Difference between revisions of "RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 11/08/2014"
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* The problems with the draining tool have been understood and a fix is being change-controlled on Monday | * The problems with the draining tool have been understood and a fix is being change-controlled on Monday | ||
* A new service class called 'cedaRetrieve' has been created to allow CEDA users (aka Kevin) to manually stage files for retrieval. | * A new service class called 'cedaRetrieve' has been created to allow CEDA users (aka Kevin) to manually stage files for retrieval. | ||
| + | * The rebalancer has been tested and found to cause problematically large transfermanager queues even with low thresholds set. We will not be using it further until we have a fix. | ||
== Blocking Issues == | == Blocking Issues == | ||
| − | + | * Neither rebalacing nor draining currently work. | |
== Planned, Scheduled and Cancelled Interventions == | == Planned, Scheduled and Cancelled Interventions == | ||
| − | + | * 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. | |
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'''Interventions''' | '''Interventions''' | ||
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== Staffing == | == Staffing == | ||
* Castor on Call person | * Castor on Call person | ||
| − | ** | + | ** Rob |
* Staff absence/out of the office: | * Staff absence/out of the office: | ||
| − | ** Chris | + | ** Chris, Matt and Shaun out all week |
Revision as of 15:18, 8 August 2014
Contents
Operations News
- Kashyap's Elasticsearch query script has been rolled out to CASTOR headnodes. Users are encouraged to test it and report any bugs.
- Samneet's query tool is under development and we hope to have an alpha version available for use by the end of next week.
- Plan to ensure PreProd represents production in terms of hardware generation are underway.
- The remaining 2014 disk servers have been deployed into production.
Operations Problems
- The problems with the draining tool have been understood and a fix is being change-controlled on Monday
- A new service class called 'cedaRetrieve' has been created to allow CEDA users (aka Kevin) to manually stage files for retrieval.
- The rebalancer has been tested and found to cause problematically large transfermanager queues even with low thresholds set. We will not be using it further until we have a fix.
Blocking Issues
- Neither rebalacing nor draining currently work.
Planned, Scheduled and Cancelled Interventions
- 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.
- Resume draining on the ATLAS instance once draining issues resolved.
- 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:
- Chris, Matt and Shaun out all week
