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, 01\/31\/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: 3:00 – 6:00 AM
\nAffected services: Exchange email
\nAffected systems: Exchange
\nDescription of maintenance: In an attempt to alleviate issues affecting Exchange and poor client connectivity and response times with some users, several changes are being made to the Exchange servers.
\nUser impact: End-users may experience connectivity issues with Exchange (including Outlook, OWA, and ActiveSync) during the window.<\/p>\n
When: 5:00 \u2013 5:30 AM
\nAffected Services: Blackboard
\nAffected Systems: piwik1.fau.edu, Blackboard
\nDescription of Maintenance: Adjust MySQL performance parameters to improve performance.
\nUser Impact: Internet Explorer users will experience a performance degradation when using Blackboard while the database server is restarted.<\/p>\n
When: 5:00 \u2013 6:00 AM
\nAffected Services: lists.fau.edu
\nAffected Systems: lists.fau.edu (Sympa)
\nDescription of Maintenance: Increase memory allocated to the Sympa virtual machine.
\nUser Impact: The Sympa list server will be unavailable. Mail sent during this period will be delayed.<\/p>\n
When: 3:00 – 3:30 AM
\nAffected services: SharePoint, Private Eye, Graduate Application and Xitracs
\nAffected systems: MSSQL1 and MSSQL2
\nDescription of maintenance: We are adding additional memory to MSSQL1 and MSSQL2.
\nUser impact: No interruption of service is expected, but it is possible that SharePoint, Private Eye, Graduate Application and Xitracs may be unavailable for a few minutes. These applications typically will gracefully tolerate the loss of database connectivity for the timespan of the cluster failover. It is however possible that users of these applications may receive an error for a brief time.<\/p>\n
When: 3:00 AM
\nAffected services: Network Registration, Identity Manager (password sync), Ibiweb, Graduate Application, SharePoint, Lists, Talisma, Xitracs, VisualSVN, Blackboard, Ieaweb, Octopus (web proxy)
\nAffected systems: VM hosts
\nDescription of maintenance: We are adding additional vlans to trunked ports on our VM hosts so VM guests may access newly created vlans.
\nUser impact: There is no end-user impact expected, however if an issue arises it may cause loss of service for the services listed above.<\/p>\n
When: 3:00 – 7:00 AM
\nAffected services: Financial Aid INB and SSB
\nAffected systems: Banner – Financial Aid
\nDescription of maintenance: Financial Aid 8.16.0 upgrade + patches, Fin Aid Self Service 8.16.0 upgrade + patches, Financial Aid 8.16.0.1 patch, Mass Data Upload Utility 8.0.0 upgrade + five patches, Mass Data Upload Utility 8.0.0.6 patch
\nUser impact: The user may receive a timeout or \u2018Page Not Found\u2019 message while connected to Fin Aid SSB. Financial Aid INB and Fin Aid SSB response time may be a little slower than normal.<\/p>\n
When: 2:00 \u2013 3:00 AM
\nAffected Services: IEADATA share directory
\nAffected Systems: ieadata.fau.edu
\nDescription of Maintenance: The BOGSUBMISSIONS directory content will be copied to ANDISEC.
\nUser Impact: While the data is being copied the IEADATA share BOGSUBMISSIONS will be unavailable.<\/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, 01\/31\/2012 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during…<\/span><\/p>\n