IT News Update for Experiments
This is a summary of CERN IT news for the LHC Experiments prepared each week by Miroslav Potocky or David Collados. Click on the report date to see the report. Comments are welcome (to
it-dep-exp-news-editors@cernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch). Note that Grid news is reported elsewhere. You can find full source report list
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2019
week 36
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Predicted impact |
When |
Reference |
Highlights |
Degraded |
Sep 24-27 |
OTG0046045 |
Monthly Patching of Windows Terminal Servers and some other words to make it word wrap to next row |
No impact |
Sep 17 |
OTG0042692 |
Expiration of Personal Virtual Machines now active |
No impact |
Sep 17 |
OTG0045904 |
Activation of 100G LHCOPN link to IT-INFN-CNAF tier1 |
Down |
Sep 28 |
OTG0045996 |
Upgrade of the ERP system (Qualiac) |
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12Jan2015 week 36 |
Predicted impact |
When |
Reference |
Highlights |
Degraded |
Sep 24-27 |
OTG0046045 |
Monthly Patching of Windows Terminal Servers and some other words to make it word wrap to next row |
No impact |
Sep 17 |
OTG0042692 |
Expiration of Personal Virtual Machines now active |
No impact |
Sep 17 |
OTG0045904 |
Activation of 100G LHCOPN link to IT-INFN-CNAF tier1 |
Down |
Sep 28 |
OTG0045996 |
Upgrade of the ERP system (Qualiac) |
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25Jun2018 |
Migration of Batch Service monitoring dashboards to monit-grafana on Sep 03 |
Fail2ban deployed on LXPLUS |
week 24 |
Upgrade of ES clusters cms, lhcb, tn, alice, pub5 to 5.6.9 on Jul 03 |
Swisscom's SBC replacement on Jul 03 |
Swisscom mobile infrastructure maintenance on Jul 09 |
ORDS (APEX, PL/SQL, REST) Weblogic Production upgrade - April 2018 PSU on Jul 04 |
ORDS TN (APEX, PL/SQL, REST) Weblogic Production upgrade - April 2018 PSU on Jul 05 |
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18Jun2018 |
Review of SSH opening in the outer perimeter firewall |
Scans of storage systems for unprotected writable folders |
week 23 |
GitLab update to 10.7 on Jun 19 |
koji.cern.ch move to OpenStack/CephFS on Jul 03 |
End of Windows 7 availability for installation on Jul 01 |
WIGNER link maintenance on Jul 13 |
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11Jun2018 |
VidyoConnect WebRTC on Firefox problem solved on Jun 14 |
Restart of Vidyo infrastructure on Jun 19 |
week 22 |
Monthly Patching of Windows Terminal Servers on Jun 14 - 21 |
Access denied for users without the LxPlus Resource on Jun 25 |
Patching of Smarteam Infrastructure on Jun 19 |
Bi-Monthly patching of Engineering Terminal Server on Jun 25 |
Openstack client removal on Jun 20 |
EOSATLAS intervention on Jun 18 |
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04Jun2018 |
Intervention on Skype for Business network infrastructure on Jun 14 |
Multifactor authentication on WinServices on Jun 06 |
week 21 |
Blocking of hosts that attempt brute force access on Jun 11 |
Intervention on hypervisors affecting clusters fap, pub5, timber1, monit, tim on Jun 14 |
WIGNER link maintenance on Jun 25 |
Migration of IPv4 Campus firewall to Building 773 on Jun 19 |
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28May2018 |
Reboot of a hypervisor affecting es-cms on Jun 06 |
Cloud Infrastructure - Compute (nova) API version changed to 2.1 with Microversions on May 30 |
week 20 |
Cloud Infrastructure - Deprecation of file injection in VMs at boot time on May 30 |
Deployment of new version of LANDB Portal on May 28 |
Migration of IPv4 firewall and IPv6 backup firewall to Building 773 on Jun 05 |
LANDB (network database) schema update on Jun 11 |
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MiroslavPotocky - 2018-07-04