RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 07/12/2018
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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
Argo tests for CMS temporarily failed while preparing for CMS migration
Intensive CMS recall activity caused timeouts on PheDEx transfers
Operation news
* CMS migrated to the new CASTOR instance
* Three new disk servers deployed into Facilities diamondRecall pool
* LHCb are staging data for the major reprocessing of Run1 and Run2 data (4.7 PB in total) that will be carried out in 2019
Plans for next few weeks
* Complete kernel patching on CASTOR hosts
* Oracle/kernel patching for CASTOR Facilities DB
Long-term projects
* New CASTOR WLCGTape instance. Things need doing: Create a seperate xrootd redirector for ALICE
* CASTOR disk server migration to Aquilon: gdss742 has been compiled with a draft aquilon profile but there are problems with the SL7 installation RT216885
Actions
Staffing
* RA out until 10/12