Duration:
6/24/2021 9:30 am — 7/24/2021 10:30 am

Group Responsible:
IT Services

Affected Area:
NX services

Expected Impact:
The NX sessions will be terminated. Please save your work.

Maintenance Type:
Planned Maintenance/Downtime

Description:
The NX servers will be upgraded to resolve issues in the current version.

Duration:
6/22/2021 5:30 pm — 7/22/2021 5:30 pm

Group Responsible:
IT Services

Affected Area:

Expected Impact:

Maintenance Type:
Planned Maintenance/Downtime

Description:
We would like to inform you that upon request from NPP, a queue/slot repartiioning will take effect shortly on the batch farm providing a temporary major resource increase to the STAR experiment. This followed a DOE request that STAR must complete its blinded anlyses of the 2018 Isobar data by the end of the current fiscal year (this target was made as a part of a notable Performance Evaluation and Measurement Plan from DOE ONP). In order to meet the deadline, the reallocation (a proportional reduction of slots from several groups by -40%) needs to remain in effect for the coming month and this may cause some impact to the throughput of other jobs, including those of STAR non-Isobar related analysis and data production as well as those from ATLAS T3, EIC, PHENIX and sPHENIX.\n\nIf during this period, you need additional resources, please contact us, we will try to find ways to accommodate your request.\n\nWe apologize in advance for the inconvenience and the short notice.

Duration:
6/24/2021 9:30 am — 6/24/2021 10:30 am

Group Responsible:
IT Services

Affected Area:
NX Service

Expected Impact:
The NX sessions will be terminated. Please save your work.

Maintenance Type:
Planned Maintenance/Downtime

Description:
The NX servers will be upgraded to resolve issues in the current version.

Duration:
6/16/2021 12:30 pm — 6/16/2021 3:00 pm

Group Responsible:
IT Fabric

Affected Area:
ATLAS T1 Compute Nodes, spool0XYZ Systems

Expected Impact:

Maintenance Type:
Unplanned/Outage

Description:
There was a major cooling failure in the CDCE room in SDCC's datacenter earlier today (6/15), starting around 12:30 PM EST, due to an issue with the chilled water system in the building. Temperatures rose quickly, triggering automated monitoring software shutdowns of compute nodes in that room around 1:00 PM in order to avoid equipment damage. This affected all ATLAS T1 compute nodes, and a large portion of the shared pool (all spool0XYZ systems). Parts of our RHEV system were also affected. The issue with the building chilled water circulation was repaired by approximately 3:00 PM, and the farm equipment was powered back online, and opened to jobs after the room room temperature stabilized at 3:30 PM.\n\nAt this time we believe all affected services have been restored. If you continue to experience issues, please submit a ticket to RT.

Duration:
6/8/2021 10:00 am — 6/8/2021 11:00 am

Group Responsible:
Services & Tools

Affected Area:
Accessing external resources using federated IdP authentication

Expected Impact:

Maintenance Type:
Transparent Upgrade/Maintenance

Description:
The proxy for federated IdP will be upgraded 10am on 6/8/21. Although transparent but may require re-authentication if accessing external resources using federated IdP during this scheduled window.

Duration:
4/29/2021 8:00 pm

Group Responsible:
IT Services

Affected Area:
https://webmail.rhic.bnl.gov

Expected Impact:
No impact expected.

Maintenance Type:
Transparent Upgrade/Maintenance

Description:
The RCF webmail service https://webmail.rhic.bnl.gov will be moved to a new reverse web proxy. The move should be transparent in nature. No interruption is expected.

Thu Jul 8 15:06:55 EDT 2021

This item has been posted to rhic-rcf-l@lists.bnl.gov, sdcc_users-l@lists.bnl.gov, usatlas-users-l@lists.bnl.gov

Dear SDCC user,

Would you please take a moment to visit and complete a short survey regarding our support system? We are interested in your thoughts on all aspects of your support experience with our facility, including the support interface, reporting queues, and any opinions you may have on our tools and processes.

Please visit the survey at your convenience:
https://tinyurl.com/sdcc-users

While the survey is only a few questions and won't take long to complete, your response will be invaluable toward helping us evaluate and improve our support interfaces and user interaction.

Thank you,
John De Stefano, on behalf of SDCC

Thu Jun 24 08:40:13 EDT 2021

This item has been posted to rhic-rcf-l@lists.bnl.gov, sdcc_users-l@lists.bnl.gov, usatlas-users-l@lists.bnl.gov, bnl-shared-tier3-l@lists.bnl.gov

Summary:
The current NX servers running version 6 will be upgraded to version 7.

Duration:
June 24th (Thursday) 9.30 am - 10.30 am

Group Responsible:
GCE

Affected Area:
NX service

Expected User Impact:
The NX sessions will be terminated. Please save your work.

Maintenance Type:
Service Interruption

Submitted By:
Saroj Kandasamy,saroj@bnl.gov

Description:
The NX servers will be upgraded to resolve issues in the current version.

Duration:
4/19/2021 9:00 am — 4/21/2021 9:00 am

Group Responsible:
IT Services

Affected Area:
Central storage

Expected Impact:
Users can continue to read/write to the filesystem but reads to some files will fail will IO errors.

Maintenance Type:
Unplanned/Outage

Description:
Due to hardware related issues, some files will be unavailable in /gpfs01/ and will return with an IO error. Users can continue to read/write to the filesystem but reads to some files will fail will IO errors

Duration:
5/3/2021 8:00 pm

Group Responsible:
IT Services

Affected Area:
NX service

Expected Impact:
The NX sessions on nx01/nx02/nx06/nx07/atlasnx01/atlasnx02 servers will be terminated. Please transition to the new NX service.

Maintenance Type:
Planned Maintenance/Downtime

Description:
The current NX service ( on nx01/nx02/nx06/nx07.rcf.bnl.gov atlasnx01/atlasnx02.usatlas.bnl.gov) will be deprecated May 4th , 2021. Please follow instructions for the new NX service: https://www.sdcc.bnl.gov/resources/services/nomachine-nx