SDCC Liaison Meeting
3-192
Bldg 510
Facility News & Announcements
Network
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Migration Intervention was completed 8/21
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PHENIX central DB and dCache will move from 4-9 to 45-6
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SciZone/RHIC CH perimeter firewall upgrade had issues then rolled back successfully
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major legacy 1Gb copper and patch panel removal is underway for racks migrated to TOR
Storage
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2PB additional RHIC central storage is in FY 2019 budget ETA to BNL soon (late ‘18)
HPSS
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normal operations; STAR tapes were delivered to BNL
General Services
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mail service restarted on all servers to strengthen security; TLS 1.0 will be disabled soon
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rftpexp servers interactive login and port forwarding will be restricted to address security
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user home directories and BlueArc data cut over to GPFS and the new to NetApp appliance
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NX was upgraded to latest release
Linux Farm
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TOR switch migration and re-IP of 800+ RHIC nodes completed 8/21 maintenance
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issue/bug with tcsh history file lock was found and fixed
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liaisons now have sudo privilege to su - any user within their experiment and clean batch
CSI
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normal operations; IC-cluster expansion in procurement
Services & Tools
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Mailman, Indico plugins, Invenio, Jupyter, in development not yet ready for general use
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LDAP/Kerberos will migrate into IPA and Keycloak (SSO/AUTH) will replace Shibboleth
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user impact - required to login to gateway and change password (first time only)
AOB
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Technology Talk on Jupyter Notebook scheduled 9/27 with Ofer Rind