INTERRUPTION TO COMPUTING SERVICES, SATURDAY 9 FEBRUARY
In order to allow the rerouting of electrical cables which power most of the B513 Computer Room, there will be a complete shutdown of central computing services on Saturday 9 February.This shutdown affects all Central Computing services as well as the general purpose site wide network (137.138), and hence desktop connectivity will also be cut.
In order for the physical intervention to start at 07:30, services will be run down as follows (which has been planned to allow the completion of the Friday night backups of AFS and Oracle):
Friday 08/02
- 17:00 Scheduling of batch jobs suspended
18:00 HPSS services shutdown
- 01:00 Any batch jobs that have not ended will be terminated
04:00 Rundown of general purpose services including Mail, Web, NICE, Unix interactive services, ACB, CASTOR, Tape Service and finally Oracle
06:30 AIS services shutdown (including EDH, BHT and HRT)
07:00 AFS service shutdown
07:30 End of guaranteed service on the general purpose site-wide network (137.138)
Saturday 09/02
- 16:15 General purpose site-wide networking restored
17:00 AFS service restored
18:00 General purpose services including Mail, Web, NICE and Unix interactive services and ACB restored
19:30 AIS services restored (including EDH, BHT and HRT)
20:00 Data and Batch Services restarted
A detailed planning schedule will be kept up to date on the web at: