The power issue in building 31 (Student Union) has been resolved. Power and network has been restored to building 31 (Student Union) and building 31D (Continuing Education Hall).
The power issue in building 31 (Student Union) has been resolved. Power and network has been restored to building 31 (Student Union) and building 31D (Continuing Education Hall).
There is a planned power outage of building 31 (Student Union) going on right now. The outage is expected to last 3 or 4 hours according to Physical Plant. The network equipment is offline in the following buildings due to this power outage.
Bldg 31 – Student Union
Bldg 31D – Continuing Education Hall
Once the power is back on, Networking will make sure the network equipment comes back online.
Banner TEST will be unavailable for the next few hours while preparing the database for the migration to the new Linux server.
IRM 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, 02/02/2011 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during IRM maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
When: 5:00 am – 7:00 AM
Affected Service: Blackboard
Affected Servers: Bba1-6, bbm1, bbc1, bbc2
Description of Maintenance: We will be applying a security patch to the black board servers.
User Impact: Blackboard will be unavailable during this time
When: 6:00 am to 7:00am
Affected Services: Tandberg Systems
Affected Systems: tms.fau.edu
Description of Maintenance: tms2.fau.edu (131.91.224.119) is to be added back into rotation for tms.fau.edu on BigIP
User impact: None Expected
When: 6:00 am to 7:00am
Affected Services: Banner System
Affected Systems: FAUP.fau.edu
Description of Maintenance: FAUP.fau.edu data base configuration is to be modified in order to improve oracle stream performance.
User impact: None Expected
We need to reboot the edge firewall tomorrow morning. We will start the reboot at 5am. It should just take a few minutes.
This will affect Internet access for the minutes the firewall takes to boot.
Banner TEST will be cloned during the day this Tuesday 1/31/2012 in preparation for the UNIX to Linux migration. Once available, TEST should be used for testing purposes only. Any changes made to TEST or the banoradev UNIX server will not be moved over to the new Linux server. Banner updates and development will be frozen until the Linux migration is complete.
The SafeAssign tool within Blackboard will be unavailable this Sunday, January 29 from 8:00am – 2:00pm due to a maintenance upgrade. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.
Banner forms and Self-Service for FAUP will be unavailable tomorrow morning from 3:00am to 7:00am in order to install an Oracle patch on the application server. The database will be available.
IRM 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, 01/26/2011 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during IRM maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
When: 3:00 AM – 6:00 AM
Affected Services: Talisma
Affected Systems: taldb01, talapp01, talapp02 Description of Maintenance: talapp01 and talapp02 will be migrated to virtual machines. Additionally Windows Service Pack updates, Microsoft Office Updates, Java updates, and other security patches will be applied.
User impact: Talisma will be offline during this period
When: 5:00 AM – 6:00 AM
Affected Services: Network Registration Admin Console
Affected Systems: talon.fau.edu
Description of Maintenance: Network Registration’s admin console will be upgraded to support the assigning of static ip addresses.
User impact: None expected
When: 3:00 AM – 4:00 AM
Affected Services: talon.fau.edu
Affected Systems: talon0.fau.edu, talon1.fau.edu, talonx1.fau.edu, talonx2.fau.edu
Description of Maintenance: Talon.fau.edu’s backend servers will be converted from Solaris to Linux.
User impact: None expected
The Collaborate web conferencing tool in Blackboard (formerly known as Elluminate) will be unavailable from 10:00pm on Saturday, January 28 until 2:00am Sunday, January 29 due to system updates. Upon accessing a Collaborate session for the first time after this update your computer will automatically download a new version of the software (approximately 12 MB), so please be sure to allow yourself extra time. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.