Difference between revisions of "ECE firewall upgrade (Apr 30, 2017)"

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On Sunday 2017-04-03, between 09:00 and 10:00 PDT, UBC IT will be performing a network firewall upgrade affecting the Electrical and Computer Engineering department.  During that window, the ECE network will experience a brief outage of less than 10 minutes during the transition.
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On Sunday 2017-04-30, between 09:00 and 10:00 PDT, UBC IT will be performing a network firewall upgrade affecting the Electrical and Computer Engineering department.  During that window, the ECE network will experience a brief outage of less than 10 minutes during the transition.
  
 
This upgrade is part of an ongoing initiative to upgrade network infrastructure.
 
This upgrade is part of an ongoing initiative to upgrade network infrastructure.
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The most likely impact to ECE users is that NFS-mounted filesystem access could be disrupted, possibly requiring Linux servers and workstations to be rebooted after the outage.  Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
 
The most likely impact to ECE users is that NFS-mounted filesystem access could be disrupted, possibly requiring Linux servers and workstations to be rebooted after the outage.  Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
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''Note: An earlier version of this announcement mistakenly listed the date as 2017-04-03.''

Latest revision as of 22:10, 28 April 2017

On Sunday 2017-04-30, between 09:00 and 10:00 PDT, UBC IT will be performing a network firewall upgrade affecting the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. During that window, the ECE network will experience a brief outage of less than 10 minutes during the transition.

This upgrade is part of an ongoing initiative to upgrade network infrastructure. Read more about the lifecycle project initiative here: https://it.ubc.ca/projects/network-infrastructure-upgrades

The most likely impact to ECE users is that NFS-mounted filesystem access could be disrupted, possibly requiring Linux servers and workstations to be rebooted after the outage. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Note: An earlier version of this announcement mistakenly listed the date as 2017-04-03.