Network Maintenance – Early Morning Sunday March 3rd through Friday March 8th

Posted on March 1, 2019 at 12:52 pm by jcooley2

OIT will be performing network maintenance between 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. during the spring break week, Sunday March 3rd through Friday March 8th. During this two-hour window each day, network connectivity may be intermittent for short periods of time. Expected campus network disruptions are as follows:

Monday, March 4th – Fort Lauderdale, Davie, and Harbor Branch campuses will experience a network outage lasting approximately 20 minutes during the window

Tuesday, March 5th – Jupiter and NWRDC will experience a network outage lasting approximately 20 minutes during the window

Wednesday, March 6th – The BHRIC network on the Boca Raton campus will be unavailable for approximately 20 minutes

In addition to the specific impacts noted above, specific network segments or hosts may experience brief disruptions during the remainder of the maintenance windows, although major services are expected to be operating normally.

Posted in Network and Telecom

[COMPLETED] Network Maintenance – February 27th from 5:00 a.m. until 6:30 a.m.

Posted on February 27, 2019 at 5:32 am by jcooley2

The network maintenance scheduled for this morning has been completed.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Network and Telecom, Systems

Network Maintenance – February 27th from 5:00 a.m. until 6:30 a.m.

Posted on February 26, 2019 at 4:16 pm by jcooley2

OIT will be performing network maintenance in the early morning hours of February 27th from 5:00 a.m. until 6:30 a.m. Network connectivity on the Boca Raton campus and to services on the Boca Raton campus may experience brief interruptions during the maintenance window.

Posted in Banner and Admin Systems, Network and Telecom, Systems

[RESOLVED]Starfish – Down

Posted on February 26, 2019 at 12:58 pm by delgado

Starfish is currently down and we are working with Hobsons to resolve the issue.

Posted in Uncategorized

OIT Systems Maintenance, Thurs. Feb 28 from 3:00AM to 7:00AM

Posted on February 26, 2019 at 9:18 am 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, 02/28/2019 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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SSO Upgrade
Description of change: OIT will be upgrading the prompting system in the Single Sign On System so users of slower services do not see the continue button if they do not have any tasks to complete.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 5:00 AM
Affected services: All Systems that user SSO including Canvas, Workday, and others.
Affected systems: Shibboleth servers
Expected End-user impact: During this time, single sign on may stop working for 10 – 15 minutes while we redeploy the prompting service.

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Decommission Mail Servers
Description of change: OIT will be decommissioning 2 legacy mail servers.
Downtime window start: 3:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Exchange Email
Affected systems: Exchange servers
Expected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. These exchange servers are only for disaster recovery purposes.

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Posted in Email, Systems

[Resolved] Partial network outage in Davie – Liberal Arts Building

Posted on February 25, 2019 at 10:13 pm by ken

The network has been restored in the Davie Liberal Arts Building.

Thank you

Posted in Network and Telecom

Partial network outage in Davie – Liberal Arts Building

Posted on February 25, 2019 at 4:43 pm by ken

We are experiencing a partial network outage on the Davie campus that is affecting the third and fourth floors of the Liberal Arts Building. We are working to resolve the issue.

Thank you

Posted in Network and Telecom

Network maintenance on March 3 – 4 from 11:30 pm – 6:00 am

Posted on February 19, 2019 at 2:17 pm by ken

OIT will be performing network maintenance beginning on Sunday, March 3 from 11:30 p.m. until 6:00 a.m. on Monday, March 4. Due to the nature of the maintenance, users may experience intermittent network outages lasting approximately 30 minutes during this window.

Thank you

Posted in Network and Telecom, Systems

OIT Systems Maintenance, Feb. 14 from 3:00AM to 7:00AM

Posted on February 12, 2019 at 9:13 am 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, 02/14/2019 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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Mailing list DMARC change
Description of change: OIT will be making a change in Sympa to not be rejected for failing DMARC checks
Downtime window start: 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Sympa/mailing lists
Affected systems: lists.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, outbound list messages set to go out during the downtime will be delayed until after the mailing list restarts. The expected downtime is between 2-5 minutes.

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Form Server Patch
Description of change: OIT will be updating the form server to patch bugs and reported issues.
Downtime window start: 4:00 AM
Downtime window end: 6:00 AM
Affected services: Frevvo, forms.fau.edu, Admissions applications
Affected systems: boc22frevvo1.fau.edu
Expected End-user impact: During this time, the form server that provides many automated forms will be offline for about 10 – 15 minutes.

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Posted in Email, Systems

[RESOLVED] Intermittent Network Issues

Posted on February 11, 2019 at 3:07 pm by ann

We are currently experiencing intermittent network issues. This may impact connectivity to the Internet. Our team is working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. We will post updates as soon as they become available.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

OIT

Posted in Network and Telecom, Systems