RAL Tier1 Operations Report for 9th December 2015
| Review of Issues during the week 2nd to 9th December 2015.
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- There were a few more instances where one of the pair of 10Gbit links between the Tier1 and the UKLight router stopped working. In some cases this led to saturation of the one remaining 10Gbit link. As planned, this morning (Wednesday 9th Dec) the link was re-worked and is now made up 4*10Gbit links. However, one of these has given problems. Work is being planned to fix this. At the moment we effectively have a 3*10Gbit link.
- We have seen some effect of the problems across the JANET network. This is thought to be the cause of some file transfer failures.
| Resolved Disk Server Issues
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| Current operational status and issues
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- There is a problem seen by LHCb of a low but persistent rate of failure when copying the results of batch jobs to Castor. There is also a further problem that sometimes occurs when these (failed) writes are attempted to storage at other sites. A recent modification has improved, but not completed fixed this.
- The intermittent, low-level, load-related packet loss seen over external connections is still being tracked. Likewise we have been working to understand some remaining low level of packet loss seen within a part of our Tier1 network.
| Ongoing Disk Server Issues
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- GDSS687 (AtlasDataDisk - D1T0) failed on Friday (4th December) with a read-only filesystem. Taken out of production. It was returned to service in read-only mode the following day. The problem looks to have been was triggered by a disk failure.
- GDSS675 (CMSTape - D0T1) failed in the early hours of yesterday morning (8th Dec). This also reported a read-only file system.
- GDSS620 (GenTape - D0T1) also failed during the early morning yesterday (8th Dec) - also with a read-only file system.
| Notable Changes made since the last meeting.
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- Work has continued towards removing the old core network switch:
- On Tuesday morning (8th Dec) the network link to the UKLight router was moved. As part of this the connection was increased from 2*10Gbit to 4*10Gbit. (But note one of these four has since given some problems).
- This morning the link to the Castor headnodes was moved.
None
| Advanced warning for other interventions
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| The following items are being discussed and are still to be formally scheduled and announced.
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- Upgrade of remaining Castor disk servers (those in tape-backed service classes) to SL6. This will be transparent to users.
- There is one final step to be made to remove the old 'core' switch from our network. This is expected to be completed this week.
- Roll-out of the changed algorithm for the draining of worker nodes to make space for multi-core jobs. The new version allow "pre-emptable" jobs to run in the job slots until they are needed.
Listing by category:
- Databases:
- Switch LFC/3D to new Database Infrastructure.
- Castor:
- Update SRMs to new version (includes updating to SL6).
- Update disk servers to SL6 (ongoing)
- Update to Castor version 2.1.15.
- Networking:
- Complete changes needed to remove the old core switch from the Tier1 network.
- Make routing changes to allow the removal of the UKLight Router.
- Fabric
- Firmware updates on remaining EMC disk arrays (Castor, LFC)
| Entries in GOC DB starting since the last report.
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| Service
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Scheduled?
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Outage/At Risk
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Start
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End
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Duration
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Reason
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| All Castor
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SCHEDULED
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WARNING
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09/12/2015 09:30
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09/12/2015 10:30
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1 hour
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Warning on Castor services for short network reconfiguration.
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| All Castor
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SCHEDULED
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WARNING
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08/12/2015 09:00
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08/12/2015 10:00
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1 hour
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Warning on Castor services during short network reconfiguration that affects the external data path to/from the Castor storage.
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| Open GGUS Tickets (Snapshot during morning of meeting)
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| GGUS ID |
Level |
Urgency |
State |
Creation |
Last Update |
VO |
Subject
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| 118130
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Green
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Very Urgent
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In Progress
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2015-12-03
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2015-12-07
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Atlas
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UK cloud: serveral sites of this cloud show transfer and staging errors
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| 118044
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Green
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Less Urgent
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In Progress
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2015-11-30
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2015-12-07
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Atlas
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gLExec hammercloud jobs failing at RAL-LCG2 since October
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| 117846
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Green
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Urgent
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In Progress
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2015-11-23
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2015-12-04
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Atlas
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ATLAS request- storage consistency checks
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| 117683
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Green
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Less Urgent
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In Progress
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2015-11-18
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2015-11-19
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CASTOR at RAL not publishing GLUE 2
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| 116866
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Yellow
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Less Urgent
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In Progress
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2015-10-12
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2015-11-30
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SNO+
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snoplus support at RAL-LCG2 (pilot role)
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| 116864
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Amber
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Urgent
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In Progress
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2015-10-12
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2015-11-12
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CMS
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T1_UK_RAL AAA opening and reading test failing again...
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Key: Atlas HC = Atlas HammerCloud (Queue ANALY_RAL_SL6, Template 508); CMS HC = CMS HammerCloud
| Day |
OPS |
Alice |
Atlas |
CMS |
LHCb |
Atlas HC |
CMS HC |
Comment
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| 02/12/15 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
n/a |
100 |
|
| 03/12/15 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
n/a |
100 |
|
| 04/12/15 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
n/a |
N/A |
|
| 05/12/15 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
n/a |
100 |
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| 06/12/15 |
100 |
100 |
97 |
100 |
100 |
n/a |
100 |
Single SRM Test failure on Put: (Unable to issue PrepareToPut request to Castor)
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| 07/12/15 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
n/a |
100 |
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| 08/12/15 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
96 |
n/a |
100 |
Single SRM Tes failure on List: (No such file or directory.)
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