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, 04\/03\/2014 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:<\/p>\n
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When: 3:00AM \u2013 6:00AM
\nAffected Services: Blackboard, Mailing Lists, DNS, DHCP, Undergrad Application,
\nAffected Systems: bbm1, bba1, bba2, dhcpboc0, dnsboc0, lists, ugapp2,
\nReason: Linux updates\/patches to 6.5
\nUser Impact: Mailing lists (sympa) will be unavailable for approximately 10 minutes during the window and the other services are expected to stay available for the window.<\/p>\n
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When: 6:00 – 6:15AM
\nAffected services: Blackboard
\nDescription: Updating SoftChalk and Qwickly Building Blocks
\nUser impact: no end user impact<\/p>\n
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When: 6:00 – 7:00AM
\nAffected services: MyFAU Secret Question\/Answer page
\nAffected systems: myfau.fau.edu
\nDescription of maintenance: OIT is making a change to two secret question\/answer pages within MyFAU per the request of admissions to lower confusion for students trying to reset their banner pins.
\nUser impact: We do not expect any service disruption as this is only a change of html in the pages. No server restart is needed. In case the text is not displayed correctly we will be copying the old files over the modified files.<\/p>\n
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When: 5:00 – 6:00AM
\nAffected services: Data protection Manager
\nAffected systems: Data Protection Manager server (DPM) \/ Active Directory
\nDescription of maintenance: Allows users to recover files when they have the data protection manager client installed.
\nUser impact: No impact since users are not yet on the system.<\/p>\n
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When: 3:00 – 4:00AM
\nAffected services: Active Directory Authentication system
\nAffected systems: Active Directory
\nDescription of maintenance: OIT is making a change to the authentication system to allow for increased resiliency to the system.
\nUser impact: No end-user impact expected, but it is possible Exchange mail may be slowed<\/p>\n
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When: During business hours
\nAffected services: NetApp
\nAffected systems: NetApp – bocana01, bocana02, bocana05, and bocana06
\nDescription of maintenance: The shelf firmware on the NetApp filers bocana01, bocana02, bocana05 and bocana06 will be upgraded.
\nUser impact: We do not expect any end-user impact, but the systems\/applications that run on these filers could run a little slower.<\/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, 04\/03\/2014 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during…<\/span><\/p>\n