RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 09/6/2017

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. SRM upgrade to SL6/CASTOR 2.1.16
  3. SL5 elimination from CASTOR functional test boxes and tape verification server
  4. CASTOR stress test improvement

5. Special topics

  1. Future CASTOR upgrade methodology

6. Actions

7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?

8. AoTechnicalB

9. Availability for next week

10. On-Call

11. AoOtherB

Operation problems

Memory leak seen on lcgclsf01

Long-term projects

CIP migration to aquilon and upgrade to SL6

SL6 upgrade on functional test boxes and tape verification server: aquilon configuration is complete for the functional test box and almost complete for the tape verification server

Tape-server migration to aquilon and SL7 upgrade: resumed work on this; re-factoring and re-compiling

CASTOR stress test improvement

Actions

GP to check the rate of TURL requests from LHCb

DB hardware upgrade tracking

Drain and decomission/recomission the 12 generation disk servers

RA to get a new source control management system sorted for CASTOR script development

GP to prepare a report on the performance of the WAN parameters deployed on CMS disk servers

Staffing

GP on call