Network: Network maintenance Monday, March 26 between 5 am and 7 am. This will have temporary interruption of VPN while on of the ASAs are being replaced. Those who have been disconnected while the maintenance occur will be able to reconnect as there is a redundant ASA for VPN.
Networking will be upgrading the network equipment in building 04 during the maintenance window 5:00am to 7:00am Wednesday 03/21/2012 and Thursday 03/22/2012. No service outage during normal business hours is expected.
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, 03/22/2012 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
When: 5:00 AM – 6:00 AM
Affected services: blackboard
Affected systems: bbm1, bbc1,bbc2, bba1-6
Description: we will be applying a recommended security patch to the blackboard servers. We will be restarting the service after the patch is applied.
User Impact: Blackboard will be online, but some user sessions may be interrupted during service restarts.
When: 5:00 AM – 6:00 AM
Affected services: EMS
Affected systems: sql05vs, fauweb1
Description: EMS has released monthly patches for EMS, VirtualEMS, and MasterCalender apps and databases.
User Impact: EMS will be online, but some user sessions may be interrupted during service restarts.
network: Networking maintenance on switch in bldg 22 datacenter RU04 completed
Regards,
Jim Gorycki jimg@fau.edu
The networking team will be replacing a switch in the Building 22 Datacenter in Rack Unix 04 (RU04) from 5am-7am. This will affect the following services:
– MyFAU test
– IRMftp
– Antivirus gateways
– Judaica Sound Archives
– Webfocus test/prod
– DNS editor database and NTP services (bert.fau.edu/131.91.130.27)
– DNS (ns.fau.edu/131.91.131.16)
Networking will be upgrading the network equipment in building 04 during the maintenance window 5:00am to 7:00am Wednesday 03/21/2012 and Thursday 03/22/2012. No service outage during normal business hours is expected.
Networking will be upgrading the network equipment in building 5 during the maintenance window 5:00am to 7:00am Thursday 03/15/2012. No service outage during normal business hours is expected.
Banner production database (FAUP) will be restarted tomorrow morning, Thursday 3/15/2012 at 5:00am in order to complete the ODS setup.
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, 03/15/2012 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
When: 5:00 AM – 6:00 AM
Affected Services: Network Registration Admin Interface
Affected Systems: lintalon0, lintalon1
Description of Maintenance: Upload new version of Network Registration Admin Interface to Tomcat application server (WAR File Deployment)
User impact: Network Registration Admin interface may be unavailable at intervals. This will not affect the stable, robust Network Registration front-end.
When: 3-6:00 AM
Affected services: Talisma
Affected systems: Taldb,talapp01, talapp02
Description: we will be applying hot fix 16 that was released by the vendor
User impact: Talisma will not be accessible during down time but we expect no impact on users.
When: 3-6:00 AM
Affected services: Blackboard, vWorkspace, DNS, Graduate Application
Affected systems: HP HyperV Cluster, bbloracle
Description: New firmware is being applied to all components of the HP Blade Chassis
User impact: Access to Blackboard, vWorkspace, DNS and the Graduate Application will be intermittent during this time.
Networking will be upgrading the network equipment in building 5 during the maintenance window 5:00am to 7:00am Thursday 03/15/2012. No service outage during normal business hours is expected.