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== Operation news ==
 
== Operation news ==

Revision as of 09:48, 21 September 2018

Standing 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. SL5 elimination from CIP and tape verification server
  2. CASTOR stress test improvement
  3. Generic CASTOR headnode setup
  4. Aquilonised headnodes

5. Special topics

6. Actions

7. Review Fabric tasks

  1.   Link

8. AoTechnicalB

9. Availability for next week

10. On-Call

11. AoOtherB

Operation problems

Lost snoplus files that failed to migrate to tape [[1][GGUS137294]]. Disk server decommissioning procedure has been modified to avoid this happening in the future.

gdss747 called out; needs to be decommissioned

Argo tests for atlasStripInput are failing since the pool was set to read only; a change in GOCDB needs to be made

Operation news

 * 8 tape servers are allocated to the new CASTOR instance and upgraded to 2.1.17.35. They are ready
   to be used for the ATLAS tape term elog

Plans for next few weeks

  * Push gsi authentication for xrootd in production
  * Decommission gdss747

Long-term projects

gsi authentication for xrootd: 1) Return preprod to a working state (done) 2) Ask Raja and Tim to test the gsi config on preprod 3) Perform a stress test

New CASTOR WLCGTape instance: Upgraded stagers and ns nodes to 2.1.17-35. Need to upgrade tape servers to make migrations/recalls to work. Because of CASTOR version depedencies, tape servers cannot all be upgraded and allocated to the new instance at the same time. Rob suggested we do 5 tape servers for every VO migration to the new CASTOR instance. Also need to negotiate with TimA how many tape drives ATLAS would be happy to use for the tape "carouselle" test.

Things need doing: log rotation(RT212634), xrootd for ALICE

Actions

GP to add ldif entry for the new srm-wlcgtape endpoint

JK to investigate why ralreplicas fails and submit a "bug" report

RA/BD: Run GFAL unit tests against CASTOR. Get them here: https://gitlab.cern.ch/dmc/gfal2/tree/develop/test/

GP/RA to write a Nagios test to check for large number of requests on the NewRequests DB table that remain for a long time - the check will run every xxx min (to be aggreed with Production) and issue an alarm if the number exceeds 1,000 for an extended period of time (15 min)

Staffing

RA on call