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Dear Resource Centre Administrators and VO Managers.

This message is to inform you about the decommissioning calendar of the following unsupported gLite 3.2 products (http://glite.cern.ch/R3.2/): . glite-SE_dcache (end of security updates and support: 31/10/2011) . glite-WN, glite-SE_dpm and glite-LFC (end of security updates and support: 30/11/2012).

DECOMMISSIONING CALENDAR The services listed above must be decommissioned by 31-01-2013

- Service end-points which can not be upgraded by this deadline, must be set in downtime as of 01-02-2013, unless upgrading is not possible for technical reasons.

- From the first week of December Nagios probes (run by a dedicated EGI instance of SAM) will detected unsupported service end-points according to the version information available from BDII. Probes detecting unsupported service end-points, will generate alarms that can be tracked by administrators on the site operations dashboard at: https://operations-portal.egi.eu/dashboard

- Administrators of the affected Resource Centres will receive notification tickets, and are requested to provide information about their upgrade plans within 10 working days from the day the ticket is received.

For more information and support, please contact your local operations centre or submit a ticket to http://helpdesk.egi.eu/

Best wishes. Tiziana Ferrari - EGI Operations

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