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Stop-day activities March 3-4, 2020

Coordinator Reinoud Bokhorst roadmin@astron.nl
Software Support Mattia Mancini, Auke Klazema
Science, Operations and Support Thomas Franzen
Observer Henk Mulder, Paul van Dijk 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 (Hopko)
  • ✘ Reboot (few nodes only) (ROadmin)
  • ✘ Upgrade to WinCC 3.16 → Postponed until March 16
  • ✔ HW Upgrade lcs116 (+323GB Ram)
  • ✔ Repair lcs117 BOSS card (Dell)
  • ✘ 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.
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  • :!: Northstar & MySQL & dop385 should NOT be updated and rebooted due to proposal deadline.
  • ✔ Update & reboot (All)
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  • Last modified: 2020-03-04 08:14
  • by Reinoud Bokhorst