RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 25/8/2017
Contents
Draft agenda
1. Problems encountered this week
2. Upgrades/improvements made this week
3. What are we planning to do next week?
4. Long-term project updates (if not already covered)
1. SL7 upgrade on tape servers 2. SL5 elimination from CASTOR functional test boxes and tape verification server 3. CASTOR stress test improvement 4. Generic CASTOR headnode setup
5. Special topics
6. Actions
7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?
8. AoTechnicalB
9. Availability for next week
10. On-Call
11. AoOtherB
Operation problems
Alice was blocking many tape-drives at the expense of other VOs, most notably CMS that had a problem migrating data to tape GGUS130193
gdss753 crashed due to hard drive failure RT194148
Operation news
The SRM/SL6 aquilon sandbox was deployed to prod
The new CASTOR functional test box castor-functional-test1.gridpp.rl.ac.uk has all Nagios callouts enabled
Plans for next week
Deployment of the new ral-castor tools version
Continue work on tape-server migration to aquilon
Long-term projects
Tape-server migration to aquilon and SL7 upgrade
CASTOR stress test improvement
Configure multiple instances of a CASTOR generic headnode
Drain and decomission/recomission the 12 generation disk servers
Actions
RA to check if the disk server setting, changed to bring disk servers back more quickly after a CASTOR shutdown, is still in place
Ensure that Fabric is on track with the deployment of the new DB hardware
RA to ensure that proper Nagios checks are in place for the xroot manager boxes
RA and JK to do the the new service checklist for the new functional test box (castor-functional-test1)
GP to talk to AL about service ownership/handover of the xroot manager boxes
Staffing
RA on call