RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 09/02/2018
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. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?
8. AoTechnicalB
9. Availability for next week
10. On-Call
11. AoOtherB
Operation problems
Follow up on gdss762 and fdsdss36
Operation news
New hardware is being ordered for Facilities (headnodes and disk servers)
Plans for next week
Run new check_tape_pools version on all Castor stagers
GP: Fix-up on Aquilon SRM profiles.
Long-term projects
Headnode migration to Aquilon - Stager configuration and testing complete. Ongoing progress with lsf and utility boxes
HA-proxyfication of the CASTOR SRMs
Target: Combined headnodes running on SL7/Aquilon - implement CERN-style 'Macro' headnodes.
Draining of remainder of 12 generation HW - waiting on CMS migration to Echo. No more draining ongoing.
Draining of 4 x 13 generation disk servers from Atlas that will be deployed on genTape
Draining of 10% of the 14 generation disk servers
Actions
RA/BD: Run GFAL unit tests against CASTOR. Get them here: https://gitlab.cern.ch/dmc/gfal2/tree/develop/test/
GP/RA to chase up Fabric team about getting action on RT197296(use fdscspr05 as the preprod stager - replacement for ccse08)
Miguel to determine of there is a need to have a nagios test for checking the number of entries on the newrequests table
GP to generate a ralreplicas version for repack
RA to organise a meeting with the Fabric team to discuss outstanding issues with Data Services hardware
Staffing
RA on call
GP out on Wed 14/2