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Stop-day activities December 4-5, 2018


Coordinator Teun Grit roadmin@astron.nl
Software Support Arno Schoenmakers softwaresupport@astron.nl
Science, Operations and Support Matthijs, Pietro sos@astron.nl
Observer Henk Mulder observer@astron.nl

Description of stopday procedures
LOFAR Schedule cycle 11
Stop-day progress sheet (2 tabs!)

  • Reboots and idrac reboots. (Hopko)
  • Block access at 08:00 (Teun)
  • Repair memory bank of lof021 See ticket CIT-25
  • Debug slurm lost reservations (Reinoud)
  • Powerdrain of iDracs (Hopko/Robin)
  • Update iDrac firmware (Hopko/Robin)
  • The lexars stay on CentOS7.2
  • Some investigation is needed on the iDrac's (Hopko)
  • Test reboot script on 1 LCU
  • Some remote stations need reboot
  • Install WinCC 3.16 on 1 LCU. Jasmin: Can't be done on CentOS7.2. We need a 7.5 system. There is a spare LCU available in the Dwnigeloo digital lab (RS511). In the end we need WinCC 3.16 on all LCU's someday.
  • Update & reboot
  • Check High Availability of portal2
  • OS upgrade and reboot
  • OS upgrade and reboot
  • Remove Zabbix-agent version 2.2 from scu001
  • Start Postgres replication ldb003 → lcs119 and database split (Reinoud)
  • Recabling network interfaces and p2p ldb003 / lcs119 (Arjen)
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  • Connect IB switch to CEP4 spine switches, instead of the Cobalt switch. The cables are already in. (Hopko)
  • Warm reset 11:00h (Arjen)
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  • Slurm update needs testing first. Is there a GPU node available?
  • Jasmin: Is there a repo available? Hopko will check.
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  • Last modified: 2018-11-28 06:52
  • by Reinoud Bokhorst