The network and systems maintenance scheduled for this morning has been completed. All services are expected to be fully operational at this time.
[Completed] Network and Systems Maintenance – Tuesday August 15th from 12:00 a.m. until 6:00 a.m.
Network and Systems Maintenance – Tuesday August 15th from 12:00 a.m. until 6:00 a.m.
OIT will be performing maintenance tasks affecting network connectivity and systems availability on Tuesday August 15th from 12:00 a.m. until 6:00 a.m. While we expect most services and connectivity to be unaffected by this maintenance, some services including wireless networks, Banner, and Network Registration may be intermittent during the maintenance window.
[RESOLVED] WebFocus is currently unavailable
The issue has been identified and resolved. WebFocus is now available.
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WebFocus is currently unavailable. We are investigating the cause and will update when we have more information.
We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.
OIT
Network and Systems Maintenance – Friday August 11th from 12:00a.m. until 6:00a.m.
OIT will be performing maintenance tasks affecting network connectivity and systems availability on Friday August 11th from 12:00 a.m. until 6:00 a.m. While we expect most services and connectivity to be unaffected by this maintenance, some services including wireless networks, Banner, and Network Registration may be intermittent during the maintenance window.
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Aug 10, 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, 8/10/2017 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: We are moving several servers to a more suitable network for their usage.
Downtime window start 8/11/2017 12:00 AM
Downtime window end 8/11/2017 3:00 AM
Affected services: banner and maybe dns
Affected systems: banner.fau.edu, seeker.fau.edu(if needed to be moved as well)
Expected End-user impact: banner maybe unavailable for a few minutes while we push DNS to update to the new DMZ IP.
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Network Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing network maintenance in the early morning hours of August 11th. Some connectivity on the Boca Raton campus may be intermittent towards the beginning of the maintenance window.
Downtime window start 8/11/2017 12:00 AM
Downtime window end 8/11/2017 3:00 AM
Affected services: Boca DHCP, Boca DNS
Affected systems: Boca DHCP, Boca DNS
Expected End-user impact: The changes involved require some quick changes on services including DHCP and DNS on the Boca Raton campus. While the changes are being made, these services will be unavailable. This disruption is only expected to last a couple of minutes.
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EMS and OwlCard system maintenance
Description of change: The systems supporting EMS and OwlCard will be migrated
Downtime window start 8/11/2017 1:30 AM
Downtime window end 8/11/2017 3:00 AM
Affected services: EMS, OwlCard
Affected systems: sqlnode01, sqlnode02, sql05vs, boc22mssqlfau
Expected End-user impact: EMS and OwlCard will be unavailable during the window
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Network Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on network equipment within the Boca Datacenter and on the Jupiter campus. There may be limited interruptions to services in both locations briefly during the mainteannce window.
Downtime window start 8/11/2017 3:00 AM
Downtime window end 8/11/2017 4:30 AM
Affected services: Boca: SSO, DHCP, DNS, Network Monitoring Jupiter: DHCP, DNS, PaperCut
Affected systems: Boca: boc96cas, boc96dns, dhcpboc1, dnsboc1, ldapboc1, ldapboc1-el6, overwatch, shibboleth2p Jupiter: dhcpjup1, dhcpjup2, dnsjup1, dnsjup2, jup17pcprt01, ldapjup1, ldapjup2
Expected End-user impact: Affected services in Boca may become degraded. Affected services in Jupiter will be offline during the maintenance window.
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Mail system maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on the mail system to improve resiliency in the event of a disaster recovery event.
Downtime window start 8/11/2017 4:00 AM
Downtime window end 8/11/2017 6:00 AM
Affected services: All inboud email to fau.edu recipients, any service that relays email through smtp.fau.edu.
Affected systems: IronPort cluster (bertx, berty, boc22esa02), SMTP/bertjr
Expected End-user impact: We ideally would like to expect zero end user impact, there is a possibility anyone who relays their mail through smtp.fau.edu might experience issues.
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Complete: Single Sign On Maintenance
The Single Sign On System maintenance has been completed. Please report any difficulties logging into the Helpdesk.
Research Computing Health Environment Maintenance
Office of Information Technology Research Computing will be performing systems maintenance on Thursday 08/03/2017 and Friday 08/04/2017 from 12:00 AM to 5:00 AM. The following systems will be specifically impacted:
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Server maintenance – Jupiter BHRIC Storage Upgrade
Description of change: We will be upgrading the Compellent storage
Downtime window start: 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: BHRIC Profiles, VMs, shares
Affected systems: Jupiter Compellent
Expected End-user impact: No expected user impact. Each site has two controllers. As one upgrades the other takes over.
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Server maintenance – Boca BHRIC Storage Upgrade
Description of change: We will be upgrading the Compellent storage
Downtime window start: 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: BHRIC Profiles, VMs, shares
Affected systems: Boca Compellent
Expected End-user impact: No expected user impact. Each site has two controllers. As one upgrades the other takes over.
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Posted in Network and Telecom, Systems
Network Maintenance – Jupiter Campus 8/4 5:30am – 6:30am
OIT will be performing network maintenance in Jupiter on Friday, August 4 from 05:30 a.m. until 6:30 a.m. Due to the nature of the maintenance, users may experience an intermittent network outage lasting approximately 5 minutes during this window. The Internet connection will be rerouted to the backup connection to minimize any downtime.
Thank you
Posted in Network and Telecom, Systems
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Aug 3 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, 08/03/2017 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 – Mail Routing changes
We will be changing the way email is routed from our on-premises servers.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: On-Premises Exchange
Affected systems: ExchangeCA01.ad.fau.edu, ExchangeCA03.ad.fau.edu, ExchangeCA04.ad.fau.edu,
Expected End-user impact: During this time, minimal impact on users is expected. Sending an email through our on-premises exchange transport servers may fail when the service is restarted. Office 365 will not be affected.
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Application maintenance – Single Sign On Page Adjustments
The Office of Information technology will be making small adjustments to the login system to improve usability and reliability
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Shibboleth, CAS, SSO
Affected systems: shibboleth1p, shibboleth2p
Expected End-user impact: During this time, users may be redirected to wordpress.fau.edu during this period. Single sign on will fail over between each server when they restart.
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Server maintenance (Davie campus) – Update Switch Firmware
OIT will be updating the firmware on a switch.
Downtime window start: 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: The following services for the Davie campus:
Active Directory, Papercut, SCCM, DHCP, DNS, LDAP,
Affected systems: dav90hv01, dav90hv02, dav90pcprt01, dav90sccmdp01, davdcfau01, davdcirm01, dhcpdav1, dnsdav1, ldapdav1
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the affected systems will not be available during the change window.
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Server maintenance – Identity Management Systems (idm.fau.edu)
OIT is moving the idm.fau.edu server to a more suitable network for its usage.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: The IDM webpage
Affected systems: idm.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, users may not be able to login to the idm site for a few minutes while the IP is changed
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Server maintenance
We are moving several servers to a more suitable network for their usage.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
OIT Units involved in the change Systems, fauapps
Affected services: owlapp and gradrates.
Affected systems: owlapp.fau.edu, gradrates.fau.edu,
Expected End-user impact: During this time, owlapp and gradrates may be unavailable for a minute while DNS is pushed to point to the new IPs. As such some users may experience connection issues while trying to access these servers.
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OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. July 27 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, 07/27/2017 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 – Certification Authority OS Upgrade
Description of change: We will be upgrading the operating system of our internal certification authority server.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Internal certificate services (requesting new cert, renewing, crl checking).
Affected systems: BOCCA01.ad.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, there may be unintended outages, e.g. SCCM may not be able to push software/updates during this window as it relies on certificates for encrypted communication between distribution points and endpoints. Any internal services that rely on certificates for encypted commuication will fail or present a warning of an untrusted certificate.
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Server Maintenance – Webnet server migration
Description of change: We are moving the webnet servers to a more suitable network for their usage.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Monitors that may be monitoring webnet4 through webnet8
Affected systems: webnet4 through webnet8
Expected End-user impact: During this time we do not expect any end user impact. Some monitoring services may show the fau site as down while dns is changed. The FAU site will be up during this time.
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Posted in Systems