Networking will be performing a switch upgrade in building 47 on the fourth floor at the Boca Raton campus tonight from 5:00pm to 8:00pm. Network connectivity to the fourth floor of this building will be disrupted during this time.

IRM will be performing routine systems maintenance which includes but is not limited to rebooting Windows servers as deem necessary, installing critical patches and other health checks on Thursday, 05/05/2011 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during IRM maintenance window.  In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

When : 3:00 AM – 6:00 AM

Affected Systems:

Netreg:  dhcpboc0.fau.edu, ldapboc0.fau.edu, nsboc0.fau.edu, netreg0.fau.edu,

IDM:  Idm4p.fau.edu

Affected Services:             NetReg & IDM

Description of Change: We will be migrating dhcpboc0, ldapboc0, nsboc0, netreg0, and idm4p from VMware ESXi to Hyper-V. Netreg and IDM (password synchronization) will be unavailable for the duration of the maintenance. We will be keeping backups of the VMware machines in case there are any problems and will be able to revert at any time during the process.

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What: Banner webtailor 8.3/8.3.1 upgrade

When: 4:00AM-5:00AM

Impacted: No downtime expected.

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What: Oracle patch installations on Banner test environment

When: 3:00AM-7:00AM (could be longer)

Impacted: All test/development banner instances unavailable

IRM will be performing routine systems maintenance which includes but is not limited to rebooting Windows servers as deem necessary, installing critical patches and other health checks on Thursday, 04/28/2011 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during IRM maintenance window.  In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

When : 3:00 AM – 5:00 AM

Affected Systems:

• Netreg: dhcpboc1.fau.edu, ldapboc1.fau.edu, nsboc1.fau.edu,
• Lists: lists.fau.edu,
• SVN: Visualsvn.fau.edu
• IDM: Idmgatewayp.fau.edu

Affected Services: NetReg, Lists, SVN, IDM

Description of Change: We will be migrating dhcpboc1, ldapboc1, nsboc1, Idmgatewayp, and Visualsvn from Vmware ESXi to Hyper-V. Netreg should not experience any downtime. Lists, Visualsvn and password synchronization will be unavailable for the duration of the maintenance. We will be keeping backups of the Vmware machines in case there are any problems and will be able to revert at any time during the process.

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When: 5:00 AM -7:00 AM

Affected Services/Systems: Banner upgrades and patches (Accounts receivable, student, financial aid)

Impacted: No downtime expected.

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When: 6:00 AM -7:00 AM

Affected Services/Systems: Appworx production restart

Impacted: Appworx will be unavailable during this time.

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When: 5:00 AM – 6:00 AM

What: Clean address update

Impacted: No downtime expected.

On Friday, April 22nd, from 2:00am to 4:00am and Saturday, April 23rd, 2011 from 11:00am to 11:30am the SafeAssign tool in Blackboard will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance.

Blackboard is now back online.

Blackboard is currently unavailable. We are working to resolve this issue as soon as possible and we apologize for the inconvenience.

IRM will be performing routine systems maintenance which includes but is not limited to rebooting Windows servers as deem necessary, installing critical patches and other health checks on Thursday, 03/31/2011 from 3:00am to 7:00am during IRM maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

MyFAU change at 5:00 AM
Description of Change: MyFAU personal and campus announcement channels which reside on the HOME tab will be changed to display 5 announcements at a time rather than 3. Also the page where you view the actual body of the announcement will be changed to show 8 announcements per page rather than 5 as it is now.

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Global Traffic Manager (GTM) maintenance:
The GTM settings will go into effect for the FAU website around 6:15am. If all goes well there will be no issue. The purpose is to let the copy of the FAU website in Northwest respond for www.fau.edu in case of a disaster or when the FAU network is unreachable. If there are problems – there could be a chance that the FAU website may not display during this time, but that is not anticipated. =================================================

The following servers will be down for hardware upgrades from 5:00am-7:00am:
banoradev.fau.edu
bannerprd.fau.edu
enzo.fau.edu
diablo.fau.edu

The following server will be down for hardware upgrades from 3:00am-8:00am:
bannerprd.fau.edu

Applications being unavailable are as follows (production & test):
Banner production (3:00am-8:00am)
Banner test and development
Harvest
Appworx
Signature System
Identity Manager
Network Registration
CAS

Web Services affected by CAS not being available:
Parature (Customer login, not CSR)
Network Registration
Engineering Card Access
OmniUpdate
Xitracs

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SharePoint will be unavailable between 6:00 AM – 6:15 AM

Description of Change:
​Change the MSSQL server from Integrated to Mixed Mode Authentication

The fiber optic connection to Boca building 51 (Performing Arts), dropped at 6:00pm taking the network offline in that building. It has been fixed and the network in building 51 has now been restored

On Sunday, March 20th, 2011 the SafeAssign tool in Blackboard will be unavailable from 6:00pm to 7:00pm due to system maintenance.

We have a network outage at the Gumbo Limbo site. We are presently working to resolve the issue.

4:41pm – The AT&T problem with the T-1 circuit has been repaired.

Network has been restored to the Gumbo Limbo site.