Difference between revisions of "RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 20/07/2009"

Latest revision as of 10:58, 24 July 2009

Summary of Previous Week

• 2.1.7-27 upgrade + LSF reconfiguration (Chris,all)
• Finishing work with robot in R89 - now fully operational (Tim)
• SRM development. Testing now underway at CERN (Shaun)
• Increased job slots for lhcbRawRdst (Shaun)
• Python training course (Cheney)
• Fixed puppetmaster connectivity (Cheney)
• Fixing castormon problem causing slowdown (Brian)
• Investigating low data rates between BNL and RAL (Brian)
• Chasing everybody's strategic plans (Matt)
• Started CASTOR Disaster Recovery document (Matt)
• Preproduction future planning (Matt,all)

Developments for this week

• Add final 2 tape drives to CASTOR (Tim)
• Deploy 2.1.8-8 on tape servers (Tim, Chris)
• Setting up SRM on certification to work with production for CMS (Shaun)
• Rewriting and improving puppet restarter (Shaun)
• CIP development on certification (Jens)
• Fix missing graphs on castormon - Atlas tape and gen (Brian)
• Investigate 2.1.8 NS client on 2.1.7 NS DB (Chris)
• CASTOR Disaster Recovery document (Matt)
• Write CASTOR status for oversight committee (Matt)
• Find out more about CERN's virtualized certification setup (Chris, Matt)

Ongoing

• Cleaning up database for a future 2.1.8 upgrade (Shaun)
• Setting up Preproduction (Matt)

Operations Issues

• Ran out of ROOT job slots on LHCb, increased from 200 to 400 (LHCb)
• Puppetmaster NIC stopped working, breaking auto grid-mapfile distribution for ~3 hours. (ALL)
• 2.1.7-24 JM crashed, was restarted straight away (ATLAS)

Blocking issues

none

Scheduled and Cancelled Down Times

none

Changes to Production Milestones

Advanced Planning

• SRM 2.8 upgrade (sometime during July)
• CIP upgrade to include nearline publishing (July/August)
• Improve resiliency to central services (Before data taking)
• Upgrade nameserver to 2.1.8 (Possibly during September)
• Black and White lists? Off the agenda before data taking.

Staffing

• Castor on Call person: Chris
• Shaun on Python training course (Mon-Wed)
• Cheney on A/L (Mon)
• Tim on A/L (Tue)