RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 08/09/2014
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Operations News
- Plan to ensure PreProd represents production in terms of hardware generation are underway
- Disk server redeployments continue (i.e. D1T0 reused in D0T1 etc) ... final few now
- Tim has been busy migrating CMS data to D tapes
- SL6 Headnode work progressing - hoping for rollout in Nov
Operations Problems
- a couple of disk server issues (GDSS748 and GDSS659)
- Gen transfermanager on lsf03 failed 00:03 Fri 5th, restarted by Puppet
- var partition on headnodes filling up with rsyslogs as DLF is no longer there to pick them up - Rob has corrected this
- Brian has found atlas scratch files on tape caches - concern about d0t1 decommissioning procedure, Brian to propose/update
Blocking Issues
- LHCb tape cache deployment – gdss673 not installing
- grid ftp bug in SL6 - stops any globus copy if a client is using a particular library. This is a show stopper for SL6 on disk server.
Planned, Scheduled and Cancelled Interventions
- Juan to patch castor dbs beginning of Nov PSU patches – standard change
- 2.1.14-14 testing in preprod when Brian releases it
- A Tier 1 Database cleanup is planned so as to eliminate a number of excess tables and other entities left over from previous CASTOR versions. This will be change-controlled in the near future.
Advanced Planning
Tasks
- Possible future upgrade to CASTOR 2.1.14-15.
- Switch from admin machines: lcgccvm02 to lcgcadm05
- New VM configured to run against the standby CASTOR database will be created as a front-end for dark data etc queries.
- Replace DLF with Elastic Search
- Correct partitioning alignment issue (3rd CASTOR partition) on new castor disk servers
Interventions
- None
Staffing
- Castor on Call person
- Rob
- Staff absence/out of the office:
- All in