RAL Tier1 Operations Report for 11th June 2018
| Review of Issues during the week 28th May to the 4th June 2018.
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- No incidents(major or minor), have been flagged during this reporting period.
| Current operational status and issues
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- Continuing problems with small VOs and Castor (BDii) - Please be advised that in the light of the impact on a number of smaller VO's the removal of this service has caused, that Castor information (at least in the short term), is now being published in the BDii.
| Resolved Castor Disk Server Issues
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- gdss738 - LHCb - d1t0. Currently back in production RO.
| Ongoing Castor Disk Server Issues
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- gdss687 - LHCb - d1t0. Currently still in intervention.
| 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:
- 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).
- 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 taken during morning of the meeting).
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| Request id
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Affected vo
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Status
|
Priority
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Date of creation
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Last update
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Type of problem
|
Subject
|
Scope
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| 135455
|
cms
|
in progress
|
less urgent
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31/05/2018
|
04/06/2018
|
File Transfer
|
Checksum verification at RAL
|
EGI
|
| 135367
|
snoplus.snolab.ca
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in progress
|
less urgent
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28/05/2018
|
08/06/2018
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Other
|
Lost access to srm-snoplus.gridpp.rl.ac.uk
|
EGI
|
| 135308
|
mice
|
in progress
|
top priority
|
24/05/2018
|
01/06/2018
|
Information System
|
Can't send data to RAL Castor
|
EGI
|
| 135293
|
ops
|
on hold
|
less urgent
|
23/05/2018
|
04/06/2018
|
Operations
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[Rod Dashboard] Issues detected at RAL-LCG2
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EGI
|
| 134685
|
dteam
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in progress
|
less urgent
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23/04/2018
|
02/05/2018
|
Middleware
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please upgrade perfsonar host(s) at RAL-LCG2 to CentOS7
|
EGI
|
| 124876
|
ops
|
on hold
|
less urgent
|
07/11/2016
|
13/11/2017
|
Operations
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[Rod Dashboard] Issue detected : hr.srce.GridFTP-Transfer-ops@gridftp.echo.stfc.ac.uk
|
EGI
|
| GGUS Tickets Closed Last week
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| Request id
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Affected vo
|
Status
|
Priority
|
Date of creation
|
Last update
|
Type of problem
|
Subject
|
Scope
|
| 135516
|
cms
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solved
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urgent
|
06/06/2018
|
08/06/2018
|
CMS_Facilities
|
T1_UK_RAL WN-analysis and HammerCloud failures
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WLCG
|
| 135133
|
cms
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solved
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urgent
|
15/05/2018
|
05/06/2018
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CMS_Data Transfers
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Likely corrupted File at T1_UK_RAL
|
WLCG
|
| 134703
|
cms
|
solved
|
urgent
|
23/04/2018
|
07/06/2018
|
CMS_Data Transfers
|
Transfer failing from RAL_Disk
|
WLCG
|
| 133992
|
atlas
|
verified
|
less urgent
|
12/03/2018
|
04/06/2018
|
File Transfer
|
RAL-LCG2-ECHO: No such file or directory
|
EGI
|
| 127597
|
cms
|
solved
|
urgent
|
07/04/2017
|
07/06/2018
|
File Transfer
|
Check networking and xrootd RAL-CERN performance
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EGI
|
| Target Availability for each site is 97.0%
|
Red <90%
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Orange <97%
|
| Day
|
Atlas
|
Atlas-Echo
|
CMS
|
LHCB
|
Alice
|
OPS
|
Comments
|
| 2018-06-04
|
100
|
100
|
97
|
100
|
100
|
0
|
|
| 2018-06-05
|
100
|
100
|
99
|
100
|
100
|
46.80851
|
|
| 2018-06-06
|
100
|
100
|
91
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
|
| 2018-06-07
|
100
|
100
|
99
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
|
| 2018-06-08
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
|
| 2018-06-09
|
100
|
100
|
99
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
|
| 2018-06-10
|
100
|
100
|
97
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
|
| Target Availability for each site is 97.0%
|
Red <90%
|
Orange <97%
|
| Day |
Atlas HC |
CMS HC |
Comment
|
| 2018/06/04 |
95 |
39 |
|
| 2018/06/05 |
94 |
19 |
|
| 2018/06/06 |
89 |
84 |
|
| 2018/06/07 |
89 |
100 |
|
| 2018/06/08 |
95 |
89 |
|
| 2018/06/09 |
87 |
66 |
|
| 2018/06/10 |
89 |
66 |
|
| 2018/06/11 |
- |
- |
|
Key: Atlas HC = Atlas HammerCloud (Queue RAL-LCG2_UCORE, Template 841); CMS HC = CMS HammerCloud
