RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 26/10/2018
Contents
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
Failure of gdss732 and gdss739 (both from lhcbDst). Back in production
Many checksum errors reported for files sent to CASTOR by Elastic tape for ingest (Kevin)
Operation news
Facilities patching complete
All CASTOR d0t1 disk pools and atlasStripInput and cmsDisk patched
Plans for next few weeks
* Push gsi authentication for xrootd in production * Proceed with the atlasStripInput decommissioning
* Proceed with the cmsDisk decommissioning
Long-term projects
gsi authentication for xrootd: 1) Ask Raja and Tim to run a functional test on preprod to make sure their prod users work 2) Perform a stress test
New CASTOR WLCGTape instance. Things need doing: 1) Update of the CASTOR ldif file and 2) Xrootd functional test on castor-fuctional-test1 3) Fix a misconfiguration on the Eris disk array (cannot bring WLCGTape into prod before this is done) 4) xrootd for ALICE
Actions
Staffing
GP on call