Stop-day activities December 4-5, 2018

⇒ 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 starts reboots, Robin waits for Reinoud)

• Switch IPoIB to connected mode on head and gpu nodes, see https://support.astron.nl/jira/browse/ROADMT-186
• The Slurm disk performance tests are planned for after the stopday. (Volume now is 75%)
• mgmt01.cep4 to CentOS 7.5
• Robinhood tests

• √ Disable Supervisor on both lexars at 07:45 (Teun)
• 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
• √ Reboot cn001 (not announced)
• 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 (SLES11_SP4 update contains ~65 packages, incl new kernel)

• √ Stop and disable supervisor at 07:45 (Teun)
• 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, please inform Reinoud)

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• √ Connect IB switch to CEP4 spine switches, instead of the Cobalt switch. The cables are already in. (Hopko)

• √ Update & reboot ais001-007, aartfaac-lcu

• √ Warm reset 11:00h (Arjen)

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• Slurm update needs testing first. GPU04 is available for testing.
• Jasmin: Is there a repo available? Hopko will check.

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