RAL Tier1 weekly operations Fabric 20101129

Developments

• All:

• Martin:

• Ian:
  • Project plan for preprod Quattorised SRMs
  • Plans with LHCb for cvmfs tests
  • Ongoing virtualisation
  • Job plan reviews

• Tim:

• Jonathan:

• James A:
  • Experimented with OpenVPN access to management network.
  • Rewrote part of ncm-download and extended it to support minimum file age.
  • Worked on CASTOR facilities Quattor templates.

• James T

• Cheney

• Kash:
  • Drive replacement.
  • Fixing broken WNs.
  • Decommissioning old batch systems.(R 27)
  • gdss380 still with Streamline for fix.(Crashed with single faulty drive)
  • gdss417 acceptance testing. (Crashed with single faulty drive)
  • gdss280 crashed again with replacement raid card borrowed from gdss338. (Testing)
  • gdss117 failed during test. (Probably raid card)
  • Hardware failure stats/graphs.
  • Streamline/areca disk servers crashed due to single faulty drive. (ongoing)
  • 4 days linux course (Tuesday - Friday)

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:

• Ian:
  • Project plan for preprod Quattorised SRMs
  • Public wiki page for cvmfs testing/setup
  • Test lates version of cvmfs
  • Ongoing virtualisation testing
  • Job plan reviews

• Tim:

• Cheney

• Jonathan:

• James T:

• James A:
  • Work on CASTOR facilities upgrade with Chris.
  • Prepare zipwire for grid map file use and work on generation mechanism.

• Kash:
  • Drive replacement.
  • Fixing broken WNs.
  • Continuous decommissioning old batch systems.(R 27)

Absences

• Jonathan on partial retirement (not in on Monday and Friday)
• Cheney - changed date for being off - now Nov 24th - early warning -likely to be off most of december - date subject to change -

Fabric On-Call

• Ian Collier

Services Issues

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RAL Tier1 weekly operations fabric

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