Oracle Financial Applications Outage due to Cloud Shield Firewall Maintenance

January 11, 2018

There will be an Oracle Financial Applications outage due to Cloud Shield Firewall Maintenance. The outage details include:

Start: 2018-1-13 9:00
End: 2018-1-13 14:00

Affected Components:

Oracle EBS Financial systems that will be offline during this time include:

  • Accounts Payable
  • Accounts Payable Adjustment Form for Assets
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Bottomline
  • CAPS
  • Cash Management (CMRA)
  • Chart Security Maintenance Application (CSMA)
  • CoA Validator
  • Collections
  • FedEx
  • General Ledger
  • GL Validator
  • Harvard Oracle Assets
  • HCOM
  • iProcurement
  • iReceivables
  • PCard
  • Vendor Request
  • Web ADI
  • Web Reimbursement.

Maintenance Details:

On Saturday, January 13th HUIT will administer essential software patches to upgrade a core firewall (Cloud Shield). IT Services and applications, such as Oracle Financials, using Cloud Shield VPC may experience intermittent network outages during this window: January 13th 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM. To prevent any disruption of services to Oracle Financials, we have decided to take the system down during this work.