Cosmos/Science portal and SITU managed ESTEC firewall maintenance

We need to perform regular maintenance on the Cosmos/Science portal infrastructure, and mandatory maintenance of the SITU managed ESTEC firewall.

This maintenance is planned for Thursday July 6th between 06:00-09:00 CEST.

An MOTD has been set July 4th 2023 9am.

This maintenance consists of two parts.

  • During the first hour (starting at 6am CEST) we plan our usual Cosmos and SciTech portal infrastructure maintenance, both portals will be unavailable, direct access to other services than the web-portals (e.g., dms, jira, confluence, etc.) will continue to work.
  • The second part (starting at approximately 7am CEST) will be the replacing of the SITU managed ESTEC firewall by new hardware (involves the hardware provider and ESA corporate IT), this step will result in an unavailability of all services served from ESTEC plus all services using the Cosmos CAS (cas.cosmos.esa.int) to authenticate.

An email has been send to all Cosmos site administrators June 27th 2023.