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, 8\/10\/2017 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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\nDescription of change: We are moving several servers to a more suitable network for their usage.
\nDowntime window start 8\/11\/2017 12:00 AM
\nDowntime window end 8\/11\/2017 3:00 AM
\nAffected services: banner and maybe dns
\nAffected systems: banner.fau.edu\u200b, seeker.fau.edu(if needed to be moved as well)
\nExpected End-user impact: banner maybe unavailable for a few minutes while we push DNS to update to the new DMZ IP.\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n
\nNetwork Maintenance<\/strong>
\nDescription of change: OIT will be performing network maintenance in the early morning hours of August 11th. Some connectivity on the Boca Raton campus may be intermittent towards the beginning of the maintenance window.\u200b
\nDowntime window start 8\/11\/2017 12:00 AM
\nDowntime window end 8\/11\/2017 3:00 AM
\nAffected services: Boca DHCP, Boca DNS\u200b
\nAffected systems: Boca DHCP, Boca DNS\u200b
\nExpected End-user impact: The changes involved require some quick changes on services including DHCP and DNS on the Boca Raton campus. While the changes are being made, these services will be unavailable. This disruption is only expected to last a couple of minutes.\u200b<\/p>\n
\nEMS and OwlCard system maintenance<\/strong>
\nDescription of change: The systems supporting EMS and OwlCard will be migrated\u200b
\nDowntime window start 8\/11\/2017 1:30 AM
\nDowntime window end 8\/11\/2017 3:00 AM
\nAffected services: EMS, OwlCard
\nAffected systems: sqlnode01, sqlnode02, sql05vs, boc22mssqlfau
\nExpected End-user impact: EMS and OwlCard will be unavailable during the window\u200b<\/p>\n
\nNetwork Maintenance<\/strong>
\nDescription of change: OIT will be performing maintenance on network equipment within the Boca Datacenter and on the Jupiter campus. There may be limited interruptions to services in both locations briefly during the mainteannce window.
\nDowntime window start 8\/11\/2017 3:00 AM
\nDowntime window end 8\/11\/2017 4:30 AM
\nAffected services: Boca: SSO, DHCP, DNS, Network Monitoring Jupiter: DHCP, DNS, PaperCut
\nAffected systems: Boca: boc96cas, boc96dns, dhcpboc1, dnsboc1, ldapboc1, ldapboc1-el6, overwatch, shibboleth2p Jupiter: dhcpjup1, dhcpjup2, dnsjup1, dnsjup2, jup17pcprt01, ldapjup1, ldapjup2
\nExpected End-user impact: Affected services in Boca may become degraded. Affected services in Jupiter will be offline during the maintenance window.<\/p>\n
\nMail system maintenance<\/strong>
\nDescription of change: \u200bOIT will be performing maintenance on the mail system to improve resiliency in the event of a disaster recovery event.
\nDowntime window start 8\/11\/2017 4:00 AM
\nDowntime window end 8\/11\/2017 6:00 AM
\nAffected services: All inboud email to fau.edu recipients, any service that relays email through smtp.fau.edu.\u200b
\nAffected systems: IronPort cluster (bertx, berty, boc22esa02), SMTP\/bertjr
\nExpected End-user impact: We ideally would like to expect zero end user impact, there is a possibility anyone who relays their mail through smtp.fau.edu might experience issues.<\/p>\n