CERN Accelerating science

Patching of ATLAS offline production database (ATLR) - rolling intervention.

 
Description: 

Apply the latest security updates from Oracle on the ATLAS offline production database (ATLR). The patch deployment is rolling and the database services will be available during all the time, however some applications may experience session failures. Services which may be affected are: ATLAS_AMI, ATLAS_ATLOG, ATLAS_AUTHDB, ATLAS_COCA, ATLAS_CONFIG, ATLAS_COOLPROD, ATLAS_COOLWRITE, ATLAS_DA, ATLAS_DCS, ATLAS_DD, ATLAS_ELTRT, ATLAS_FRONTIER, ATLAS_GLANCE, ATLAS_HTMLDB, ATLAS_INTEGRATION, ATLAS_LARCALIB, ATLAS_LARGFR, ATLAS_LARGUS, ATLAS_LOG_MESSG, ATLAS_MDA, ATLAS_MDT_DCS, ATLAS_MUON, ATLAS_MUON_EC_ALIGN, ATLAS_MUON_RPC, ATLAS_MUONCERT, ATLAS_MUONCSC, ATLAS_OKS, ATLAS_OKSPROD, ATLAS_PVSSCONF_DCS, ATLAS_PVSSPROD, ATLAS_T0, ATLAS_TAGS_REGISTRY, ATLAS_TODO, ATLAS_TRT, ATLR_BACKUP

Additional Information: streams replication (ATLAS online -> ATLAS offline -> Tier 1s)  will be fully stopped during the intervention.

Reason for this intervention: 

Quarterly security patch.

Effective from date: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 10:00
End date: 
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 12:00
Service Element Affected: 
DB & Application Platform Service for Projects & Experiments
Impact on service: 
Service will be available but degraded
Posted by: 
IT-DB
Unit responsible for resolution: 
IT Department