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\/21\/2013 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window.\u00a0 In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:<\/p>\n
When: 6:00 – 7:00AM When: 5:00 – 6:00AM When: 5:00 – 7:00AM When: 3:00 – 7:00AM When: 3:00 – 6:00AM When: 4:00AM – 6:00AM When: 4:00 – 6:00AM <\/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\/21\/2013 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during…<\/span><\/p>\n
\nAffected services: smtp.fau.edu<\/strong>
\nAffected systems: smtp.fau.edu
\nDescription of maintenance: We are restructuring and consolidating mail servers to simply the email flow architecture and to enforce spam and virus scanning.
\nUser impact: End-users in this change will refer more to users running various mail servers or services on campus: 1. Possible rate limiting until we add server to exception list. 2. Email originating from exception list servers (e.g. blackboard, ibiweb) will not be virus or spam scanned. 3. Possible firewall blocks until security adds new rules for server.<\/p>\n
\nAffected services: swise.fau.edu<\/strong>
\nAffected systems: swise.fau.edu
\nDescription of maintenance: We are freeing the swise.fau.edu server from its restrictive, physical shell to allow it to become a virtual entity.
\nUser impact: https URLs and apps served by swise.fau.edu will be unavailable.\u00a0 These include: Clearwire, Electronic Thesis, Scholarship Management System, Strategies & Tips for Academic Recovery, Writing Across Curriculum, and True Blue.<\/p>\n
\nAffected Services: ODS production environment<\/strong>. Webfocus won\u2019t be able to connect to the ODS database.
\nAffected Systems: odsprod
\nUser Impact:\u00a0 Affected services will be unavailable during the maintenance window.
\nReason: Oracle database ODSP needs to be patched for ODS 8.4.1<\/p>\n
\nAffected services: Banner FAUP<\/strong>: Accounts Receivable upgrade 8.4.4, Accounts Receivable upgrade 8.4.5, Student Self Service 8.5.4.3 & 8.5.4.4 patches
\nAffected systems: Banner FAUP
\nDescription of maintenance: The following updates will be installed in Banner production: Accounts Receivable upgrade 8.4.4, Accounts Receivable upgrade 8.4.5, Student Self Service 8.5.4.3 & 8.5.4.4 patches
\nUser impact: FAUP may be unavailable during this time<\/p>\n
\nAffected Services: Banner production, Blackboard production<\/strong>
\nAffected Systems: bannerprd, bannerprddr, bbloracle, bbloracledr.
\nUser Impact:\u00a0 Affected services will be unavailable during the maintenance window.
\nReason: Oracle database patch set updates and host patch installations<\/p>\n
\nAffected services: secure.fau.edu, secure2.fau.edu, ulrweb.fau.edu, fauftp1<\/strong>
\nAffected systems: FAUWeb1, FAUWeb6
\nDescription of maintenance: OIT will be migrating the secure.fau.edu, secure2.fau.edu, and ulrweb.fau.edu websites to a new server. Additionally, fauftp1 will move as well.
\nUser impact: Secure.fau.edu, secure2.fau.edu, ulrweb.fau.edu and fauftp1.fau.edu will be intermittently inaccessible during the window. These sites also affect secure andi, student and home pages; plus the mealplans, oig, orientation, dotnetdev, and changeGappsPassword sites.<\/p>\n
\nAffected services: Talisma<\/strong>
\nAffected systems: Talisma
\nDescription of maintenance: We will be applying the newest hot fix to talisma per the request of admissions. Talisma will be unavailable from 4-6 am. This new patch also requires the talisma client to be patched.\u00a0 Admissions will contact their users to let them know about the downtime and the client change.
\nUser impact: Talisma will be unavailable from 4-6 am.<\/p>\n