RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 15/03/2010

Summary of Previous Week

• Matthew:
  • Out of the office
• Shaun:
  • ..
• Chris:
  • ..
• Cheney:
  • installing various new hardware
  • set up new robot controller
  • cleaning away machine room junk
  • fix castor151 backups
  • fix castor151 crash
  • fix castor150 disk space
  • got borg-ed
• Tim:
  • VDQM issues
  • CMS Steam starvation issues
• Richard:
  • ..
• Brian:
  • Draining on lhcbDst RAID servers
  • Investigation into non migrating ATLAS MCTAPE files.
  • ATLAS FTS slot re-calculation
• Jens:
  • Only minor things this week.

Developments for this week

• Matthew:
  • Out of the office
• Shaun:
  • ..
• Chris:
• Cheney:
  • Robot controller set up
• Tim:
  • More new kit install
  • T10KB tests on pre-prod
  • New tape server installs
• Jens
  • Out of office.

Operations Issues

• ATLAS tape migration problem due to incorrect service class configuration
• LHCb operations contention with draining. Resolved with help of LHCb.
• CMS had problems with timeouts on transfers to ASGC early in the week.
• Crash of castor151 DB server

Blocking issues

• Waiting for neworking for new tape servers
• Delivery of preprod datbase

Planned, Scheduled and Cancelled Interventions

Entries in/planned to go to GOCDB

Description	Start	End	Type	Affected VO(s)
LHCb Draining RAID 5 disk servers	2010-03-11, 17:00:00	2010-03-15, 08:00:00	At-risk	LHCb

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
• Matt on paternity leave for 1 more week
• Staff absences:
  • Brian: Mon(pm), Tue, Wed
  • Jens