Scheduled
Maintenance will be carried out on Pawsey systems on Tuesday the 2nd December 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:
• The firewall will have security profiles applied to increase visibility and threat prevention coverage.
• Firewall security policy clean up.
• Preemptive high availability election on firewalls will be enabled.
• HPE will re-cable the temperature sensor in rack x1001 of Setonix.
• HPE will perform coolant sampling of Setonix.
• Update to the cli-filter on Setonix to support future GPU power control operations.
• Install CPU and GPU versions of NAMD 3.0.2 on Setonix.
• /home on ASKAP Ingest and Ella will be replaced with a NetApp (as well as /software on ASKAP Ingest).
• Block port 5000 externally on Acacia Projects.
• Acacia Ingest will continue migration work off Puppet infrastructure.
• Banksia will be moving to a new VLAN.
• Change over to new Kafka Production server for event notifications on Banksia.
• Patching of visualisation services will be undertaken.
• Patching of core Pawsey services will be undertaken.
If you have any questions, please contact help@pawsey.org.au.
Posted Nov 25, 2025 - 09:49 AWST
This scheduled maintenance affects: ASKAP (ASKAP ingest nodes, ASKAP service nodes), Central Services (Authentication and Authorization, Service Desk, License Server, Application Portal, Origin, /home filesystem, /pawsey filesystem, Central Slurm Database, Documentation), Storage Systems (Acacia Ingest, Acacia MWA, Acacia Projects, Banksia, Data Portal Systems, CASDA Nodes, MWA Nodes, MWA ASVO), Lustre filesystems (/scratch filesystem, /software filesystem, /askapbuffer filesystem, /askapingest filesystem), Setonix (Login nodes, Data-mover nodes, Slurm scheduler, Setonix work partition, Setonix debug partition, Setonix long partition, Setonix copy partition, Setonix askaprt partition, Setonix highmem partition, Setonix gpu partition, Setonix gpu high mem partition, Setonix gpu debug partition), and Visualisation Services (Remote Vis, Vis scheduler, Setonix vis nodes, Nebula vis nodes, Visualisation Lab, Reservation, CARTA - Stable, CARTA - Test, Pawsey Remote VR).