gis-l: FW: BIS Network Maintenance on Thursday, February 3rd, and Thursday, February 10, 2005, 6 PM - Midnight

Watson, Jonathan Jonathan.Watson@dep.state.fl.us
Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:14:33 -0500


GIS users,

Per Don's email below, the network and all BIS/GIS resources (ArcSDE,
FDEPWMS, License Manager) will be unavailable this Thursday and next =
Thursday
evening from 6pm until midnight.  Normal service should be restored by =
Friday
morning in both cases.

Jonathan Watson
BIS/GIS
850.245.8296


>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Sears, Don =20
> Sent:	Monday, January 31, 2005 4:45 PM
> To:	NETNEWS
> Subject:	BIS Network Maintenance on Thursday, February 3rd, and
> Thursday, February 10, 2005, 6 PM - Midnight
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> BIS Network maintenance on Thursday, February 3rd, 6 PM - 11:30 PM
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> BIS will be upgrading the operating system of numerous network =
switches
> throughout the entire network. These upgrades are to address several
> vulnerabilities recently identified by Cisco.  The main impact of this
> upgrade is the need to reboot the switches, causing 5-10 minutes down =
time
> for each switch.  During this time, all network services will be
> unavailable to users connected to the switch being rebooted.  However, =
due
> to numerous buildings having multiple network switches, this could =
impact
> end-users over 20-30 minutes.
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> BIS Network maintenance on Thursday, February 10th, 6 PM - 11:30 PM
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> On Thursday, February 10, 2005, BIS will be completing the upgrading =
of
> network routers/switches of DEP WAN locations.   These upgrades are to
> address several vulnerabilities recently identified by Cisco.  The =
main
> impact of this upgrade is the need to reboot the routers/switches, =
causing
> 5-10 minutes down time for each site.  During this time, all remote =
and
> some local network services will be unavailable to the end-users.
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> Donald F. Sears
> Florida Department of Environmental Protection
> 2600 Blair Stone Road, MS6520
> Tallahassee, Florida  32399-2400
> Telephone:  850-245-8309;  SunCom: 205-8309
> FAX:  850-412-0667
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