[SAC] [Hosting] ftp.osuosl.org maintenance - May 17, 2018 9am PDT (May 17 1600 UTC)

Service(s) affected: ftp.osuosl.org

One of the three servers (ftp-osl) which serve ftp.osuosl.org will be offline during an OS reinstall. This particular machine acts as a syncing master for the other two servers so updates on our mirror network will be delayed until ftp-osl has been rebuilt.

Outage Window:
Start: Thu, May 17, 9:00AM PDT (Thu May 17 1600 UTC)
End: Thu, May 17, 3:00PM PDT (Thu May 17 2200 UTC)

Reason for outage:

The server known as ftp-osl is currently running RHEL and will be reinstalled with CentOS. This is due to the fact that there was no port of CentOS for ppc64le at the time we deployed the system. To align with the rest of our infrastructure and also remove the need for a license we’ll be switching this over to CentOS. In addition, we’re going to be updating the system firmware.

I plan to keep the ssh host keys the same after the re-install and all of the data currently on the system will remain intact. We have already taken this server out of our DNS rotation however other projects may be directly pointing to this server which we have no control over.

We’ll be doing the same reinstall on the other two nodes next week.

Thanks-

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Lance Albertson

Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab

ftp-osl has been rebuilt and everything appears to be back to normal. I’m going to keep it out of rotation for a few more hours until I’m confident everything is working properly with it again. Please ping us in #osuosl or send an email to support if you notice something is wrong.

Thanks-

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On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 2:59 PM, Lance Albertson <lance@osuosl.org> wrote:

Service(s) affected: ftp.osuosl.org

One of the three servers (ftp-osl) which serve ftp.osuosl.org will be offline during an OS reinstall. This particular machine acts as a syncing master for the other two servers so updates on our mirror network will be delayed until ftp-osl has been rebuilt.

Outage Window:
Start: Thu, May 17, 9:00AM PDT (Thu May 17 1600 UTC)
End: Thu, May 17, 3:00PM PDT (Thu May 17 2200 UTC)

Reason for outage:

The server known as ftp-osl is currently running RHEL and will be reinstalled with CentOS. This is due to the fact that there was no port of CentOS for ppc64le at the time we deployed the system. To align with the rest of our infrastructure and also remove the need for a license we’ll be switching this over to CentOS. In addition, we’re going to be updating the system firmware.

I plan to keep the ssh host keys the same after the re-install and all of the data currently on the system will remain intact. We have already taken this server out of our DNS rotation however other projects may be directly pointing to this server which we have no control over.

We’ll be doing the same reinstall on the other two nodes next week.

Thanks-

Lance Albertson

Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab

Lance Albertson

Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab