====== Stop-day activities Dec 6, 2016 ======

Coordinated by Reinoud. Prefered end time 15:00.

The order of the stop-day will be Cobalt, CEP4, CEP3.

==== Network ====

  * Swap ports of Cobalt node 8 to address the UDP packet loss (Arjen)
  * Cabinet D8 need to power down to replace a power meter at 10:00 (Kees) \\ (affected systems: lcs116, lcs117, mgt001, all portal virtual machines: agro, cosmic, dep1, dep2, geo, geolofar, knmi, nap, portal, smtp)
  * Cabinet A1 (Dragnet) needs to power down to replace a power meter
  * All NL LCU's need to reload ntpd using Ansible. It will change the priority of ntpd to -6.


==== LCU replacement ====

  * All (!) International stations will replace their LCUs. Uninterrupted network access is vital.

**The international LCU's will be switched off at 08:15 LT**

Note: The LCU in the Concentrator Node will be replaced Jan 3, 2017
===== Systems =====

==== Central ====

  * Update spacewalk host (make image first!)
==== cep2 ====
  * Reboot of all nodes

==== Cobalt ====

  * Reset idrac
  * Reboot

==== CEP3 ====

  * Do a filesystem check on /data of lof001-022 (Done by Robin)
  * Reboots
  * Reset idrac


==== CEP4 ====

  * ? 

==== Dwingeloo machines ====

  * dop215 (Northstar) reboot
  * dop216 (Proposal) reboot
  * dop303 (Lofar MoM) reboot
  * dop293 (MySQL database) reboot 
===== Software updates =====

==== MAC/SAS ====
  * none
==== CEP2 ====

  * none
==== CEP3 ====

  * Make LOFAR Release 2.19 default version
  * Make WSClean 2.0 the default version
==== CEP4 ====
  * none