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Stop-day activities August 7-8, 2018
Coordinator | Teun Grit | roadmin@astron.nl |
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Software Support | Adriaan Renting | softwaresupport@astron.nl |
Science, Operations and Support | Thomas Franzen | sos@astron.nl |
Observer | Richard Blaauw | observer@astron.nl |
⇒ Description of stopday procedures
⇒ LOFAR Schedule cycle 10
⇒ The next stopdays are scheduled for October 2-3.
Systems
Cobalt
- √ Reboots and idrac reboots. (Hopko)
CEP3
- √ Block access at 08:00 (Teun)
- √ All nodes: file system check and reboot. (Kees)
After the reboot a problem appeared, where the NIS netgroup “cep3” seem to miss 2 users. A workaround was implemented and the real cause will be investigated the next day.
CEP4
- √ No Reboot needed. Was done last week(Hopko)
LEXARS
- √ No action. Were rebooted last week. (Hopko/Robin)
LCU
- √ Only 13 of them need reboot: CS004C CS021C CS024C CS026C CS101C CS501C CS302C CS401C RS509C RS508C DE605C SE607C FR606C
- √ cn001 is 540 days up, needs reboot
- √ All other machines are okay
Portals
- √ Update & reboot using Spacewalk
Central Services lcs020 .. lcs030
- √ OS upgrade and reboot
Other Central Services
- √ OS upgrade and reboot
LTA
- None
Aartfaac
- √ Reboot of nodes agc001,agc002, ads001, ais001…ais007 (Teun/Jasmin)
The correlators agc001 and agc002 were rebooted. Others (ads001, ais001 - ais007) received an upgrade to the latest Ubuntu 16.04. A cleanup of old Linux kernels on those systems 8GB from each systemdisk and shorted the upgrade significantly
Core switches
- None
Software updates
MoM and related
- none
MAC/SAS
- none
CEP3
- Upgrade matplotlib to at least 2.2.1 (ref. ROHD-1004)
- Install lmfit (ref. ROHD-1022)
- √ Slurm update to version 17.11 (latest) (Hopko/Robin/Kees)
LCU
- None
CEP4
- None (Slurm update not tested yet. Probably on Oct. stop-day)
Aartfaac
- None
COBALT
- none
LTA
- none