The network in the LA building on the Davie campus is back in service.

Banner Self-service is currently unavailable. We are currently investigating why and will post an update shortly.

BBA1.fau.edu is experiencing issues accepting clients, it has been disabled via the Proxy Manager.  BBA2 – BBA6 are not experiencing any issues at the moment.  Before BBA1 was disabled from the Proxy Manager it was verified that no active connections were present.

We will investigate and keep BBA1 inaccessible until we now it is fully functional.

The network has been restored.

A router in building 22 has experienced an outage that has disrupted network access. The Networking department is working to correct the outage and will provide more information as it becomes available.

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, 11/17/2011 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during IRM maintenance window.  In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

When: 4:00 AM – 6:00 AM
Affected Services: MyFAU Google Application Portal, Phonebill, Identity Manager, OPSView
Affected Systems: LinTalon0, LinTalon1, LinTalon2, Cuttlefish.fau.edu (opsview), IDM1 – IDM4
Description of Maintenance: We will be applying Red Hat patches on these servers. Some will require a reboot.
Service Interruption: Yes, each service will be offline for approximately 15 minutes.

When: 5:00 am – 6:00 am
Affected Service: Blackboard.fau.edu
Affected Systems: Bba1, bba2, bba3, bba4, bba5, bba6, bbc1, bbc2, bbm1, bbx1, and bbx2
Description of Maintenance: We will be applying a patch to prevent access denied errors and locks when users take exams.
Service Interruption: Yes, Blackboard will be offline while the changes are applied.

When: 3:00 AM – 3:30 AM
Affected Service: IDM
Affected Systems: idm-gateway-p
Description of Maintenance: We will be increasing the memory assigned to this system.
Service Interruption: Yes, brief interruptions of service are expected for password syncs.

When: 3:00 AM – 7:00 AM
Affected Services: Xitracs, IDM, SharePoint, Blackboard, NetReg, Lists, VisualSVN, Broadcast.fau.edu
Affected Systems: bbx1, bbx2, xitracs, dhcpboc1, enterprise, idm2, idm-gateway-p, ldapboc1, lintalon3, lists, nsboc1, talon0, visualsvn
Description of Maintenance: We will be moving these systems to different virtual machine hosts, to facility the creation of a Hyper-V cluster.
Service Interruption: Yes, brief interruptions of service are expected for password syncs, SharePoint, NetReg, DNS, Xitracs, VisualSVN, Blackboard, Broadcast (COB streaming)

When: 6:00 AM – 7:00 AM
Affected Service:  None external
Affected Systems:  Internal vlan 50 IPs for unix racks 8 and 9
Description of Maintenance:   Old vlan 50 switches are being replaced by newer ones
Service Interruption:  Possible interruption of backups and any other traffic that rely on the 10.50.64.x subnet

When:  6:00 AM – 7:00 AM
Affected Service:  None external
Affected Systems:  All machines that participate on the vlan 50 subnet
Description of Maintenance:   Reconfiguring of 7210 SAN and subsequent testing to resolve flooding problem during vmware operations on esxi003
Service Interruption:  Possible interruption of backups and any other traffic that rely on the 10.50.64.x subnet

FAU Self-Service Banner (SSB) currently inaccissible thru MyFAU or directly due to high system load caused by the start of advance registration.

We are monitoring the situation and will place an update once we have more information.

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Networking oncall personnel are on campus now working to resolve this issue.

The copper cable feeding the phone service to the Henderson and the Karen Slattery Center has been cut. Jade Communications is onsite with the Contractor accessing the situation.