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--- announce:fall-2020 [2020/12/08 17:22]
hans [ICS Grafana and Prometheus]
+++ announce:fall-2020 [2021/01/12 14:07] (current)
luciad [ICS Account/ICS Gsuite Password Synchronization to End]
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+==== ICS Account/ICS Gsuite Password Synchronization to End====
+Final ICS Account/ICS Gsuite password synchronization has been delayed until 1/5/2021.   Unexpected messages were received during a test run of the new account synchronization.  Out of an abundance of caution we have delayed implementation until after the break while we work with our Google support team to ensure the notifications are harmless.
+On January 5, 2021 ICS Computing Support will begin managing ICS account passwords and ICS Gsuite passwords separately.  **Most users will not immediately notice this change.** But this change means that, in the future, in order to change your [[accounts:ics_google_apps|ICS Gsuite]] passwords you will use a new tool.  There will be no changes to the way that [[accounts:faqs|ICS account]] passwords are managed.
+  * To change the password for your campus ICS account, please continue using https://password.ics.uci.edu
+  * To change the password for your ICS Gsuite account, please log in to your ICS Gsuite account and use this [[https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/41078|Google Tool]]
+Please send questions and comments to helpdesk@ics.uci.edu.
+==== Future CentOS8 Distros @ ICS ====
+In early December 2020, the CentOS project announced an abrupt change to it's CentOS8 and future relapse  roadmap.   The CentOS8 end of life has been moved up to [[https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product|December 2021]] (about three years before CentOS7 in 2024).
+As a direct result, ICS Computing Support is suspending CentOS8 installation immediately.   We are considering a replacement distro for [[services:supported_os|ICS Servers]].   Licensed RHEL8 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS the chief candidates.   If you have opinions, requirements, or goals you would like to share with us, please send email to helpdesk@ics.uci.edu.
+ICS Computing Support Criteria:
+  * Package based with security updates
+  * Multi-year roadmap
+  * Unattended installation
+  * Vendor Support
+  * Puppet Support
+  * Security focused
+  * Broad community adoption and support
+  * Low cost
+==== Updated Software ====
+The following packages have been updated in the [[software:software_library|ICS Software Library]] for Winter Quarter
+  * anaconda/2020.11
+  * vault/1.6.0
+  * go/1.15.6
+  * singularity/3.7.0
 ==== ICS Grafana and Prometheus ====
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 In order to reduce contention for resources on the [[hardware:cluster:opengpu|ICS OpenGPU cluster]] (currently consisting of a single node, poison.ics.uci.edu) we will be disabling the SGE queue.  Please use the [[services:slurm|SLURM@ICS]] queue instead.  Send email messages to helpdesk@ics.uci.edu for help converting your SGE scripts to [[services:slurm|SLURM]].
-==== ICS Account/ICS Gsuite Password Synchronization to End====
-On December 18th, 2020 ICS Computing Support will begin managing ICS account passwords and ICS Gsuite passwords separately.  **Most users will not immediately notice this change.**
-But this change means that, in the future, in order to change your [[accounts:ics_google_apps|ICS Gsuite]] passwords you will use a new tool.  There will be no change to the way that [[accounts:faqs|ICS account]] passwords are managed.
-  * To change the password for your campus ICS password, please continue using https://password.ics.uci.edu
-  * To change the password for your ICS Gsuite Password, please login to your ICS Gsuite account and use this [[https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/41078|Google Tool]]
-Please send questions and comments to helpdesk@ics.uci.edu.
 ==== Strict Spam Checking Applied to ICS Email Forwarding====
-ICS is changing it's spam and malware scanning policy to streamline delivery to external mail providers.
+ICS is changing its spam and malware scanning policy to streamline delivery to external mail providers.
 **Who will this affect**:  This affects any user that forwards their ICS email to an external mail provider (e.g. @gmail.com, @hotmail.com)