RAL Tier1 weekly operations Fabric 20100628

Developments

• All:
  • At e-Science Away Day (except Ian at CERN)

• Martin:
  • CRISTAL 1 (monday)
  • CPU ITT
  • Desktop updates

• Ian:
  • WLCG Multi-core & Virtualisation Workshop@CERN
  • Information exchange about Services Virtualisation with CERN IT
  • Met Castor team at CERN to discuss sharing Quattor configurations

• Tim:

• Jonathan:
  • updated tier1-sudo-config SVN source for lcgce03
  • 1 Nagios configuration updates
  • finished presentation about AFS and gave it to Fabric Team

• James A:
  • CRISTAL 1 Course
  • Annual Leave

• James T
  • Primary on call Monday - Thursday
  • Streamline 2009 testing
    • Progress meeting
    • Re-cabling machines to their head node.
  • Quattor changes for RFIO port problems on SL5 disk servers
  • Away day
  • STEM networking event
  • Updated lcg-CA on non-quattorised disk servers

• Cheney
  • entered suggestions to Mr Cameron's Spending Challenge website
  • testing of new amanda rpm
  • check infosec on hinode/solarb
  • fix tsrb01 array controller
  • set up sudo
  • install wireshark for srb

• Kash:
  • Drive replacement.
  • Fixing broken WNs.
  • Decommissioning old batch systems.(R 27)
  • gdss67 filesystem problem. Replaced Raid card. (Intervention)
  • gdss239 replaced 8x1gb memory. Back to castor. (Fixed)
  • gdss474 faulty backplane arranging Engineer. (Waiting for parts)
  • gdss207 finally managed to install. Presently verifying array.
  • Streamline 2009 disk servers network cabling with James T.
  • gdss220 replaced 8x1gb memory. Back to castor. (Fixed)
  • gdss420 low voltage on battery. (waiting for battery)
  • Streamline/areca disk servers crashed due to single faulty drive. (ongoing)

Absences

• Jonathan on partial retirement (not in on Monday and Friday)
• Tim in Amsterdam Mon & Tues

Operational Issues and Incidents

Index	Description	Start	End	Severity	Affected VO(s)

Summary of plans for week ahead

Scheduled and Cancelled Down Times

Type=Down/At Risk/Cancelled entries in/planned to go to GOCDB

Component	Description	Start	End	Affected VO(s)	Type

Development priorities

• All

• Martin:
  • Disk ITT clarifications
  • CPU ITT finalisation

• Ian:
  • Services virtualisation planning
  • Facilities Castor instance planning & implementation
  • Convening work on atlas software server

• Tim:

• Cheney
  • new amanda rpm

• Jonathan:
  • continue work on shutting down csfnfs58 (old NFS server)
  • Nagios configuration updates
  • work on replacement paging system

• James T:
  • LHCb WAN tuning
  • RFIO port changes on SL5 disk servers
  • Support for Adaptec in TAVS (plus bug fixes)
  • Streamline 2009 testing

• James A:
  • Cabling up Dell NC nodes.
  • Working on Database plans.

• Kash:
  • Drive replacement.
  • Fixing broken WNs.
  • gdss78 need re-install and create array from scratch.
  • gdss380 run 7 days acceptance test.
  • gdss67 create array from scratch and install.
  • Continuous decommissioning old batch systems.(R 27)

Absences

• Jonathan on partial retirement (not in on Monday and Friday)
  • Tim in Amsterdam Mon & Tues
  • Ian out Thursday am
  • Kashif A/L Tuesday - Thursday

Fabric On-Call

Kashif fabric oncall Monday-Sunday

Services Issues

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