RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 28/4/2017
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
Bug in the 2.1.16 CASTOR SRM: srmbed is picking up requests from srmfed with delay that ranges from 1-10 sec
SAM tests fail; may have something to do with the large number of locking sessions on the CMS stager DB
Operation news
Plans for next week
RA to work on testing CASTOR 2.16-13 on preprod
Miguel to time the DB upgrade script
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 at the moment)
Actions
DB hardware upgrade tracking
Drain and decomisiion/recomission the 12 generation disk servers
Staffing
GP on call next week
CP away