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Stop-day activities March 3-4, 2020

Coordinator Reinoud roadmin@astron.nl
Software Support
Science, Operations and Support
Observer observer@astron.nl

Description of stopday procedures
LOFAR Schedule cycle 13

  • Reboots (ROadmin)
  • Restart IB Switch (Hopko)
  • Block access at 08:00 (Reinoud)
  • Reboots (Kees)
  • Reboots (Hopko)
  • Restart IB Switches (Hopko)
  • Move lcs032 (Slurm db server)
  • Fix /home dependency on nfs-server (see head02, Reinoud)
  • Fix /data dependency of slurmctld and nexus (see head02, Reinoud)
  • Reboots (Reinoud)
  • Reboot (few nodes only) (ROadmin)
  • Upgrade to WinCC 3.16 (should be tested on pre-STOp Day)
  • HW Upgrade lcs116 (+323GB Ram)
  • Migrate VM's from lcs116 > lcs117
  • Update & reboot (Jasmin)
  • Mac/Sas Production systems will be migrated
  • OS upgrade and reboot (All)
  • Update & reboot (Reinoud)
  • Check NFS mounts after NFS server reboot.
  • None
  • Northstar & MySQL & dop385 should NOT be updated and rebooted due to proposal deadline.
  • Update & reboot (All)
  • None
  • None
  • None
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  • Last modified: 2020-02-27 09:17
  • by Reinoud Bokhorst