RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 10/11/2017
Parent article: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor
Contents
Draft agenda
1. Problems encountered this week
2. Upgrades/improvements made this week
3. What are we planning to do next week?
1. Facilities Headnode Replacement
4. Long-term project updates (if not already covered)
1. SL7 upgrade on tape servers 2. SL5 elimination from CASTOR functional test boxes and tape verification server 3. CASTOR stress test improvement 4. Generic CASTOR headnode setup
5. Special topics
6. Actions
7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?
8. AoTechnicalB
9. Availability for next week
10. On-Call
11. AoOtherB
Operation problems
tape usage plots for facilities instance of castor are not same with Tier1 RT196714 - PROGRESS, SEE TICKET
SAM tests failing because of nameserver stub file in Castor RT196707 - FIXED
SOLID cannot write into CASTOR - ONGOING
Operation news
lcgcts22 (Tier-1) and fdscts12 tape servers have been running on SL7 for a week now
Preprod SRMs are upgrade to 2.1.16-18 and patched
Plans for next week
Facilities headnode replacement planned for Wed 08/11
Continue roll-out SL7 upgrade on CASTOR tape servers
Long-term projects
CASTOR stress test improvement
Configure multiple instances of a CASTOR generic headnode
All 12' generation disk servers from Atlas have been drained and recommissioned. Need to finish with the ones from cmsDisk
Special topics
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
GP to talk to AL about service ownership/handover of the xroot manager boxes
RA/GP: Run GDAL unit tests against CASTOR. Get them here: https://gitlab.cern.ch/dmc/gfal2/tree/develop/test/
MLF: Miguel to confirm with Martin on date for patching Orisa DB
Staffing
RA on call
GP out on Fri 10/11
