OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. March 18 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, 03/18/2021 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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FreeIPA Configuration Change
Downtime window start: 3/18/2021 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 3/18/2021 6:00 AM
Affected services: HPC Clusters: kokosec and koko
Expected End-user impact: No impact is anticipated. We have profiles enabled that will allow users to login to services they are authorized to.

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ESXI updates BHRIC
Downtime window start: 3/18/2021 6:05 PM
Downtime window end: 3/23/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: vhealth, BHRIC VDI
Expected End-user impact: There should be no interruption of service. However, some virtual machines may experience slower performance until the host comes back online and re-balances the virtual machines.

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Posted in Research Computing, Systems

[SSO Maintenance] Network Maintenance affecting SSO – Tuesday March 16th from 6:00 a.m. until 6:30 a.m.

OIT will be performing network maintenance on Tuesday March 16th between 6:00 a.m. until 6:30 that may briefly impact SSO logins. During this time users may experience a momentary delay or timeout when signing into SSO.

Posted in Network and Telecom, Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. March 11 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, 03/11/2021 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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Server Maintenance
Downtime window start: 3/11/2021 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 3/11/2021 6:15 AM
Affected services: FAU main webpage
Expected End-user impact: There is no end-user impact expected during the maintenance window.

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Modify indicator column to Identity Manager view
Downtime window start: 3/11/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 3/11/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: Not Applicable
Expected End-user impact: There is no end-user impact

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Remote Voice Server Maintenance
Downtime window start: 3/11/2021 9:00 PM
Downtime window end: 3/12/2021 12:00 AM
Affected services: All Remote phones, call center users, and Jabber Services
Expected End-user impact: All remote desk phones and Jabber clients will lose connection for about 30 seconds during the upgrade. After the upgrade is completed all clients should automatically re-register.

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Posted in Network and Telecom, Systems

[Resolved] FAU experiencing internet issues

UPDATE: The issue has been resolved and users should be able to connect without issues now.

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FAU is currently experiencing internet problems that may make it hard or slow to connect to systems and sites. It is being investigated and will post an update when we have more information.

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

[RESOLVED] OnBase production unavailable

** Update **

The OnBase production issue has been resolved, users are now able to log in.

We are currently investigating an issue preventing users from logging in to the OnBase production environment. More information will be reported as it becomes available.

Posted in Systems

OnBase Production Unavailable

We are currently investigating an issue preventing users from logging in to the OnBase production environment. More information will be reported as it becomes available.

Posted in Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Feb 25 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, 02/25/2021 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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Moving Virtual Machines on the HPC Cluster
Description of change: OIT will be moving several virtual machine on the HPC cluster.
Downtime window start 2/25/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 2/25/2021 6:00 AM
Affected services: completesystems1, NFSv4 testing up19-beegfs-bridge, rna3d
Expected End-user impact: These servers will be offline during the maintenance window as we are migrating them to a new virtual machine cluster.

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HPC Cluster Centos 7.9 Update
Description of change: OIT will update all compute nodes on the HPC cluster to the latest version of Centos 7.9 including an upgrade to the Cuda 11.2 drivers.
Downtime window start 2/25/2021 8:00 AM
Downtime window end 3/4/2021 8:00 PM
Affected services: All research computing compute and GPU nodes.
Expected End-user impact: As compute nodes drain of tasks they will automatically reboot into a new disk image. This will impact users start time for jobs and will impact GPU gobs and MPI jobs which may need slight configuration changes.

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Appworx Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will updatie JDK for Appworx production master and master agent.
Downtime window start 2/25/2021 6:00 AM
Downtime window end 2/25/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services: Appworx production
Expected End-user impact: Appworx will temporarily be offline while restarting the services.

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Banner Financial Aid 8.39.1.1 and 8.39.1.2 regulatory updates
Description of change: OIT apply regulatory updates for Pell table and Direct Loan.
Downtime window start 2/25/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 2/25/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: Not Applicable
Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during this time.

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pdate OwlForm: SWAHSCH
Description of change: OIT will populate the Calculated GPA into the Admissions GPA field for EDI transcripts OwlForm: SWAHSCH
Downtime window start 2/25/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 2/25/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: Not applicable
Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during this time.

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Add data to Admissions PopSel view
Description of change: OIT will add new data fields on Admissions PopSel view for test score codes AP66, AP68, PMPF1 and PMPF2 flags (Y/N) to indicate if students have taken exam course.
Downtime window start 2/25/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 2/25/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: Not applicable
Expected End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected during this time.

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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Research Computing, Systems

Possible intermittent authentication issues affecting Office365 and VPN

**UPDATE – Friday, Feb 19 **

We are still experiencing intermittent authentication issues with applications connected to the Microsoft authentication servers. This impacts services such as Office365 email and VPN.

OIT is working on resolving this issue and we will update this post when more information becomes available.

OIT

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Some applications which depend on specific Microsoft authentication servers at Boca may experience issues.

The systems group is working to remediate Boca domain controller issues related to this morning’s maintenance. We expect them to be in service shortly

Thank you

Systems

Posted in Email, Systems, Uncategorized

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Feb 18 from 12:00AM 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, 02/18/2021 from 12:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:

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Server Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the operating system on its authentication servers.
Downtime window start: 2/18/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 2/18/2021 6:00 AM
Affected services: Active Directory (computer login)
Expected End-user impact: During this time, authentication to active directory may be delayed and there might be possible intermittent authentication issues on the Boca campus.

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Database Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be applying the January 2021 Oracle patchset updates to all production databases
Downtime window start: 2/18/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 2/18/2021 7:00 AM
Affected services:
Banner production
Admin Pages (Forms)
Application Navigator
Banner Access Manager
Banner self-service
Touchnet – Payments/Deposits
Workflow
uAchieve – DARS
FLVS
Transcripts

Appworx

Harvest

ODS

FAUDW Warehouse
DWPROD: OwlDone
DWPROD: FinancialAid Attendance Survey

IEAP Warehouse

WebFOCUS/ReportCaster

OIM
Account claiming
Password resets

MSOP Instance
ACH_PROD: ACH or VPAS
GBP_PROD: Mandatory Course Entry Quiz
WORKDESK_PROD: accounts.fau.edu – Accounts Self Service
CANV_EGRADES_PROD: Canvas Electronic Grading “Banner Grade Submissions” in Canvas
FAUVISITOR_PROD: Wireless network authentication for guests.
FREVVOAPI_PROD: 4P Configuration, Admissions Status, Znumber page, ssoauth.fau.edu/*, egrades.fau.edu/* (except egrades itself)
GROUPER_PROD: Group Management – grouper.fau.edu
PHONEBILL_PROD: Phonebill application pre latest system.
PWDEXPIRE_PROD: Password expiration
REG_PROD: network registration, talon.fau.edu/netreg, talon.fau.edu/networkregistrationadmin, DHCP Logger
FREVVO61_PROD: Frevvo
NEWUNDERGRAD_PROD: Undergraduate Admissions
OWLAPP_PROD: Graduate Admissions
OWLRESIDENCY_PROD: Residency Project
ONBOARDUSR: OwlDone
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the listed services will be temporarily offline while the patches are applied. Some applications may need to be restarted after the maintenance is complete.

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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Feb 11 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, 02/11/2021 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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Server maintenance
Description of change: OIT is applying a workaround to resolve some browser compatibility issues with our electronic document storage system, edocs.fau.edu.
Downtime window start: 2/11/2021 7:00 AM
Downtime window end: 2/11/2021 7:30 AM
Affected services: Edocs.fau.edu (Online Document Management/Storage System)
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected

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eGrades updates
Description of change: OIT will remove requirement to enter LDA for students with midterm grade of F.
Downtime window start: 2/11/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 2/11/2021 12:00 AM
Affected services: eGrades; Canvas grading
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. After the change, faculty will not have to enter LDA for any midterm grades.

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GradCAS Data Load Integration
Description of change: OIT is creating a process to load GradCAS application data to Banner.
Downtime window start: 2/11/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 2/11/2021 12:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Honors Report Update Owldone
Description of change: OIT will update the OwlDone Honors Report to order the report by Date.
Downtime window start: 2/11/2021 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 2/11/2021 12:00 AM
Affected services: OwlDone
Expected End-user impact: During this time, Owldone will be unavailable for about 5 minutes during restart.

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Add the CA hold to inactived student hold lift process.
Description of change: Add the CA hold to the hold lift process for inactivated students. Added the CA hold to the hold lift control table.
Downtime window start: 2/11/2021 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 2/11/2021 5:00 AM
Affected services: None
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Systems