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Maintenance will be carried out on Pawsey systems on Tuesday the 7th July to apply required patches and updates to improve the systems stability, security, and performance. This maintenance window will also be used to undertake other tasks which require down-time to achieve.
Planned work for this window includes: • Pawsey Firewalls will be updated to apply security fixes. • Mediaflux server will have the latest bug and security fixes from Rocky Linux. • Mediaflux will be upgraded. • Patching of visualisation services will be undertaken. • Acacia Projects and Ingest clusters upgrade to Ceph 19. • Banksia will have ScoutAM and ScoutFS updates applied. • Banksia's fibre channel switches will have a firmware update. • Banksia's servers will have the latest bug and security fixes from Rocky Linux. • Patching of core Pawsey services will be undertaken. • The ASKAP ingest cluster will be upgraded to SLES 15 SP7. • ASKAP Buffer will have drive firmware applied. • Setonix will be upgraded to SLES 15 SP7. The scientific software stack will be unchanged and default Cray Programming Environment will remain the same, however the AMD GPU driver will be updated to support SLES 15 SP7.
If you have any questions, please contact help@pawsey.org.au. Posted on
Jun 30, 2026 - 10:42 AWST
We plan to upgrade the RADOS Gateway (RGW) component of the Acacia Ingest Ceph cluster to Squid 19.2. The service is expected to remain operational and available, but during this period it will be considered at risk. All affected research groups have been contacted and are aware of the work.
If you encounter any unexpected problems, please contact help@pawsey.org.au Posted on
Jun 11, 2026 - 15:43 AWST
Resolved -
We have resolved this item and Library 1 if back online for the alternate copy. Please bear with us while it clears the backlog of stages and archive.
Jun 26, 13:31 AWST
Investigating -
The Banksia service is currently in a degraded, “at risk” state as it is operating with only one tape library instead of the standard two. As a result, the alternate copy of files on tape will be unavailable for staging or archiving until Library 1 is restored to service. The secondary copy is still available for all data so this should not impact the Banksia offline files service. If you do experience any issues accessing data please let us know at help@pawsey.org.au
Jun 19, 07:07 AWST