RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 23/11/2009

Summary of Previous Week

• Establishing requirements for ATLAS B&W lists (Brian)
• Finalizing configuration on repack. Now functioning. (Chris, Tim)
• New tape family for ATLAS (Tim)
• MICE ACLs (Shaun)
• Deployed gdss413 on atlasSimStrip (Shaun)
• Nagios monitoring and backups for repack tape servers and CIP (Cheney)
• New Nagios checks for CIP and SNMP nagios checks for disk arrays (Cheney)
• Working on TSBN stats (Cheney)
• Assisted Mayo with tsbn automated spreadsheet (Cheney)
• Set up Serial_over_lan for ibm x3550 and rhubarb (Cheney)
• Fixed snowwhite xen box (Cheney)
• Wrote restarter for rhserver (Matthew)
• Fixed MICE access problem (Matthew)
• Data loss prevention strategy (Matthew)
• Finalizing spend requirements (Matthew, Tim)
• Improving resilience on central servers (Chris, Shaun)
• Configuring access for T2K (Shaun, Jens)
• Testing kernel on certification (Chris)
• Certification db problems (Chris)
• Investigating ways of securing ssh access (Chris)
• Resiliency for CIP (Jens)
• Cleaning MICE data (Jens)
• Testing Quattor templates for preprod (Richard)
• Identifying dark files on tape (Brian)
• Updating castormon kernel (Brian)

Developments for this week

• Polymorphic servfers and improving resilience on central servers (Chris, Shaun)
• Configuring access to Gen for facilities' evaluation (Shaun)
• SRM development (Shaun)
• Chasing CERN for php update (Chris)
• Configuring access for T2K (Jens)
• Fixing TSBN stats (Cheney)
• Emptying cupboards in atlas (Cheney)

Operations Issues

Low free space on /lsf partition on catlaslsf

Blocking issues

none

Planned, Scheduled and Cancelled Down Times

none

Advanced Planning

• Black and White lists will *not* now be introduced on ATLAS until 2.1.8
• Install/enable gridftp-internal on Gen (This year/before 2.1.8 upgrade)

Staffing

• Castor on Call person: Chris
• Matthew away Mon-Thurs