RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 03/11/2017

Parent article: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor

Draft agenda

1. Problems encountered this week

2. Upgrades/improvements made this week

3. What are we planning to do next week?

  1. Facilities Headnode Replacement

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

tape usage plots for facilities instance of castor are not same with Tier1 RT196714

SAM tests failing because of nameserve stub file in Castor RT196707

SOLID cannot write into CASTOR

Operation news

lcgcts22 (Tier-1) and fdscts12 tape servers have been running on SL7 for a week now

Preprod SRMs are upgrade to 2.1.16-18 and patched

Plans for next week

Facilities headnode replacement planned for Wed 08/11

Continue roll-out SL7 upgrade on CASTOR tape servers

Miguel to confirm with Martin on date for patching Orisa DB

Long-term projects

CASTOR stress test improvement

Configure multiple instances of a CASTOR generic headnode

All 12' generation disk servers from Atlas have been drained and recommissioned. Need to finish with the ones from cmsDisk

Special topics

Test gfal commands against Castor (email from Alastair)

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

GP to talk to AL about service ownership/handover of the xroot manager boxes

Staffing

RA on call

GP out on Fri 10/11