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ICS Computing Support Maintenance Calendar

• Date: 3/27/2018
• Time: All Day

Affected Hosts: All CentOS6, CentOS7, RHEL6, RHEL7, and Ubuntu12 hosts.

Reason: Installation of the latest kernel and security patches that include mitigation for the Meltdown and Spectrev1 vulnerabilities.

Impact:

• ALL ICS managed hosts in the affected groups will recieve the latest OS patches between 3/20 and 3/27.
• ALL ICS hosts will be rebooted between midnight and 1700 on March 27th.

Exceptions List:

The following hosts are scheduled to recieve security only updates:

System: Cybertron and Unicron Network Appliance Filers

Date: 3/27/2018

Start Time: 0800

Duration: 2 hour

Reason: Firmware upgrade. Upgrading OnTAP8 to the latest version.

Affects: There is no downtime associated with this work, however a small number of users may experience degraded performance on home or extra directories.

System: Cybertron and Unicron Network Appliance Filers

Date: 3/27/2018

Start Time: 1000

Duration: 1 hour

Ticket Number: 64977

Reason: Redundantly connect Network Appliance to the Hitachi AMS-2500 via properly .

Affects: The following NFS qtrees may be unavailable during this period:

• cybertron:/vol9
• cybertron:/vol9/ugrad_space
• cybertron:/vol9/grad_space
• cybertron:/vol9/inst_ugrad_space
• cybertron:/vol9/bayonet_scratch_

SYSTEM: sylvester-mccoy-v2.ics.uci.edu and sylvester-mccoy-v3.ics.uci.edu

DATE: 3/26/2018

START TIME: 0700

DURATION: 1 hour

REASON: Websites are being moved to CentOS 7 host.

AFFECTS: Subversion (https://svn.ics.uci.edu), Instdav (https://instdav.ics.uci.edu), Trac Wiki (https://grape.ics.uci.edu), and Mailman (https://mailman.ics.uci.edu) will be on new server hosts.

SYSTEM: sensoria-mysql.ics.uci.edu

DATE: 3/20/2018

START TIME: 2200

DURATION: 1 hour

REASON: The MySQL /data partition will be expanded.

AFFECTS: The MySQL database will be stopped briefly in order to unmount and expand the disk partition.

SYSTEM: andromeda-37.ics.uci.edu, andromeda-38.ics.uci.edu

DATE: 2/9/2018

START TIME: 2000

DURATION: 1 hour

REASON: VirtualBox updates. Installing and updating new kernel-header files.

AFFECTS: Machines will be rebooted and be down for a couple minutes. Users on these machines may experience downtime.

SYSTEM: zion-12.ics.uci.edu

DATE: 2/6/2018

START TIME: 1400

DURATION: 2 hour

Reason: Install new hardware, RAM and SSD.

Affects: The host will be unavailable for parts of this downtime.

SYSTEM: ns1.ics.uci.edu ns2.ics.uci.edu

DATE: 1/4/2018

START TIME: 2:30pm

DURATION: 10 minutes

Reason: Con added ns6.service.uci.edu into production. Since it didn't allow internal view, our lookup to uci.edu domain would go to the root domain and hit their external view dns servers and have an odd result. Adding forwarding zone for uci.edu to lookup from ns1.service and ns2.service resolves this issue for lookups internally.

Affects: Users should not notice any difference. It should stabilize lookups to uci.edu.

SYSTEM: All Intel Base Linux Hosts

DATE: TBD

START TIME: TBD

DURATION: 2 hour

Reason: Operating system updates are required to patch significant security vulnerability on ALL intel based computers.

Affects: Users will see intermittent downtime on all hosts and related services throughout the maintenance window.

SYSTEM: All systems where the Vagrant Package is installed.

DATE: 1/3/2017

START TIME: 1300

DURATION: 2 hour

Reason: Routine update to the vagrant package in order to install compatibility with latest VirtualBox package.