Monthly Split Patching Schedule, Sept. 29 and Oct. 1

17 Sep, 2026

To facilitate patching, the systems at NAS will undergo maintenance Tuesday, September 29 and Thursday, October 1 according to the following schedule:

September 29, 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Pacific)

  • Jobs on Aitken, Electra, and the LDANs will be suspended at the start of the outage and resumed once work is complete.
  • The AFEs, PFEs, LFEs, the Lou mass storage system, and the NAS hyperwall will be unavailable during this period.
  • For access to Endeavour during this outage, please use pfe25.
  • sfe6 will also be unavailable. Please use sfe7 or sfe8 to connect to the enclave.
  • /nobackupp28 will be down from 7:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. to support the patching work.
  • Reminder: Athena will be down as part of a separate outage. See this news item for details.

October 1, 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Pacific)

  • Jobs on Cabeus and Endeavour will be suspended at the start of the outage and resumed once work is complete.
  • pfe25, the CFEs, and the CGHFEs will be unavailable during this period.
  • sfe7 and sfe8 will also be unavailable. Please use sfe6 to connect to the enclave.

As maintenance progresses, we will send out notifications as each system becomes available. See Running Jobs Before Dedicated Time in the Knowledge Base to learn how to manage your jobs to run before dedicated time.

If you have any questions or need assistance please contact the Control Room at (800) 331-8737, (650) 604-4444, or support@nas.nasa.gov.

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