The Success Network (Starfish) is currently experiencing an outage. OIT is working with the vendor to get the system up as quickly as possible.
[RESOLVED] STARFISH – Currently not accessible to users
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. 4/18 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, 04/18/2019 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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Oracle Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be applying the latest Oracle quarterly patch updates to the production databases.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner production, Oracle Identity Manager production, Appworx production, IEA warehouse
Affected systems: Banner, Oracle databases
Expected End-user impact: During this time, services that listed above will be unavailable at times during the maintenance window.
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Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing server maintenance.
Downtime window start: 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Internal DNS at all campuses
Affected systems: DNS
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end user impact is expected
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HPC DNS Server Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be replacing the HPC.fau.edu DNS infrastructure
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: hpc.fau.edu only
Affected systems: hpc servers including koko, kokosec
Expected End-user impact: During this time, DNS settings may change for a short time while we perform the forced update to sync time to live.
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Microsoft SQL Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be Installing Windows Management Framework 5.1, Powershell 5, and .NET 4.7.1 on nodes associated with the boc22mssqloit SQL cluster
Downtime window start: 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Any services using boc22mssqloit as a data source.
Affected systems: MS SQL server
Expected End-user impact: During this time, services using this data source may go offline during restarts.
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Account Self Service Portal Emergency maintenance
An emergency maintenance is being performed to correct an issue related to Account Self Service and password resets.
During this time you may see a delay in password resets. If you see any errors please retry at a later time. If you continue to have issues please contact the Help Desk for further assistance (561) 297-3999
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
OIT
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Banner Administrative forms are experiencing issues.
Banner Administrative Forms are experiencing issues at this time. We are currently investigating this issue and will update this issue as we know more.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Office of Information Technology
Mediasite maintenance – 3/16/2019
Sonic Foundry will be performing maintenance on Mediasite Cloud Servers during the scheduled maintenance window on March 16th between 1:01AM EST and 5:00AM EST. This maintenance requires taking the environment offline, and as such the site will not be available during this window. We do not anticipate any downtime before or after the designated window.
[RESOLVED]Starfish – Down
Starfish is currently down and we are working with Hobsons to resolve the issue.
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Canvas Mandatory Course Entry Quiz – Maintenance
Canvas Mandatory Course Entry Quiz was not showing up for users with High Contrast UI Setting Enabled for Canvas. We have corrected the problem and will be deploying the change to production shortly. The Quiz may be unavailable for a short period of time while the changes are deployed.
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[RESOLVED] Internet trouble reaching Google
The connectivity with Google has been resolved and all Google applications are available again.
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The internet provider in Miami is having issues reaching Google and it’s impacting all Google applications. In the meantime, you can use alternative search engines such as Bing and Yahoo.
We apologize for the inconvenience
OIT
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Grade Submission: Emergency Maintenance
Grades Grade Submission DOWNTIME
The eGrades Grade Submission tool will be down temporarily from 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM on December 8th, 2018 to preform emergency maintenance.
This update will fix the duplicate listings on the eGrades receipt page for courses with cross listed sections, performance enhancements, and extra verification for Grade Submission.
Instructors will be unable to submit grades during the time period stated above.
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OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Nov 29 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, 11/29/2018 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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Email Infrastructure Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be adding a new accepted email domain to Office 365.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Office 365 / Exchange Online
Affected systems: Office 365 / Exchange Online
Expected End-user impact: During this time, we don’t expected any end-user impact
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Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be conducting a proof of concept test for a new product that is a candidate for replacement of a component in the FAU email system.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:30 AM
Affected services: OIT members on 365 (Microsoft) Email
Affected systems: FAU main mail gateway servers, 365 mail servers
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. After the change, OIT members will have their emails filtered by an additional email gateway as part of the proof of concept test.
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Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be installing a new Banner XE module to support the clean address process and a critical Financial Aid patch.
Downtime window start: 2:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner XE and Banner 8
Affected systems: Banner
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected
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Identity Management
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the email lifecycle management process
Downtime window start: 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: Identity Manager, Active Directory, Office365, Google Apps
Affected systems: Boca OIM Servers
Expected End-user impact: During this time no end-user impact is expected.
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