November 2014 - Core-other - mailman3.cels.anl.gov

Canceled: Monthly Systems Group Meeting
by Stacey, Craig J. 07 Nov '14

07 Nov '14

I'll be out of town during this meeting.

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Vacation Day on Monday
by Stanton-Piersanti, Tina Joy 07 Nov '14

07 Nov '14

I need to take a vacation day on Monday to attend a funeral of a Friend. Tina

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11/7
by Linda Winkler 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

I will be taking Fri as a vacation day. See ya after SC14. lw

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[CELS Sysadmins] FW: Power Blip last week - 2014-10-30
by Leggett, Torrance I. 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Can someone follow up with Eric about the power outage last week? From: pershey <pershey(a)alcf.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 at 12:14 PM To: Ti Leggett <leggett(a)mcs.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: ALCF operations staff <operations(a)lists.alcf.anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Power Blip last week - 2014-10-30 Ti, do you have an accurate time when the UPS/Power blip happened last week? We need to get this time in our system as the start of our availability event. Ed was letting me know you have some systems on UPS and non-UPS side. It should be around 2014-10-30 15:48:00 UTC. Thanks Eric _______________________________________________ This is the CELS Sysadmins mailing list. It is sent to memebers of core-admins(a)mcs.anl.gov and systems(a)alcf.anl.gov. Do not subscribe directly to this list. Thanks.

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[CELS Sysadmins] Backups for BIO
by Stacey, Craig J. 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you - bunch of stuff going on combined with travel schedules making things pretty hectic. I wouldn't bother renewing the software support on netvault at this point. I'm confident we'll be able to start providing backups for your servers before end of year. It's not clear to us at the moment there's an advantage to using the new library you have. It might come in handy at some point down the road, but the best path to getting things backed up at this point is to define a new backup pool for BIO, open the firewall conduits to allow the clients to start backing up, install the software on the designated clients, and start the backups. I'm copying the rest of the team on this (sysadmins(a)cels.anl.gov) since I'm going to be on travel for all of next week. We need to identify where the data is that needs backing up (plus any desktops that need backups) and begin the migration plan based off that. Can you give us an overview of the backup infrastructure as it stands now? -- Craig _______________________________________________ This is the CELS Sysadmins mailing list. It is sent to memebers of core-admins(a)mcs.anl.gov and systems(a)alcf.anl.gov. Do not subscribe directly to this list. Thanks.

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[CELS Sysadmins] Holiday break travel schedules
by Stacey, Craig J. 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

I've been looking over coverage schedules and wondering who's around or not during the upcoming holiday breaks. I'm on work travel 11/10-11/15 and vacation travel 11/22 through 12/8 (and very out of touch on that one). I'm also going to be out of town 12/22 - 12/27. For the December trip I've put myself on backup pagerduty since I won't be local, but I'll be within touch of technology and phones and such should emergencies arise. I know Max is out 12/18 through Jan 5, and I've adjusted the pagerduty schedules accordingly by sliding Chris into the rotation. Take a look at the upcoming coverage schedules for pagerduty and let me know if you can or can't cover your shift. Chris, I've added you into the regular rotation effective 11/24 (though your first primary on-call isn't until January). You've got a couple of backup shifts in there, but I'll go over what that all entails in person. Changes to the schedule resulting from the addition of Chris to the schedule as well as overrides I've put in to account for known travel schedules is: Primary on-call: Dan moves to 11/24 (one week up), Max moves to 12/1, JohnR moves to 12/8, I take Ti's slot on 12/15, Ti takes 12/22, I pull another shift on 12/29 (to get us back on to schedule) and it follows weekly after that with Dan, Max, John, Ti, Chris, Me. Backup on-call: Overrides this week while Dan's gone are JohnR (yesterday), Ti (today), Me (tomorrow), JohnR (Thursday), Chris (Friday), Me (Saturday) and Chris again (Sunday). Otherwise, things start shifting as above, where your "backup" week is the week following your "primary" week. You can get an ICS feed to add to your calendar from the pagerduty interface under "On Call Schedules", by clicking the "Export" tab on the relevant schedules. We are currently not using the Escalation Policy named "Default", but are using "Primary and Backup only, no Craig". Default always made me the first one to get notified, with 5 minutes to respond before it escalated. The upcoming travel makes that untenable. Let me know if you have any questions. -- Craig _______________________________________________ This is the CELS Sysadmins mailing list. It is sent to memebers of core-admins(a)mcs.anl.gov and systems(a)alcf.anl.gov. Do not subscribe directly to this list. Thanks.

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