Policy/ChangePrcoess/Requests

Change Requests

  1. Change Requests
    1. Description
    2. Date of the proposed change
    3. Estimated duration of the change
    4. Systems and services affected
    5. ARCS staff responsible for the change
    6. Testing procedures
    7. Backout procedures

Description

People submitting jobs to ng2.ivec.org from the CSIRO Desktop Modelling Toolkit are currently experiencing gssapi errors. A fresh VDT 1.8.1 was installed as ng2new.ivec.org and is not experiencing these errors. This change request is to rename the existing ng2.ivec.org to ng2new.ivec.org, and to rename the existing ng2new.ivec.org to ng2.ivec.org.

Date of the proposed change

Tuesday 20/05/08 09:00 WST

Estimated duration of the change

2 hours, to allow for adequate testing.

Systems and services affected

  • Systems - ng2.ivec.org, ng2new.ivec.org
  • Services - WS-GRAM, MDS

ARCS staff responsible for the change

Darran Carey - darran.carey@…

Testing procedures

The  test suite will be performed. A number of jobs will also be submitted from a desktop running the DMT.

Backout procedures

If the change does not succeed, then the machines will be renamed back to their original names, and services will be restored to the state they were in prior to the change.