Network Switch Upgrade – Tuesday, May 21 from 5:00 AM to 7:00 AM
Network Switch Upgrade
Description of change: OIT’s Networking team will be upgrading one of the data center switches. Multiple servers and services will be unavailable during this time.
Downtime window start: 05/21/2024 5:00 AM
Downtime window end: 05/21/2024 7:00 AM
Affected services: The following services will be impacted during the upgrade:
Web server
Transcript Request, Personal Information
OwlDocs, OwlFiles, Owl Residency Portal
OwlDone, SPOT
Mandatory Course Entry Quiz, Guest Wireless SMS, Account Claiming SMS
Owlcard software licensing
Graduate College MyPoS
Sunapsis
Johnson Controls / Siemens
Canvas
Crestron configuration tool
Citrix desktop and apps via apps.fau.edu
OIT Lab Camera System
Library Admin Workstation
Squid Proxy for Voice VLAN
Monitoring for Networking
OIT Systems Desktop
XLerator & db server
Google User Migration
Registrar Office email campaign server
eduroam radius server
Radius
Campus Recreation – Fusion Software
LDAP
Automation
FAU Tax software
Load balancer related
Dell OME
PowerBI on-prem data connector
Remote desktop
Splunk sandbox
NetApp cloud connectors
Email distribution
Admin server
DNS
WatchdogEX Monitoring System
PD Access Control
Grants ERA Web portal
End-user impact: The listed services will be unavailable during this time. Please note, other services not listed above may be impacted as well. If you encounter an issue, please try again after the upgrade has been completed.
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