[50118] in Hotline Meeting
Scheduled Moira outage: Saturday, 2/26/00
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Wed Feb 23 17:03:21 2000
Message-Id: <200002232203.RAA05457@leo.mit.edu>
To: athena-outage@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:03:13 EST
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
Moira3 will be down Sunday afternoon to be replaced with Moira4: newer,
faster hardware that will be running Athena 8.3. Notices of its progress
will go to Zephyr instance consult.
SCHEDULE:
The database will be closed Saturday afternoon (probably 3pm or
so), and reopened Saturday evening, hopefully by 6pm at the
latest, but possibly later if there are problems.
REASON:
To upgrade the Moira server to newer hardware and a more recent
Athena release.
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.
