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Stop-day activities April 10-11, 2018


Coordinator Teun Grit roadmin@astron.nl
Software Support Thomas Juerges + Arno Schaap (2 days) softwaresupport@astron.nl
Science, Operations and Support Pietro Zucca sos@astron.nl
Observer Jur Sluman observer@astron.nl

More stopday details

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 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.
  • ✔ Update and reboot when required (Reinoud)
  • Check for broken disks
  • none (probably June)
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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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  • none
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The next stopday is June 5 & 6 (TBD)

  • Last modified: 2018-04-10 13:40
  • by grit