Bookworm Firewall Upgrade and Fail Over
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Posted by Phirum Peang
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on March 26, 2024
TStaff will be upgrading our Firewalls this coming Thursday, 3/28 starting at 7:30am until about noon. There may be several 5-10 minute network blips as dynamic routes get rebuilt during each failover. Be sure to save your work prior to the upgrade. Also, if you are working during this time period, take extra precautions and save your work frequently.
Please email problem@cs.brown.edu with any questions or concerns.
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There was a 5 minute GPFS filesystem blip caused by a script used to delete fileset. The issue has been resolved. Please email problem if your system is still having problem.Tstaff