COMPLETED: 8/5/24: Momentary network outage

Date of downtime: Monday, August 5, 2024


Approximate time of outage: 6-7am

Actual outage is expected to last only 5 minutes


Resources affected by downtime:

ALL EXTERNAL NETWORKING TO THE CCR DATA CENTER

UB-HPC cluster (all partitions) - jobs will continue to run

Faculty cluster (all partitions) - jobs will continue to run

Portals: OnDemand, ColdFront, IDM

Lake Effect Cloud: Horizon dashboard, external networking to virtual machines running in the cloud will be inaccessible



What will be done:  

In preparation for the monthly downtime, Tuesday, August 6, we will be replacing edge spine network switches which will result in a momentary (approximately 5 minutes) outage to services connected to the external network.