[61393] in Hotline Meeting
Scheduled Moira outage: Sunday, 9/22/2002
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Wed Sep 18 16:27:19 2002
Message-Id: <200209182026.QAA18973@pinocchio.mit.edu>
To: athena-outage@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 16:26:53 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
The moira server (moira4) will be down Sunday to be replaced moira5:
newer, faster hardware that will be running Athena 9.0 and Oracle 8.1.7.
Notices of the outage's progress will be go to the Zephyr consult
instance.
SCHEDULE:
The database will be closed Sunday afternoon (probably 3pm or
so) and reopened Sunday 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. DCMs will
also not be running during the outage.
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.
Garry
