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, 09\/08\/2016 from 3:00 AM to 7:00 AM during OIT maintenance window.\u00a0 In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:<\/p>\n
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Migration of virtual servers to new BigIP load balancers
\nWhen: 4:00AM – 5:00AM
\nAffected services:
\nAffected systems: Bigip Load Balancers
\nDescription of maintenance: Our current BigIP load balancers are being upgraded, so we are moving secure websites hosted by the old ones to the new ones.
\nUser impact: Users may not be able to certain websites during maintenance.<\/p>\n
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mysql01 backend storage move
\nWhen: 5:00AM – 6:00AM
\nAffected services: Any service that requires mysql01 database access.\u00a0 These include, but may not be limited to: Jira, Confluence, various web apps all over www.fau.edu and various application servers.
\nAffected systems: Jira, Confluence, www (some features)
\nDescription of maintenance:\u00a0 The data storage for the mysql01 database is being upgraded\u200b
\nUser impact: Users will not be able to connect to Jira, confluence, or use some web applications that are MySQL based.
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Removal of support for old ssl ciphers on BigIP virtual servers
\nWhen: 5:00AM – 6:00AM
\nAffected services: All services served by virtual servers hosted by the BigIP load balancers.\u00a0 These include but may not be limited to: Blackboard, Owlapp, SSO, Papercut, SAS, MyFAU, Banner, Talisma, oud, www, Filelocker, ds\/ldap,\u00a0DMZ entry point for various ColdFusion apps, tms, SCTforms, etc.
\nAffected systems: \u200bbigip load balancers
\nDescription of maintenance: We are making improvements to the security of secure websites (HTTPS only!)\u00a0 that are hosted by the BigIP load balancers
\nUser impact: No end user impact is expected as long as their web browsers \/ clients are reasonably new enough.\u00a0\u00a0 If their client is too old, they will get an SSL handshake failure and they will not be able to load the secure website.
\nIf these users have a valid reason for maintaining their old clients, we can consider making an exception for that particular bigip virtual server.<\/p>\n
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QoS on MX Boca
\nWhen: 12:01AM – 6:00AM
\nAffected services: Internet services in Boca may swing to Jupiter connection briefly during changes
\nAffected systems: MX480
\nDescription of maintenance: \u200bNetwork Maintenance on MX router implementing QoS for outside networks
\nUser impact: None<\/p>\n
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