Dear All We were only informed about this change at yesterday's ops meeting and the explanation given there was not very clear. Now that the documentation link is provided I can see that this is only a small change. Basically when you define a site downtime period you can now flag for this to be announced automatically to the relevant audience: 1) if a core node is impacted by the downtime then all ROC/RC/VO managers are notified for the downtime. the list of core node is built from the GOC db. 2) if no core node is impacted by the downtime then only the impacted ROC/RC/VO are informed. This should make your life easier. You do not have to use the Broadcast tool in addition to putting the downtime in the GOCDB. Please have a look at the documentation (http://cic.gridops.org/index.php?section=home&page=SDprocedure) and we will have a discussion on any concerns/questions at the UKI meeting on Thursday (http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=19903). Thanks, Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: EGEE BROADCAST [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 23 October 2007 12:46 To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; Coles, J (Jeremy); [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask] Subject: New downtime procedure ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------ Publication from : Osman Aidel <[log in to unmask]> (CIC Team) This mail has been sent using the broadcasting tool available at http://cic.gridops.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------ Dear all, As announced to the Operation meeting, the new downtime procedure will be in production from 13:00 [UTC]. Thanks to this procedure : - Sent emails will be standardized - the broadcast targets definition will be systemized - Any user might be notified - Notification by RSS Feed and/or Email Further details are available at this url : http://cic.gridops.org/index.php?section=home&page=SDprocedure Regards, CIC Team