RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 13/07/2009

Summary of Previous Week

• Moving old tape robot and SAN (Tim)
• Getting CASTOR tape drives running (14/16 available) (Tim)
• Certification of 2.1.7-27 with new LSF configuration (Chris)
• Relocating Certification and Preprod instances (Cheney)
• Repairing blown PSU's (Cheney)
• SRM Development (Shaun)
• ATLAS intervention (Shaun&Matt&Gordon&Keir&Eter)

Developments for this week

• 2.1.7-27 upgrade + LSF reconfiguration (Chris,all)
• Testing old tape robots and moving non-castor tape drives (Tim)
• SRM development (Shaun)
• CIP development (Jens)

Ongoing

• Cleaning up database for a future 2.1.8 upgrade (Shaun)
• Setting up Preproduction (Matt)
• Prepare preproduction platform for stress testing (Chris/Matt)
• adding virtual disk servers to preproduction (Matt)
• 2.1.7-27 upgrade preparation - testing synchronisation and kernel upgrades (Chris)

Operations Issues

• Network intervention caused lsf daemon to die on some disk servers.
• Some tape drives reporting errors; cleared by Tim.
• ATLAS database problem led to extended unscheduled downtime.

Blocking issues

none

Scheduled and Cancelled Down Times

Entries in/planned to go to GOCDB

Description	Start	End	Type	Affected VO(s)
Apply Oracle BigID patch	13/7/09 0800	13/7/09 1700	At Risk	All
2.1.7-27 upgrade and LSF reconfiguration	14/7/09 0800	14/7/09 1700	Downtime	All
2.1.7-27 upgrade and LSF reconfiguration	14/7/09 0700	15/7/09 1700	At Risk	All

Changes to Operational Milestones

Description	Changed Status
Apply Oracle BigID fix to fix (H) DB team	DONE

Advanced Planning

• SRM 2.8 upgrade (sometime during July)
• Start using Black and White lists (sometime during July?)
• CIP upgrade to include nearline publishing (sometime during July/August)
• Upgrade nameserver to 2.1.8 (September?)

Staffing

• Castor on Call person (is also Castor on Day Duty): Shaun
• Cheney on training course Mon-Wed