RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 29/03/2010

Summary of Previous Week

• Matthew:
  • CASTOR Database Way Forward
  • Tier1 Open Day talk
  • Investigating safeguarding CASTOR Tier0 data (T2K,MICE,MINOS)
  • Organizing CASTOR panel session at GridPP24
  • Finalizing 2.1.8/2.1.9 Test Plan and Stress Testing specifications
• Shaun:
  • Tier 1 Open day talk
  • LHCb Jamboree
  • Scheduling Upgrades
  • Fixing deployment problems
  • COD duties
• Chris:
  • Tested maximum number of job slots for root protocol with Raja
  • Building 4 cold stand-by central castor servers and doing the final configuration
  • Deploying disk servers
  • DepMon duties
  • Castor on Call duties Mon-Tue
  • Doing work related to Tier1 Security Group project
• Cheney:
  • cleaning machine room
  • investigate sls timeouts
  • build new robot controller
  • fix zfs on new robot controller
  • investigate oracle install problems
  • check over castor151 backups
  • relocate fibre channel switches
  • replace failed drive in vtl
  • fix backup problems on nagger
  • bring up tape servers with mir problems
• Tim:
  • ..
• Richard:
  • Deploying some disk servers into cmsNonProd and lhcbNonProd
  • Continuing with stress-testing of pre-prod instance and contributing towards test-plan
• Brian:
  • Clearence of stuck migration files
  • Chase up of redeployment tickets.
  • T2 work
• Jens:
  • Mostly bkg stuff, a little CIP 2.2.0 dev.

Developments for this week

• Matthew:
  • Tier1 Open Day
  • CASTOR DB Disaster Recovery plans
  • CASTOR On Duty work
  • Publishing list of 'approved exceptions' - changes that don't require formal change control
• Shaun:
  • Tier 1 open day
  • Presenting upgrade timelines
  • CASTOR SRM Monitoring
  • Testing SRM 2.8-6
• Chris:
  • Test SL5 (64bit) disk server with xfs
  • Test cold stand-by central castor servers and then write documentation
  • Disk server deployment duties
  • Test Quattor disk server procedure and build castor disk server
  • Castor 2.1.8/2/1.9 upgrade work
  • Doing work related to Tier1 Security Group project
• Richard:
  • Tweaking stress-testing script to meet requirements of test-plan
  • Running stress-testing script on pre-prod instance
• Brian:
  • T1 Open Day
  • T2 Storage for LHC Media/Start of 7TeV Day
  • T2s
• Jens:
  • See if I can get round to finishing new CIP features for ATLAS and test on preprod or cert.

Operations Issues

• problem transferring files to gdss346 (atlasSimRaw) due to error during deployment

Blocking issues

None

Planned, Scheduled and Cancelled Interventions

Entries in/planned to go to GOCDB

Description	Start	End	Type	Affected VO(s)
update LSF license keys	26/03/2010 12:00	26/03/2010 12:30	At-risk	All
update LSF license keys	29/03/2010 09:30	29/03/2010 10:30	At-risk	All

Advanced Planning

• Upgrade to 2.1.8/2.1.9 2010
• CASTOR Instance for Non LHC 2010Q2
• Install/enable gridftp-internal on Gen (Before 2.1.8 upgrade)

Staffing

• Castor on Call person: Matthew
• Staff absences:
  • None