RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 26/04/2010

Summary of Previous Week

Matthew:
- Building and testing new puppetmaster server
- Testing quattorized disk server deployment
- Writing plans for Investigating Alternatives to CASTOR project
Shaun:
- Solved problem of ATLAS recalls (missing account on disk server)
- Worked with James Jackson on implementing solution to mighunter contention for CMS
- Solving and testing of ATLAS software problems (32 bit issue)
- APR
- Stratgic Objectives
Chris:
- ..
Richard:
- Continuing with p/p stress testing
Brian:
- ..
Jens:
- ..

Matthew:
- CASTOR Database - The Way Forward meeting
- Testing quattorized disk server deployment
- Writing plans for Investigating Alternatives to CASTOR project
- Testing new puppetmaster server
Shaun:
- Make LSF pending jobs information available to CMS
- Catch up with SRM developments
- Keep trying the get SRM rate monitoring into castormon
- APR (cont...)
Chris:
- ..
Richard:
- Continuing with p/p stress testing
Brian:
- ..
Jens:
- ..

Number of pending jobs in CMS increased substantially, resulting in a callout. Will make castormon data files available to provide feedback to PheDeX to avoid overloading CASTOR in the future.
gdss420 was found to be missing its /exportstage/castor* partitions during deployment into atlasNonProd

Preprod stress testing taking longer than anticipated. We are cutting back the number of tests from 10k->5k and file size tests to only 100Mb and 2Gb

Entries in/planned to go to GOCDB

Description	Start	End	Type	Affected VO(s)
Add new node to database SAN for running backups	28/4/10 1015	28/4/10 1430	At risk	Downtime

Upgrade to 2.1.8/2.1.9 2010
Upgrade to SRM 2.8-6 after testing is complete
ATLAS want to know how much capacity is available in disabled servers (published as Capability). Low priority CIP change to do this.
CASTOR Instance for Non LHC 2010Q2
Install/enable gridftp-internal on Gen (Before 2.1.8 upgrade)