| Summary | Effective from | Service Element Affected | Body | Post date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| End of general support for Windows XP at CERN | Mon, Dec 31, 08:30 | Windows Desktop Service |
CERN IT support for general use of Microsoft Windows XP is scheduled to end on 31 December 2012. |
Mon, Sep 10, 20:30 |
| SLC5: Oracle Instant Client upgrade to version 11 | Mon, Dec 10, 12:00 | Linux Desktop Service |
Following CERN Oracle Support announcement, the Scientific |
Fri, Nov 30, 16:57 |
| New Lemon metric registration interface | Mon, Dec 10, 08:30 | Multiple Services |
The new metric manager interface has to be used for registering new Lemon metrics and/or sensors. |
Fri, Dec 7, 16:12 |
| CERN Printshop closed for renovation | Thu, Dec 6, 14:00 | Printing Service |
Please note that the CERN Printshop will be closed for modernisation from: Monday 17th December 2012 until at least Friday 11th January 2013, maybe longer. |
Thu, Dec 6, 14:48 |
| ServiceNow new release - November 18 and 26 | Sun, Nov 18, 14:00 | Service Management Service |
The CERN instance for ServiceNow software (SNow) will be ugraded to a new release (codename: Berlin) on Sunday November 18 + new upgrade for Patch 3 Hotfix 1 on Monday 26 November (see |
Fri, Nov 2, 09:19 |
| New Internet upstream | Wed, Nov 7, 07:30 | Campus Network Service |
A new Internet upsrteam (network connection to reach other sites) has been activated on Wednesday 7 November at 7am. In principle, this change should be transparent end users. |
Wed, Nov 7, 07:46 |
| Legacy access to CASTOR being phased out | Fri, Nov 2, 10:04 | CASTOR Service |
As announced in a previous ITSSB, legacy access is being gradually phased out. |
Fri, Nov 2, 10:05 |
| Deprecation of old CASTOR clients | Thu, Nov 1, 08:30 | CASTOR Service |
As of November 1st versions 2.1.12 or lower of the CASTOR clients will be deprecated. They will then progressively cease to function in the following 2 weeks. |
Thu, Oct 18, 14:55 |
| New CASTOR client library being distributed | Wed, Sep 12, 16:00 | Storage Service for Projects & Experiments |
The new CASTOR client RPMs are available through the LinuxSoft repository. |
Tue, Sep 11, 16:15 |
| Update on imap.cern.ch | Mon, Sep 3, 09:00 | E-Mail Service |
On Monday 03.09.2012 there will be an update on e-mail servers in order to enable GSSAPI authentication. No change is required on supported IMAP clients: Thunderbird, Mac.Mail, Alpine. |
Fri, Aug 17, 08:59 |
| AFS home directory quota limit increased to 10GB | Thu, Aug 23, 00:00 | Multiple Services |
Users may increase their home directory quota limit up to 10GB on a self-service basis. |
Thu, Aug 23, 12:57 |
| OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" is available for installations at CERN | Thu, Aug 2, 14:18 | Mac Desktop Service |
OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" is available for installations at CERN. |
Thu, Aug 2, 14:22 |
| New policy on anonymous e-mail gateway (cernmx.cern.ch) to limit number of messages per minute | Wed, Aug 1, 09:00 | E-Mail Service |
From Wednesday 01.08.2012 there will be a new policy on CERN anonymous mail gateway (cernmx.cern.ch). The mail gateway will not accept more than 50 messages per minute from a single IP address. |
Wed, Jul 25, 17:32 |
| Upgrade and new features in CERN SSO (Single Sign On) service | Tue, Jul 24, 14:05 | Identity and Resource Management Application Support |
An important update on the CERN SSO (Single Sign On) service will be deployed in July 2012 enabling new features and targeting IAA concepts.
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Thu, Jul 19, 14:13 |
| CERN Virtual Infrastructure (CVI) backup policy change | Wed, Jul 18, 09:00 | Server Hosting Service |
The number of virtual machines in the CERN Virtual Infrastructure (CVI) service continues to grow, and more and more people are benifiting from this service.
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Thu, Jul 12, 16:48 |
| AFS work space quota limit will be raised to 100GB | Thu, Jul 5, 10:00 | Multiple Services |
The quota limit for personal AFS work spaces will be raised from currently 20GB to 100GB. |
Mon, Jul 2, 11:44 |
| Myproxy server upgrade | Tue, Jul 3, 10:30 | WLCG Proxy Services |
The CERN Myproxy server (myproxy.cern.ch) will be upgraded to version 5.8 on Tuesday, July 3rd. The change is expected to take place transparently. |
Tue, Jun 26, 17:48 |
| End of devdb10 | Mon, Jul 2, 08:00 | Multiple Services |
As announced before, and after the successful upgrade of CERNDB1 / ACCDB / EDMSDB to 11g, the DEVDB10 database will be decommissioned on July the 2nd. |
Tue, Jun 19, 10:39 |
| Deployment of new E-groups version | Wed, Jun 20, 11:11 | Multiple Services, E-Mail Service |
The GS-AIS will deploy new version of E-groups http://gssb.web.cern.ch/intervention/deployment-new-e-groups |
Wed, Jun 20, 11:16 |
| Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 installation on mailbox servers | Tue, May 29, 09:05 | E-Mail Service |
Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 will be installed on CERN mailbox servers on Tuesday (29.05) and Wednesday (30.05). No user interruption is foreseen. |
Tue, May 29, 09:08 |
| Update on e-mail system | Mon, May 21, 09:00 | E-Mail Service |
Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 will be installed on servers that provide access to CERN mailboxes (mmm.cern.ch, imap.cern.ch, smtp.cern.ch, mail.cern.ch). |
Wed, May 16, 12:28 |
| Network Boot service update (AIMS2 / PXE) | Wed, May 16, 08:30 | Multiple Services |
Network boot / installation service for Windows and Linux systems (AIMS2 / PXE) will be updated to new version of remote boot loaders. |
Tue, May 15, 12:04 |
| AMS users to use dedicated CASTOR disk pool 'amsuser' | Mon, May 7, 12:04 | Storage Service for Projects & Experiments |
CASTOR disk pool amsuser is now the default disk pool for AMS users. |
Mon, May 7, 12:16 |
| Device driver update on SLC6 VOBox Virtual Machines | Fri, May 4, 12:00 | VoBOX Service for Projects & Experiments |
SLC6 VOBoxes hosted on the Service Consolidation infrastructure (virtual machines hosted by HyperV hypervisors) will receive new paravirtualization drivers together with OSDATE 20120504. |
Thu, May 3, 11:37 |
| NICE Phonebook retirement | Wed, May 2, 16:00 | Windows Desktop Service |
The current NICE Phonebook application will be retired after several years of good service. |
Wed, May 2, 14:43 |
| Indico | Wed, Apr 25, 18:30 | Conference Management Application Support |
Indico will be upgraded to version 0.98.2. This means one important change in the service: |
Tue, Apr 24, 11:39 |
| WMS server update | Wed, Apr 25, 10:30 | GRID Workload Service |
CERN WMS servers will be progressively updated to version 3.3.5 (EMI1 Update 15) starting from April 25th. |
Wed, Apr 25, 10:18 |
| Internet Explorer 9 on NICE | Thu, Apr 19, 12:30 | Windows Desktop Service |
Internet Explorer 9 will be deployed to all centrally-managed NICE computers on 19 April 2012. |
Thu, Apr 12, 11:14 |
| Integrating Lync features into CERN webmail | Thu, Apr 19, 10:00 | E-Mail Service |
On Thursday, features available in Lync (presence, instant messaging) will be integrated into CERN Webmail. |
Wed, Apr 18, 17:37 |
| New IT department web site | Mon, Apr 2, 08:00 | Web Service |
We will be deploying a new IT web site on 10th April. This is now available at www.cern.ch/information-technology for feedback. |
Thu, Mar 29, 17:28 |
| Upgrade of J2EE Public Service containers to Tomcat 7 | Thu, Mar 29, 18:00 | DB & App Platform for Accelerators, DB & App Platform for AIS, DB & App Platform for EDMS, DB & Application Platform Service for Projects & Experiments |
On March 29th, all containers that are part of the J2EE Public Service will be upgraded to Tomcat 7, unless specific user requirement (third-party software not supported on Tomcat 7 for example). |
Tue, Jan 24, 16:06 |
| Upgrade of system RPMs on lxbatch nodes | Mon, Mar 26, 10:45 | Batch Service |
The system RPMs of all lxbatch nodes will be upgraded to the latest SLC5 level starting from today 26 March.
This follows a week of testing period: |
Mon, Mar 26, 10:47 |
| Opening of self-service for 20GB workspaces on AFS | Wed, Mar 21, 17:51 | Storage Service for Projects & Experiments |
The self-service for requesting 20GB workspaces on AFS will be opened for all users on Wednesday 21st of March. Users can request workspaces via the account portal: |
Thu, Mar 15, 17:53 |
| IT SSB – Search functionality added | Wed, Mar 21, 08:30 | Service Management Service |
Following some user feedback a more powerful “search” functionality, available to all users, has been added in the interface of the IT SSB. |
Wed, Mar 21, 11:42 |
| Upgrade of system RPMs on lxbatch nodes | Tue, Mar 20, 10:00 | Batch Service |
The system RPMs of the lxbatch nodes in "preprod" will be upgraded to the latest SLC5 level starting from today. |
Tue, Mar 20, 10:08 |
| The Office Communicator application will be upgraded to the latest version named Lync | Wed, Mar 14, 15:04 | E-Mail Service |
"MS Patches 2012-3 (NICE)" updates will be deployed mid-March on CERN Windows centrally managed machines. |
Wed, Mar 14, 15:14 |
| Closure of outgoing firewall ports 1-1023/tcp and /udp | Tue, Mar 13, 09:00 | Firewall Configuration Service |
As agreed with departments and LHC experiments on the last ITSRM meeting |
Tue, Feb 28, 16:21 |
| Release of OCSInventory-agent for MacOS - Please install it on your MAC! | Thu, Mar 8, 16:21 | Mac Desktop Service |
In an effort to further improve the Mac support services we have deployed OCSinventory Agent for MacOS: this is a light agent that gathers general information abou |
Thu, Mar 8, 16:25 |
| Software upgrade on Batch nodes | Thu, Mar 1, 09:30 | Batch Service |
A new version of LSF which includes minor changes in the wrapper scripts is being deployed in production nodes after 2 weeks in preproduction. |
Thu, Mar 1, 09:31 |
| Exceed X11 software replacement | Wed, Feb 29, 13:00 | Windows Desktop Service |
On centrally managed NICE computers, Exceed will be automatically uninstalled and replaced by Starnet X-Win32. |
Thu, Feb 16, 14:42 |
| people.cern.ch web portal phase-out | Tue, Feb 28, 16:00 | Windows Desktop Service |
The web portal http://people.cern.ch will phase-out on February 28th. |
Fri, Feb 10, 17:35 |
| Phase-out of gssklog service | Wed, Feb 22, 09:00 | Storage Service for Projects & Experiments |
Due to the replacement of its functionality by other services (such as CVMFS), the gssklog service, i.e. |
Mon, Feb 6, 17:15 |
| Service-Now upgrade to a new release | Sun, Feb 19, 20:00 | Process Application Support |
The CERN instance for Service-Now software (SNOW) has been ugraded to a new release (codename: Aspen) on Sunday February 19. |
Fri, Feb 24, 15:27 |
| Decommissioning of CASTORALICE default pool | Tue, Feb 14, 10:00 | Storage Service for Projects & Experiments |
The read/write access to the default pool in CASTORALICE instance will be disabled as agreed with ALICE. |
Fri, Feb 10, 18:35 |
| Software upgrade on Batch nodes | Mon, Feb 13, 16:47 | Batch Service |
A software upgrade which has been tested in preproduction nodes over the past few weeks is being deployed in all nodes. |
Mon, Feb 13, 16:57 |
| Upgrade of Microsoft Office Communications server | Fri, Feb 10, 19:45 | E-Mail Service |
On 22.02.2012 Office Communications Server will be upgraded to a newer version. It’s a major upgrade and it is compatible only with Office Communicator Client version “3.5.6907.233” or higher. |
Fri, Feb 10, 19:52 |
| Retirement of CERNs LCG CEs | Thu, Feb 9, 11:40 | GRID Workload Service |
As announced several times in the past, the LCG CEs at CERN are being retired. The procedure has started on 9/2/2012.
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Thu, Feb 9, 11:43 |
| Reduction of AFS backup retention period to 6 months | Mon, Feb 6, 10:34 | Storage Service for Projects & Experiments |
Reduction of AFS backup retention period to 6 months (as agreed and defined in SLD). Process started and it will take 4 weeks to complete. |
Thu, Feb 16, 10:35 |
| New Lemon web frontend in production | Thu, Feb 2, 14:17 | IT Support Services for IT Operations |
The new Lemon web frontend will be offered in production from 6th February at address http://lemon.cern.ch/lemon-web |
Thu, Feb 2, 14:25 |
| CVMFS stratum 0 change for /cvmfs/atlas-condb.cern.ch. | Wed, Jan 25, 10:00 | CernVM File System |
The CVMFS repository /cvmfs/atlas-condb.cern.ch will be served from a completly new instance of a CVMFS stratum 0. |
Mon, Jan 23, 16:32 |
| Upgrade of WMS servers to EMI-1 | Mon, Jan 23, 09:00 | GRID Workload Service |
The CERN WMS (Workload Management System) service is undergoing migration to version 3.3.4 (EMI-1 release). |
Wed, Jan 18, 15:47 |
| CERN Kerberos KDC change for Linux and MacOS desktops | Mon, Jan 16, 10:00 | Multiple Services |
From January 16th 2012, The CERN KDCs (afsdb1,afsdb2 and afsdb3) will no longer provide a Kerberos service, and if you have the CERN realm defined in the /etc/krb5.conf file on your Linux desktops, |
Mon, Nov 21, 16:21 |