Research Computing is investigating an issue connecting and authenticating to some of our services including but not limited to bastion hosts, login nodes, and some compute nodes. We will update as we learn more.
[RESOLVED] TouchNet Systems Maintenance, Friday, December 15th from 2:00 AM to 6:00 AM
The TouchNet payment processing system will be undergoing maintenance -Starting from 2:00am to 6:00am (EST) Friday, December 15th. This affects student payment services (Bill+Payment), as well as all Marketplace Stores, uPay sites and TouchNet ready partner payment services. We expect all systems to be back online no later than 7:00 am (EST) that morning. When the system is back up and ready to go, we will notify you. You may wish to place warnings on your website, or take your store offline. If this scheduled downtime creates a conflict for your operations, please feel free to contact us at FIS@fau.edu for further discussion. Expected End-user impact: During this time all student payment services (Bill+Payment), as well as all Marketplace Stores, uPay sites and TouchNet ready partner payment services will be unavailable during this maintenance cycle.
Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Workday
OIT Systems Maintenance, Wednesday, Dec 6 from 12:01AM to 7:00AM
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 Wednesday, 12/06/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
Graduate College Admissions Application Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the Graduate College Admissions Application.
Downtime window start: 12/06/2023 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12/06/2023 6:30 AM
Affected services: College of Business, and Study group Application
End-user impact: During the upgrade process the College of Business, and Study group application will be unavailable.
Posted in Systems, Uncategorized
[Resolved] – Grademan – Change Grade Application Service Outage
Grademan is now working, we were able to identify and resolve the problem.
Our application that allows for changing grades (Grademan) is not operational at the moment. We are working to resolve the issue with this application. We continue to troubleshoot the problem, and will provide information as we work through the problem. Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience.
Posted in Uncategorized
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Nov 30 from 12:01AM to 7:00AM
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, 11/30/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
Sunapsis Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing Sunapsis system maintenance. During this time, Sunapsis will be offline.
Downtime window start: 11/29/2023 10:00 PM
Downtime window end: 11/30/2023 12:00 AM
Affected services: Sunapsis
End-user impact: This maintenance only impacts IEI Staff.
Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing server Maintenance affecting TechFee, Gradrates, GradeMan, ServiceAwards, SoftLic, transient, and wconline
Downtime window start: 11/30/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/30/2023 1:00 AM
Affected services: TechFee, Gradrates, GradeMan, ServiceAwards, SoftLic, transient, wconline
End-user impact: The services mentioned above will be offline during this time.
Banner Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on Banner. Banner will not be available during this time to allow the Ellucian support team to install several module upgrades/patches/administrative pages to bring FAU up to compliance with the latest Financial Aid releases.
Downtime window start: 11/30/2023 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/30/2023 6:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
End-user impact: Banner will be unavailable during this time.
Data Transfer Node Upgrades
Description of change: OIT will be adjusting default settings on the Research Computing Data Transfer Nodes
Downtime window start: 11/30/2023 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/30/2023 6:00 AM
Affected services: koko-dtn which provides smb connectivity to the HPC cluster.
End-user impact: OIT will be reloading SMB on the servers in question which will in theory allow existing connections to continue.
Banner AppNav Maintenance
Description of change: The Banner AppNav that is used for the Banner Admin application will be upgraded, and the current server will be decommissioned.
Downtime window start: 11/30/2023 6:30 AM
Downtime window end: 11/30/2023 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner admin might not be accessible while the switch happens, or current sessions might disconnect.
End-user impact: Staff will not be able to login to Banner Admin while the change takes place, current sessions might also be impacted.
[resolved] OneDrive unavailable for some users
Currently some users may receive an error when attempting to access their OneDrive. We are working on resolving this issue and will post an update when complete.
–Update, this issue has been resolved and OneDrive should be accessible for all users
Posted in Uncategorized
Resolved – Banner Admin Login Issues
UPDATE 3:47PM: Our Ellucian Managed Services Provider restarted services and cleared some items for the service that they believe were causing the issues with the login times. For the past few hours the Banner Admin has been stable. We will continue monitoring.
ORIGINAL POST:
This week we have been experiencing issues with login times to Banner Admin, where when a user logs in, the SSO login page will continue to spin, eventually landing the user either in an active session or providing an error message such as a Login Denied.
This is happening inconsistently throughout the day, users are eventually able to login, once connected they don’t have further issues. In addition, Banner Self-Service works correctly during these times. We are working with Ellucian to try and determine the cause of the issue, but we are still researching as it is inconsistent.
We will be doing maintenance tonight to replace one of the application servers and then will determine if it alleviates the situation. We asked that users that are not able to login, wait 5 minutes and try again. We appreciate your understanding as we work to resolve these issues.
Posted in Uncategorized
OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Nov 16 from 12:01AM – 7:00AM
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, 11/16/2023 from 12:01 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
Data Center Storage Upgrade (Netapp Snapvault Cluster)
Description of change: OIT will perform software upgrades to the Netapp Snapvault Cluster
Downtime window start: 11/15/2023 10:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/15/2023 5:00 PM
Affected services: Snapvault functionality for Netapp volumes
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected. This is a backend netapp cluster for backup purposes
Banner AppNav Maintenance
Description of change: The Banner AppNav that is used for the Banner Admin application will be upgraded, and the current server will be decommissioned.
Downtime window start: 11/16/2023 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/16/2023 6:30 AM
Affected services: Banner admin might not be accessible while the switch happens, or current sessions might disconnect.
End-user impact: Staff will not be able to login to Banner Admin while the change takes place, current sessions might also be impacted.
Student Health Server Maintenance (Dental and EKG)
Description of change: Research Computing will be performing maintenance of the Servers used for the Dental department and the EKG machines. During this time the services will be offline and the devices ( x-ray and EKG machines) will not be able to connect to their services.
Downtime window start: 11/14/2023 8:00 PM
Downtime window end: 11/15/2023 4:00 AM
Affected services: Dental X-Rays and EKG for Student Health
End-user impact: The dental and EKG machines will be off line during this time. However, the clinic is closed so there is no end user impact unless something does not work correctly in the morning.
Zero Cost Textbook Feature Implementation
Description of change: In Banner, placing an attribute on course section to display an ICON for Zero Textbook Courses, so that the students can easily identify Zero Textbook category courses.
End-user impact: Students
Downtime window start: 11/16/2023 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/16/2023 1:00 AM
Affected services: FAU Banner/ Student Registration App
Data Center Storage Upgrade (Netapp Disaster Recovery Cluster)
Description of change:
Downtime window start: 11/16/2023 10:00 AM
Downtime window end: 11/16/2023 5:00 PM
Affected services: disaster recovery snapshot functionality for netapp volumes
End-user impact: No end-user impact is expected. This is the DR netapp cluster for disaster recovery purposes
[Resolved] MYFAU Mobile App Mail Issues
The issue has been resolved. If you continue to have problems, please try clearing your cache or restarting your phone to clear any lingering caching issues.
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We have received reports of users having issues logging into Outlook mail from the MYFAU Mobile App. Some have had issues logging into the MYFAU Mobile App itself as well. We are investigating and will update when we have more information. In the meantime, users can access mail directly at: http://outlook.fau.edu/
[RESOLVED] Banner Admin performance issues
We are currently experiencing some performance issues with Banner Admin resulting in slow login times. Our team is currently working to restore the service to normal performance levels. We apologize for any inconvenience.
OIT
Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Uncategorized