RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 02/11/2018

Standing 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)

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

   * NRPE RPMs not installed on ERIS nodes. Currently with John, ticket: https://helpdesk.gridpp.rl.ac.uk/Ticket/Display.html?id=211056
   * castor-functional-test1 is still running tests that it shouldn't and called out on Thursday night. Genius John identified the problem (still running tests against decommissioned disk pools), RA to implement a permanent fix.

Operation news

  * wlcgTape is in prod.

  * GSI authentication for xrootd in production (mon 29/10)

  * na62 recovery operation ongoing using wlcgTape.

Plans for next few weeks

  * Decommission disk servers from ATLAS d1t0.

  * Move all needed disk servers from ATLAS d0t1 to wlcgTape (gdss893, gdss894, gdss895)

  * Proceed with the cmsDisk decommissioning

Long-term projects

  * New CASTOR WLCGTape instance. Things need doing: Create a seperate xrootd redirector for ALICE

Actions

  * Ask TimA about whether remaining dark data can be deleted and whether ATLAS still needs the cinstancedlf alias

Staffing

  * GP out until Friday.

  * RA on call until Friday (then off to the US)