Blog from May, 2024

RELEASE NOTES

  • Geo-based traffic routing will be improved.

  • The communication between the Connection Mediator and Cloud DB will be made more secure.

DOWNTIME

As the Cloud DB needs to be restarted, there might be up to 10 minutes downtime of the following services:

  • Connecting to systems

  • Cloud Portal

  • Email Notifications

  • Push Notifications.

Current connections MAY be affected for the VMS versions less than 5.1.3. Users might need to log back in to their systems.

MAINTENANCE LOG

May 20th:

  • 17.20 Preparation started

  • 17.35 Cloud DB update started

  • 17.41 - 17:45 Cloud DB unavailable

  • 17.45 Cloud DB update completed

  • 18.00 Mediators update started

  • 20.00 Mediators update completed

  • 20:00 Testing started

  • 20:20 Testing completed

! Important Notice: Mediator Service IP Address Changes

During this update, the majority of our Mediator services have undergone IP address changes. Below are the updated details:

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. To ensure such issues do not occur in the future, we are working to place these services behind "anycast" IP addresses (AWS Global Accelerator)

RELEASE NOTES

  • Performance improved when viewing video through Relay Servers

  • Cloud DB will be updated

SCHEDULE

May 15, 2024, 17:40 PST - Los Angeles 1 (relay-la) and Singapore 2-5 (vultr-sgp1 - vultr-sgp4)

May 16, 2024: other regions:

  • APAC, Oceania - 2:10 PM PST

  • Europe - 3:10 PM PST

  • North America - 4:10 PM PST

See https://support.networkoptix.com/hc/en-us/articles/360010795813-Firewall-Passlist for details.

DOWNTIME

  • Each Relay Server update will take ~1 minute. Relays will be updated one after another. Short connectivity interruptions (< 1 minute) during a specific relay update are possible.

  • At 4:40 PM PST, up to 10 minutes downtime of the following services:

    • Connecting to systems

    • Cloud Portal

    • Email Notifications

    • Push Notifications.

    Current connections MAY be affected for the VMS versions less than 5.1.3. Users might need to log back in to their systems.

MAINTENANCE LOG

  • May 15th:

    • 17.20 Preparation started

    • 17:45 Relays (Los Angeles 1 "relay-la" and Singapore 2-5 "vultr-sgp1 - vultr-sgp4") update started

    • 18:00 Relays update completed

    • 18:00 Testing started

    • 18:20 Testing completed

  • May 16th:

    • 14.10 Preparation started

    • 14:20 Relays update started

    • 16:15 Relays update completed

    • 16.55 Cloud DB update started

    • 17.02 - 17:07 Cloud DB unavailable

    • 17.07 Cloud DB update completed

    • 17:07 Round 1 Testing started

    • 17:30 Round 1 Testing completed

    • 17:35 Round 2 Testing started

    • 17:40 Round 2 Testing completed

RELEASE NOTES

The update completes the update performed on May 2nd 2024.

DOWNTIME

As the Cloud DB needs to be restarted, there might be up to 10 minutes downtime of the following services:

  • Connecting to systems

  • Cloud Portal

  • Email Notifications

  • Push Notifications.

Current connections WILL be affected for the VMS versions less than 5.1.3. Users will need to log back in to their systems.

MAINTENANCE LOG

May 8th:

17.20  Preparation started
17.40  Cloud DB update started
17.41 - 17:45  Cloud DB unavailable
17.47  Cloud DB update completed
17:48  Relays (relay-chi and relay-la) update started
17:55  Relays update completed
17:55  Testing started
18:05  Testing completed