SDCC Liaison Meeting
3-192
Bldg 510
Facility News & Announcements
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major changes to underlying infrastructure still on schedule for 12/11/18 10:00 AM
Network Operations
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legacy network equipment has all been retired and cleanup continues (copper, fiber, etc)
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Arista SW upgrade will wait for now and align with HPSS/CSI intervention windows
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Belle II internel subnet migration out of SciCore switch pair ETA 12/18/18
Storage Group
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2PB additional RHIC central storage is in FY 2019 budget ETA is soon (late ‘18)
HPSS status
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STAR will order 400 tapes within the next few weeks before raw data taking ‘19
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migration of LT05 data continues through next quarter, moving ~10K tapes
Services & Tools
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LDAP/Kerberos will migrate into IPA on 12/11
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user impact - required to change password after the 12/11 migration date
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new password update will accept reusing the same current password (if it passes complexity)
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we will provide two ways for the users to change password in IPA
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a web interface
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login to gateway and change password (first time only)
RACF Linux Farm
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plan to update interactive nodes next week
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updates to batch farm planned on a rolling schedule to minimize production disruptions
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shared pool is ready to accept production workload
CSI resources
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IC-cluster expansion procurement finalized, waiting for delivery
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completed updates and reboots on a rolling schedule to minimize production disruptions