RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 12/5/2017
Contents
Draft 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. SL7 upgrade on tape servers 2. SRM upgrade to SL6/CASTOR 2.1.16 3. SL5 elimination from CASTOR functional test boxes and tape verification server 4. CASTOR stress test improvement
5. Special topics
6. Actions
7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?
8. AoTechnicalB
9. Availability for next week
10. On-Call
11. AoOtherB
Operation problems
The CASTOR upgrade of LHCb stager was not carried out on Tuesday 9/5 as planned due to an installation propblem with aquilon
The nsd daeamon on cmsdlf node did not start after the upgrade
The nsd daeamon on xroot-cms-manager was not working
Operation news
Tier NS was upgraded on Tuesday
LHCb stager was upgraded to CASTOR 2.1.16-13 and SRMs were upgraded to to CASTOR 2.1.16-10 on Thursday
Plans for next week
Trip to CERN for the CASTOR/Ceph F2F meeting
Long-term projects
CIP migration to aquilon and upgrade to SL6
SL6 upgrade on functional test boxes and tape verification server
Tape-server migration to aquilon and SL7 upgrade (on hold at the moment)
CASTOR stress test improvement
Actions
DB hardware upgrade tracking
Drain and decomission/recomission the 12 generation disk servers
RA to get a new source control management system sorted for CASTOR script development
GP to prepare a report on the performance of the WAN parameters deployed on CMS disk servers
Staffing
RA until Monday and GP from Tue onwards
