RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 03/11/2017

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

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