Difference between revisions of "RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 03/08/2009"

Latest revision as of 12:54, 31 July 2009

Summary of Previous Week

• CIP development on certification (Jens)
• CASTOR Disaster Recovery document (Matt)
• Investigate 2.1.8 NS client on 2.1.7 NS DB (Chris)
• Tier1 Production Manager (Matt)
• Interviewing for CASTOR Pre Production Service Manager post (Matt)
• Established with experiments when to intervene with hardware on D0T1 disk servers (Matt)
• Python 3 training course (Cheney)
• Oracle firewall rules (Cheney)
• Fixing problem with robot controllers (Cheney)
• Liaising with CMS to delete data (Tim)

Developments for this week

• CIP development on certification (Jens)
• Configuring disk servers to use gridftp-internal (Chris)
• CASTOR Disaster Recovery document (Matt)
• Write CASTOR status for oversight committee (Matt)

Ongoing

• Find out more about CERN's virtualized certification setup (Chris, Matt)
• Deploying 2.1.8-8 on remaining tape servers (Chris)
• Fix missing graphs on castormon - Atlas tape migration and aggregated Gen monitoring(Brian)
• Cleaning up database for a future 2.1.8 upgrade (Shaun)
• Setting up Preproduction (Matt)

Operations Issues

Disk failure plus errors on 3 other disk on gdss213 (AtlasScratchDisk)

Blocking issues

none

Scheduled and Cancelled Down Times

none

Changes to Production Milestones

none

Advanced Planning

• CIP upgrade to include nearline publishing (August)
• SRM 2.8 upgrade (August)
• Work with Fabric to add extra RAID card in remaining Viglen'06 disk servers (Second half of August)
• Database optimization tasks (September)
• Upgrade nameserver to 2.1.8 (Possibly during September)
• Black and White lists? (Possibly during September)
• Improve resiliency to central services (This year)

Staffing

• Castor on Call person: Matt (Mon-Thurs), Chris (Fri-Sun)
• Cheney on A/L
• Matt on A/L from Friday