RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 29/9/2017

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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

gdss762 went out production

Gen Argo test failures since 11:00 yesterday

Intermintent sessions on ATLAS SRMs

Operation news

SOLID VO added to CASTOR

Plans for next week

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 out on A/L

GP on call