RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 14/12/2009

Summary of Previous Week

• Developing our January upgrade strategy (All)
• More polymorphic server work - finished first version(Chris)
• Concentrate more on preproduction and work which Richard is doing (Chris)
• SRM development (Shaun)
• Work on atlas migration problems (Shaun)
• Work on CMS migration (Shaun)
• Investigation of timeouts (with cern) (Shaun)
• Disk server draining for ATLAS and LHCb (Brian)
• January upgrade strategy (Matthew)
• Deployed four RAID6 disk servers from atlasNonProd to atlasT0Raw (Matthew)
• Setting up and testing new production CIP (Matthew)
• CoD work (Matthew)

Developments for this week

• Review configuration for new lsf-triplet and run some tests (Chris)
• Continue working on polymorphic castor head nodes (Chris)
• Test and switch production LSF triplet to new hardware (Chris)
• Additional kernel + security updates (Chris)
• Continue working on Pre-Production instance (Chris)
• Build of new robot controller (Cheney)
• CASTOR pre-prod testing(Shaun)
• More SRM development (Shaun)
• Continue looking at tape problems thrown up with repack (Tim)
• Finalizing CIP 2.1.0 testing and released to CERN, CNAF, and ASGC (Jens)
• Setting up new CIP instance for T2K etc. (Jens)
• Setting up and testing new production CIP (Matthew)
• CASTOR for facilities planning (Matthew)

Ongoing work

• Investigate lhcbUser D2D copy problems (Matthew)
• More build of castoradm1 replacement (Cheney)

Operations Issues

none

Blocking issues

• Lack of Quattor configuration files for SLC4.8 is stopping us evaluating Quattor alongside CASTOR 2.1.8. Preprod setup will initially proceed with a Kickstart-based deployment.

Planned, Scheduled and Cancelled Interventions

• Deploy new CIP for T2K, ASAP (Pending approval)
• Replace CIP hosting machine with new one with more resilient hardware, after 21/12/09 (Pending approval)
• Deploy new LSF triplets, 14/01/10 (Pending approval)

Advanced Planning

• Gen upgrade to 2.1.8 2010Q1
• Install/enable gridftp-internal on Gen (This year/before 2.1.8 upgrade)

Staffing

• Castor on Call person: Chris