02-Apr-2018

CHESS Data Rotation - Tuesday 03-Apr-2018

Starting at 3pm Tuesday, 4/3, the main CHESS DAQ and Maia filesystems will become read-only and backed-up to tape. When the backup is finished, the filesystems will be initialized for the 2018-2 run beginning on 11-Apr-2018. At this point, the following data will be removed from disk:

legacy/data1/nas_pil1/backup
2015-3/g3
2016-2/f2
2016-2/g2
2016-2/g3
2016-3/f3
2016-3/g2
2017-1/a1
2017-1/a2
2017-2/f2
2017-3/
maia/2017-3

Please let us know if you'd like any of the above data to remain on disk. And as always, this and other data can be restored from tape by emailing service-classe@cornell.edu.

Virtual Machine Maintenance - Wednesday 04-Apr-2018

Starting at Noon Wednesday, 4/4, the main CLASSE Virtual Machine infrastructure will be upgraded and rebooted. This should be transparent, but if things go wrong you may see brief outages of the following services:

• CLASSE Stockroom Signout
• Vault
• Accelerator SVN repository
• CLASSE Printing / CUPS
• GlobusDataTransfer
• GitLab
• screenconnect
• WinAPP

Linux Kernel and NVIDIA Driver Update

New kernels and nvidia drivers have been pushed to all CLASSE linux boxes. To start using the updated kernel and driver, please reboot your workstation at your convenience.

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General network and server maintenance will occur every Tuesday from 12:00 noon to 2:00 PM. The CLASSE-IT group will always announce any expected disruptions in our NewsLetter and via CLASSE-IT-NEWS-L, but with the size and complexity of our network there is always the potential for something to go wrong. We will do our best to contain all network maintenance and planned outages to Tuesdays from 12:00 noon to 2:00 PM.

Unless other arrangements have been made, CLASSE-managed Windows systems may be updated and rebooted on Tuesday morning at 2:00 AM, so please avoid critical or lengthy operations at that time. For more details, please see SystemExpectations.

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Questions or problems? Submit a service request.

Other resources:

• CLASSE IT Home Page
• Previous newsletters

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