CMS Tier-3 News Item
T3 scheduled downtime - Friday 06/05/2016 from 10:00 till 17:00
Summary
On Friday 06/05/2016 from 10:00 till 17:00 we're both upgrading the
/pnfs
file service and the T3 networking to 10Gbps
Details
On Friday 6th May 2016 from 10:00 till 17:00 we're both upgrading the
/pnfs
file service and installing some 10Gbs cards in order to complete the recent
/shome
and
/swshare
service migration
the downtime schedule is :
- Before 10:00 : each T3 user has to close ALL his/her
t3ui*
sessions and either kill ALL their t3wn*
jobs or put them "on hold" by the command qalter ( search the string hold
) ; if you put them on hold please tell us ; running jobs + not "hold protected" pending jobs are killed
- At 10:00 : the
/pnfs
, /shome
and /swshare
services are stopped without any notice ; all the t3ui*
and t3wn*
servers are affected !
- At 17:00 : the
/pnfs
, /shome
and /swshare
services are back in production and a final email is sent to the T3 users
- After 17:00 : each T3 user can work as usual
- Because we can't try all the planned changes these scheduled times might change !! Thank you for your understanding