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The purpose is to provide 100GbE stacking and/or uplinks for maximum reliability ,  and and multigigabit access.  The first 24x (1 - 24) ports provide 1000 Mbps connection and the next 24x (25 - 48) ports provide 10000 Mbps connectivity.  All ports provide POE+ with up to 1500W power budget.

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LCLS has 2 WEKA storage clusters: i) provides the home directories and software for all users and staff, and ii) the FFB  for the user's experiments.  There was a bug with the previous release, so the latest version was installed to fix the quota bug and improve performance.  The team is still working with the WEKA team to provide the users with the output of their appropriate space usage (quota).

DSS and MON Nodes

There have been many incidents where the Experimental Controls and DAQ team is not aware of the available DSS and MON nodes during a given experiment.  To provide transparency across the multiple teams, the IT team has created a confluence page that explains the validation methodology and provides a log of the current functional DSS and MON servers.  This will prevent the teams from guessing which nodes are available and allow the IT team to fix those that are not available.  Coming soon, the IT team will deploy a new image with monitoring to that will provide alerts so that actions can be taken in a timely manner.

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There has been a request by the data management Data Management team to provide more bandwidth to the SRCF datamovers to keep up with the current data rates.  A 2 x 10Gb bond was created to support a bandwidth of 20Gbps. There are 5 servers used by the Data Management team as SRCF datamovers to support the various experiments. 

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Although LCLS has devices for making remote operations more efficient, each hutch counts with a Realwear HMT-1 headset and the Double3 robot.  The Realwear HMT-1 headset can be used for an interactive hands-free video conferencing call (expert troubleshooting) and documenting by taking pictures/recording of such call.  The Double3 is a telepresence robot with video conferencing and remote driving capabilities.  There has been a lack of support for these devices, so the IT team is working on providing a weekly and monthly maintenance guide.  In addition, each device will be transferred to its respective custodian, and training will be provided to more IT members to so that they can provide assistance to the various staff personnel.  A weekly status report will be logged for the continued maintenance and support of these devices: ROH Maintenance Logs.

Integrate UED to LCLS Standards

There is an effort in progress to support UED's restructuration to the LCLS standard.  Now, UED has a main system named ued-daq with multiple screens, which support both the LCLS and ASTA controls.  The idea is to integrate the Accelerator Network into the LCLS managed devices to provide the current LCLS IOCs and DAQ systems with the capability of accessing the Accelerator PVs.  This step will provide two key functions: i) removal of the UED local gateway and leverage the LCLS gateways, and ii) allow UED to slowly transition their control system to the LCLS environment.

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• CXI network upgrade.
• Switch tool for user management.
• Diskless server upgrade to provide resilience.
• Diskless monitoring to make sure all DSS and MON nodes are operational
• Extra 20 batch nodes for the FEH queue.
• Finalize the ioc-xrt-rec07 image to validate 10G network.
• Finalize and validate GNOME key binding shortcuts process.
• Deploy NoMachine extended capabilities to support remote operations.

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