<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>The DMC's web services are being placed into maintenance mode now and will be unavailable during the database migration.</div><div><br></div><div>If all goes well we expect the total down time to be one to two hours. A notification will be sent when they are back online.</div><div><br></div><div>thanks,</div><div>IRIS DMC</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Sep 20, 2012, at 3:13 PM, Chad Trabant wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Hello web service users,</div><div><br></div><div>At the DMC we are again attempting to migrating our main Oracle database to new hardware.</div><div><br></div><div>Starting at<b> 4pm Pacific time (23:00 UTC) today</b> our database will be put into read-only mode. After which the services will function as expected except that station metadata updates and event updates will not be occurring. When the database is put into read-only mode the service may experience a short interruption, we expect this to last no longer than a minute or two.</div><div><br></div><div>Tomorrow morning, Friday September 21st, the database will be shut down and the services will be unavailable. We expect that the service will be down for some number of hours and operational again by the afternoon. A notification will be sent when the services are going offline and when they are back in operation.</div><div><br></div><div>Please plan your requests accordingly and thank you for your patience.</div><div><br></div><div>IRIS DMC</div><br></div></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>