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This is a draft project plan.

Overview

Debathena is slated to completely replace Athena 9 during Summer 2009 and Fall 2009. This includes not only the public clusters, but quickstations, dorm clusters, and private workstations. While some private workstations are used as "servers", any servers maintained by IS&T or in an IS&T co-lo are outside the scope of this project.

Status

Public cluster deployments completed, August 2008.
Quickstation, dorm cluster upgrades on track.

Areas of Concern

Public clusters
Podium/lectern workstations in selected classrooms: Outreach to faculty required
Quickstations: Debathena login process on -cluster machines is slower due to chroot. Possibly mitigation by ensuring all Quickstations are 755s or 760s.
Private workstations with local data storage: Documentation on data migration is required — there is no upgrade path from Athena 9 to Debathena, a reinstall is required.

Athena 9 EOL Options

Upgrade to Debathena
Continue running Athena 9.4 with no support

Action Items

= Incomplete | = In progress | = Complete

Task	Owner	Due
Upgrade public clusters to Debathena	jdreed, hotline	30-AUG-09
Determine quickstation hardware and identify machines for upgrade	jdreed	8-SEP-2009
Upgrade remaining quickstations to Debathena	hotline	13-OCT-2009
Upgrade dorm machines to Debathena	jdreed, RCCs	13-OCT-2009
Craft documentation for data migration	jdreed	13-OCT-2009
Outreach to private workstation owners	jdreed,othomas	—
Complete Debathena PWOG	jdreed	15-SEP-2009
Ensure OLH documents are updated	jdreed,aurora	15-SEP-2009

Upgrade public clusters to Debathena

Upgrades completed, early August 2009.

Determine quickstation hardware and identify machines for upgrade

Host	Hardware	Athena Version
qsmuseum-1.mit.edu	HP dc5100	9.4.26
quick-11-copy.mit.edu	HP dc5100	9.4.26
qsw32-1.mit.edu	HP dc5100	9.4.43
quick-w20-copy1.mit.edu	HP dc5100	debathena
quick-w20-copy2.mit.edu	HP dc5100	debathena
quickstation-new-house.mit.edu	HP dc5100	debathena
w20-lobby-quick1.mit.edu	HP dc5100	debathena
w20-lobby-quick2.mit.edu	HP dc5100	debathena
quick-edgerton-2.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	9.4.27
quickstation-bexley.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	9.4.27
quickstation-random-hall.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	9.4.27
quickstation-senior-house.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	9.4.27
quickstation-westgate.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	9.4.27
quickstation-eastgate.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	9.4.34
quickstation-green-hall.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	9.4.34
quickstation-edgerton.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	9.4.38
quickstation-baker-house.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	9.4.43
quickstation-east-campus.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	9.4.43
qs-simmons.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	debathena
quickstation-1.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	debathena
quickstation-11-1.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	debathena
quickstation-11-2.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	debathena
quickstation-11-3.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	debathena
quickstation-11-4.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	debathena
quickstation-2.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	debathena
quickstation-3.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	debathena
quickstation-4.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	debathena
quickstation-lobby-16-1.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	debathena
quickstation-lobby-16-2.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	debathena
quickstation-macgregor.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	debathena
quickstation-mccormick.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	debathena
quickstation-next-house.mit.edu	Optiplex 620	debathena
quickstation-boathouse.mit.edu	Optiplex 745	9.4.43
quickstation-7-4.mit.edu	Optiplex 745	debathena
quickstation-tang.mit.edu	Optiplex 745	debathena
quickstation-w35-1.mit.edu	Optiplex 745	debathena
qs-chickensoup-1.mit.edu	Optiplex 755	9.4.49
quickstation-burton-conner.mit.edu	Optiplex 755	reinstall required
qsnw35-1.mit.edu	Optiplex 755	9.4.49
qsnw35-2.mit.edu	Optiplex 755	9.4.49
quickstation-baker2-house.mit.edu	Optiplex 755	9.4.49
quickstation-50-1.mit.edu	Optiplex 755	9.4.54
quick-1-150.mit.edu	Optiplex 755	reinstall required

Upgrade remaining quickstations to Debathena

jdreed will inquire with hotline about a possible schedule for upgrading remaining quickstations

Upgrade dorm machines to Debathena

Simmons: Complete, except for hardware issues on -2, -4, -5 and -8.
Tang: Complete, except for quickstation-tang. TODO: Rename ultra5-tang-{1,2} to something less Solaris-like.
BC: Complete, except for -1 and -2 and QS.
MacG: Complete, except for -4 and QS.

Craft documentation for data migration

jdreed will craft documentation in Hermes for migrating local data.

Outreach to private workstation owners

Complete Debathena PWOG

jdreed will complete http://kb.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/confluence/x/eSVB and submit for review by aurora.