OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Sept 14 from 12:01AM 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, 09/14/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:


Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the two virtual load balancers to newer versions.
Downtime window start: 09/14/2023 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/14/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: This will impact all services currently being handled by the load balancer from www.fau.edu, banner, talon, OnBase, lmsapps, and other services. The impact should be a blip as the services fail over to the other load balancer.
End-user impact: Faculty, staff, students, departments, all of FAU.


Upgrade OwlForms (OwlAdminPages)
Description of change: OIT will upgrade OlwForms (OwlAdminPages) to latest version to be up to date with new features and security updates.
Downtime window start: 09/14/2023 5:00 PM
Downtime window end: 09/14/2023 6:00 PM
Affected services: OwlForm (OwlAdmin Pages)
End-user impact: OwlForm Admin users


Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems

Success Network (EAB Navigate) is currently experiencing slow response times.

The Success Network (EAB Navigate) system is currently experiencing slow loading of search results and reports. The vendor has been notified and we will post an update as we have additional information.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems, Uncategorized

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Sept 7 from 12:01AM 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, 09/07/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:


Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT is upgrading software for our email servers
Downtime window start: 09/07/2023 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/07/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: Email
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected


Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on Banner from 1:00 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. on September 7, 2023. Banner will not be available during this time to allow the Ellucian support team to install several module upgrades/patches/administrative pages update to the latest Financial Aid releases for FISAP processing.
Downtime window start: 09/07/2023 12:01 AM
Downtime window end: 09/07/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: During this time, Banner will be unavailable


REDCap Update
Description of change: This is a routine REDCap update. REDCap will be offline during update.
Downtime window start: 09/07/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/07/2023 2:00 AM
Affected services: REDCap
End-user impact: REDCap will be unavailable during this time


Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Email, Research Computing, Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Aug 31 from 12:01AM 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, 08/31/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:


Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing server maintenance on several core systems from 12:00am to 4:00am on August 31st. During this time, the undergraduate application, MyOwl Services, Owl KPIs, and Owl Files will be unavailable.
Downtime window start: 08/31/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 08/31/2023 4:00 AM
Affected services: the Undergraduate Application, MyOwl Services, Owl KPIs, and Owl Files
End-user impact: During this time, the undergraduate application, MyOwl Services, Owl KPIs, and Owl Files will be unavailable.


Accreditation system upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be updating a system associated with the accreditation program
Downtime window start: 08/31/2023 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 08/31/2023 6:00 AM
Affected services: Xitracs
End-user impact: During this time, the accrediation program will be unavailable.


Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be updating components to ensure document management websites remain secure.
Downtime window start: 08/31/2023 4:30 AM
Downtime window end: 08/31/2023 5:00 AM
Affected services: Onbase document management
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected.


Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be updating components to ensure user account information servers (LDAP) maintain their secure communications channel.
Downtime window start: 08/31/2023 5:30 AM
Downtime window end: 08/31/2023 6:00 AM
Affected services: Applications that are custom configured to rely on the OUD (Oracle Unified Directory) and LDAP servers directly instead of their frontend BigIP entry point.
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected.


Updates to Banner Registration Servers
Description of change: The Banner Self-Service 9 Registration environment will be re-configured to better support our students during registration periods.
Downtime window start: 08/31/2023 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 08/31/2023 6:30 AM
Affected services: Banner Production Self-Service Registration 9
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected


Remove legacy configuration from Authentication Services
Description of change: OIT will be removing some legacy configuration from the Authentication Services
Downtime window start: 08/31/2023 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 08/31/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: Active Directory
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected.


Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be updating the software on one of its management servers.
Downtime window start: 08/31/2023 8:00 AM
Downtime window end: 08/31/2023 9:00 AM
Affected services: Advanced VPN clients
End-user impact: Advanced VPN clients will show that they are disconnected from their management server. This will not impact VPN/remote access.


Waive orientation hold for newly admitted NextEra & JM students
Description of change: OIT will update orientation holds for any NextEra & JM student
Downtime window start: 08/31/2023 5:00 PM
Downtime window end: 08/31/2023 6:00 PM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected.


Upgrade the image on the University wireless controller
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the image on the University’s wireless server for security reasons.
Downtime window start: 09/01/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 09/01/2023 6:00 AM
Affected services: Wireless
End-user impact: Wireless connections in some areas may not be available during this time.


Certificate renewals for VoIP
Description of change: Certificate renewal for VoIP Expressways
Downtime window start: 09/01/2023 8:30 PM
Downtime window end: 09/01/2023 10:00 PM
Affected services: Remote phones and Jabber clients
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected


Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Network and Telecom, Systems

[RESOLVED] Apps.fau.edu will be unavailable the morning of 8/29/23 due to stability enhancement changes

OIT will be performing changes to apps.fau.edu in order to improve stability of the site the morning of 8/29/23, between 3AM and 7AM. During this time apps.fau.edu will be down.

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Posted in Educational Technologies, Systems

[RESOLVED] Email Delivery Issues



FAU is currently experiencing issues with email delivery. OIT is currently investigating the issue and anticipates that these issues will be resolved shortly. Following the resolution to this issue users may experience delayed email delivery for any emails that were sent during the outage.

Posted in Email, Systems

[RESOLVED]Success Network (EAB Navigate) is currently experiencing slowness.

The Success Network (EAB Navigate) system is currently experiencing slow loading and navigating within the system. The vendor has been notified and we will post an update as we have additional information.

OIT

Posted in Educational Technologies, Systems, Uncategorized

[RESOLVED] Banner Services Unavailable

All services have been restored.

At around 12:00PM today Banner services experienced an interruption. We are working with our Managed Services Provider to restore services as soon

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Network and Telecom, Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Aug 3 from 12:01AM 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, 08/03/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:


Virtual Machine Migration
Description of change: OIT will be migrating several systems to new hardware
Downtime window start: 08/03/2023 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 08/03/2023 4:00 AM
Affected services: DHCP and SSO
End-user impact: No end user impact is expected


Removing a Virtual Machine Checkpoint
Description of change: OIT will shut down Confluence virtual machine and remove the checkpoint that was created on Friday 7/21
Downtime window start: 08/03/2023 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 08/03/2023 5:00 AM
Affected services: Confluence
End-user impact: Confluence will not be accessible while it temporarily shut down.


Student Health Servers Maintenance
Description of change: The following Student Services/ Student Health servers will have maintenance performed on 8/2/2023 – 8/3/2023: Dell Wyse Manager
Downtime window start: 08/02/2023 5:00 PM
Downtime window end: 08/03/2023 6:00 AM
Affected services: Dell Wyse manager for thin clients
End-user impact: During this time the Dell Wyse Manager can not be used to update Wyse OS thin clients.


Student Health Servers Maintenance
Description of change: The following Student Services/ Student Health servers will have maintenance performed on 8/3/2023 – 8/4/2023: Dental Imaging server and EKG Servers
Downtime window start: 08/03/2023 5:00 PM
Downtime window end: 08/04/2023 6:00 AM
Affected services: Dental Imaging server, EKG Servers
End-user impact: During this time the EKG and dental imaging machines will be offline.

Posted in Research Computing, Systems

Network Registration and Links.fau.edu

Links.fau.edu and Network registration are currently offline due to a service issue. We are investigating.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Educational Technologies, Email, Network and Telecom, Research Computing, Systems, Workday