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, 12\/17\/2020 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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Voice Server Maintenance
\nDescription of change: \u200bOIT will be upgrading the software on the voice servers.
\nDowntime window start: 12\/17\/2020 7:00 PM
\nDowntime window end: 12\/18\/2020 3:00 AM
\nAffected services: Desk Phone Connectivity
\nExpected End-user impact: During this time, some phones may lose connectivity for 10-30 seconds while they switch to the backup servers.<\/p>\n
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Database Maintenance
\nDescription of change: OIT will be performing storage maintenance on the boc22mssqlfau2 Microsoft SQL Cluster. Databases located on CIFS shares will be moved to iSCSI.
\nDowntime window start: 12\/17\/2020 3:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 12\/17\/2020 7:00 AM
\nAffected services: \u200b\u200bThe following databases on the boc22mssqlfau2 cluster will be offline for a short period while moved:
\nInternationalServices
\nCOE Production
\nCOE Development
\npropel
\nPSLA
\nITNClient0310_samp
\nITNCommon
\nITNClient0310_prod
\nUSA
\nFabLab
\nStudentAffairsDB
\nBDRegistrar\u200b
\nExpected End-user impact: During this time, services connecting to the databases listed above may go offline or need to be restarted during the maintenance.<\/p>\n
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Client Configuration Change
\nDescription of change: \u200bOIT will be making a change to which computers receive VPN settings.
\nDowntime window start: 12\/17\/2020 5:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 12\/17\/2020 5:00 AM
\nAffected services: \u200bGroup Policy
\nExpected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.<\/p>\n
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Research Computing Scheduler Upgrade
\nDescription of change: Research Computing will be upgrading the scheduler used to control jobs on the cluster. This upgrade should resolve several problems preventing GUI and MPI applications from running correctly.
\nDowntime window start: 12\/17\/2020 8:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 12\/17\/2020 5:00 PM
\nAffected services: \u200bResearch Computing Cluster
\nExpected End-user impact: During this time, the cluster will be offline while we apply this update to all compute nodes, login nodes, images, and dependent services. \u200b<\/p>\n
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Update applicant’s email on UG Application
\nDescription of change: OIT will enable a new Appworx job for the Admissions Office to manually update \u200ban applicant’s email address on their UG application.
\nDowntime window start: 12\/17\/2020 3:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 12\/17\/2020 7:00 AM
\nAffected services: None
\nExpected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.<\/p>\n
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Snaplogic upgrade
\nDescription of change: OIT will upgrade Snaplogic to the newest version
\nDowntime window start: 12\/17\/2020 12:00 AM
\nDowntime window end: 12\/17\/2020 5:00 AM
\nAffected services: \u200bAll Snaplogic pipelines
\nExpected End-user impact: During this time, no end-user impact is expected.<\/p>\n
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