Stop-day activities April 10-11, 2018

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LOFAR Schedule cycle 9

• ✔ Reboots and idrac reboots. (Hopko/Robin)
• ✔ CBM010 will be present before the stopday

• ✔ Block access at 08:00 (Teun)
• ✔ Mount DAC cables to headnodes to support floating IP (Hopko/Robin)
• ✔ All nodes: file system check and reboot. (Hopko, Robin)
• ✔ Was broken: Check/debug persistence of Slurm reservations (Reinoud) For the review: We should have a backup in place!
• ✔ NFS mounts for cep3, from all the lof-nodes are using control!

• ✔ Connect DAC cable (Hopko)

• ✔ lexar003 reboot using XCAT (148 days up) (Was done by Reinoud 9-4-2018)

• ✔ Reboot of all Dutch LCU's (teun) (ILT stations in local mode) For the review: We discovered that all LCU's have a fixed NFS mount on /home. This should be an automount.

• ✔ Update portals to CentOS/KVM
• ✔ Update and reboot lcs020 .. lcs30
• ✔ Remove sas001 and sas099 (powered off, disconnect cables)
• ✔ Update & reboot NFS server lcs115
• ✔ Almost all nfs mounts on the lcs115 nfs server are over the control network. Only a few correctly use the offline network: only lexar003, lexar004, and lhd002. We should force CEP3 to use off-line!
• ✔ Mainly MAC/SAS, LCU's and Aartfaac machines use NFS over control VLAN. They don't have a off-line of on-line network connection.
• Check resolv.conf settings; see https://support.astron.nl/lofar_issuetracker/issues/10448

• ✔ Update and reboot when required (Reinoud)

• ✘ Check for broken disks Fail: ais007 has a degraded RAID1 !!
• For review: Add Jasmin & Reinoud to all nodes as admin

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For review: At the end of the 1st day software support needs to report status to coordinator

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• ✔ Reboot / fs checks
• ✔ Make AOFlagger 2.10 the default version (already installed)
• ✔ Make LOFAR-Release-3_0_14 the default version (linked against AOFlagger 2.10)
• ✔ Make WSClean 2.5 the default version (already installed)

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The next stopday is June 5 & 6 (TBD)