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, 06\/14\/2018 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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\nBanner Grade Submission Upgrade for Canvas
\nDescription of change: Upgrade Banner Grade Submission (eGrades) with improved support for grading only via eGrades. \u200b
\nDowntime window start: 3:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 6:00 AM
\nAffected services: Canvas, Banner Grade Submission (eGrades)
\nAffected systems: Payara Cluster
\nExpected End-user impact: During this time, eGrades will be offline and users grading during the maintenance window will experience unexpected behavior.<\/p>\n
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Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC) Single Sign On Upgrade
\nDescription of change: Switch Florida Virtual School from Znumber and PIN authentication to FAUNetID and password via Single Sign On.
\nDowntime window start: 3:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 6:00 AM
\nAffected services: Florida Virtual School, Banner Authentication via the jServer
\nAffected systems: egrades, banner
\nExpected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. After the change, end users will be asked to use their FAUNet and password instead of their Znumber and pin when authenticating to FLVC services such as transcripts, transfer, etc. Alumni can reactivate their accounts by going to accounts.fau.edu<\/p>\n
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\nSingle Sign On Fiscal Statement of Responsibility Prompt
\nDescription of change: OIT will enable Single Sign On Fiscal Statement of Responsibility Prompt\u200b.
\nDowntime window start: 3:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 5:00 AM
\nAffected services: Single Sign On, 4P, Banner, frevvo-api
\nAffected systems: shibboleth servers
\nExpected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected. After the change, users who have a Fiscal Statement of Responsibility hold will be required to complete the Fiscal Statement of Responsibility form or eventually they will not be able to login to any Single Sign On services.<\/p>\n
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\nAccounts Self Service Updates
\nDescription of change: OIT will be applying the latest security patches to software\u200b
\nDowntime window start: 5:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 6:00 AM
\nAffected services: Accounts Self Service
\nAffected systems: OIM web servers
\nExpected End-user impact: During this time, the FAU Account Self-Service portal will be unavailable.<\/p>\n
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\nPatch Tomcat Middleware
\nDescription of change: Applying latest patches for Apache Tomcat servers.
\nDowntime window start: 5:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 6:00 AM
\nAffected services:\u00a0 \u200bAccount Self Service, ACH Payments, FAU Directory, FAU Wireless
\nAffected systems: Apache tomcat servers
\nExpected End-user impact: During this time, users may loose access to websites running services.<\/p>\n
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\nServer patching
\nDescription of change: We will be installing the newest patches to the OUD servers boc22oudp01\/02
\nDowntime window start: 4:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 6:00 AM
\nAffected services: There is a small chance that there may be some interruption to services using OUD while we install the patch.\u00a0 We will be applying the patch one server at a time to minimize impact.\u00a0 Any services directly connecting to oudp01\/02 directly may experience interruption while the patches are installed.
\nAffected systems: OUD Servers
\nExpected End-user impact:\u00a0 During this time there will be minimal end-user impact if any at all while the patches are applied.<\/p>\n
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\nAdmissions Call List\u00a0 (Internal service)
\nDescription of change: OIT will be adding a field in the Admissions call app to display if tuition deposit has been paid.
\nDowntime window start: 3:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 3:30 AM
\nAffected services: Admissions Call List https:\/\/appstatus.fau.edu\/admissionscalllist
\nAffected systems: payara servers, egrade server
\nExpected End-user impact: During this time, the service will be offline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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