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3. What are we planning to do next week?
 
3. What are we planning to do next week?
 
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  1. Facilities Headnode Replacement
 
4. Long-term project updates (if not already covered)
 
4. Long-term project updates (if not already covered)
  
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== Operation problems ==
 
== Operation problems ==
  
No diskservers out
 
  
Persistent low rate of CMS SAM test failures.
 
 
LHCb seeing a shorter-than-ideal timeout on tape recalls
 
  
 
== Operation news ==
 
== Operation news ==
  
Work with ATLAS to eliminate remaining atlasScratchDisk hardware ongoing - down to 4 ATLAS files.
 
 
Initial deployment of SL7/Aquilon Tape servers (lcgcts22)
 
  
 
== Plans for next week ==
 
== Plans for next week ==
  
Continue rollout of SL7/Aquilon tape servers
 
  
Continue testing and write implementation plan for the replacement of the Facilities headnodes with the 'new' hardware
 
 
Test new SRM version (2.1.16-18) that provides fix for LHCb
 
  
 
== Long-term projects ==
 
== Long-term projects ==
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Ensure that Fabric is on track with the deployment of the new DB hardware
 
Ensure that Fabric is on track with the deployment of the new DB hardware
 
RA to ensure that proper Nagios checks are in place for the xroot manager boxes
 
  
 
GP to talk to AL about service ownership/handover of the xroot manager boxes
 
GP to talk to AL about service ownership/handover of the xroot manager boxes
  
 
== Staffing ==
 
== Staffing ==
 
RA on call Mon/Tues
 
 
GP on call Weds onwards
 

Revision as of 17:44, 2 November 2017

Parent article: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor

Draft agenda

1. Problems encountered this week

2. Upgrades/improvements made this week

3. What are we planning to do next week?

  1. Facilities Headnode Replacement

4. Long-term project updates (if not already covered)

  1. SL7 upgrade on tape servers
  2. SL5 elimination from CASTOR functional test boxes and tape verification server
  3. CASTOR stress test improvement
  4. Generic CASTOR headnode setup

5. Special topics

6. Actions

7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?

8. AoTechnicalB

9. Availability for next week

10. On-Call

11. AoOtherB

Operation problems

Operation news

Plans for next week

Long-term projects

Tape-server migration to aquilon and SL7 upgrade: initial

CASTOR stress test improvement

Configure multiple instances of a CASTOR generic headnode

Drain and decommission/recommission the 12 generation disk servers

Actions

RA to check if the disk server setting, changed to bring disk servers back more quickly after a CASTOR shutdown, is still in place

Ensure that Fabric is on track with the deployment of the new DB hardware

GP to talk to AL about service ownership/handover of the xroot manager boxes

Staffing