OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. from 3:00AM to 7:00AM

Posted on October 1, 2019 at 4:31 pm by ann

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, 10/03/2019 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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Banner data change
Description of change: OIT will move all applicants, admitted students, and student records to College Of Science’s Exercise Science program from the College of Education.
Downtime window start: 12:00 AM
Downtime window end: 12:30 AM
Affected services: Banner curriculum data of students in Exercise Science major.
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Server Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be applying patches to several hosts.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Cisco Video Conferencing
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the services listed above will be unavailable.

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Account Self Service (accounts.fau.edu)
Description of change: OIT will be making configuration changes and restarts affecting Accounts Self-Service
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Account Self Service (accounts.fau.edu)
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Server maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be making some changes to the frevvo forms and the accounts self service web sites to improve their resiliency
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:30 AM
Affected services: frevvo forms sites, FAU account self services site
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Account Self Service Updates
Description of change: OIT will be installing patches and updates to back-end services.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Accounts Self Service – https://accounts.fau.edu, User Manager (UM)
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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FAU Alerts @fau.edu to @my.fau.edu
Description of change: OIT will be fixing a broken integration which renamed @fau.edu email address to @my.fau.edu to improve delivery time of FAU alert notifications. The new version of this integration runs in SnapLogic and connects to a more up to date directory server.
Downtime window start: 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:30 AM
Affected services: FAU Alerts
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Spam Filter Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be making a change to its spam filtering appliances.
Downtime window start: 8:00 AM
Downtime window end: 8:00 AM
Affected services: Inbound FAU email
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Email, Systems

[Resolved] Emergency Maintenance Employee MFA Enrollment Tool

Posted on October 1, 2019 at 12:04 pm by rresnick

The Employee MFA Enrollment Tool will be updated at 12:30 pm October 1st to correct a bug that is preventing courtesy accounts from logging in. The tool will be offline for a few minutes during this process.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Canvas / LMS, Educational Technologies, Email, Instructional Technologies, Systems, Workday

Account Self Service Portal Emergency Maintenance

Posted on September 29, 2019 at 9:16 am by jheithof

An emergency maintenance is being performed to correct an issue related to Account Self Service and password resets.

During this time you may see a delay in password resets. If you see any errors please retry at a later time. If you continue to have issues please contact the Help Desk for further assistance (561) 297-3999

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

OIT

Posted in Uncategorized

[RESOLVED] Boca Mail Server Maintenance 2019-09-25

Posted on September 25, 2019 at 6:25 pm by fhudzinski

OIT will be performing emergency maintenance on a mail server located at the Boca campus. While we don’t expect any issues mail delivery may be impacted while the maintenance is performed.

Update 7:15pm

The maintenance is completed.

Posted in Email, Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Sept 26 from 3:00AM to 7:00AM

Posted on September 24, 2019 at 3:28 pm by ann

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, 09/26/2019 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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Update Canvas Theme
Description of change: OIT will be correcting an issue that may redirect some Canvas users that do not have an FAU account to the Single Sign On page.
Downtime window start: 6:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:30 AM
Affected services: Canvas
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Banner/Owldone integration
Description of change: OIT will be applying some changes to add the Summer Jumpstart students to the Owldone views
Downtime window start: 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Account Self Service Updates
Description of change: OIT will be installing patches and updates to backend services related to the Accounts Self-Service portal.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Accounts Self Service – https://accounts.fau.edu, User Manager (um.fau.edu)
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. This change requires a rolling restart of services but should not cause any disruption in services.

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Banner Accounts Receivable upgrade/patch/administrative pages installation
Description of change: OIT will be installing patches and upgrades required by Accounts Receivable improve performance in Production.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Canvas / LMS, Educational Technologies, Systems

Maintenance Employee MFA Enrollment Form

Posted on September 23, 2019 at 4:59 pm by rresnick

We will be updating the Employee MFA Enrollment form at 9 pm this evening September 23, 2019. During the update the url to the system will be updated to https://ssoauth.fau.edu/employee-mfa and a performance bug resolved. To aide in accessing the system a redirect will also be applied to the old site.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Canvas / LMS, Educational Technologies, Instructional Technologies, Lecture Capture, Systems, Video Conferencing, Workday

[RESOLVED] TouchNet Systems Maintenance, Wed. September 18th from 3:00AM to 7:00AM

Posted on September 18, 2019 at 9:17 am by silverst

The TouchNet payment processing system will be undergoing maintenance -Starting from 3:00am to 7:00am (EST) Wednesday, 09/18/2019

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, Thurs. Sept. 19 from 3:00AM to 7:00AM

Posted on September 17, 2019 at 4:37 pm by ann

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, 09/19/2019 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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Database Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be applying an Oracle upgrade to MSOP production database. Several services and systems will be affected by this maintenance. Please see list of affected services below.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services:
ACH or VPAS
Mandatory Course Entry Quiz
accounts.fau.edu – Accounts Self Service
Canvas e-Grades
FAUGuest – Wireless network authentication for guests
4P Configurations – Admissions Status, Znumber page, ssoauth.fau.edu/*, egrades.fau.edu/*
Group Management – grouper
Phonebill application pre latest system
Password expiration
Network registration, talon.fau.edu/netreg, talon.fau.edu/networkregistrationadmin
Frevvo
New undergrad – Undergraduate Admissions
Owlapp – Graduate Admissions
Residency Project
OwlDone
Expected End-user impact: During this time, services listed above will be unavailable at times.

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Account Self Service Updates
Description of change: Installing patches and updates to backend services.
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Accounts Self Service – https://accounts.fau.edu, User Manager (um)
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. We will be doing rolling restarts to ensure that services are available.

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Touchnet Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be installing the latest version of the BannerConnect component of Touchnet.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: Touchnet Payment services
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Database Maintenance
Description of change: OIT will be applying the latest patch set to all production databases.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 7:00 AM
Affected services: Banner production, Appworx, Harvest, ODS, FAU Warehouse, IEAP instance, WebFOCUS/ReportCaster
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the services listed above will be temporarily offline while the patches are applied.

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BHRIC Profile Server replacement
Description of change: One of the home directory servers used by the biomedical research information core has experienced a software failure in windows which prevents it from starting the windows login service. While this is still functional we must replace the server to resolve the issue without substantial downtime. During this maintenance period we will be adding the new server to the DFS cluster.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: BHRIC home directories and group directories
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Banner Table update
Description of change: OIT will be updating the SWRRULE table per the Registrar’s office request
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 3:30 AM
Affected services: SWRRULE table in Banner
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Banner Table update
Description of change: OIT will be updating the SORXREF Table
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 3:30 AM
Affected services: SORXREF table in Banner
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.

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Security Update on Frevvo Filesystem Server
Description of change: OIT will be updating Tomcat to the latest version on Frevvo’s Filesystem Connector Server to patch Security Vulnerabilities.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Frevvo Filesystem Connector
Expected End-user impact: During this time, there will be minimal downtime document submissions to Andi and Andisec drives.

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Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Educational Technologies, Email, Instructional Technologies, Network and Telecom, Systems, Uncategorized

Internal email delivery issue

Posted on September 17, 2019 at 9:37 am by chris

An email server on the Boca Raton campus that handles email delivery for smtp.fau.edu is currently unavailable if using the IP address 131.91.100.169. If you are using a fully qualified DNS entry of smtp.fau.edu there is no interruption of service. A workaround to this issue is to use the IP 131.91.252.65 until the problem is resolved. We are currently working with our vendor on a solution and apologize for the inconvenience.

Thank you,

Office of Information Technology

Posted in Email, Systems

[Resolved] Telephone outage at the Davie campus

Posted on September 16, 2019 at 12:15 pm by ken

We are currently experiencing a problem with the telephone services on the Davie campus. We are working to resolve the problem as soon as possible.

Thank you

Posted in Network and Telecom