<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I have some great news! LinkOregon and OSU have figured some secondary power to keep our connection to LinkOregon online during the outage. They will be connecting some temporary rack-based UPSs that are connected to the "house power" (i.e. not generator backed). Now, if for some reason there is a power outage from the "house power", the temporary UPS systems will only last for 10-20 minutes.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b><i>But again, as of right now, we should stay online during the planned outage.</i></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I sent our thanks to their team working out this solution so that we can remain online.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks again!</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 5, 2024 at 10:33 AM Lance Albertson <<a href="mailto:lance@osuosl.org">lance@osuosl.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I just got done having the call with LinkOregon and here are the updates I know so far:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><ol><li>They will be doing an on-site meeting on Wednesday with OSU electricians to see if they can find some power to keep LinkOregon switches online during the outage. If they're able to do that, we should be okay and have no outage.</li><li>LinkOregon will not be able to provide a solution to the secondary POP for the OSL due to the complexity of how our physical networks are connected and the short amount of time we have to make that work. Longer term, it seems to be possible, but will require some planning and reconfiguration on both ends.<br></li><li>I will have another meeting Thursday morning with LinkOregon to see where we stand</li></ol><div>TL;DR: If LinkOregon can find power for their switches, we won't have an outage. If they can't, we will have an eight (8) hour outage next Tuesday evening PDT.</div><div><br></div><div>Apologies for not being able to send this out sooner. I brought up the fact that we were not notified until last week even though this apparently had been planned for months.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again for your support and patience!</div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 2:10 PM Lance Albertson <<a href="mailto:lance@osuosl.org" target="_blank">lance@osuosl.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">All,</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">We got the following email from LinkOregon that I wanted to pass on to you which impacts our connectivity to the Internet:</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On August 13, 2024 (08/13), Oregon State University (OSU) will be cutting both primary and backup power to its data center in the Kerr Administration building, to install new power distribution and backup equipment. This will take two of Link Oregon’s points of presence offline, resulting in a loss of all provisioned network services provided by Link Oregon at those POPs, over a period of approximately eight (8) hours (08/13-20:00 to 08/14-04:00).</blockquote><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">To be clear, this <b>does not</b> affect the datacenter where we host all of our servers so power will <b>remain online</b>. HOWEVER, this datacenter does house our uplink to LinkOregon (our ISP) and their equipment will be offline during the window above. That means our network connectivity will be offline during the outage.</div></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I am meeting with LinkOregon and OSU next Monday to see if we can at least get a temporary connection to the secondary POP so that our outage is minimal. I am doing my best to minimize this outage, however I wanted to pass this information along so that you could make any adjustments you can ahead of time.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">If you have any other questions or concerns, please contact me directly.</div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Lance Albertson</font><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Director</font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Oregon State University | </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Open Source Lab </span></div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Lance Albertson</font><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Director</font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Oregon State University | </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Open Source Lab </span></div></div></div></div>