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HP 2910al-24g switch firmware

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** Maintenance Announcement – No service interruption anticipated **

We will be applying a firmware update to our iSCSI switches that support our StoreVirtual SAN. This is the storage network that back’s our VMware infrastructure.

We do not anticipate any service interruption. Our switching is redundant, we will only change the switches one at a time, and the changes should not be service interrupting.

Start: 5/24/2013 10:00:00 PM

End: 5/24/2013 11:59:59 PM

If you have questions or concerns about this maintenance, please contact the Shared Infrastructure Group at osu-sig (at) oregonstate.edu or call 737-7SIG.

LeftHand OS 10.5 drive firmware update

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** Maintenance Announcement – NO service interruption anticipated **

We are upgrading our StoreVirtual individual hard drive firmware.

Production and Dev SANs are redundant and maintenance will have no noticeable effect on these SANs, meaning that the OSU systems used by students, staff, and faculty will not experience a service interruption.

Start Time: 3/29/2013 at 9:00 PM

End Time:  3/29/2013 at 4:00 AM

If you have questions or concerns about this maintenance, please contact the Shared Infrastructure Group at osu-sig (at) oregonstate.edu or call 737-7SIG.

Improving security on access.cws

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To improve security on access.cws.oregonstate.edu all incoming connections originating from an off campus IP address (see note below for definition of campus IP address) will be dropped beginning at 10pm on Tuesday July 16th.  Outbound connections from access.cws will not be affected.

After this change a VPN connection will be required for connectivity to access.cws from off campus. For more information on VPN please see: http://oregonstate.edu/helpdocs/network/vpn-campus-access

 

Note: Campus IP addresses are defined below, any IP outside this range will be considered off campus.

  • 10.0.0.0/8
  • 128.193.0.0/16
  • 140.211.0.0/16

If you have questions or concerns about this, please contact the Central Web Services via their webform at  http://oregonstate.edu/is/services/cws/contact