RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 27/07/2018
Contents
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
1. Link
8. AoTechnicalB
9. Availability for next week
10. On-Call
11. AoOtherB
Operation problems
* Problem ingesting Diamond data RT209702
Operation news
* Ready to decommission CIP
Plans for next few weeks
* Push gsi authentication for xrootd in production
Long-term projects
Oracle installation on Eris complete
Things need doing: log rotation, preparation in aquilon for new instance,...
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
RA on call
