Start Date & Time
End Date & Time
Description
Updated at 6:07 a.m.: Maintenance is complete and services have been tested and verified.
The campus border firewalls will be upgraded to new hardware from 5 a.m. to 6 a.m. on Friday, January 29. During this upgrade window all network traffic to and from the campus will experience an interruption of approximately 15 minutes. This may result in the need to reconnect to services if they do not automatically reconnect. Please note that there will be a heightened risk of network outages from Thursday night to Friday morning due to prep work for the upgrade. This upgrade is necessary to retire firewalls that are approaching end of life and replace them with newer, more powerful firewalls.
Impact
Between 5 a.m. to 6 a.m. on Friday, January 29, all network traffic to and from the campus will experience an interruption of approximately 15 minutes. This may result in the need to reconnect to services if they do not automatically reconnect. On-campus network traffic between on-campus machines should not be affected by this maintenance.
Here are some specific examples of how campus services will be impacted:
While using the campus network (UCB Wireless, UCB Guest, Eduroam, wired network):
- Unable to access resources outside the campus network (Canvas, Salesforce, cnn.com, etc.)
- Unable to access email accounts (Exchange Online, Gmail)
- Able to access on-campus resources (www.colorado.edu)
- Able to use the campus VoIP phone service
While using a different network (home, coffee shop, cellular data network, etc.):
- Unable to access www.colorado.edu sites and other resources housed on the campus network
- Unable to connect to CU Boulder Virtual Private Network (VPN)
- Able to access email accounts (Exchange Online, Gmail)
- Able to access services not housed on the campus network (Canvas, Salesforce, etc.)
Affected Services
- Wired Network
- Eduroam/Secure Wi-Fi
- UCB Wireless
- UCB Guest Wireless
- VPN Services
