Site Maintenance This Coming Monday

[Frank Hagan]

Date: Monday April 14th 2008 (4/14/2008)

Start time: 3:00am CDT

End time: 5:00am CDT

Devices: fcr02.dal01

Location: dal01

Duration: 15 minutes

Network Engineers will be performing upgrade maintenance on the router that our server connects through on Monday April 14th starting at 3:00am CDT. During this time, engineers will be swapping out the existing supervisor engines (SUP720-3BXL) with new Cisco best of breed supervisor engines (VS-S720-10G-3CXL) on FCR02.DAL01. As this router provides direct connectivity to our servers, public internet connectivity will be unavailable at various points during the above maintenance window. Although we expect this upgrade of the supervisor engines to only take approximately 15 minutes, we have scheduled a maintenance window from 3:00am to 5am CDT.

[Greg Luckett]

Thanks for the "heads up" Frank.

[Frank Hagan]

Maybe I should add "if you are up late enough to experience this outage, GO TO BED!"

You just never know when these things go longer than expected, so I like to make sure people know about it in advance.

[lewisboats]

I think my boss would be quite piqued if I went to bed 2 hours before getting off shift  :-\ ;D

[Hirilonde]

I think my boss would be quite piqued if I went to bed 2 hours before getting off shift  :-\ ;D

Bah, just tell him/her that Frank said to do it. 

[Frank Hagan]

I'll bet its hard to fall asleep on the job when you work the graveyard shift ... everyone is watching out for you sleeping!  At least during the day, you can close the door, cradle the phone on your neck, swivel your chair away from the window, lean back and nap without any one noticing.