RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 21/4/2017
Contents
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
5. Special topics
6. Actions
7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?
8. AoTechnicalB
9. Availability for next week
10. On-Call
11. AoOtherB
Operation problems
Problems with the LHCb SRMs continue though after the downgrade to CASTOR 2.1.11 they have been more or less stable
Operation news
Plans for next week
RA to work on the 2.16-13 upgrade on preprod
Long-term projects
CIP migration to aquilon and upgrade to SL6
SL6 upgrade on functional test boxes and tape verification server
Tape-server migration to aquilon and SL7 upgrade (on hold for the moment)
Actions
Generate a CASTOR bug report for the the open DB cursors problem
Add GP to the mail of CASTOR overwatch script
Drain and decomisiion/recomission the 12 generation disk servers
Staffing
RA on call next week
AP away on HEPIX