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Standing 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. Review Fabric tasks

  1.   Link

8. AoTechnicalB

9. Availability for next week

10. On-Call

11. AoOtherB

Operation problems

Operation news

 * Completed Oracle patching of Tier 1 CASTOR. Short downtime.
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Plans for next few weeks

  * Push gsi authentication for xrootd in production
  * Decommission gdss747

Long-term projects

gsi authentication for xrootd: 1) Return preprod to a working state 2) Ask Raja and Tim to test the gsi config on preprod 3) Perform a stress test

Things need doing: log rotation, xrootd for ALICE

Actions

JK to investigate why ralreplicas fails and submit a "bug" report

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

GP/RA to write a Nagios test to check for large number of requests on the NewRequests DB table that remain for a long time - the check will run every xxx min (to be aggreed with Production) and issue an alarm if the number exceeds 1,000 for an extended period of time (15 min)

Staffing

GP on call Link title