Hi,
The FTS is back in service now. There have been many successful
transfers in the last 10 minutes.
The GOCDB downtime will expire at 16:00 UTC.
Regards,
Tiju Idiculla
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As reported at the WLCG daily meeting we are having problems with the
> upgrade of the database behind the FTS to Oracle 11. The upgrade failed
> at the stage of updating the Oracle software (rather than the database
> itself). The decision was taken to reverse the change but that has also
> given a problem.
>
> In order to get the FTS back as quickly as possible we are now creating
> a new FTS database on another database system and will point the FTS
> front ends and agents at that. Although this will loose history and the
> outstanding queued transfers, it should enable the service to be
> recovered as soon as possible. The time estimate is again 1 - 2 hours from
> the time of this message. (I.e. Roughly by 16:30 local time, 15:30 UTC).
>
> The database for which the upgrade failed does also support our LFC.
> This is used by some non-LHC VOs. Although not relevant for many of the
> recipients of this e-mail we are dealing with the restoration of this service
> in a different way. This will take more time - but clearly protecting
> the data is important in this case.
>
> Gareth Smith.
>
>
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