Difference between revisions of "RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 26/10/2018"

Revision as of 09:13, 26 October 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)

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

Failure of gdss732 and gdss739 (both from lhcbDst). Back in production

Many checksum errors reported for files sent to CASTOR by Elastic tape for ingest (Kevin)

Operation news

Disabled atlasStripInput disk servers

Deleted CMS files as requested by Katy and Chris

Plans for next few weeks

  * Push gsi authentication for xrootd in production

  * Proceed with the atlasStripInput decommissioning

  * Proceed with the cmsDisk decommissioning

Long-term projects

gsi authentication for xrootd: 1) Ask Raja and Tim to run a functional test on preprod to make sure their prod users work 2) Perform a stress test

New CASTOR WLCGTape instance. Things need doing: 1) Update of the CASTOR ldif file and 2) Xrootd functional test on castor-fuctional-test1 3) Fix a misconfiguration on the Eris disk array (cannot bring WLCGTape into prod before this is done) 4) xrootd for ALICE

Actions

Staffing

GP on call