[45802] in Hotline Meeting
moira outage sunday afternoon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Thu Nov 12 17:45:21 1998
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 17:45:07 -0500
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
To: athena-outage@MIT.EDU
Moira3 will be down Sunday afternoon to be upgraded to Athena 8.2 and
Oracle 7.3.4. Notices of its progress will go to Zephyr instance
consult.
SCHEDULE:
The database will be closed Sunday afternoon (probably 2pm or
so), and reopened Sunday evening, hopefully by 8pm at the
latest, but possibly later if there are problems.
REASON:
To get a modern version of Athena and (more importantly) a
modern version of Oracle running on the moira server.
SERVICES:
Moira, including the account registration server. The DCM
(nightly Moira updates to other servers) should not be
affected.
IMPACT:
No changes can be made to the Moira database while the server
is being upgraded.
At various points during the upgrade, moira clients (such
as moira, blanche, listmaint, and ch*) will report one of
"the database is closed", "connection refused", or "connection
timed out".
The account registration client will report that it is
unable to connect to the registration server and the user
should try again later.
