Production Team Report 2011-05-16
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Contents
RAL Tier1 Production Team Report for 16th May 2011.
AoD This Week
Mon - Tue: Tiju Wed: Gareth Thu: John Fri: Gareth
Last week
- Gareth: AoD (2 days); Create Post Mortem for LFC outage, HEP SYSman preparations, COP kick off, APRs.
- John: AoD (1 day);
- Tiju: AoD (2 days);
Changes to Operating procedures
- CVMFS in production for Atlas (as well as LHCb)
Declared Outages in GOC DB
- Thu 12 - Thu 19 May: lcgwms03 (non-LHC WMS) drain and maintenance
- Monday 16th May: Pluto(LFC, FTS) Oracle patches (At Risk)
- Tuesday 17th May: Site At Risk during network reconfiguration.
- Tues 17 - Thu 19 May: Drain and Re-installation of CE03.
Advanced Warning
- Tuesday 17th May: xrootd client installation on worker nodes
Other Changes
- Fabric:
- Upgrade to networking for tape servers to enable sufficient bandwidth for T10KC tapes.
- Microcode update on tape robots.
- Database:
- Switch Castor databases to array in R26 (3-4 hour outage of Castor)
- Switch Castor databases back to array in R89 (3-4 hour outage of Castor)
- Switch non-Castor databases to new array. (~1 hour outage of LFC, FTS, 3D)
- Grid Services:
- None
- Castor:
- Change ATLAS castor permissions to prevent users deleting data
- Castor 2.1.10 client upgrade on WNs
- Castor update to obtain functionality for T10KC tapes.
- Updates to new hardware for castor head nodes.
- Networks:
- Firmware updates for central networking components (likely to have some short network breaks)