UPDATE: At this time all services have been restored.
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We are currently experiencing issues with an Oracle back-end server. At this time, several applicatios/services are unavailable such as:
Student information in MyFAU
eGrades
Forms.fau.edu
University Appstatus
University Applications
OwlDone
We are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
OIT
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, 05/07/2020 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 software change
Description of change: OIT will apply some updates to fix a licensing issue with the Citrix setup for the OIT Lab team. Xentegra has suggested using a GPO to set RDS licensing and we are implementing this suggestion.
Downtime window start: 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Virtual applications from apps.fau.edu.
Expected End-user impact: During this time there might be a short downtime if the server needs to be rebooted. During that time, end-users will not be able to access virtual apps.
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Server Patches
Description of change: OIT will apply patches to the Grouper application
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Grouper
Expected End-user impact: During this time no end-user impact is expected. LDAP group changes will not occur while the system is offline.
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Banner database maintenance
Description of change: OIT will add additional fine-grained access control polcies to restrict access to SSN columns in specific Banner tables. This will impact a group of users with direct SQL access to Banner.
Downtime window start: 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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This issue has been identified and resolved. You should now be able to remote desktop to your computer with your hostname.
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At this time, we have had several reports of users unable to connect to their campus desktops via remote desktop.
We are currently investigating and will update with more information once available.
OIT
4/22/2020 8:16 AM: We were notified that the issues are resolved, and the 3rd-party network providers service issues have been resolved.
4/21/2020 4:15 PM: We have confirmed that the issues reported relate to 3rd-party network providers experiencing regional connectivity issues after a large fiber cut. Duo and Amazon are tracking with those providers to further understand when the cuts have been repaired or traffic is otherwise routable again, and are also investigating other potential solutions to route traffic at this time.
4/21/2020 1:35 PM: We have been notified that users may experience delays and failures when completing two-factor authentication. We will monitor the situation and update this notification as more information is received.
This may affect users logging into VPN, Workday, Banner, Student Self Service, MyFAU, Canvas, Email, and other services.
Microsoft resolved this issue by 2:40AM 4/21/20
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Office 365 users may experience 500 errors when attempting to access their email via web access, Mobile, or email clients.
Microsoft is currently investigating.
We will provide updates as they are available.
OIT
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, 04/16/2020 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 will apply routine patches to redundant LDAP user/configuration information servers at disaster recovery location (NWRDC)
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: No service downtime expected but for full disclosure, the NWRDC oud servers are part of the cluster of: Production OUD (Oracle Unified Directory) servers, services that rely on them such as OIM (Identity Management), and servers/clients that rely on them for login authentication.
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected as any reboots necessary will be done in a rolling manner.
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Server Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the software on its spam filtering appliances.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: Inbound FAU Email, smtp.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, inbound email may be delayed. Mail relayed through smtp.fau.edu may fail during the change window.
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Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will add a test appliance to FAU’s web traffic director cluster to pull a copy of the configuration data
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: No service interruption expected but for full disclosure: a plethora of web domains and vanity domains are resolved via the Global Traffic Manager. Major ones are: www.fau.edu, sso.fau.edu, forms.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.
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Exit Form II
Description of change: OIT will apply a frevvo form for matriculated students who wish to withdraw/terminate from the university.
Downtime window start: 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 8:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
Expected End-user impact: When students attempt to drop their last course in Banner they will now have an error message that redirects them to Exit Form II instead of Exit I.
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Account cleanup
Description of change: OIT will be removing old user accounts
Downtime window start: 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:15 AM
Affected services: AD login
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected
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Server Maintenance
Description of change: We will be making a configuration change to Onbase webservers that will require a restart
Downtime window start 4/16/2020 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 4/16/2020 4:00 AM
OIT Units involved in the change (Internal Only) Systems and AS DEV
Affected services: Onbase web users will be logged off if connected during the restart (15 second window)
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact 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, 04/09/2020 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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Integration of new sexual harassment training tool
Description of change: OIT will integrate a new sexual harassment tool with Banner using a Snaplogic pipeline to integrate banner with the new tool from Everfi, a third party service.
Downtime window start: 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12:00 AM
Affected services: No services are affected.
Expected End-user impact: During this time no end-user impact is expected.
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Server Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the software on one of its mail servers.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: On-premises exchange – mail.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no-end user impact is expected since all user mailboxes are hosted in Office 365. This change only impact on-premises exchange, which will be unavailable.
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The forms service forms.fau.edu (frevvo) needed to be restarted due to a newly discovered issue. We are investigating the problem and will restart the service as needed until the vendor resolves the issue.
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, 04/02/2020 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 Configuration Change
Description of change: OIT will be changing the domain several servers are joined to.
Downtime window start: 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: NetApp services primarily used by the systems team. A development server used by the IEA team.
Expected End-user impact: During this time, services hosted on these systems will be unavailable.
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WebFocus Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be applying the Webfocus upgrade 8.2.06
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: WebFOCUS/Leap Ahead Production environment.
Expected End-user impact: During this time, services that listed above will be unavailable at times.
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Server Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading software on one of its servers.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 4:00 AM
Affected services: Azure AD and Active Directory synchronization
Expected End-user impact: During this time, new users and and user change syncs between Azure AD and On-Prem AD will be delayed while a full sync is done after the connector is upgraded. In previous upgrades the full sync is completed around noon of the same day.
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Clockwork Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing on the Clockwork system.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: Not Applicable
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is anticipated.
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The Office of Information Technology will be performing maintenance to production Banner, ODS and Data Warehouse systems beginning Thursday, March 12th at 3:00 am. Services are expected to be fully restored by Thursday, March 12th at 7:00 am. The services listed below are affected by this maintenance will be unavailable during this time.
Please review these services upon the completion of the maintenance as application restarts may be necessary.
Account claiming and Password resets
Banner Self Service, Admin Pages, Access Manager and Workflow
Transcripts and degree auditing (uAchieve/DARS)
App Status portal
Admissions Applications (Grad and Undergrad)
Owldone
Financial Aid survey
eGrades for Canvas
Touchnet payment gateway
FLVS
Appworx
Harvest
IEA Warehouse (IEAP)
FAU Warehouse (FAUDW)
ODS Warehouse (ODSP)
WebFOCUS/Report Caster
Frevvo
4P (Not SSO)
Grouper
Phonebill Application
Wireless network authentication
Network Registration
Mandatory Course Entry Quiz
ACH/VPAS
OIT