Subject: Administrative: Product Distribution and Access (PDA) This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_y4d9OsTSyVk2jW5ou+crig) Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT *Topic: *PDA/ESPDS IP Address Expansion *Date/Time**Issued: *October 6, 2017 1855Z *Product(s) or Data Impacted:*All PDA/ESPDS data providers and consumers. *Date/Time of Initial Impact:*October 23, 2017 TBD *Date/Time of Expected End:*Ongoing *Length of Event**:* Ongoing ** *Details/Specifics of Change:* * * In April-May 2017, all PDA Users were provided with expanded ranges of IP Address for their interfaces to PDA at NSOF, CBU, and (where applicable) I&T. We originally requested that the new PDA addresses be added to any applicable firewall rules and systems by the end of June 2017 to ensure continued access to data from PDA. For any new interfaces established as of about March 2017, these addresses were incorporated into the original set of IPs you were provided, so would not require additional changes. This effects all FTPS and SFTP data transfers that connect to the PDA/ESPDS DMZ (internal connections, including ESPC, DCS, GOES-R, JPSS, and CLASS) are not affected by the additional data servers) and all internal interfaces that utilize web services via HTTPS. On October 23 2017, new PDA servers are scheduled to be deployed to all environments as a part of PDA/ESPDS Release 3. Once that deployment is complete, any external interfaces that have not yet incorporated the additional IP addresses may experience intermittent connection errors, when your data transfers are load balanced to the new Data Servers. More specifically, users who push data to or pull data from PDA (i.e. clients to ESPDS), will experience intermittent connection failures, while users whom PDA pushed data to or pulls data from (i.e., servers to ESPDS) may experience gaps in data and PDA will experience the connection failures. How to know if you have the full list in your firewalls? For regular DMZ consumers, there are 25 IP addresses for NSOF and 25 IPs for CBU. For push data providers, there are 19 IPs at NSOF and 16 IPs at CBU. If you have any questions or concerns about your system's readiness for the additional ESPDS IP Addresses, please contact Emmanuel.Addo@noaa.gov or Jennifer.Holmes@noaa.gov. * Contact Information for Further Information:* ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov and 301-817-3880 --Boundary_(ID_y4d9OsTSyVk2jW5ou+crig) Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT

Topic: PDA/ESPDS IP Address Expansion 

Date/Time Issued: October 6, 2017 1855Z

Product(s) or Data Impacted: All PDA/ESPDS data providers and consumers. 

Date/Time of Initial Impact: October 23, 2017 TBD

Date/Time of Expected End: Ongoing

Length of Event: Ongoing

Details/Specifics of Change:

In April-May 2017, all PDA Users were provided with expanded ranges of IP Address for their interfaces to PDA at NSOF, CBU, and (where applicable) I&T. We originally requested that the new PDA addresses be added to any applicable firewall rules and systems by the end of June 2017 to ensure continued access to data from PDA. For any new interfaces established as of about March 2017, these addresses were incorporated into the original set of IPs you were provided, so would not require additional changes. This effects all FTPS and SFTP data transfers that connect to the PDA/ESPDS DMZ (internal connections, including ESPC, DCS, GOES-R, JPSS, and CLASS) are not affected by the additional data servers) and all internal interfaces that utilize web services via HTTPS.

On October 23 2017, new PDA servers are scheduled to be deployed to all environments as a part of PDA/ESPDS Release 3. Once that deployment is complete, any external interfaces that have not yet incorporated the additional IP addresses may experience intermittent connection errors, when your data transfers are load balanced to the new Data Servers. More specifically, users who push data to or pull data from PDA (i.e. clients to ESPDS), will experience intermittent connection failures, while users whom PDA pushed data to or pulls data from (i.e., servers to ESPDS) may experience gaps in data and PDA will experience the connection failures.

How to know if you have the full list in your firewalls?  For regular DMZ consumers, there are 25 IP addresses for NSOF and 25 IPs for CBU. For push data providers, there are 19 IPs at NSOF and 16 IPs at CBU.

If you have any questions or concerns about your system's readiness for the additional ESPDS IP Addresses, please contact Emmanuel.Addo@noaa.gov or Jennifer.Holmes@noaa.gov.


Contact Information for Further Information:
ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov and 301-817-3880
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