RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 30/05/2011

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Operations News

  • none

Operations Problems

  • Facilities Tape drives started marking tapes as read only and disabling them over weekend, which stopped tape migration and caused disk cache to fill up

Blocking Issues

  • Lack of production-class hardware running ORACLE 10g needs to be resolved prior to CASTOR for Facilities going into full production. Has arrived and we are awaiting installation.

Planned, Scheduled and Cancelled Interventions

Entries in/planned to go to GOCDB none

Advanced Planning

  • Upgrade of CASTOR clients on WNs to 2.1.10-0
  • Upgrade tape subsystem to 2.1.10-1 which allows us to support files>2TB and T10KC
  • Move Tier1 instances to new Database infrastructure which with a Dataguard backup instance in R26
  • Move Facilities instance to new Database hardware running 10g
  • Upgrade SRMs to 2.10-3 which incorporates VOMS support
  • Start migrating from T10KA to T10KC media later this year
  • Quattorization of remaining SRM servers
  • Hardware upgrade, Quattorization and Upgrade to SL5 of CASTOR headnodes

Staffing

  • Castor on Call person: various
  • Staff absence/out of the office:
    • Matthew (Mon-Wed)
    • Shaun (Thu-Fri)
    • Chris at CONTRAIL (Mon-Wed) and A/L Thur