RAL Tier1 Operations Report for 21st October 2015
| Review of Issues during the week 14th to 21st October 2015.
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- Some problems with the our (and other) FTS3 service was seen by Atlas and was fixed.
| Resolved Disk Server Issues
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- GDSS746 (AtlasDataDisk - D1T0) failed on Saturday (17th Oct). Following checks it was returned to service yesterday afternoon (Tuesday 20th). It was initially put into a readonly mode (overnight) as the RAID array verification ran. It was set in full production this morning. Three files that were truncated as the server failed have been declared lost to Atlas.
| Current operational status and issues
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- The LHCb problem with a low but persistent rate of failure when copying the results of batch jobs to Castor. There is also a further problem that sometimes occurs when these (failed) writes are attempted to storage at other sites.
- The intermittent, low-level, load-related packet loss seen over external connections is still being tracked. Likewise we have been working to understand some remaining low level of packet loss seen within a part of our Tier1 network.
- Long-standing CMS issues. The two items that remain are CMS Xroot (AAA) redirection and file open times. Work is ongoing into the Xroot redirection with a new server having been added in recent weeks. File open times using Xroot remain slow but this is a less significant problem.
| Ongoing Disk Server Issues
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- GDSS707 (AtlasDataDisk - D1T0) failed on Friday (16th Oct). This server had only been put back into service at the end of September. The server was drained of files over the weekend and the problem is being investigated.
- GDSS657 (LHCb_RAW - D0T1) failed on Sunday (18th Oct). This server had only been put back into service on the 8th October. One file that was being written as it failed was lost. The server was returned to service yesterday (20th Oct) but this morning was reporting further disk drive/controller problems and has been taken out of service again. (There are no files awaiting migration to tape).
- GDSS637 (AtlasTape - D0T1) was taken out of service on Monday (19th Oct) as it was showing a disk drive /controller problem. There were no files waiting to go to tape. The problem is being investigated.
| Notable Changes made since the last meeting.
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- A change has been made to the FTS3 service (at developers request) to fix a problem that caused some Atlas transfers to stall.
- Yesterday (Tuesday 20th) four disk servers in tape-backed service classes were updated to SL6. This was a transparent operation.
| 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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- Upgrade of remaining Castor disk servers (those in tape-backed service classes) to SL6. This will be transparent to users.
- Some detailed internal network re-configurations to enable the removal of the old 'core' switch from our network. This includes changing the way the UKLIGHT router connects into the Tier1 network.
Listing by category:
- Databases:
- Switch LFC/3D to new Database Infrastructure.
- Castor:
- Update SRMs to new version (includes updating to SL6).
- Update disk servers to SL6 (ongoing)
- Update to Castor version 2.1.15.
- Networking:
- Complete changes needed to remove the old core switch from the Tier1 network.
- Make routing changes to allow the removal of the UKLight Router.
- Fabric
- Firmware updates on remaining EMC disk arrays (Castor, LFC)
| Entries in GOC DB starting since the last report.
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| Open GGUS Tickets (Snapshot during morning of meeting)
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| GGUS ID |
Level |
Urgency |
State |
Creation |
Last Update |
VO |
Subject
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| 116866
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Green
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Less Urgent
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On Hold
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2015-10-12
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2015-10-19
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SNO+
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snoplus support at RAL-LCG2 (pilot role)
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| 116864
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Green
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Urgent
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In Progress
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2015-10-12
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2015-10-14
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CMS
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T1_UK_RAL AAA opening and reading test failing again...
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Key: Atlas HC = Atlas HammerCloud (Queue ANALY_RAL_SL6, Template 508); CMS HC = CMS HammerCloud
| Day |
OPS |
Alice |
Atlas |
CMS |
LHCb |
Atlas HC |
CMS HC |
Comment
|
| 14/10/15 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
91 |
n/a |
|
| 15/10/15 |
100 |
100 |
98 |
100 |
100 |
85 |
100 |
Single SRM test failure (ould not open connection to srm-atlas.gridpp.rl.ac.uk:8443)
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| 16/10/15 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
98 |
100 |
89 |
100 |
Short problem with glexec in the early hours of the morning.
|
| 17/10/15 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
95 |
100 |
|
| 18/10/15 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
92 |
n/a |
|
| 19/10/15 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
|
| 20/10/15 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
93 |
100 |
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