Networking will be upgrading the network equipment in building 52 1st floor during the maintenance window 5:00am to 7:00am Wednesday 02/29/2012. No service outage during normal business hours is expected.

Networking will be upgrading the network equipment in building 51 during the maintenance window 5:00am to 7:00am Tuesday 02/28/2012. No service outage during normal business hours is expected.

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, 02/16/2012 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

When: 5:00 am – 7:00 AM
Affected Service: Blackboard
Affected Servers: Bba1-6, bbm1, bbc1, bbc2
Description of Maintenance: We will be applying a patch to the Blackboard servers to fix an error users might receive while looking at evaluation for students.
Service Interruption: Yes, Blackboard will be unavailable during this time

Some users may experience difficulty accessing ePrint. We have contacted the vendor and are investigating the problem.

switch replaced.

Blackboard is currently unavailable. We are investigating the issue and will update as soon as we have identified the issue.

-UPDATE: The issue has been resolved.

Thank you,

Middleware

IRM 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, 02/02/2011 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during IRM maintenance window.  In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

When: 5:00 am – 7:00 AM
Affected Service:  Blackboard
Affected Servers: Bba1-6, bbm1, bbc1, bbc2
Description of Maintenance:  We will be applying a security patch to the black board servers.
User Impact: Blackboard will be unavailable during this time

When: 6:00 am to 7:00am
Affected Services: Tandberg Systems
Affected Systems: tms.fau.edu
Description of Maintenance: tms2.fau.edu (131.91.224.119) is to be added back into rotation for tms.fau.edu on BigIP
User impact: None Expected

When: 6:00 am to 7:00am
Affected Services: Banner System
Affected Systems: FAUP.fau.edu
Description of Maintenance: FAUP.fau.edu data base configuration is to be modified in order to improve oracle stream performance.
User impact: None Expected

Banner TEST will be cloned during the day this Tuesday 1/31/2012 in preparation for the UNIX to Linux migration. Once available, TEST should be used for testing purposes only. Any changes made to TEST or the banoradev UNIX server will not be moved over to the new Linux server. Banner updates and development will be frozen until the Linux migration is complete.

The SafeAssign tool within Blackboard will be unavailable this Sunday, January 29 from 8:00am – 2:00pm due to a maintenance upgrade. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.

Blackboard will be unavailable from 3am – 6am Thursday January 19th while we perform preventative maintenance.