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- Stephan Witz to work with CIS to make sure the DNS TTLs for archive.nrao.edu and archive-new.nrao.edu are low
- Stephan Witz (SSA) to put MOTD banners up on the legacy archive announcing the downtime, will work with John Tobin on the messaging
- Stephan Witz (SSA) to work with CIS to replace the message on http://offline.nrao.edu, with work with John Tobin on the messaging
- Mark Lacy, Drew Medlin (Operations) to stop executing long lived VLASS cluster jobs
Morning Before the Shutdown (October 27)
- Stephan Witz (SSA) to disable CIPL triggers in CAPO for production
Morning of the
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Shutdown (October 28)
- CIS to change external DNS of archive.nrao.edu and archive-new.nrao.edu to point to offline.nrao.edu
- SSA to change the casa CAPO properties from the RHEL6 paths to RHEL7 paths
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- Stakeholders (John Tobin, Mark Lacy ) test critical user-facing functions of the AAT/PPI under RHEL7
- User-facing things that need to be tested:
- Downloads of VLA EBs: SDM-only, SDM, basic MS, CMS
- Downloads of VLA calibrations
- Downloads of VLASS images
- Downloads of VLBA UVFits files
- Stakeholders (Mark Lacy, Drew Medlin) test critical operations-facing functions of the AAT/PPI under RHEL7
- Operations-facing things that need to be tested:
- EB ingestion
- CIPL being triggered
- CIPL working
- calibration ingestion (QAPass)
- GO/NO decision:
- If GO: Stephan Witzto with with CIS to undo the DNS change and MOTD banners, re-nable CIPL triggers
- If NO-GO: SSA to iterate with stakeholders until result is GO, note that this may mean putting out a bugfix release of AAT/PPI 3.6 and doing the same for VLASS