{"id":2126,"date":"2013-03-06T09:14:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T09:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/irm\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2014-06-10T15:24:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T15:24:44","slug":"oit-systems-maintenance-thursday-march-7-from-300-am-to-700-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/oit\/2013\/03\/oit-systems-maintenance-thursday-march-7-from-300-am-to-700-am\/","title":{"rendered":"OIT Systems Maintenance, Thursday, March 7, from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM"},"content":{"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, 03\/07\/2013 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM<\/strong> during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:<\/p>\n

Blackboard, Banner INB & SSB, Exchange IMAP & POP, Xpresssion\/Voicemail,\u00a0 Single-Sign On (SSO.fau.edu)<\/strong><\/p>\n

When: Thursday, March 7th and Friday, March 8th\u00a0
\nAffected Systems: phone service in building 36
\nAffected Services: phone service in building 36
\nDescription of Maintenance: The telecommunications cable that provides phone service to Building 36 was damaged during the recent hot water pipe break in the tunnel. Jade Communications will be replacing the splice kit and repairing the cable.
\nUser Impact: There will be intermittent outages of phone service throughout building 36 during the days outlined<\/p>\n

When: 3:00 AM – 7:00 AM
\nAffected Services: Banner SSB & INB
\nAffected Systems: Banner
\nDescription of Maintenance: The following updates will be installed in Banner production: Student 8.5.5 upgrade, Student Self-Service 8.5.4 upgrade, Student 8.5.6 upgrade, Student Self-Service 8.5.4.1 upgrade, Faculty and Advisor Self-Service 8.5.4.1 upgrade, Self-Service Banner New Look and Feel
\nUser Impact: Banner Self-Service \u2013 the user will not be able to log in. Banner Student INB \u2013 response time may be a little slower than normal.\u00a0 Loss of connection may occur.<\/p>\n

When: 3:00 AM \u2013 6:00 AM
\nAffected Systems: exchangeca03, fauwebdev, issprod, fauappsrv1, boc22cm102srv1, boc22cm102srv10
\nDescription of Maintenance:\u00a0 The systems group will be migrating these virtual machines from HVCLUSTER to boc22hvclust01.
\nUser Impact:\u00a0 The following systems will be unavailable for approximately 20-60 min during the window: exchangeca03 (IMAP & pop), fauwebdev, issprod, fauappsrv1, boc22cm102srv1, boc22cm102srv10<\/p>\n

When: 3:00 \u2013 3:30 AM
\nAffected Systems: adcon, ls-osd, acsmem02, vcboc02, ecswins01, wsus, remotecon2, iss, SQLTestHost01, cosweb1, acsmem01, as5, boc22cm102srv4, acsmem04, vcboc01, fauweb2, ls-matlab, finaid, mcclient, ls-minitab, ls-spss, printonline, aptitudesrv, controller, ecswins02, boc22cm102vrt101mrtg, issdev, remotecon, jobs.finaid, ls-snap, ucslinuxtest, freeze
\nDescription of Maintenance:\u00a0 The UCS cluster virtual switch must be reconfigured to allow for better management.
\nUser Impact: Vpn users may have issue connecting during this time. The following systems will be unavailable for approximately for 30 minutes during the window: adcon, ls-osd, acsmem02, vcboc02, ecswins01, wsus, remotecon2, iss, SQLTestHost01, cosweb1, acsmem01, as5, boc22cm102srv4, acsmem04, vcboc01, fauweb2, ls-matlab, finaid, mcclient, ls-minitab, ls-spss, printonline, aptitudesrv, controller, ecswins02, boc22cm102vrt101mrtg, issdev, remotecon, jobs.finaid, ls-snap, ucslinuxtest, freeze<\/p>\n

When: 3:00 AM – 5:00 AM
\nAffected Services: Blackboard, Ibiweb, Ieaweb, Web proxy (octopus)
\nAffected Systems: As5, Bacula, Bba[1-6], Bbm1, Bbt1, Cuttlefish, Fauappsrv2, Faubib2, Freeze, Frevvo1, Ibiweb, Ieadata, Ieaweb, Jira, Ls-matlab, Ls-minitab, Ls-osd, Ls-snap, Ls-spss, Mad-development, Nsboc1, Octopus, Pinky, Piwik1, Printonline, R25-webservice, Sacs, Zen[1-2]
\nDescription of Maintenance: We would like to update the firmware to the HP Blade Chassis to prepare for the migration of the hosts from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2012
\nUser Impact: The following services will be offline for small periods of time during the window:
\nBlackboard, Ibiweb, Ieaweb, Web proxy (octopus)<\/p>\n

When: 4:00 AM – 7:00 AM
\nAffected Services: Myfau, Banner Forms, Blackboard, Sharepoint, LDAP(ds.fau.edu), CAS, IDM, Talon, owlapp, TMS (tandberg), Test Myfau, Boca www.fau.edu.\u00a0\u00a0 www.fau.edu itself should not be interrupted as it will failover to NWRDC during the periods of downtime.
\nAffected Systems: BigIP
\nDescription of Maintenance: Upgrade BigIP system version from BIG-IP 10.2.0 Build 1789.0 to BIG-IP 10.2.4 Build 732.0.\u00a0
\nUser Impact: Intermittent downtime and erratic service behavior at failover points during the upgrade process. Services hosted by BigIP load balancers will be interrupted.\u00a0 These include and are not limited to: Myfau, Banner Forms, Blackboard, Sharepoint, LDAP(ds.fau.edu), CAS, IDM, Talon, owlapp, TMS (tandberg), Test Myfau, Boca www.fau.edu.\u00a0\u00a0 www.fau.edu itself should not be interrupted as it will failover to NWRDC during the periods of downtime.<\/p>\n

When: 5:00 AM – 6:00 AM
\nAffected Services: Blackboard
\nAffected Systems: Blackboard
\nDescription of Maintenance: Middleware will be making a config change and pushing it to all blackboard app servers.\u00a0 We are doing this config change to provide better fault tolerance in case we have to take application servers out of rotation.\u00a0 Blackboard will be unavailable from 5:00-6:00 AM, we will roll back the config change in case the fix does not work.
\nUser Impact: Blackboard will be unavailable between 5:00 AM and 6:00 AM<\/p>\n

When: 5:00 AM – 6:00 AM
\nAffected Services: Blackboard
\nAffected Systems: Blackboard
\nDescription of Maintenance: Middleware will be applying two patches to the blackboard servers to fix small outstanding issues.\u00a0
\nUser Impact: Blackboard will be unavailable between 5:00 AM and 6:00 AM<\/p>\n

When: 5:00am to 6:00am
\nAffected Services: none expected
\nAffected Systems: none expected
\nDescription of Maintenance: A package for mssql will be added to the main webservers that are responsible for www.fau.edu.\u00a0 This is to allow webpages that rely on an mssql backend to run properly.\u00a0 Servers will be updated one at a time to ensure that there are no interruptions in service.
\nUser Impact: No anticipated downtime<\/p>\n

When: 5:00 AM – 7:00 AM
\nAffected Services: Xpressions\/Voicemail
\nAffected Systems: Xpressions\/Voicemail
\nDescription of Maintenance: CI will be working with our vendor Siemens to install service patches on the Xpressions servers
\nUser Impact: The Xpressions\/Voicemail servers will be offline during the window<\/p>\n

When: 5:00 AM – 7:00 AM
\nAffected Services: Open Scape Voice (OSV)
\nAffected Systems: Open Scape Voice (OSV)
\nDescription of Maintenance: CI will be working with our vendor Siemens to install Service patches on the OSV servers
\nUser Impact: No anticipated downtime<\/p>\n

When: 5:00 AM – 6:00 AM
\nAffected Services: Single-Sign on (SSO.fau.edu)
\nAffected Systems: CAS
\nDescription of Maintenance: SSO.fau.edu will be updated to support Banner single sign on and Service Logout Redirection.
\nUser Impact: There will be a period of 5 to 10 minutes where users will not be able to log in\u00a0to services supported by SSO.fau.edu<\/p>\n

When: 5:30 AM – 7:00 AM
\nAffected Services: Banner Production, Banner Test, Blackboard Production, Blackboard Test, Appworx, Iplanet Mail, Oracle Management, ODS Production
\nAffected Systems: Bannerprd, Banoradev, Bbloracle, Boc22ora01, Boc22ora02, Boc22ora03, Mcoracle, Modena, Odsprod
\nDescription of Maintenance: Connect the ACP cables (secondary path) for the new SAS storage that was added to bocana01 (NetApp FAS3240 filer) on January 24th.\u00a0 After connecting these cables, we may need to quickly disconnect one end of the SAS cables that we added to get them coiled properly in the rack.
\nUser Impact: No anticipated downtime<\/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, 03\/07\/2013 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during…<\/span><\/p>\n

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