Grants.gov Quarterly Stakeholder Webcast is now available online.

The Grants.gov Quarterly Stakeholder Webcast has been posted.

You can access the video at this link: http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?15835

We understand that a number of users were unable to access the webcast and we apologize for the technical difficulties.

AT07 restart is completed.

AT07 is back up. Again, apologies for the inconvenience. As discussed in yesterday's webcast, the system inconsistencies will be remedied with completion of our Boost to the AT07 environment.

(Note: the AT07 outages do not effect our production system.)

Regards,
Ed

AT07 is being restarted

AT07 is being restarted. We apologize for this inconvenience.

Ed

Grants.gov Quarterly Stakeholder Webcast - Wed 4/21, 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET

The Grants.gov Quarterly Stakeholder Webcast will be held tomorrow, Wednesday, April 21, 2010 from 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET.

The Grant.gov Quarterly Stakeholder Webcast provides updates on current operational status and upcoming changes to Grants.gov, as well as an opportunity for Grants.gov users to ask questions of the Grants.gov Program Management Office staff. Highlights of this quarter’s webcast will be information regarding the last phase of the “boost” enhancements to Grants.gov and evolving plans for the Next Generation of Grants.gov.

The webcast can be accessed at the following URL:

http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?live=8705

Questions during the webcast can be submitted via email to grants.gov-webcast@hhs.gov. Your questions can be answered at that time and all responses will be posted to the Grants.gov website following the webcast.

Grants.gov AT07 Planned Maintenance Period

All:

In our continuing effort to enhance Grants.gov, we will be upgrading to a more robust testing and training environment at the beginning of May. By augmenting our hardware, we will be able to provide users with a dedicated and stable environment that mirrors our current production system and is accessible to all for testing and training.

The existing AT07 environment will be down from Saturday, May 1, 2010, 12:00 AM ET to Sunday, May 2, 2010, 11:59 PM ET. The new environment will be live beginning 12:01 AM ET, May 3, 2010.

As a precaution, the Grants.gov Production system will be down for a brief period - on Saturday, May 1, 2010 from 12:00 AM ET to 8:00 AM ET.

Efforts to access or connect to AT07 or Production during the specified maintenance periods will be unsuccessful. Applicants will be unable to submit applications during the Production maintenance period. The Grants.gov Call Center has been advised of the outage periods.

All existing user certificates and data in AT07 will be migrated to the new environment. Users will be able resume normal testing and interaction with AT07. No changes to URL or IP address will be necessary on the user end as we will maintain the same URL and IP address.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Thank you,
Ed

AT07 is Back Up

AT07 is back up and operational. Our apologies for the inconvenience.

AT07 is Down

Currently AT07 is down. I will keep you posted when its back up.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

(We are in process of replacing AT07 with more robust hardware which will mitigate future outages such as this one and enhance performance. These outages are not related to our upgrade project.)

Ed

AT07 is Back Up

AT07 is back up and operational.



We apologize for this inconvenience.

AT07 is down

All:

Currently AT07 is down. I will keep you posted when its back up.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

Ed

New Entrust Root Certificates at Grants.gov

All:

New Entrust Root Certificates were installed to Grants.gov production over this past weekend.

Any S2S user without the latest Entrust root certificates and Entrust intermediate certificate in your system will experience connectivity issues.

(If you have not experienced connectivity issues or errors thus far, such as retrieving application packages to your system, then you are not effected and your certificates are up-to-date.)

The root certificates are available on the Entrust website (http://www.entrust.net/developer/index.cfm):

1. Click on the Download Root Certificate button
2. Select Personal Use
3. Select the Non-EV Chain Certificate tab

We apologize for any inconvenience. Please contact me if you have any issues.

Thank you,

Ed

AT07 Back Up

All:

AT07 is currently up and operational (as of last night). Thank you for your patience during this time.

AT07

In order to install special patches required by Adobe, AT07 has been taken off-line. We will return it for use as soon as possible, but do not expect this to occur until sometime during the weekend. We apologize for the lack of notice and any inconvenience.