OIT needs to install an important emergency security patch this morning to the WebFOCUS server. WebFOCUS and Leap Ahead will be unavailable during this time from 9:30am to 10:00am. Thank you for your patience.
“My Foto” Phishing Email – DO NOT open
If you receive a message with the subject line: “My Foto”, please DO NOT open this message.
We are taking the necessary steps to prevent this message from propagating to the university community further.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. We will also take the necessary steps to clean up any infected system.
Office of Information Technology
Posted in Email, Uncategorized
ePrint now available
The ePrint upgrade to version 4.4.1 has been successfully completed and now available for access.
Posted in Uncategorized
NetApp storage filer Upgrade, Tuesday Mar 3, 2015
The Office of Information Technology will be upgrading NetApp storage filers tomorrow between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. Applications may see a 30 second pause while the filer fails over to its partner.
[RESOLVED] Single-Sign On Issues
We are currently experiencing issues with Single-Sign On (SSO). This impacts all services that are using single-sign on – Blackboard, Self-Service, Gmail, Help Desk, Network Registration, and more. We are working on resolving the issue and will update as we know more.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
OIT
OIT Systems System Patches, Thurs. Jan 28 from 12:00AM to 7:00AM
The Office of Information Technology will be performing critical systems maintenance on Thursday, 01/28/2015 from 12:00 AM to 7:00 AM during the OIT maintenance window. This maintenance will require that numerous servers be rebooted and may result in longer then usual service disruptions.
The following services may experience periods of downtime between 3am and 7am. Directory Services (LDAP), Single Sign-on, Blackboard, FileLocker, Banner Self Service, Internet Native Banner (INB), DNS, Identity Manager, and the High Performance Computing Clusters.
Please note: Many systems such as Blackboard, Single Sign-on and Banner will remain online, however, users may experience reduced functionality during this maintenance period.
Resolved – Help Desk site (Team Dynamix) is intermittently unavailable
Update @ 1:20pm – The vendor has correct this issue and there has been no further disruption.
We are working with the vendor to resolve this issue as soon as possible.
We apologize for inconvenience.
Posted in Uncategorized
RESOLVED: Blackboard Assignment Tool
The Assignment Tool issue in Blackboard has been resolved. Instructors with affected student submissions should have received an email today (12/2/14) with the names of students, assignments, and courses that were affected. This email also contains instructions on how to clear the attempts so students may resubmit.
If you have any questions, please submit a ticket to helpdesk.fau.edu
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VIP Document management system is not functioning properly
** update: Users can now see other document classes now via a workaround, but the problem has not been fully resolved yet.
Users are currently unable to view any student records except for the ones in the FERPA document class. Systems is aware and is currently attempting to work with the vendor on the problem. ETA not available at this time.
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs., Nov. 20 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, 11/20/2014 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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When: 3:00AM – 6:00AM
Description of maintenance: UCS firmware upgrade. OIT will be upgrading the components of several systems to resolve bugs and add support for newer hardware.
User impact: No end-user impact is expected
Affected services: No services are impacted by this maintenance
Affected systems: boc22hv[01-14], boc22esxi[01-06], ieadata, as5, bba4, ecswins01, bba3, jira, boc22adfs, boc22mssqldev1, duo, bba8, idm4p, boc22cm102srv4, boc22cm102srv10, bbredis1, ibiweb, dhcpboc1, appadmin, labcam3, bba7, printonline, idm2, eprint2, boc22reports1, boc22mssql21, fauappsrv2, ieaweb, ldapboc1, boc22spapp1, remotecon, lintalon1, XenZDC2, XenAPP-Office, coeweb, boc22nasmvi, issdev, boc22dirsync, sacs, frevvo1, cas1, ecswins02, lintalon0, comvmsql01, ls-snap, shoutcast, FileLocker1, bbm1, labcam4, boc22mssql22, exchangeca03, ls-osd, ls-matlab, bba6, boc22mssql11, labcam5, bba9, taldev02, cosweb1, boc22vcenter1, migrate365, freeze, talonx2, acsmem04, as4, bba10, boc22spwfe1, gitlab, ugapp3, yakko, labcam2, frevvot, fauwebdev, lists, acsmem01,
bba1, comvmweb01, aptitudesrv, PapercutOffice, acsmem02, XenAPP00, comvmadi01, bba11, hpc, cuttlefish, bba2, dnsboc1, boc22pcprt01dev, XenLIC, madcat1p, filelocker2, Brian Test 1, mcclient, pinky, ugapp1, boc22adfsp, boc22pcapp01, XenSF1, boc22cm102srv1, XenSF2, controller, bba5, ugapp4, XenZDC1, jobs.finaid,
ugapp5, boc22mssql12, boc22pcapp02dev, boc22barr, r25-webservice, iss, boc22aptven, boc22cm102srv9, XenAPP01, visualsvn, boc22cm102vrt101mrtg, piwik1, boc22pcapp01dev, ugapp2, XenAPP02, labcam1
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When: 5:00AM – 6:00AM
Description of maintenance: OIT will be upgrading some software on controller.fau.edu. As a result, several services will be unavailable for approximately 30 minutes.
User impact:The following services will be unavailable for approximately 1 hour: OwlCard, Collections file prep site, FAU Reimbursements, Telephone bill payment
Affected services: OwlCard, Collections file prep site, FAU Reimbursements, Telephone bill payment
Affected systems: controller.fau.edu
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When: 8:00AM – 9:00AM
Description of maintenance: Upgrade disk and shelf firmware in NetApp filers bocana01 and bocana02. It is all done while the systems are up and running. No downtime is required. I would like to do it during the day next week.
User impact: No end-user impact is expected
Affected services: None
Affected systems: NetApp filers bocana01 and bocana02
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