RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 14/10/2016
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. Castor 2.1.15 2. SL7 upgrade on tape servers
5. Special topics
6. Actions
7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?
8. AoTechnicalB
9. Availability for next week
10. On-Call
11. AoOtherB
Operation problems
Gdss730 cmsdisk – disabled expected to return RO Friday afternoon – UPDATE looking touch and go at the moment, will discuss with Chetan towards end of day.
Gdss744 atlasdisk – currently RO and will stay that way until next wk
Gdss612 – has had battery
Lcgclsf03 – gen lsf, failed drive replaced on 12th
Andrey mentioned an issue with Preprod db and manually entering some data for preprod env. I expect Rob will know more about this.
Operation news
Long-term projects
Castor 2.1.15 upgrade has been postoponed until January 2017
Development continues to migrate castor tape servers to aquilon
Actions
GP to present the WAN tuning effect on transfer rates
Get dedlines from Fabric team for OCF/CV14 hand over to CASTOR
RA/GP to deploy the former Ceph OCF14 servers into aliceDisk (see RAL disk server deployment plan by Alastair)
Talk to AL about the issue with unrouted files to tape in CMS
Check if there is a nagios test that checks for facilities tape drives being down
Staffing
George P holiday
Andrey – out wed
Rob – currently off ill?
Oncall – CP could do the week but not the weekend.