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 installing some 10Gbs cards

Details

On Friday 6th May 2016 from 10:00 till 17:00 we're upgrading both the /pnfs file service middleware and the /shome and /swshare HW to 10Gbs

the downtime schedule is :

• Before 10:00 all the T3 users have to close ALL their t3ui* sessions and either simply kill ALL their t3wn* jobs or put them on hold by qalter ( search the string hold ) ; if you put them on hold please tell us ; running jobs + not "hold protected" pending jobs are silently killed

• At 10:00 the /pnfs , /shome and /swshare services are stopped without any notice ; accordingly all the t3ui* and t3wn* won't work !

• At 17:00 the /pnfs , /shome and /swshare services are back in production and an email is sent to the T3 users

• After 17:00 the T3 users can work as usual

• Because we can't really try all the planned changes the scheduled times might severely change !! Thank you for your understanding