Difference between revisions of "RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 04/01/2010"

Latest revision as of 15:19, 4 January 2010

Summary of Previous Week

• Kernel updates on castor machines (All)

Developments for this week

• UPS bypass intervention (Chris, Cheney)
• Catch up with all the problems from Chrismas period (Chris, Cheney, Brian)
• Investigating RmMaster problems on Gen after kernel update (Chris)
• Resolving zero size entry (/entries - TBC) in NS for Atlas (Brian, Chris)
• Investigating BigID on Atlas (DB Team, Shaun, Chris)
• Generate list of files from gdss70, one of LHCB disk servers (Chris)

Ongoing work

• Investigate lhcbUser D2D copy problems (Matthew)

Operations Issues

• Continuing SCSI errors appearing on rack nodes connected to Overland. Power related?

Blocking issues

• Lack of Quattor configuration files for SLC4.8 is stopping us evaluating Quattor alongside CASTOR 2.1.8. Preprod setup will initially proceed with a Kickstart-based deployment.
• Preprod DB can only be delivered after EMC testing is done (1st week after Jan'10)

Planned, Scheduled and Cancelled Interventions

• UPS bypass test (5/12/10 downtime)
• Switch back to EMC kit (at-risk during Jan, date TBC)
• Upgrade of memory to DB node (5 day at-risk during Jan, date TBC)
• Replace DB voting disk (downtime during Jan, date TBC)

Advanced Planning

• Gen upgrade to 2.1.8 2010Q1
• Install/enable gridftp-internal on Gen (This year/before 2.1.8 upgrade)

Staffing

• Castor on Call person: Chris
• A/L: Tim - Monday
• A/L: Shaun - Monday-Wednesday
• A/L: Matt - Monday-Tuesday (next week)