Cisco PIX Installation/Downtime

[Craig_Smith]

Today we will be finalizing installation for the 2 Cisco PIX 520 firewalls. One of the Cisco PIX firewalls will be put in front of the main Cisco 7120 routers. There will also be a backup Cisco PIX already setup for fail over. We'll also be configuring the routers to "hot" fail over for even greater redundancy.

This may cause short periods of network downtime for the next 3 hours while we switch some cables and move a few of the machines in Cabinet 1.

[admin]

We have all the system moved out of the rack that need to be moved to make room for the 2 new firewalls, we have not made the switch over yet. This should happen tomorrow. There should not be very much downtime for this.



Once this is in place we will have the hot fail over routers as well as hot fail over firewalls. There should be no more down time due to network issues like this past week, unless its a big ddos like we have been seeing but we can stop these at our upstream a little easier with the IDS and firewalls in places as well.

[admin]

We have 2 more cisco techs that know a lot more about the pix setups. They said within 24 hours they should know what the issue is and how to fix it. We will send out a notice as to when we will get the 2 pix in place. We will also set it up to do around 12AM - 1AM and should be very short outage when it happens if they work when they come out. Max outage will be 5 minutes.