Update #3: The PDA and NDE maintenance activity scheduled today and tomorrow has been tentatively rescheduled to next Monday (4/13) and Tuesday (4/14). A new notification will be issued 24 to 48 hours prior to the start of the activity.

Update #2: The PDA and NDE maintenance activity is temporarily ON HOLD for at least 2 hours. The associated 1 hour outage is also ON HOLD. This notice will be updated as more information becomes available.

Update #1: The PDA and NDE environments will experience an OUTAGE TODAY beginning at approximately 1300Z and lasting 60 minutes during a major upgrade to the application software.

Topic:  Planned ESPDS PDA/NDE maintenance activities at the NSOF OPS site may cause connectivity and/or processing Interruptions.

Date/Time Issued:  April 06, 2020 1456Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: All or some products being Ingested and/or Disseminated from the NSOF OPS site will be affected.

Date/Time of Initial Impact:  April 06, 2020 1200Z

Date/Time of Expected End:  April 07, 2020 2000Z

Length of Event:  32 hours

Details/Specifics of Change:  The PDA NSOF OPS environment will perform a ESPDS Application Upgrade beginning today and continuing through tomorrow during the impact window above. There will be an outage of approximately 1 hour beginning between 1230Z and 1300Z. Short outages of 5 to 15 minutes may occur anytime during the upgrade process. The upgrade will take place over a 2 day period with system availability maintained for the majority of time. If processing or connectivity interruptions occur, hung connections may need to be reset and/or restarted.

The PDA Support team will be monitoring the environment to quickly investigate and remediate anomalies that arise.

Contact Information for Further  Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov and 301-817-3880.    

Web Site(s) for applicable information: N/A


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