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This is a draft project plan.
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h2. 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.

h2. Status

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

h2. 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.

h2. Athena 9 EOL Options

* Upgrade to Debathena
* Continue running Athena 9.4 with no support

h2. Action Items

(x) = Incomplete | (*) = In progress | (/) = Complete

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

h3. Upgrade public clusters to Debathena

Upgrades completed, early August 2009.

h3. Determine quickstation hardware and identify machines for upgrade

jdreed will remotely inventory the quickstations and identify hardware for upgrade.

h3. Upgrade remaining quickstations to Debathena

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

h3. 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.

h3. Craft documentation for data migration

jdreed will craft documentation in Hermes for migrating local data.

h3. Outreach to private workstation owners

h3. Complete Debathena PWOG

jdreed will complete [http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/eSVB] and submit for review by aurora.

h3. Ensure OLH documents are updated