public:stopdayactivities_5jun2018

Stop-day activities June 5-6, 2018


Coordinator Reinoud Bokhorst roadmin@astron.nl
Software Support Arno Schoenmakers softwaresupport@astron.nl
Science, Operations and Support Pietro Zucca sos@astron.nl
Observer Henk Mulder observer@astron.nl

Description of stopday procedures
LOFAR Schedule cycle 10
⇒ The next stopday is scheduled for August 7.

  • ✔ Reboots and idrac reboots. (Hopko)
  • ✔ Block access at 08:00 (Teun)
  • ✔ All nodes: file system check and reboot. (Kees)
  • ✔ Reboot (Hopko)
  • ✔ Recreate Docker thinpools on CPU nodes
  • ✔ Recabling of Infiniband, details in Jira ticket
  • Performance tests after recabling
  • ✔ Reboot (Hopko/Robin)
  • ✔ Update and reboot (Reinoud)
  • ✔ Migration of Oracle DB to new hardware (Andrey Tsyganov)
  • ✔ Check for broken disks Fail: ais007 had a degraded RAID1, but a controller firmware update helped.
  • ✔ Warm reset PD0, RD0 and RD1 (Arjen)
  • none
  • none
  • none
  • synchronize Python packages, see list in ticket
  • ✔ umask change for foreign stations
  • Rollout Docker images
  • ✘ SLURM upgrade (postponed)
  • none
  • none
  • none
  • Last modified: 2018-06-05 11:52
  • by Reinoud Bokhorst