RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 17/2/2017
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
5. Special topics
6. Actions
7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?
8. AoTechnicalB
9. Availability for next week
10. On-Call
11. AoOtherB
Operations problems
CMS user time-out problems around 94-96%.
LHCb file transfers from worker to CASTOR turned out be due to LHCb file catalogs
Operations news
Plans for next week
Rob will continue writing the CIP on aquilon
Long-term projects
CIP migration to aquilon and upgrade to SL6
SRM upgrade to SL6/CASTOR 2.1.16: An VM configured as SL6/2.1.16 SRM for preprod passed the CASTOR functional tests
Tape-server migration to aquilon and SL7 upgrade (on hold for the moment)
Actions
Drain 10% of the 13 generation of disk servers (lhcbDst) for decommissioning
Generate a CASTOR bug report for the the open DB cursors problem
Add GP to the mail of CASTOR overwatch script
Staffing
RA on call next week
GP away
