CERN Accelerating science

Patching of ATLAS online production database (ATONR)

 
Description: 

Apply the latest security updates from Oracle on the ATLAS online production database (ATONR). ATONR database we will be fully stopped for around 20 minutes at the beginning of the intervention in order to introduce some parameter changes. After that intervention will be continued in a rolling way and the database services will be available, however some applications may experience session failures.

Additional Information: streams replication (ATLAS online -> ATLAS offline)  will be fully stopped during the intervention.

Specific Service Detail: 
Services affected: ATONR_ATLOG, ATONR_BACKUP, ATONR_COCA, ATONR_CONF, ATONR_COOL, ATONR_DD, ATONR_MDA, ATONR_MDT_DCS, ATONR_MUBR, ATONR_OKS, ATONR_PVSSPROD, ATONR_PVSSPROD2
Reason for this intervention: 

Quarterly security patch.

Effective from date: 
Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 08:00
End date: 
Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 10:00
Service Element Affected: 
DB & Application Platform Service for Projects & Experiments
Impact on service: 
Service will be unavailable during the intervention
Posted by: 
IT-DB
Unit responsible for resolution: 
IT Department