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Because of Critical Weather, the TG Network Outage scheduled for tomorrow (Tuesday Aug 30, 2005) at 7:00am EDT (11:00 UTC) is cancelled. It is rescheduled for Wednesday. TG Network Outage -- New Date:On Wednesday Aug 31, 2005 at 7:00am EDT (11:00 UTC), we will modify the network configuration of our public switch at the NWS Telecommunications Gateway (NWSTG Washington, DC).
A maintenance period of 1hr is scheduled, but we hope the actual downtime will be less. Refer to the previous message for details.
Confirmation:We are currently planning these changes for Wednesday. However if Critical Weather is extended, the outage will be rescheduled for Thursday Sept 1, 2005 at the same time. We will send a confirmation notice on Tuesday.
A maintenance period of 1hr is scheduled, but we hope the actual downtime will be less.
Affected Traffic:The scheduled network modifications are part of the TG migration to its replacement network structure.
We expect the following traffic will not be affected during the configuration changes:
Radar multicast
Traffic from directly connected customers
Administrative traffic from the Campus and SSMC2 to public networks
Access to TG public servers
Access to Hydrology
Radar LDM to regions
We expect traffic from SSMC2, Campus, Internet2, Alaska to our interior networks
will be affected during the maintenance period.
Below is a list of some of the affected traffic: Administrative traffic from the Campus and SSMC2 to interior networks Radar level 2 Alaska sockets DNS to NOC servers from interior networks DataCtr (Test) network Critical Weather: If the scheduled date is designated a Critical Weather Day, the outage will be postponed. Alternate Dates:Because of the possibility of Critical Weather next week, the NWSTG Network Outage may need to be rescheduled. Below are the alternate dates for next week. You will be notified by email if any changes or cancellations are necessary.
Wednesday Aug 31, 2005 at 7:00am EDT (11:00 UTC) Thursday Sept 1, 2005 at 7:00am EDT (11:00 UTC) We apologize for any inconvenience that this outage may cause. Please contact me if the timing of this outage presents a critical problem for your operations. Please forward this message to anyone who will be affected by this action but was left off the mailing list. I would appreciate if you would send me the email address of anyone that should be informed of scheduled downtime in the future, but was not included in the current list. Also, inform me if you wish to have your name removed from this list. Jackie Lord Ph: 301-713-1878 x 126Email: jacqueline.lord@xxxxxxxx FOR FOS/NOAAPORT AND NON-AWIPS CUSTOMERS - IF YOU HAVE ANY
QUESTIONS REGARDING ROUTING OR WOULD LIKE TO ADD THESE PRODUCTS TO YOUR DATASTREAM PLEASE CONTACT. Data Management EMail nws.dm@xxxxxxxx THIS INFORMATION IS ALSO POSTED ON THE NWS DATA MANAGEMENT CHANGE NOTICES WEB PAGE. THE URL IS LISTED BELOW. http://weather.gov/datamgmt/index.html DATA MANAGEMENT TELECOMMUNICATION OPERATIONS CENTER RTH WASHINGTON SENDS -- The NOAA's National Weather Service has a Web Based Customer Relationship Management System that responds to customers' needs for information. The URL address for our CRM System is listed below. http://help.nws.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/doit.cgi?201~-506,,,,1:467:1 Thank you for using our CRM System. -- Regards, Richard A. Robinson III Data Manager Work 301-713-0880 ext. 179 Fax 301-713-1409 Cell 240-393-3337 DOC/NOAA/NWS/CIO11
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