RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 22/06/2018

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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. 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

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8. AoTechnicalB

9. Availability for next week

10. On-Call

11. AoOtherB

Operation problems

  * gdss685 and gdss699 and gdss746 failed and went out of production. gdss699 was set to readonly but failed again under heavy load
  * Network glitch on 11/06. Affected mainly Facilities machines and DB systems

Operation news

 * Central services schemas on preprod were upgraded to the latest version

Plans for next few weeks

  * Finalise the migration of the tape-verification server to Aquilon

Long-term projects

All VMware CASTOR headnodes passed functional tests CASTOR plan page

RA writing a new accounting system to match WLCG archival requirements

Actions

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

GP on call for next week