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RAL Tier1 Operations Report for 14th May 2018
Review of Issues during the week 7th May to the 14th May 2018.
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- The RAL networking team have finally resolve our failing fail-over firewall issues.
Current operational status and issues
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Resolved Castor Disk Server Issues
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Ongoing Castor Disk Server Issues
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Limits on concurrent batch system jobs.
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Notable Changes made since the last meeting.
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Entries in GOC DB starting since the last report.
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Advanced warning for other interventions
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The following items are being discussed and are still to be formally scheduled and announced.
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Listing by category:
- Echo
- Applying minor CEPH update to fix the "backfill" bug. Increase number of placement groups and add more capacity.
- Castor:
- Update systems to use SL7 and configured by Quattor/Aquilon. (Tape servers done)
- Move to generic Castor headnodes.
- Networking
- Extend the number of services on the production network with IPv6 dual stack. (Done for Perfsonar, FTS3, all squids and the CVMFS Stratum-1 servers).
- Replacement (upgrade) of RAL firewall.
- Internal
- DNS servers will be rolled out within the Tier1 network.
- Infrastructure
- Testing of power distribution boards in the R89 machine room is being scheduled for some time late July / Early August. The effect of this on our services is being discussed.
Open GGUS Tickets (Snapshot during morning of the report)
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Request id
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Affected vo
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Status
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Priority
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Date of creation
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Last update
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Type of problem
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Subject
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Scope
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134703
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cms
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in progress
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urgent
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23/04/2018
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11/05/2018
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CMS_Data Transfers
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Transfer failing from RAL_Disk
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WLCG
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134685
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dteam
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in progress
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less urgent
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23/04/2018
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02/05/2018
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Middleware
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please upgrade perfsonar host(s) at RAL-LCG2 to CentOS7
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EGI
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134468
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cms
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waiting for reply
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top priority
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09/04/2018
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11/05/2018
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CMS_AAA WAN Access
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Xrootd redirector not seeing some files in ECHO
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WLCG
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133992
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atlas
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in progress
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less urgent
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12/03/2018
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19/04/2018
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File Transfer
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RAL-LCG2-ECHO: No such file or directory
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EGI
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127597
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cms
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on hold
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urgent
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07/04/2017
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30/04/2018
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File Transfer
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Check networking and xrootd RAL-CERN performance
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EGI
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124876
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ops
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on hold
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less urgent
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07/11/2016
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13/11/2017
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Operations
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[Rod Dashboard] Issue detected : hr.srce.GridFTP-Transfer-ops@gridftp.echo.stfc.ac.uk
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EGI
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117683
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none
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on hold
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less urgent
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18/11/2015
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09/05/2018
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Information System
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CASTOR at RAL not publishing GLUE 2
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EGI
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GGUS Tickets Closed Last week
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Request id
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Affected vo
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Status
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Priority
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Date of creation
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Last update
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Type of problem
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Subject
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Scope
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135001
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cms
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solved
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urgent
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09/05/2018
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10/05/2018
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CMS_Data Transfers
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Fts-client needs to be updated
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WLCG
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134880
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none
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verified
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top priority
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02/05/2018
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09/05/2018
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Middleware
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please upgrade Singularity
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EGI
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134769
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cms
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solved
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urgent
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26/04/2018
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08/05/2018
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CMS_Data Transfers
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Transfers from RAL_Disk to Florida are failing
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WLCG
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134744
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cms
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solved
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top priority
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25/04/2018
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08/05/2018
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File Transfer
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Zero Phedex Transfers - via RAL FTS service on certain links
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EGI
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134627
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cms
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closed
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urgent
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19/04/2018
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09/05/2018
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CMS_Data Transfers
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Transfer backlogs
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WLCG
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134619
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cms
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solved
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urgent
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19/04/2018
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08/05/2018
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CMS_SAM tests
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Problems reading data from ECHO
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WLCG
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134599
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t2k.org
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closed
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less urgent
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18/04/2018
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09/05/2018
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File Access
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Unable to reach 25 files at RAL which are ONLINE AND NEARLINE
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EGI
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134488
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snoplus.snolab.ca
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closed
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urgent
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10/04/2018
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09/05/2018
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File Transfer
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FTS failures to RAL
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EGI
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134342
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cms
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closed
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urgent
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29/03/2018
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10/05/2018
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CMS_Data Transfers
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CERN->MSS rate test
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WLCG
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Target Availability for each site is 97.0%
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Red <90%
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Orange <97%
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Day
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Atlas
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Atlas-Echo
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CMS
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LHCB
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Alice
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2018-05-07
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100
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100
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100
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100
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100
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2018-05-08
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85
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85
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86
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94
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100
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2018-05-09
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91
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91
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99
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100
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100
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2018-05-10
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100
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100
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100
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100
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100
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2018-05-11
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100
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100
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100
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100
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100
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2018-05-12
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100
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100
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100
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100
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100
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2018-05-13
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100
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100
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100
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100
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100
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Target Availability for each site is 97.0%
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Red <90%
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Orange <97%
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Key: Atlas HC = Atlas HammerCloud (Queue RAL-LCG2_UCORE, Template 841); CMS HC = CMS HammerCloud
Day |
Atlas HC |
CMS HC |
Comment
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2018/05/01 |
81 |
100 |
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2018/05/02 |
99 |
96 |
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2018/05/03 |
100 |
100 |
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2018/05/04 |
99 |
100 |
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2018/05/05 |
98 |
88 |
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2018/05/06 |
99 |
96 |
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2018/05/07 |
99 |
100 |
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