Topic: Planned Outage

Date/Time Issued: September 09, 2026 1559Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: NCCF FISMA5065 all outbound internet traffic.

Date/Time of Initial Impact: September 09, 2026 1500Z

Date/Time of Expected End: September 09, 2026 1700Z

Length of Event: 5 to 10 minutes

Details/Specifics of Change: Planned network maintenance to validate automatic failover between the two NCCF firewalls. Failover between the firewalls currently requires manual intervention; this change allows the standby firewall to assume traffic automatically if the primary fails. During the validation step, one of the two NCCF firewalls will be taken out of service so that traffic can be confirmed to move automatically to the second firewall. Traffic will then be validated and the firewall returned to service. Expected interruption is 5 to 10 minutes, occurring once or potentially twice. NCCF products traversing the affected path will be briefly unreachable. Sessions in progress may need to be re-established. No data loss is expected.
A completion notice will be issued when maintenance is complete and NCCF products are confirmed operating normally.
Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov and 301-817-3880 or x3880

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