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Network Boot service update (AIMS2 / PXE) |
Multiple Services |
Wed, 16 May |
Network boot / installation service for Windows and Linux systems (AIMS2 / PXE) will be updated to new version of remote boot loaders. |
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AMS users to use dedicated CASTOR disk pool 'amsuser' |
Storage Service for Projects & Experiments |
Mon, 7 May |
CASTOR disk pool amsuser is now the default disk pool for AMS users.
As of several weeks ago, AMS users have a dedicated CASTOR disk pool (a.k.a. service class), amsuser.
From Tuesday, 8th May, all... |
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Device driver update on SLC6 VOBox Virtual Machines |
VoBOX Service for Projects & Experiments |
Fri, 4 May |
SLC6 VOBoxes hosted on the Service Consolidation infrastructure (virtual machines hosted by HyperV hypervisors) will receive new paravirtualization drivers together with OSDATE 20120504. These new... |
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NICE Phonebook retirement |
Windows Desktop Service |
Wed, 2 May |
The current NICE Phonebook application will be retired after several years of good service. As announced in the CERN bulletin (http://cdsweb.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2012/10/Announcements/1427735... |
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Indico |
Conference Management Application Support |
Wed, 25 April |
Indico will be upgraded to version 0.98.2.
This means one important change in the service:
Login will be forced in order to export RSS/iCal for private events.
And some new features:... |
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WMS server update |
GRID Workload Service |
Wed, 25 April |
CERN WMS servers will be progressively updated to version 3.3.5 (EMI1 Update 15) starting from April 25th.
This new WMS version will be deployed together with a new version of Globus/Gridftp and an... |
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Internet Explorer 9 on NICE |
Windows Desktop Service |
Thu, 19 April |
Internet Explorer 9 will be deployed to all centrally-managed NICE computers on 19 April 2012.
For more information, please check: https://espace.cern.ch/winservices-help/NICEApplications/Pages/... |
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Integrating Lync features into CERN webmail |
E-Mail Service |
Thu, 19 April |
On Thursday, features available in Lync (presence, instant messaging) will be integrated into CERN Webmail. People can start chatting and verify presence of Lync users directly from Webmail (OWA).
In... |
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New IT department web site |
Web Service |
Mon, 2 April |
We will be deploying a new IT web site on 10th April. This is now available at www.cern.ch/information-technology for feedback.
If you have links which use http://cern.ch/it, these links may break... |
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Upgrade of J2EE Public Service containers to Tomcat 7 |
DB & App Platform for Accelerators, DB & App Platform for AIS, DB & App Platform for EDMS, DB & Application Platform Service for Projects & Experiments |
Thu, 29 March |
On March 29th, all containers that are part of the J2EE Public Service will be upgraded to Tomcat 7, unless specific user requirement (third-party software not supported on Tomcat 7 for example).
If... |
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Upgrade of system RPMs on lxbatch nodes |
Batch Service |
Mon, 26 March |
The system RPMs of all lxbatch nodes will be upgraded to the latest SLC5 level starting from today 26 March.
This follows a week of testing period:
http://itssb.web.cern.ch/service-change/upgrade-... |
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Opening of self-service for 20GB workspaces on AFS |
Storage Service for Projects & Experiments |
Wed, 21 March |
The self-service for requesting 20GB workspaces on AFS will be opened for all users on Wednesday 21st of March.
Users can request workspaces via the account portal:
cern.ch/accounts --> "Manage... |
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IT SSB – Search functionality added |
Service Management Service |
Wed, 21 March |
Following some user feedback a more powerful “search” functionality, available to all users, has been added in the interface of the IT SSB. This is provided by the ‘Search’ link from the main menu (... |
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Upgrade of system RPMs on lxbatch nodes |
Batch Service |
Tue, 20 March |
The system RPMs of the lxbatch nodes in "preprod" will be upgraded to the latest SLC5 level starting from today.
If everything goes fine, this RPM level will be subsequently deployed to "prod"... |
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The Office Communicator application will be upgraded to the latest version named Lync |
E-Mail Service |
Wed, 14 March |
"MS Patches 2012-3 (NICE)" updates will be deployed mid-March on CERN Windows centrally managed machines. The update will replace the current application Office Communicator by the latest version... |
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Closure of outgoing firewall ports 1-1023/tcp and /udp |
Firewall Configuration Service |
Tue, 13 March |
As agreed with departments and LHC experiments on the last ITSRM meeting , the default configuration of CERN's outer perimeter firewall will be changed such that outgoing traffic from source ports 1-... |
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Release of OCSInventory-agent for MacOS - Please install it on your MAC! |
Mac Desktop Service |
Thu, 8 March |
In an effort to further improve the Mac support services we have deployed OCSinventory Agent for MacOS: this is a light agent that gathers general information about the existing hardware and... |
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Software upgrade on Batch nodes |
Batch Service |
Thu, 1 March |
A new version of LSF which includes minor changes in the wrapper scripts is being deployed in production nodes after 2 weeks in preproduction.
(Preproduction announcement: http://itssb.web.cern.ch/... |
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Exceed X11 software replacement |
Windows Desktop Service |
Wed, 29 February |
On centrally managed NICE computers, Exceed will be automatically uninstalled and replaced by Starnet X-Win32.
Local administrators will schedule the same change on locally-managed computers.
For... |
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people.cern.ch web portal phase-out |
Windows Desktop Service |
Tue, 28 February |
The web portal http://people.cern.ch will phase-out on February 28th.
The address http://people.cern.ch will redirect to the CERN Phonebook http://phonebook.cern.ch. |
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Phase-out of gssklog service |
Storage Service for Projects & Experiments |
Wed, 22 February |
Due to the replacement of its functionality by other services (such as CVMFS), the gssklog service, i.e. the translation of grid proxy certificates into AFS tokens, will be stopped at 9am on... |
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Service-Now upgrade to a new release |
Process Application Support |
Sun, 19 February |
The CERN instance for Service-Now software (SNOW) has been ugraded to a new release (codename: Aspen) on Sunday February 19.
The new instance has been extensively tested and this service change... |
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Decommissioning of CASTORALICE default pool |
Storage Service for Projects & Experiments |
Tue, 14 February |
The read/write access to the default pool in CASTORALICE instance will be disabled as agreed with ALICE.
Access to CASTOR without an explicitly defined Service Class will not work (SVC_CLASS env... |
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Software upgrade on Batch nodes |
Batch Service |
Mon, 13 February |
A software upgrade which has been tested in preproduction nodes over the past few weeks is being deployed in all nodes.
A new version of LSF which includes minor changes in the wrapper scripts is... |
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Upgrade of Microsoft Office Communications server |
E-Mail Service |
Fri, 10 February |
On 22.02.2012 Office Communications Server will be upgraded to a newer version. It’s a major upgrade and it is compatible only with Office Communicator Client version “3.5.6907.233” or higher.
If you... |
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Retirement of CERNs LCG CEs |
GRID Workload Service |
Thu, 9 February |
As announced several times in the past, the LCG CEs at CERN are being retired. The procedure has started on 9/2/2012.
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Reduction of AFS backup retention period to 6 months |
Storage Service for Projects & Experiments |
Mon, 6 February |
Reduction of AFS backup retention period to 6 months (as agreed and defined in SLD). Process started and it will take 4 weeks to complete. |
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New Lemon web frontend in production |
IT Support Services for IT Operations |
Thu, 2 February |
The new Lemon web frontend will be offered in production from 6th February at address http://lemon.cern.ch/lemon-web
Current version, known as lemonweb (http://lemonweb.cern.ch/lemon-web/), will... |
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CVMFS stratum 0 change for /cvmfs/atlas-condb.cern.ch. |
CernVM File System |
Wed, 25 January |
The CVMFS repository /cvmfs/atlas-condb.cern.ch will be served from a completly new instance of a CVMFS stratum 0. The contents of the repository is expected to be identical and users of /cvmfs/atlas... |
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Upgrade of WMS servers to EMI-1 |
GRID Workload Service |
Mon, 23 January |
The CERN WMS (Workload Management System) service is undergoing migration to version 3.3.4 (EMI-1 release).
The WMS configuration files of the AFS UI commonly used to submit grid jobs will be updated... |
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CERN Kerberos KDC change for Linux and MacOS desktops |
Multiple Services |
Mon, 16 January |
From January 16th 2012, The CERN KDCs (afsdb1,afsdb2 and afsdb3) will no longer provide a Kerberos service, and if you have the CERN realm defined in the /etc/krb5.conf file on your Linux desktops,... |
