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, 06/05/2014 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 – 4:00AM
Affected services: Blackboard
Affected systems: Blackboard
Description of maintenance: OIT is updating several Building Blocks including Item Analysis, Assignments, Cengage MindLinks, Software Updates, Cloud Profiles, Social Profiles. These tools may be unavailable during the update, and may not function properly before a system restart which is why this is being coordinated to be done just prior to Oracle update which will require a restart anyway.
User impact: Blackboard will be unavailable during maintenance window.
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When: 4:00AM – 6:00AM
Affected services: Blackboard production
Affected systems: bbloracle
Description of maintenance: OIT will upgrade Oracle from 11.2.0.2 to 11.2.0.4 and install April 2014 PSU for Blackboard production database.
User impact: Blackboard will be unavailable during maintenance window.
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When: 5:00AM – 6:00AM
Affected services: Identity Manager, Password Sync
Affected systems: idm1, idm2, idm4p
Description of maintenance: Enable TeamDyanamix Connector in Identity Manager
User impact: No downtime is expected.
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When: 4:00AM – 5:00AM
Affected services: DHCP
Affected systems: iDRAC controllers
Description of maintenance: OIT will perform an upgrade of the iDRAC controllers in the Jupiter and HBOI network support systems host servers.
User impact: Ability to obtain a DHCP address on the Jupiter and HBOI campuses may be impacted during the downtime window. Computers that resolve to the DNS VMs on those two systems will have to rely on their secondary DNS during the upgrade.
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When: 3:00AM – 6:30AM
Affected services: DNS, DHCP, and Windows Authentication
Affected systems: All VMs on hvdav01
Description of maintenance: OIT is updating the systems servicing DNS, DHCP and Windows Authentication for the Davie campus.
User impact: DNS and DHCP will be unavailable from 3:00 – 4:00AM and Windows Authentication from Davie will be unavailable from 3 – 6:30AM. Davie users should be able to resolve DNS via their secondary DNS servers. DHCP leases expiring or new DHCP requests will be unavailable from 3:00AM – 4:00AM. Windows Authentication requests should be serviced by off campus Domain Controllers.