RAL Tier1 weekly operations Grid 20110321

Operational Issues

Description	Start	End	Affected VO(s)	Severity	Status

Downtimes

Description	Hosts	Type	Start	End	Affected VO(s)

Blocking Issues

Description	Requested Date	Required By Date	Priority	Status

Developments/Plans

Detailed Individual Reports

Alastair

• Working on ATLAS permission change. [On hold]
• Setting up xrootd for ATLAS at RAL.
  • Talking to ALICE
  • Looking into upgrading castor client on all WN.
• Disk pool merging and DB change.
  • Cleaning up dark data [Ongoing]
  • Writing change control [Done]
  • Moving files! [Done!]
• Preparing for Beauty 2011 conference.
• Requested new VO box for ATLAS Frontier.

Andrew

• Investigating PhEDEx deletion problems for failed debug transfers [Done]
• Upgraded PhEDEx prod & debug instances to 4_0_0 [Done]
• Capacity planning system tidying, merging with UB Schedule [Ongoing]
• Testing, writing change-control for FTS destination site name change [Done]
• CMS Data Ops
  • MC rereco at FNAL (WMS issues, problems caused by CERN Oracle outage) [Ongoing]

Catalin

• involved with CREAM CEs installation and configuration [ongoing]
• work on quattorised ATLAS Frontier installation [ongoing]
• investigate another problem/crash on lcgwms03 [done]

Derek

• Investigating BLParser isssues on lcgce09 [ongoing]
• Publishing whole node queue [done]
• Syncing with QWG templates [ongoing]
• Improving config of small vos in quattor [ongoing]
• Castor client update rollout [ongoing]

Matt

• Deploy testbed LFC and MyProxy. [New]
• Management of FTS groups. [New]
• Prep for training course (Mon-Wed next week). [New]
• Testing Hadoop instance. [Ongoing]
• Contact NFS users. [Ongoing]

Richard

• Dealing with fall-out from moving a top BDII into the UPS room. [Ongoing]
• Building an ARGUS server using the new QWG templates [Ongoing]
• Documenting various items preparatory to handover [Ongoing]
• CASTOR items:
  • Running some stress tests on preprod instance. [Ongoing]

OnCall/AoD Cover

OnCall Rota

• Primary OnCall:
• Grid OnCall: Derek
• AoD: