RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 22/06/2018
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. SL5 elimination from CIP and tape verification server 2. CASTOR stress test improvement 3. Generic CASTOR headnode setup 4. Aquilonised headnodes
5. Special topics
6. Actions
7. Review Fabric tasks
1. Link
8. AoTechnicalB
9. Availability for next week
10. On-Call
11. AoOtherB
Operation problems
* gdss685 and gdss699 and gdss746 failed and went out of production. gdss699 was set to readonly but failed again under heavy load
* Network glitch on 11/06. Affected mainly Facilities machines and DB systems
Operation news
* Central services schemas on preprod were upgraded to the latest version
Plans for next few weeks
* Finalise the migration of the tape-verification server to Aquilon
Long-term projects
All VMware CASTOR headnodes passed functional tests CASTOR plan page
RA writing a new accounting system to match WLCG archival requirements
Actions
JK to investigate why ralreplicas fails and submit a "bug" report
RA/BD: Run GFAL unit tests against CASTOR. Get them here: https://gitlab.cern.ch/dmc/gfal2/tree/develop/test/
GP/RA to write a Nagios test to check for large number of requests on the NewRequests DB table that remain for a long time - the check will run every xxx min (to be aggreed with Production) and issue an alarm if the number exceeds 1,000 for an extended period of time (15 min)
Staffing
GP on call for next week