Present: Co-chairs: Ludwig Gantner, Steven Lee;  Kylie Rudder, Steve Cox, Lucas Sullivan, Maynard Hoover, Joe Hutson, Laurie Zirkle, Doug Edmonds, Stever Warrick. Dave Hawes, Ken McCrery


Reminder: Effective immediately, there will be dates posted on the SAMS calendar that impact when maintenance can be scheduled and performed. These are documented as "Maintenance Restricted: (Reason)" and are scheduled as "All Day Events." Members are encouraged to alert the group of all future events that stakeholders may suggest for similar handling. 


NI&S/Network Engineering Operations: 

Network Maintenance (all between 5 and 7AM)

Tuesday Sept 17th - SW upgrade wireless service - Blacksburg, Richmond and Falls Church.   Bug Fixes/improvements


Announcements

Today - Decommission of the legacy VPN hardware:  ras.cns.vt.edu  replaced with vpn.nis.vt.edu

Pending - Adding BigFix relays and servers to allow access for unauthenticated wireless users "VirginiaTech" SSID.  Status ITSO approved, pending approval from BigFix admins

Pending - Adding JAMF relays and servers to allow access for unauthenticated wireless users "VirginiaTech" SSID.  Status pending approval from ITSO and BigFix admins


NI&S Facilities:

Thursday Sept 19 - Northern VA Grad Center -  replace UPS.  No impact expected


CCS:

Patch maintenance ongoing - see SAM's calendar


DBAA

Sun, September 22, 6am – 1pm Databases PROD, FPRD Unavailable

Due to maintenance the following databases will not be available from 6:00 AM - 1:00 PM on Sunday September 22 2019:

  • PROD (banner)
    FPRD (vtfbanner)

Also the following web applications will be unavailable during this maintenance:

  • web for student
  • web for employee
  • web forms
  • leave reporting
  • web password change

During the maintenance period the following applications will be applied to PROD/FPRD*:

  • Financial Aid 8.35.1.2 (patch)
  • Financial Aid 8.35.1.3 (patch)
  • Student 8.18.0.1 (patch)*
  • Student 8.18.0.2 (patch)*
  • Ethos API DB Upgrade 9.16*
  • BannerAdmin - Financial Aid 9.3.14.1.1
  • BannerAdmin - Student 9.3.15.2.1*
  • Extensibility 9.4.0.1*
  • Integration API 9.16*
  • Student API 9.16*



Monday, September 23, 6:00am – 12:00pm PPRD and FPPR unavailable Monday

Due to maintenance the following test databases will not be available from 06:00 AM to 12:00 PM on Monday:

  • PPRD
  • FPPR

Also the following banner_preprod web applications will be unavailable during this maintenance:

  • HokieSPA
  • Banner
  • Leave Reporting
  • Web Password Change (banner_preprod and vtfbanner_preprod)

The PPRD database will be refreshed (cloned) from PROD and the FPPR database will be refreshed (cloned) from FPRD during this maintenance.


Sunday, September 29, from 6:00AM to 12:00PM Maintenance will occur on the production Oracle Database Appliance

The following databases may experience service disruptions during this time:

  • ATLAS
  • ATLASDW
  • CAMPUS
  • CDR
  • FPRD
  • NEMISYS
  • PROD
  • RODB
  • RPRD
  • VPRD
  • WPDXMETA
  • WPRD

Applications that may experience service disruptions then are listed below:

  • Atlas Atlas Data Warehouse
  • Banner
  • CampusCall
  • Customer Online Access (COLA)
  • DAT Tool DEPART DHCP Tool
  • HokieMart
  • Microstrategy Reports
  • Network Software
  • PID Password Changes
  • Read-Only Banner
  • Travel and Expense
  • VTF Banner
  • Warehouse
  • Web Distribution
  • Web Reports
  • Workflow

During this maintenance window Oracle OS and Grid Infrastructure patches will be applied.

Request from DBAA: Please inform Mandy Herrington or Richard Quintin about any services that are dependent on the ODA databases that are not listed above.  The intent is to aid in awareness and communications.