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\/08\/2012 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:<\/p>\n
When: 3:00am – 4:30am
\nAffected Services: Exchange email
\nAffected Systems: exchangeca01, exchangeca02, exchangemb03
\nDescription of Maintenance: 10GbE network cards will be installed on both Exchange front ends and offline mailbox server. Memory will also be upgraded in the mailbox server.
\nUser impact: Some users may experience Outlook disconnects but will be reconnected, otherwise no other impact expected. One of the two front ends will be up at all times holding the load balanced name. All active mailbox servers will also be up.<\/p>\n
When: 11\/8\/12 3:00 AM \u2013 6:00 AM
\nAffected Services: DHCP, Blackboard, IDM, Network Registration, Graduate Application
\nAffected Systems: bba1, dhcpboc1, dhcpdav1, dhcpjup1, idm1, lintalon1, frevvo1
\nDescription of Maintenance: The systems will be updated to the 6.3 version of Scientific Linux (frevvo1 will be updated to Oracle Linux 6.3)
\nUser impact: Intermittent loss of service is expected for DHCP on Davie and Jupiter campuses and Graduate Application between 3:00AM and 6:00AM. Blackboard, IDM and NetReg may be unavailable for short periods of time, but this is unexpected.<\/p>\n
When: 5:00am \u2013 6:00am
\nAffected Services: banner sftp jobs, public webpages that depend on mysql, network time, omniupdate staging sites, wordpress
\nAffected Systems: fausftp, fausftp2, mysql01, ntp1, ntp2, omnientry, omniupdate, tstwordpress, wordpress
\nDescription of Maintenance: Routine reboots for linux patches to take effect.
\nUser impact: End users may notice that some public webpages that depend on mysql will not load properly, omniupdate staging will not be available, and wordpress will not be available during those machines\u2019 reboot period. Reboots should happen within 10 minutes so interference should be minimal. <\/p>\n
When: 6:00am – 6:10am
\nAffected services: EMS
\nAffected systems: fauweb1
\nDescription: Enabling windows authentication in IIS for EMS Web client.
\nUser Impact: EMS web client users will be prompted for authentication from IIS for their FAUNet ID account.<\/p>\n
When: 5:00am
\nAffected services: Voice over IP servers
\nAffected systems: Voice over IP servers
\nDescription of maintenance: A software upgrade for the Boca VOIP Servers will be installed.
\nUser impact: There will be no interruption in voice services during this upgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\/08\/2012 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during…<\/span><\/p>\n