Difference between revisions of "RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 24/04/2012"

Latest revision as of 08:37, 23 April 2012

Operations News

• Increased number of d2d copy slots for atlasStripInput '07 and '08 servers to help drain disk server quicker (Frid)
• Fixed SLS tape monitoring

Operations Problems

• Xrtootd problems (transfer failures) for atlasStripDeg leads to a missing path/svc mapping in xrd.cf on the atlas DLF machine. (Wed)
• Atlas declared lost of 2 files due to clock being out of sync on atlas stager machine. The problem has been fixed and Nagios check created to monitory any time drifts (Thur)
• Gdss445 was having some issues with d2d copy effecting draining mode. Fixed by recreating lsf dynamic libraries and restarting lsf client daemons (Thur)
• Gdss209 (atlasScratchDisk) went down on Friday night and was recovered on Sunday morning

Blocking Issues

• none

Planned, Scheduled and Cancelled Interventions

Entries in/planned to go to GOCDB

Advanced Planning

Tasks

• Test and re-apply CIP upgrade (Jens, Matthew)
• Test and certify 2.1.12-4 and 2.1.11-9 (Matthew, Chris)
• Stress testing of Transfer Manager (TM) (Shaun, All) DONE
• Ganglia monitoring for TM (Rob, Chris) IN PROGRESS
• Re-instantiate certification on HyperV VMs using Quattor+Puppet (Rob)
• Stress testing of CV11 generation disk servers on preprod (Rob, Matthew)
• Selection of disk-only prototype solution (Shaun, Rob, Brian, James)
• Switch to Tape Gateway on repack and test (Tim, Matthew) DONE

Interventions

• Upgrade repack to 2.1.12-4 (Apr)
• Switch from LSF to TM after 2.1.11-8 upgrade. Will need to better stress-test TM on preprod with more disk servers. (Apr)
• Switch to Tape Gateway (TG) once it has been tested on repack (May)
• Upgrade Castor Facilities and Tier1 instances to 2.1.11-9 (Jun)
• Upgrade Oracle to 11g (Jun)
• Upgrade to 2.1.12 on Tier1 instances once we are happy with TM and TG in performance (Jul)

Staffing

• Castor on Call person: Chris
• Staff absence/out of the office:
  • Rob (A/L)