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== Long-term projects == | == Long-term projects == |
Latest revision as of 13:09, 18 August 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. SL5 elimination from CASTOR functional test boxes and tape verification server 3. CASTOR stress test improvement 4. Generic CASTOR headnode setup
5. Special topics
6. Actions
7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?
8. AoTechnicalB
9. Availability for next week
10. On-Call
11. AoOtherB
Operation problems
Keeping drives up in Facilities after the CASTOR upgrade turned out to be problematic
CMS SAM test failures
Operation news
CASTOR upgrade on Facilities completed without major problems
The new CASTOR functional test box castor-functional-test1.gridpp.rl.ac.uk is up up and running on SL6
Plans for next week
Deployment of the new ral-castor tools version
RA to continue work on setting up the generic CASTOR head node
Long-term projects
Tape-server migration to aquilon and SL7 upgrade: Try an SL7 upgrade on lcgcts11
CASTOR stress test improvement
Configure multiple instances of a CASTOR generic headnode
Drain and decomission/recomission the 12 generation disk servers
Special actions
Future CASTOR upgrade methodology: CERN need to provide RAL with a customed DB downgrade script for the on-the-fly CASTOR upgrade procedure
Actions
RA to check if the disk server setting, changed to bring disk servers back more quickly after a CASTOR shutdown, is still in place
Ensure that Fabric is on track with the deployment of the new DB hardware
RA to ensure that proper Nagios checks are in place for the xroot manager boxes
GP to talk to AL about service ownership/handover of the xroot manager boxes
RA to continue nagging Martin to replace Facilities headnodes
Ensure that httpd on lcgcadm04 is up and running and the machine points to the right DB RT191377
Staffing
RA on call
AS away