The GT Network team will be performing emergency maintenance on the campus firewall beginning at 8 PM tonight, with targeted completion by midnight. At some point during this maintenance, users will experience a brief interruption that will cause any open VPN connection to close. If you are connected to PACE from off-campus via the GT VPN during the interruption, you will lose your connection, and any terminal session, interactive job, VNC session, or running Jupyter notebook will be interrupted. Please be prepared for such an interruption when working this evening.
Note that this will also interrupt any connection you have made over the GT VPN to non-PACE locations.
Batch jobs running on PACE should not be affected, nor will connections from within the campus firewall.
We will alert you if there is any change of plans for this emergency maintenance.
You can find more details from the OIT status page at https://status.gatech.edu/pages/maintenance/5be9af0e5638b904c2030699/5ee24846390bc604b71b8a15.
Please contact us at pace-support@oit.gatech.edu with any questions.