RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 04/11/2016

Draft agenda

1. Problems encountered this week

2. Upgrades/improvements made this week

3. What are we planning to do next week?

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

1. Castor 2.1.15 2. SL7 upgrade on tape servers

5. Special topics

6. Actions

7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?

8. AoTechnicalB

9. Availability for next week

10. On-Call

11. AoOtherB

Preprod gdss702 and gdss763 were down and not available for patching; gdss763 is working now

gdss896 crashed during reboot after kernel upgrade - resolved

Preprod gdss651 has been down for some time - there is fabric intervention in progress

Problems with patching the vcert headnodes

Service callouts for unroutable files on CMS (resolved, see here)

Alice SRM was responding slowly

Multiple service alerts for lhcbDst having %2 free space

All CASTOR production nodes have been patched

gdss681 has been deployed as V12 ds on preprod

New version of the castor_test.sh script is available, see elog entry here

RA to get preprod tape system working

RA to finalise the writing up the of the disk pool merging procedure

GP to deploy 5 x OCF14 disk servers into aliceDisk RT176040