In order to further limit the impact of this critical maintenance, we are rescheduling the maintenance described below to occur between 5:00a.m. and 5:45 a.m. on Sunday April 20th.

Communication Infrastructure will be performing critical maintenance on core networking equipment on Sunday April 20th from 5:00a.m. until 5:45 a.m. During this time, we anticipate a loss of network connectivity between FAU campuses and the Internet as well as connectivity within FAU lasting approximately 10-15 minutes.   Network services are expected to be operating normally prior to the end of the maintenance window.

There is currently a delay on some emails.  It should be resolved shortly.

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, 04/10/2014 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: 3AM – 6AM
Affected Services: Blackboard, DNS, DHCP, Identity Manager, Graduate Application, ibiweb, CAS, PhoneBill, NetReg admin
Affected Systems: bba3, bba4, bba5, bba6, dhcpboc1, dnsboc1, idm1, talonx1, dhcpjup1, dhcpdav1, bbp10, bbp11, dnsnw1, frevvo1, ibiweb, ibiweb2, madcat1p, lintalon1
User Impact:  DHCP on Jupiter and Davie will be unavailable for approximately 10 minutes during the window and the other services are expected to stay available for the window.
Reason: Linux updates/patches to 6.5

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The FAU VPN services will be undergoing emergency maintenance at 2:00 p.m. today.  Sometime after 2:00 p.m., users connected to the VPN may experience some momentary delays or pauses during their VPN session while maintenance is underway.

Echo360 will be intermittently unavailable from 4:50PM-5:10 PM . The Echo360 service needs to be restarted to free a blocked thread that is preventing content from being ingested. Users will be unable to perform EMI transfers, or access and start viewing Echo360 captures during this window.

RESOLVED:  Echo360 will be intermittently unavailable from 8:45 AM-9:15 AM . The Echo360 service needs to be restarted to free a blocked thread that is preventing content from being ingested.

Users will be unable to perform EMI transfers, or access and start viewing Echo360 captures during this window.

We are currently experiencing network outages in building 8-Student Services, 8W-Student Health Services, 80-Student Support Services and 46-Student Housing Services. We are diligently working to restore these areas and apologize for the inconvenience.

Information Security will be performing emergency network maintenance from 6:00 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. on Thursday, March 13, 2014 to settings for the Symantec Full Disc Encryption(FDE) central management server.  During this time the access to this network server could  be affected and connectivity for our FDE production users could also be affected.

WebFOCUS production will be unavailable Wednesday (3/12/2014) from 12:00pm noon to 2:00pm in preparation for the software upgrade from version 7 to 8.  This will be the final extract from WebFOCUS 7 production.  Any new or updated reports created/modified in WebFOCUS 7 after tomorrow’s migration will need to be manually applied to WebFOCUS 8 once available.

The issue with VoIP phones has been resolved