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.

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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We are currently experiencing an issue with password not synchronizing to all FAU services/systems after being reset.  We are working to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

Please do not reset your password until this issue has been resolved.

We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.

OIT