WP8247 upgrade EX DAQ network switch to Brocade (Ruckus ICX-7150-24)

Dave:

The upgrade of the switch itself went as planned. Problems arose when I activated a port on sw-ex-h1fe to connect the new switch to the ADMINLAN.

After having previously done this upgrade at EY in March of this year, the switch swap-out went smoothly. With the proper tools (e.g. right-angled screwdriver), removing the obscured rack screws went well. Removing the side of the rack (with key) and the left 'ear' on the outgoing Netgear and the incoming Brocade allowed the switches to be retracted into the rack and removed though the side.

Powering down the Netgear sw-ex-h1daq did not cause any other systems' DAQ data to go bad. Once the Brocade sw-ex-h1daq was started, all the EX front ends and the pem at MX recovered their DAQ data.

To connect the new switch to the ADMIN LAN we are currently running an ADMIN ethernet cable over from the local h1fe switch (the tagging of this VLAN from the MSR is not currently working). I converted a slow controls port to an ADMIN port (0/7) on sw-ex-h1fe for this purpose. Unfortunately this was a tagged ADMIN port (from when we used to pair front end FE-LAN and IPMI on a single port) which caused some network issues mentioned in other alogs.

I'll keep this workpermit open to cover fixing the tagging of the ADMIN LAN from the MSR to the end station switches.

Beckhoff code changes:

Daniel, Patrick, Hugh:

As reported elsewhere, corner and end station Beckhoff restarts for new code were made. The Beckhoff SDF faux-models required restarts.

Due to time constraints and other activities requiring the DAQ, these two items were postponed.

• ISI and SEIPROC model updates
• DAQ Restart

Note that this means the new slow controls channels created today are not in the DAQ.