View source for RAL Tier1 weekly operations Grid 20091102

== Summary of Previous Week ==

=== Developments ===

* Alastair
** Finished security audit
** Deployed disk servers from non-prod to prod
** Went through most of castor training when Shaun wasn't too busy. 
** Learnt about Tier 2 data storage allocation from Brian
** Learnt how to make changes with quattor and updated twiki
** Updated PPD twiki

* Andrew
** Completed consistency check of Aug 09 APEL & PBS; resolved problems with Oct 09 pbsjobs MySQL
** Writing Perl script to generate UB Schedule spreadsheet
** Attended CMS Offline and Computing Workshop, CERN
** Obtained CMS production role
** Meeting with a member of CMS data ops about ProdAgent
** Deleted 190,000 CMS files in /store/unmerged
** Training: CERN level 1 & 2 safety
* Catalin
** finished the ALICE disk servers deployment
** deployed and tested the FronTier/squid server for ATLAS
** installed the SL5 VOBOX for Alice
** started the drain operation for WMS03
* Derek
** Deployed updated vo config in quattor
** Fixed quattor directory creation on WNs
** Writing RAL talk for Quattor workshop
** Documenting CE information system setup
* Matt
** Deployed gLite 3.2 SL5 VOBOX
** Checked priorities for deploying Viglen 08 kit after it passes acceptance tests (meet shortfalls in ATLAS and LHCb pledges)
* Richard
** DSE Training
** 5 X disk server deployments into AtlasSimStrip
** Packaged RT helpdesk scripts plus their associated cron entries as an RPM using DR's layout
** Repackaged the gmetric-bdii-top.pl and tier1-bdii-top-config RPMs using DR's layout
** Updated the log analysis perl scripts in the gmetric-bdii-top.pl and tier1-bdii-top-config RPMs for better performance. One shows ~ 15X improvement, the other ~ 10X.
** CASTOR activities: continued development of quattor templates for servers in pre-prod instance; also DNS changes
*Mayo
** Rolled out first prototype of the new Metric Gathering System
** Collected some feedback on the new Metric Gathering System prototype 
** Resolved SVN access issues

=== Operational Issues and Incidents ===

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|- bgcolor="#7c8aaf"
! Description
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! Affected VO(s)
! Severity
! Status
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== Plans for Week(s) Ahead ==

=== Plans ===

* Alastair
** go through gLite training
** Finish Castor training
** Update CPU efficiencies
** Test UK Frontier/Squid using Athena release 15.5.1
** Test prod/poweruser0/user permissions at the Tier 1.
** Continue updating ppd twiki on ATLAS software.

* Andrew
** Continue work on automated generation of UB Schedule spreadsheet
** Deploy a spare service node as a VOBOX using Quattor; install & setup ProdAgent; run a test production job
* Catalin
** finish deployment of SL5 VOBOX for Alice
** re-install WMS03 (hotswaping)
** integrate FronTier within ATLAS Frontier/squid network
* Derek
** Attend quattor workshop (Brussels)
** Investigate/deploy SCAS
* Matt
** Disaster recovery planning
* Richard
** Update Job Plan
** Complete quattor config/build for BDII servers
** CASTOR activities: Continue work on new pre-prod instance
*Mayo
** Collect More feedback on prototype system
** Begin working on additional functionality for future releases of the Metric System
** work on phase two of the on call documentation project
** design specification for IPMI project

== Resource Requests ==

== Downtimes ==

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|- bgcolor="#7c8aaf"
! Description
! Hosts
! Type
! Start
! End
! Affected VO(s)
|-
| WMS03 hotswappable
| lcgwms03.gridpp.rl.ac.uk
| Scheduled Outage
| Oct 30 (09:00)
| Nov 05 (16:00)
| non-LHC
|}

== Requirements and Blocking Issues ==

{| border=1 align=center
|- bgcolor="#7c8aaf"
! Description
! Required By
! Priority
! Status
|- bgcolor="#ffa500"
| HW for Squid deployment
| ATLAS
| High
| request made via RT Fabric queue; used reserved hardware
|- bgcolor="#ffa500"
| HW for FronTier deployment
| ATLAS
| High
| request made via RT Fabric queue; used reserved hardware
|- bgcolor="#ffa500"
| HW for SL5 64-bit VOBOX
| Alice
| High
| request made via RT Fabric queue; used reserved hardware
|- bgcolor="#ffa500"
| Hardware for testing LFC/FTS resilience
| 
| High
| DataServices want to deploy a DataGuard configuration to test LFC/FTS resilience; request for HW made through RT Fabric queue
|-
| Non-capacity HW for testing
| 
| Medium
| Still using the old HW
|-
| Hardware for PPS
| 
| Medium
| We have made a commitment to test PPS pre-releases, and have no hardware dedicated for this.
|}

== OnCall/AoD Cover ==

* Primary OnCall: Catalin (Mon-Thu)
* Grid OnCall:
* AoD:

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