RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 11/08/2014
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Operations News
- Kashyap's Elasticsearch query script has been rolled out to CASTOR headnodes. Users are encouraged to test it and report any bugs.
- Samneet's query tool is under development and we hope to have an alpha version available for use by the end of next week.
- Plan to ensure PreProd represents production in terms of hardware generation are underway.
- The remaining 2014 disk servers have been deployed into production.
Operations Problems
- The problems with the draining tool have been understood and a fix is being change-controlled on Monday
- A new service class called 'cedaRetrieve' has been created to allow CEDA users (aka Kevin) to manually stage files for retrieval.
Blocking Issues
Planned, Scheduled and Cancelled Interventions
Advanced Planning
Tasks
- Possible future upgrade to CASTOR 2.1.14-15.
- Resume draining on the ATLAS instance once draining issues resolved.
- Switch from admin machines: lcgccvm02 to lcgcadm05
- New VM configured to run against the standby CASTOR database will be created as a front-end for dark data etc queries.
- Replace DLF with Elastic Search
- Correct partitioning alignment issue (3rd CASTOR partition) on new castor disk servers
Interventions
Staffing
- Castor on Call person
- Shaun
- Staff absence/out of the office:
- Chris and Matt out all week
