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SL5 retirement
The role of this page is tracking the progressive decommissioning of SL5 from sites.
UMD is getting ready to support CentOS7. Supporting a new platform will require to decommission a previously support O.S. to make available new resources. EGI Operations will like to decommission Scientific Linux 5.
Please start tracking which sites are still using SL5 services: how many services, and for each service if still needed on SL5, if upgrades on SL5 services are expected). Also interesting to understand who is using Debian.
From September 2015 on, UMD3 will support only security fixes for SL5. Security updates will be available until March 2016.
All SL5 services must be decommissioned by April 2016. On February probes will start warning about SL5 services to be decommissioned.
Description of the process
- Procedure is https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/PROC16_Decommissioning_of_unsupported_software
- Decommissioning deadline: April 30, 2016
- Decommissioning start date: January 31, 2016
- On Jan31 a new probe is deployed into the MW SAM and starts returning WARNING with SL5
- On Feb28 the probe starts returning CRITICAL
- From Feb28 RODs follow up the service migration by creating operations ticket through Operations Dashboard (see https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/PROC16_Decommissioning_of_unsupported_software#Escalation_phase)
Overall status
| NGI/ROC | Status | Notes |
Log
[2015-07-13] SAM-nagios is still SL5, no SL6 available. ARGO will get fully centralized, there is no need to use SAM-nagios anymore, so regional instances won't be used anymore.
[2015-12-17] SL5 retirement announced at OMB https://indico.egi.eu/indico/getFile.py/access?contribId=5&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=2383
[2016-01-15] UMD4 released with CentOS7