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== Operation problems ==
 
== Operation problems ==
  
LHCb DB thread count increase worked; on Monday plan to reduce back to original setting (maybe in 2-3 steps)
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Quiet Christmas aside from disk server issues.
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Major failure on gdss745 (atlasStripInput), possible loss of the whole server.
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gdss756 out of production, expected back in production shortly.
  
 
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SOLID access/ceritificate issues [https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=131840 GGUS131840]. Waiting for reply from SOLID.
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== Operation news ==
 
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== Plans for next week ==
 
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Behind-the-scenes work on cattle headnodes.
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Work on cattle headnodes.
  
 
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RA to check if the disk server setting, changed to bring disk servers back more quickly after a CASTOR shutdown, is still in place
 
RA to check if the disk server setting, changed to bring disk servers back more quickly after a CASTOR shutdown, is still in place
  
RA/GP:  Run GFAL unit tests against CASTOR. Get them here: https://gitlab.cern.ch/dmc/gfal2/tree/develop/test/
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RA/BD:  Run GFAL unit tests against CASTOR. Get them here: https://gitlab.cern.ch/dmc/gfal2/tree/develop/test/
  
 
GP: Turn CASTOR SRMs & other Aquilonised nodes from clients to servers
 
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== Staffing ==
 
== Staffing ==
  
GP out until mid-January from Tuesday
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GP out until 15th January
  
 
RA on call
 
RA on call

Latest revision as of 11:42, 5 January 2018

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. SL5 elimination from CIP and tape verification server
  2. CASTOR stress test improvement
  3. Generic CASTOR headnode setup
  4. Aquilonised headnodes

5. Special topics

6. Actions

7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?

8. AoTechnicalB

9. Availability for next week

10. On-Call

11. AoOtherB

Operation problems

Quiet Christmas aside from disk server issues.

Major failure on gdss745 (atlasStripInput), possible loss of the whole server.

gdss756 out of production, expected back in production shortly.


LHCb DB thread count increase worked (?); on Monday plan to reduce back to original setting (maybe in 2-3 steps)

Operation news

Plans for next week

Work on cattle headnodes.

Long-term projects

CASTOR stress test improvement - Script writing, awaiting testing and validation

Headnode migration to Aquilon - Stager configuration almost complete; functional tests pass. Focus on features but not personalities

Target: Combined headnodes running on SL7/Aquilon - implement CERN-style 'Macro' headnodes.

Draining of remainder of 12 generation HW - waiting on CMS migration to Echo. No more draining ongoing.

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

RA/BD: Run GFAL unit tests against CASTOR. Get them here: https://gitlab.cern.ch/dmc/gfal2/tree/develop/test/

GP: Turn CASTOR SRMs & other Aquilonised nodes from clients to servers

GP/RA to chase up Fabric team about getting action on RT197296(use fdscspr05 as the preprod stager - replacement for ccse08)

Staffing

GP out until 15th January

RA on call