[OPLINTECH] Office of Information Technology Customer Update - August 6, 2004

[Corroto, Vince]

Office of Information Technology Customer Update – August 6, 2004

 

 

Scheduled Maintenance:

 

Sunday, August 8, 2004; Approximately 12:00pm – 4:00pm

 

Quarterly power maintenance will be performed at the State of Ohio Computer Center.  Resources in the OIT SDD Enterprise network will be temporarily unavailable.

 

Tuesday, August 10, 2004; 3:00am – 6:00am

 

OIT Network engineers will be performing maintenance to an ATM device at the Rhodes State Office Tower.   We do expect a brief outage of less than 10 minutes.

 

Qwest will be performing maintenance on the ohio.gov backbone.  No outage is expected.

 

 

Completed Maintenance:

 

None:

 

 

Domain Name System Procedure:

 

Effective July 23, 2004, all DNS requests that are received in the Network Operations Center, after 3:00pm, Monday through Friday will be processed the next business day.  Any requests received after 3:00pm on Friday, will be processed the following business day (Monday) to take effect on Tuesday.

 

 

.Gov Domain Names:

 

The General Services Administration (GSA), of the federal government, notified OIT this week that they will start charging for ".Gov" domain names.  The new fee will affect any agency that has a specific ".Gov" domain name assigned to them (i.e. MyOhio.Gov).  The fee does not affect an agency's use of the "Ohio.Gov" domain name. The new fee will be $125 per year.  New ".Gov" domain name registrations will be charged beginning July 6, 2004.  Existing ".Gov" domain names will be charged in staggered intervals from July 15, 2004 through September, 2004.  An OIT representative will be contacting the agencies that have assigned ".Gov" domain names within the next couple of weeks. 

 

 

Non-TCP/IP Protocols:

 

Included in the Office of Information Technology’s Long Range Plan is provide a TCP/IP only ohio.gov backbone.  Our goal is to remove all Non-TCP/IP protocols (DECnet, SNA, IPX, Appletalk, etc.).  OIT network engineers will be contacting agencies, boards and commissions, in the near future, that are still using Non-TCP/IP protocols, to work with them on determining an alternate solution.

 

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OIT's Goal:

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

 

Service Delivery Division's 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 

World Wide Web:  www.das.ohio.gov/ITSD/NetworkServices

 

 

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Vince Corroto

Network Operations Manager

OIT/SDD/Unified Network Services

Voice:    614-466-7133

E-mail:   HYPERLINK "mailto:vince.corroto at oit.ohio.gov"vince.corroto at oit.ohio.gov

 

Service, Support, Solutions for Ohio Government

 

An Equal Opportunity Employer and Provider of ADA Services

 

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