[OPLINTECH] ITSD Network Services Customer Update - April 23, 2004

[Vince.Corroto at das.state.oh.us]

ITSD Network Services Customer Update - April 23, 2004


Scheduled Maintenance:

Tuesday, April 27, 3:00 - 6:00 a.m.

ITSD network engineers will be making routing adjustments in the core of
the ohio.gov network.  All customers may experience several instances of
short (several minutes) connectivity interruptions to certain State Network
destinations, as well as to the Internet.

ITSD network engineers will be moving SVC's from BBOET1 and BBOET2 to a new
OC3 backbone.  A momentary outage is expected.

Completed Maintenance:

Tuesday, April 20,  3:00 - 6:00 a.m.

Routing changes were made on RROSN to move traffic from an OC12 to a
Gigabit Ethernet interface.


Security Assessment:

ITSD is currently undergoing a Security Assessment and Risk analysis.  An
outside vendor has been contracted to conduct this study for ITSD as well
as thirteen other state entities.  To minimize network impact, the
assessment towards networking devices and critical equipment will be
conducted during the next three maintenance windows that occur from 3:00 am
to 6:00 a.m. every Tuesday.

Domain Name System Procedure:

Effective April 19, 2004 all DNS requests that are received in the Network
Operations Center after 4:00pm will be processed the next business day.


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DAS Goal:
DAS will leverage Ohio's investment in information technology by
implementing exemplary statewide governance in collaboration with its
customers.

IT Service Delivery Goal:
Provide customers with a secure, reliable, available, and stable
Information Technology environment, incorporating existing and future
architectures.

Customer Suggestions:
Please send your suggestions for improving our network services to E-mail
suggestions at net.state.oh.us Fax 614-644-3349

Network Operations Center (NOC):
Voice:  644-0701 (Columbus Calling Area)  or  800-644-0701 (Outside of the
Columbus Calling Area)
E-mail:  noc at net.state.oh.us
Word Wide Web:  http://das.ohio.gov/itsd/telecom/
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Vince Corroto
Network Operations Manager
DAS/ITSD/Network Services
Voice:  614-466-7133
E-mail: vince.corroto at das.state.oh.us

Service, Support, Solutions for Ohio Government

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