RCAC - Announcements, Outages and Maintenance, Outages, Maintenance, Outages, Maintenance, Science Highlights https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/news/rss/2,1,6,7,3,Firebox%20Virtual%20Servers en Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:24:07 EDT <![CDATA[Firebox Virtual Server Maintenance]]> https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/news/986 https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/news/986 During the regular first-Wednesday Firebox maintenance for November on Wednesday, November 7, 2018, each of the Firebox Virtual Servers will be briefly updated and rebooted within the range of 8:00am – 12:00pm EST. This maintenance will include firewall changes matching those coming for other Research systems on December 3rd, as well as regular operating system package updates.

The new firewall rules will block any direct access to non-web ports on these systems from off-campus addresses. Systems on campus will still be able to connect to SSH, but users off-campus will need to first connect to the Purdue VPN. Once on the VPN, off-campus SSH to these systems will be possible. Web-based access to these will be unaffected for either on-campus or off-campus use.

More information about these new firewalls is available in the December 3rd announcement here: Cancelled: Off-Campus access to Community Clusters to require VPN, BoilerKey

]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2018 08:00:00 -0500 Maintenance <![CDATA[Firebox Virtual Server Maintenance]]> https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/news/932 https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/news/932 Each of the Firebox Virtual Servers will be rebooted to have minor updates applied at some point on Wednesday, July 11, 2018 within the range of 8:00am – 12:00pm EDT

This work is only for routine first-Wednesday maintenance updates, and each system will be down only briefly within the window.

]]> Wed, 11 Jul 2018 08:00:00 -0400 Maintenance <![CDATA[Emergency Firebox Virtual Server Maintenance]]> https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/news/637 https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/news/637 The Firebox maintenance work concluded successfully as of Saturday, November 5th, 2016 at 11:30pm EDT.

Original Message:

All Conte will be taken down for emergency maintenance beginning at Saturday, November 5th, 2016 at 8:00am EDT. They will all return to normal operations by Saturday, November 5th, 2016 at 6:00pm.

During this time, Conte will have critical kernel security patches applied.

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