Difference between revisions of "RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 07/06/2010"

Latest revision as of 10:41, 10 June 2010

Summary of Previous Week

• Matthew:
  • Annual leave all week
• Shaun:
  • SRM Development
  • Investigation of SRM failure
  • Investigation of pre-prod database upgrade problem
• Chris:
  • Castor 2.1.8/2.1.9 tests
  • Deployed 11 disk server for lhcb
  • Working on certification instance
  • Castor on duty
  • DepMon duty
  • Working on Security Project
• Richard:
  • Restart pre-prod stress tests after database delay
  • Refined the logic in the CIP->site bdii "bridging" script by checking for existence of certain entries and not just relying on a non-zero volume of output from the CIP
• Brian:
  • e-mail dirk for information gathering for castor monitoring in 2.1.9
• Jens:
  • No CASTOR work this week (yet)

Developments for this week

• Matthew:
  • CoD + Depmon duties
  • Write stager restarter
  • Helping Kashif replace faulty RAID cards
  • Planning facilities instance work with Tim
  • Establishing MICE's requirements for duplicating data
  • Fixing space problem on puppetmaster /var
  • Upgrading new puppetmaster
• Shaun:
  • SRM Development
  • Preparation for wLCG Meeting
• Chris:
  • Castor 2.1.8/2.1.9 tests
  • Deploying more disk servers
  • DepMon duty
  • Working on Security Project
• Richard:
  • Complete current set pre-prod stress tests
• Brian:
  • ..
• Jens:
  • The Mythical CIP Month

Operations Issues

• castor151 rebooted after the bulk log array reset itself. LHCb stager db transparently migrated to another db node - no impact to users.
• Two ATLAS SRM boxes were accidentally turned off while being cleaned on 2/6/10 between 1300-1500. One exhibited problems after starting up, thought to be due to dust accumulation.

Blocking issues

None

Planned, Scheduled and Cancelled Interventions

Entries in/planned to go to GOCDB

None

Advanced Planning

• Upgrade to 2.1.8/2.1.9 2010

Staffing

• Castor on Call person: Matthew
• Staff absences:
  • none