Social Profiles, Partner Cloud, Content System, SafeAssign, Collaborate, Cengage Mindlinks, Wiley Plus, McGraw Hil, Textbook, Bookshelf, xpLor​
User impact: Users may be unable to access the tools listed. Other areas should continue to function

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When: 4:00AM – 5:00AM
Affected services: Banner Forms
Affected systems: Banner INB (FAUP)​
Description of maintenance: Per Ellucian Case #1180758, install Oracle patch 18331282 on forms servers to resolve the bug with radio buttoms causing the form to hang.
User impact: Anyone on Production Banner INB would be kicked out of system.

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When: 5:00AM – 6:00AM
Affected services: ​Appworx production web interface
Affected systems: ​enzo.fau.edu
Description of maintenance: Upgrade Apache to version 2.4.10
User impact: Only the web interface will be down. The Appworx agents will remain up and running.

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When: 5:45AM – 6:15AM
Affected services: None expected​
Affected systems: bigip1 and bigip2​
Description of maintenance: OIT are adding a new virtual network to the BigIP load balancers​
User impact: None expected

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OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Aug 28 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, 08/28/2014 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: 5:00 – 6:00AM
Affected services: OwlCard, Collections file prep site, FAU Reimbursements, Telephone bill payment
Affected systems: ​controller.fau.edu
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

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When: 5:00 – 6:00AM
Affected services: None impacted
Affected systems: ADCON
Description of maintenance: OIT will replace a server used by the FAU community with a newer version.
User impact: Technical staff who manages computer objects, Organizational Units (OUs), and users will not be able do so until the new ADCON server is in place.

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When: 6:00 – 7:00AM
Affected services: Exchange email (faculty/staff)
Affected systems: exchangeca01​, exchangeca02, exchangemb01, exchangemb02, exchangemb03
Description of maintenance: OIT will be preforming maintenance on the mail servers for FAU employees (Exchange).​
User impact: ​No end user impact is expected

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When: 6:00 – 6:05AM
Affected services: Network Registration (NetReg)
Affected systems: ldapboc0
Description of maintenance: OIT will be increasing the resources to one of the directory servers.
User impact: No end user impact is expected​

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OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Aug 7 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM

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, 08/07/2014 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

Network Connectivity between FAU and the internet
When: 2:00 AM to 5:00 AM
Affected services: Network Connectivity between FAU and the internet
Affected systems: FAU core firewalls
Description of change: Network Maintenance will be performed Thursday August 7th and Saturday August 9th from 2:00 until 5:00 a.m. During this time, there may be an interruption of network service lasting 15 minutes
Expected end-user impact: Users may experience a short period of time where they are unable to access the internet from FAU, or access some of FAU’s services from the internet.​

Network Upgrade on SeaTech Campus
When: 6:00 AM to 7:00 AM
Affected services: Network and telephone services utilizing the Seatech network will be momentarily interrupted as new connection is migrated over to the new AT&T Switched Ethernet service.​
Affected systems: Network and telephone systems utilizing the Seatech network will be momentarily interrupted as new connection is migrated over to the new AT&T Switched Ethernet service.​
Description of change: The goal of this change is to enable new network functionality for FAU on the Seatech campus.
Expected end-user impact: End users utilizing the Seatech network will be momentarily interrupted as new connection is migrated over to the new AT&T Switched Ethernet service.​

Blackboard Changes
When: 4:00 AM to 6:00 AM
Affected services: Blackboard
Affected systems: Blackboard
Description of change: OIT will be changing the way the content folder is mounted on the blackboard app servers.​
Expected end-user impact: Blackboard will be unavailable from 4:00 AM to 6:00 AM.

Ironport Email Servers
When: 6:00 AM to 6:45 AM
Affected services: None
Affected systems: Ironport email servers
Description of change: OIT will install a security patch on the Ironport mail servers.
Expected end-user impact: None

 

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Intermittent Internet Connectivity

FAU’s internet service provider has had a fiber outage. Users may intermittently lose connection. We will place an update once this has been corrected.

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Resolved – Issues with password synchronization and account creation

We  experienced issues synchronizing user accounts from MyFAU to other systems. This affected new account creations and password synchronizations.

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[Completed] Network Maintenance – Sunday June 22nd from 4:00a.m. until 5:00a.m.

The network maintenance scheduled for this morning has been completed.

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Network Maintenance – Sunday June 22nd from 4:00a.m. until 5:00a.m.

OIT will be performing network maintenance on Sunday June 22nd from 4:00 a.m. until 5:00 a.m.  During this time, there will be a network interruption lasting between 15-20 minutes which will affect connectivity between FAU and the Internet. This interruption in service will affect many campus network-based resources including Blackboard and streaming media.

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RESOLVED: Echo360 Service Restart

RESOLVED:  The Echo360 Service needs to be restarted to rebuild its Tapestry cache and will be unavailable from 8:45-9:15am

Any user attempting to upload video via EMI or stream Echo lecture videos will be unable to do so during this window.

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