RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 16/11/2018

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

gdss736 (lhcbDst) crashed and removed from prod; back again

/etc/cron.d/check_tape_pools.ncm-cron.cron file was missing from the WLCGTape headnodes and as a result was the tape pools were not topped up with free tapes and a large backlog of ATLAS canbemigrs was created RT218153. This was foxed on aquilon on Mon 12/11 and the backlog is now cleatring

Operation news

 * Decommissioned all disk servers from ATLAS atlasStripInput and atlasTape

 * Moved all needed disk servers from atlasTape to wlcgTape (gdss893, gdss894, gdss895)

 * Migration of the Gen (except Alice) VOs to WLCGTape

Plans for next few weeks

  * Proceed with the cmsDisk decommissioning

  * Decommission xrootd-cms-manager

Long-term projects

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

  * CASTOR disk server migration to Aquilon: gdss742 has been compiled with a draft aquilon profile
    but there are problems with the SL7 installation RT216885 

Staffing

  * RA out from Thu 22/11