[Complete] Pre-Production Patch Window 6/18/09 7am-9am

Only the following servers were patched due to limited staff availability:

  • EXDEV
  • FIDALGO
  • GALAXY
  • KETRON
  • PORTAL
  • VS0

During this month’s pre-production patch window the following servers will be patched from 7am-9am on Thursday 6/18/09:

  • lummi
  • pilchuck
  • kickstart
  • moodle2
  • EXDEV
  • FIDALGO
  • GALAXY
  • KETRON
  • PORTAL
  • VS0

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5/31/09 Maintenance Details

See the post in the “Maintenance Windows” catagory for the public communication.  This post is to expand on what servers were patched, and basic changes.  All of the following patches were applied by noon.

The following windows servers were patched (Windows updates):

ALEXANDRIA

BE1

BE2

BE3

CLTACC1

CLTACC2

CMS

DHCP-1

DM-1 to DM-8

EPO

FE1

FE2

ILLIAD

INTCHK

KEEPER

MAURY2

MBS1

MBS2

MBS3

MEDIA

MERLIN2

PROJECTS

SANJUAN

VASHON

VERONICA

VIAWARP

VMMON

WEBSERVER1 (SP2 applied)

WEBSERVER2 (SP2 applied)

VMWare:

vmhost1

Linux (all available OS and Dell RAID FW/Drives as applicable):

orcas

tahoma

purgatory

styx

hades

gehenna

Additional changes on Sophos PMX servers:

Purgatory:

Turned Perc write cache on (write back), and changed linux readahead:

sudo blockdev –setra 8388608 /dev/sda
Rest:
policy on
adaptive read ahead