RAL Tier1 CASTOR Experiments Completed Actions 2008

Actions from RAL Tier1 CASTOR Experiments Actions closed in 2008.

Action ID	Priority	Experiment(s)	Owner	Description	Status	Completed date
A-20071128-03		All	Tim Folkes	Set up tape migration to give writes priority over reads.	Tim to make change.	16/01/2008
A-20071219-03		All	Shaun De Witt, Bonny Strong	Plan how to operate shared CASTOR instance for small experiments.		16/01/2008
A-20080109-01		LHCb	Derek Ross	Send list of pools not yet released for LHCb to Raja.		16/01/2008
A-20080109-03		ALICE	Andrew Sansum	Follow up with John Gordon regarding ALICE CASTOR.		16/01/2008
A-20080109-04		CMS	Chris Kruk	Free up 3rd CMS disk server for testing.		16/01/2008
A-20080109-05		ATLAS	Shaun De Witt, Catalin Condurache	Send Frederic a list of files being transferred between tape and disk.		16/01/2008
A-20080116-01		All	David Corney	Progress Glue Schema issues, espescially information about which versions are being processed. Details required for the next meeting.		23/01/2008
A-20080116-08		LHCB	Bonny Strong	Two new boxes required to set up new SRM V1s for LHCB to test stripping (Bonny to clarify with Raja and Phillipe Charpentier)		23/01/2008
A-20080116-11		All	Andrew Sansum, David Corney	Confirm plans to move to ORACLE RAC		23/01/2008
A-20071114-03		All	Cheney Ketley	Speak to Jonathan Wheeler to try and resolve Nagios problems on CASTOR servers.	Nagios configuration done. Investigation of dual RAID cards in disk servers ongoing.	30/01/2008
A-20071212-02		All	Jens Jensen, Chris Kruk	Set up dynamic publishing of free space information.	Aim for the end on January 2008. 2008-01-09: Review after CCRC08 meeting on 10 January.	30/01/2008
A-20080109-06		All	I-20070725-01, Andrew Sansum, David Corney, Tim Folkes	Progress ordering of extra tape drives.	Tape drives ordered.	30/01/2008
A-20080116-09		All	Derek Ross	Advise Tier2s of CCRC08, summarising the information we currently have.	Ongoing.	30/01/2008
A-20080123-01		CMS	James Thorne	Install gcc and James Jackson's key on the CMS test disk servers.	gcc and key installed. James J. has confirmed he can login.	30/01/2008
A-20080123-02		ATLAS	Stephen Burke	Find out who is CCRC08 contact for ATLAS.		30/01/2008
A-20080123-06		ATLAS	Matt Hodges	Send list of files transferred via FTS to gdss159 to Catalin.		30/01/2008
A-20071219-01		CMS	Tim Folkes	Reserve a number of tape drives for CMS test.		06/02/2008
A-20080109-02		LHCb	Tim Folkes, Catalin Condurache, Derek Ross	Try to reduce time taken to stage & migrate a tape so that LHCb tape migration can be completed by end of January	Ongoing	06/02/2008
A-20080116-02		All	Bonny Strong, Matt Hodges	Check FTS2 upgrade plans prior to CCRC08. Is it doable, usable, stable? Do we need it?	Ongoing, waiting on Matt.	06/02/2008
A-20080116-03		BaBar	Chris Brew	Confirm with Matt when excess BarBar disc has been released for use elsewhere	Escalate with BaBar to allow MINOS some disk. All but two NFS servers released. Waiting on Tier1.	06/02/2008
A-20080116-07		LHCb	Andrew Sansum	Set up access for LHCB server accounts (Raja to send Chris SSH key)	Raja's key sent to Chris Kruk. Andrew needs to requests box from Fabric Team. Using a single monitoring key.	06/02/2008
A-20080116-10		CMS	Bonny/Shaun	Review optimum configuration of disk servers based on James's analysis.	Waiting for analysis.	06/02/2008
A-20080123-03		All	Andrew Sansum	Roll out network routing change, probably during CASTOR downtime on Tuesday, 29/01/2008.	Done for all but new CMS servers from Tier2.	06/02/2008
A-20080123-04		CMS	James Jackson, Andrew Sansum	Run RFIO tests on disk servers with fabric team monitoring.	Ongoing.	06/02/2008
A-20080116-06		All	Matt Hodges (with Support from Andrew Sansum if required)	Confirm disk allocation and deployment timetable is happening this week (16th Jan), and advise the experiments and the CASTOR team of the outcome	Received information from ALICE. Need confirmation from Glenn.	13/02/2008
A-20080130-03		All	Matt Hodges	Track/resolve certificate problems with FTS.	Ongoing. Certificates need to be real name of machine.	13/02/2008
A-20080130-04		CMS	James Jackson	Define everything CMS want on tape.	Ongoing.	13/02/2008
A-20080130-07		All	Derek Ross	Check/review versions of gLite and other software needed for CCRC08 (e.g. on worker nodes) and update if necessary.	Done, but worker node update still needs doing.	13/02/2008
A-20080206-03		CMS	Derek Ross, Matt Hodges, Jens Jensen	Apply for certificates for FTS hosts.	See A-20080130-03.	13/02/2008
A-20080206-05		CMS	James Jackson	Get tape drive stats from CMS 10.5 TB staging test.		13/02/2008
A-20080206-07		ALICE	Andrew Sansum	Send Shaun the location of the ALICE configuration requirements.		13/02/2008
A-20080206-08		ALICE	Bonny Strong, Shaun De Witt	CASTOR disk server for ALICE.		13/02/2008
A-20080206-09		All	VO reps	Check dates for planned upgrades in March and feed back any problems.		13/02/2008
A-20080206-02	Low	CMS	Chris Brew	Determine versions of gSOAP etc. and tell Shaun and Jens.	Jens and Shaun informed. Closed.	20/02/2008
A-20080206-04	Low	ATLAS	Shaun De Witt	Check whether stager rm or nsrm happens first (for Brian) as reported and actual free space differ.	Closed	20/02/2008
A-20080213-01		LHCb	Raja Nandakumar	Email Shaun the LHCb dashborad address.	It is http://dashboard.cern.ch/lhcb	20/02/2008
A-20080213-03		CMS	Bonny Strong	The number of job slots on the 13 Tier2 disk servers given to CMS need correcting as currently set to 50.	Closed.	20/02/2008
A-20080213-05		All	James Jackson, Andrew Sansum	Decide on agenda items for meeting with CERN on 18/02/2008.	Closed.	20/02/2008
A-20080206-01	Low	All	Raja Nandakumar	LCG infosites to publish space tokens.	Raja raised a ticket. Closed.	27/02/2008
A-20080213-04	High	All	Bonny Strong, Martin Bly	Arrange meeting to discuss and plan backplane replacements.	Meeting held. Closed.	27/02/2008
A-20080220-03	Medium	All	Matt Hodges	Clarify with Glenn experiment requirements and confirm free space for ATLAS.	Done. Closed.	27/02/2008
A-20080220-05	High	All	Andrew Sansum	Publicise scale of March disruptions to PMB.	Done. Closed.	27/02/2008
A-20080220-07	Medium	All	Martin Bly, Bonny Strong	Add tuning to deployment procedure.	Done. Closed.	27/02/2008
A-20080220-08	Medium	All	Martin Bly	Send info on CMS tuning changes to Bonny.	Done. Closed.	05/03/2008
A-20080227-01	High	All	Derek Ross, Martin Bly	Identify how best to notify VOs of backplane plans.	Closed.	05/03/2008
A-20080130-02	High	All	Chris Kruk	Investigate HTTP alternative to NFS mount for LSF.	Closed.	12/03/2008
A-20080305-01	High	All	Bonny Strong	Review and update upgrade schedule and inform VOs.	Due to David Edoh's departure. Closed.	12/03/2008
A-20080206-06	Low	ALICE	Shaun De Witt	Put CERN CASTOR team in touch with RAL to get CASTOR + xrootd cookbook.	Cristina chased up CERN re. this. CERN have responded via email to Bonny. Bonny will let Cristina know if the response is what she was looking for. 2008-02-27: Shaun will contact Bonny to see if cookbook is what she was looking for as Cristina would like feedback. 2008-03-12: Closed.	12/03/2008
A-20080220-02	Medium	All	Andrew Sansum	Long term Investigate level at which the Tier1 report available disk to the User Board.	2008-03-05: RAS emailed interested parties; waiting for feedback on suggestions. 2008-03-19: Done and closed.	19/03/2008
A-20080305-02	Medium	ATLAS, LHCb	Catalin Condurache	Estimate completion date for dCache->CASTOR migration.	Done: End of April	19/03/2008
A-20080312-01		ATLAS	Catalin Condurache	Confirm ATLAS VO can be progressed.	Closed as nonsensical.	19/3/2008
A-20080312-02		All	Experiment reps	Review dates in Bonny's plan and confirm OK.	Closed.	19/03/2008
A-20080312-03		All	Tim Folkes	Send list of lost files to James Jackson, Stephen Burke, Frederic Brochu and Shaun De Witt.	Closed.	19/03/2008
A-20080220-01	Low	All	Shaun De Witt	Script to determine files in stager but not in name server.	Closed	26/03/2008
A-20071017-01	Medium	All	James Jackson	Investigate problems with disk to tape migration rates.	Met with CERN developers; got hints for improvement which are being tested. 2008-02-27: Looks like changes to IO scheduler and read ahead value may help. 2008-03-05: Still investigating scheduler and read ahead. 2008-03-19: On hold while James works on other things. Big read aheads and cfq seem to give better performance. 2008-03-26: Still on hold. 2008-04-02: Closed as added as an agenda item.	02/04/2008
A-20080213-02	Medium	All	David Corney	Report back on the power outage post-mortem once complete.	Will probably report on 27/02/2008. Report sent. Closed.	16/04/2008
A-20080220-06	Medium	All	Martin Bly	Apply appropriate tuning to existing disk servers.	2008-02-27: CMS done. 2008-03-05: Needs applying to others. 2008-03-19: Will be complete once backplane swaps done. Closed.	16/04/2008
A-20080305-03	Low	All	Chris Brew, Matt Hodges	Draft text explaining why we configure the FTS the way we do and put on wiki.	Closed.	16/04/2008
A-20080319-01		CMS	Bonny Strong, Chris Brew	Release Tier2/CMS borrowed servers by 8 April.	Released. Closed.	16/04/2008
A-20080319-03		CMS	Bonny Strong	Send list of lost files to CMS.	Closed.	16/04/2008
A-20080402-01	High	All	Shaun De Witt	Remove unnecessary announcements from, and add new ones to, GOCDB.	Closed.	16/04/2008
A-20080402-02		ATLAS	Bonny Strong, Catalin Condurache	Try to get more information for tickets like "ATLAS SRM doesn't work".	Closed.	16/04/2008
A-20080402-03		LHCb	Bonny Strong, Shaun De Witt	Create plan for 2.1.6 upgardes.	Closed.	16/04/2008
A-20080402-04		All	Shaun De Witt	Check on status of gdss153.	Closed.	16/04/2008
A-20080319-02	Low	ATLAS	Andrew Sansum, Brian Davies	Decide whether to apply WAN tuning to ATLAS T0_raw.	Closed.	07/05/2008
A-20080402-05		LHCb	Chris Kruk, James Thorne	Check on "down" machines in LHCb ganglia (124 and 163).	124 moved to ATLAS. Need to check on 163. Closed.	07/05/2008
A-20080416-01		ALICE	Shaun De Witt	Check on xrootd progress for ALICE.	Closed.	07/05/2008
A-20080430-01		ALICE	Derek Ross	Check ALICE space token requirements and send to Shaun De Witt.	Closed.	07/05/2008
A-20080430-02		ALICE	Catalin Condurache, Bonny Strong, Cristina Lazzeroni	Follow up xrootd install, meeting on afternoon of 30/4/2008?	Closed.	07/05/2008
A-20080130-01	Low	All	Derek Ross	Escalate necessity to be able to put individual instances and components of service into downtime.	Ongoing. Need ability to separate individual VOs. 2008-04-30: Will soon have individual instances of services for each VO. 2008-05-21: Closed	21/05/2008
A-20080416-02	High	All	Chris Kruk	Upgrade repack server so Tim can begin testing.	Closed	07/05/2008
A-20080507-01		ATLAS	Brian Davies	Ticket to Tier1 helpdesk to apply WAN tuning to ATLAS disk servers.	Closed	07/05/2008
A-20080514-05		LHCb	Raja Nandakumar	Send name of LHCb tape migration "expert" to James Jackson.	Closed	07/05/2008
A-20080514-02		CMS	Chris Brew	Modify number of streams/files to Taiwan.	Shaun would prefer that this was not done until after the ATLAS T1-T1 tests (Fri 16 May). 2008-05-21: Waiting until certificate problems are resolved. 2008-05-28: Closed	28/05/2008
A-20080514-04		ATLAS	Stephen Burke	Send name of ATLAS tape migration "expert" to James Jackson.	Brian Davies. Closed.	28/05/2008
A-20080514-01	Medium	LHCb	Shaun De Witt	Tell Martin which LHCb servers to apply WAN tuning to.	Closed.	04/06/2008
A-20080521-02	High	BaBar	Shaun de Witt	Contact CERN developers to find out if one can run both RFIO and xrootd on the same CASTOR disk server (c.f. A-20071219-02).	Closed.	04/06/2008
A-20080528-01		ALICE	Catalin Condurache	Confirm with Cristina that he has all the answers that he needs regarding xrootd.	Closed.	04/06/2008
A-20080528-02		LHCb	Bonny Strong	Look into slow staging from tape in dCache for LHCb.	Closed.	04/06/2008
A-20080528-03		LHCb	Bonny Strong	Send Raja info on how close LHCb are to garbage collection.	Closed.	04/06/2008
A-20080116-04	Low	All	Andrew Sansum, David Corney	Review extension of ADS as official back-end to dcache	Ongoing. Need cost per month. Closed.	18/6/2008
A-20080123-05	Low	All	Bonny Strong	Script to report files that have been lost on a failed disk server.	85% done. Script reports name server path. Closed.	18/6/2008
A-20080220-04	Low	All	Jens Jensen	Contact CERN to see if they want the information provider developed at RAL.	Closed.	18/6/2008
A-20080521-01		All	Andrew Sansum	Investigate routing to PIC via the OPN.	Possibly next week. Fixed. Closed.	18/6/2008
A-20080604-01		All	Shaun De Witt	Dedicate three drives to each experiment to avoid all being affected if an experiment triggers the "tape hogging" bug.	Closed.	18/6/2008
A-20080604-02		ALICE	Bonny Strong	Email Cristina to update her on state of xrootd plus CASTOR.	Closed.	18/6/2008
A-20080618-01		All	David Corney, Shaun De Witt, Bonny Strong	Check what was decided regarding taking SRMv1 machines out of on-call system and how it was decided.	They are no longer calling out. Closed.	25/6/2008
A-20071219-02	High	BaBar	Shaun De Witt	Set up CASTOR server for d0t1 for BaBar on gen instance	No disk server. Can we do both RFIO and xrootd on same machine? Closed.	2/7/2008
A-20080116-05	High	MINOS	Bonny Strong	Provide MINOS with scratch disk for testing CASTOR (use "6 month" disk)	Need space from that released by BaBar (A-20080116-03). Waiting for disk server. Closed.	2/7/2008
A-20080514-03	Medium	All	Matt Hodges	Gather post-CCRC08 experiment disk provisioning requirements and inform Martin.	Closed.	2/7/2008
A-20080625-01		LHCb	Shaun De Witt	Contact Raja regarding shutting down SRMv1 for LHCb.	Closed.	2/7/2008
A-20080604-03	High	All	Andrew Sansum, Martin Bly	Approach experiments to determine their expectations during an LHC downtime.	Ongoing. Informal chats so far. Closed.	23/7/2008
A-20080709-01	High	All	Bonny Strong	Conform CASTOR 2.1.7 upgrade time-scale is ok with Dbase group (given RAC committments)	Closed.	23/7/2008
A-20080820-03	High	ATLAS	Bonny Strong, Derek Ross, Tier1 Duty Admin	Bonny give Derek and Duty Admin text for annnouncing downtime until 12.00 Wednesday 27 August.	Closed.	10/9/2008
A-20080820-04	High	ALICE	Chris Kruk	Put request for remote access for A-20080806-01 into a ticket for Martin.	Closed.	10/9/2008
A-20080416-03	Low	All	Tim Folkes	Upgrade all tape servers' RAM to 8 GB.	Tried with one server that already has 8 GB RAM. Waiting for sizable transfers to see if it has made a difference. Tests showed no particular improvement. Closed.	17/9/2008
A-20080130-06	Low	All	Andrew Sansum	Track/progress network tuning and/or different network stack to improve rates to remote sites, e.g. FermiLab.	Ongoing. Try transfer tests to ASGC. James Jackson has set up test pool. Now waiting on fabric team. Closed as not going to happen for a long while.	17/9/2008
A-20080820-05	Medium	LHCb	Bonny Strong, Shaun De Witt	Rebalance files within LHCb rDST.	Taken off line. Closed.	17/9/2008
A-20080910-01	Medium	LHCb	Shaun De Witt	Re-open Raja's ticked regarding problems on Sunday 7 September and investigate.	Done. Closed.	17/9/2008
A-20080910-02	Medium	ATLAS	Brian Davies	Set up discussion with James Jackson and Tim Folkes regarding tape families.	Closed.	17/9/2008
A-20080806-01	Medium	ALICE	Cristina Lazzeroni, Shaun De Witt	Possibly arrange for an ALICE xrootd expert to have access to machines.	See A-20080820-04. Done.	24/9/2008
A-20080820-01	Medium	All	Jens Jensen, Bonny Strong	Deploy latest CASTOR Information Provider (CIP) on Tuesday 26 August.	Done.	24/9/2008
A-20080820-02	Medium	All	Derek	Announce CIP deployment at an ops meeting.	Done.	24/9/2008
A-20080917-01	High	All	James Thorne	Bring up delay in disk server provisioning at Fabric meeting. Effort from others?	Done.	24/9/2008
A-20080924-01	High	All	Shaun De Witt, Bonny Strong	Investigate possiblility of turning off synchronisation of stager database to avoid a repeat of the file deletion problem.	Closed.	22/10/2008
A-20081015-02		ILC	James Thorne	Join Jan Strube (rep for ILC) to weekly circulation list.	Closed.	22/10/2008
A-20081015-03		All	Matt Hodges	Send link pointing to more detailed disc deployment info, including service class information to the distribution list for this meeting.	Closed.	22/10/2008
A-20081015-04		All	Matt Hodges	Ensure that the CASTOR team are routinely (weekly?) advised of new experiment disk allocations, ideally outside and before this meeting, but this may be a sensible new agenda item for this CASTOR call?	Closed.	22/10/2008
A-20081015-06		All	David Corney	Check with CERN about their plans (if any) to move to CASTOR 2.1.9.	Closed.	22/10/2008
A-20081015-07		All	Matt Hodges	Send info on new experiments contacts to James Thorne, who will add them to the circulation list and standard weekly request for reminders to join this meeting.	Closed.	22/10/2008
A-20081015-09		All?	Shaun De Witt	Investigate xrootd transfer failures.	Closed.	22/10/2008
A-20080618-02		CMS	Chris Brew	CMS to test GridFTPv2 internal.	Ongoing, waiting for disk servers. On hold until after first run. Closed.	29/10/2008
A-20081015-05		All	Experiment reps, Matt Hodges	Experiments need to contact Matt formally, by email, with requests for new disc deployment. CMS and ATLAS have agreed to this. LHcb (Raja) also needs to be consulted.	Closed.	29/10/2008
A-20081015-01		CMS	Chris Brew	Send copy of CMS tape service plans to Bonny and Shaun.	Done.	29/10/2008
A-20081015-08		All	James Thorne	Circulate results of report from James Thorne arising from action A-20080130-05 to meeting participants.	Done.	12/11/2008
A-20081029-01		LHCb	Bonny Strong	Provide list of lost files to Raja.	Done.	12/11/2008
A-20081029-02		All	Shaun De Witt	Send summary of cross talk and Big ID problems to John Gordon.	Done.	12/11/2008
A-20081029-03		All	Bonny Strong	Initiate discussion in RAL CASTOR team regarding setting up nonProd as a service class for CIP publishing.	Done.	12/11/2008
A-20081112-01		ILC	Bonny Strong	Give ILC access to disk on the gen instance by the end of this week.	Done.	19/11/2008
A-20081112-02		ATLAS	Bonny Strong, Shaun De Witt	Chase for decision on ATLAS disk sitting in nonProd.	Done.	19/11/2008
A-20081112-04		All	David Corney	Propse moving meeting to Wednesday afternoon.	David to send out proposal. Done.	19/11/2008
A-20081119-03		All	David Corney, James Thorne	Move meeting to 13.30 on Wednesdays.	Done.	26/11/2008
A-20081119-01		All	Experiment reps.	Add experiment test plans to the GridPP wiki and send links to James Thorne for adding to agenda.	Closed.	26/11/2008
A-20081022-01	Medium	All	James Thorne	Investigate rumoured performance hit of new 3ware firmware.	Performance increase on ext3 filesystems. Done.	10/12/2008
A-20081126-01		All	Shaun de Witt, Experiment Reps	Co-ordinate testing of upgraded SRM endpoints.	Done.	10/12/2008
A-20081126-03		CMS	James Jackson	Arrange a meetng to discuss testing multiple service classes on one disk pool (with Shaun de Witt, Chris Brew,...).	Done.	10/12/2008
A-20081126-05		ALICE	Peter Faulkner	Ask Cristina to test xrootd on gen instance and let Shaun know whether it's working.	Done.	10/12/2008
A-20081126-06		All	Andrew Sansum, Martin Bly	Circulate plan for move to new building, when complete.	Done.	10/12/2008