Difference between revisions of "RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 31/03/2014"

Revision as of 16:16, 28 March 2014

Operations News

• Disk deployments: 1 CV’13 in lhcbDst / 10 CV ’13 in lhcbNonProd waiting for blessing / 3 CV’13 on way to cmsNonProd
• Disk Draining: 2 atlas servers drained and 1 in progress. 3 CMS servers drained and 1 in progress

Operations Problems

• CMS load continues to cause problems, we had to restart transfer/diskmanagers to get things working again (Monday 10:45 and Tuesday 17:30)
• transfermanagerd restarted on fdscdlf02 Thursday
• vcert srm and name server not accessible due to issues with hypervisor after rack move, possibly some config required to bring it back. Dimitrios is looking into this
• We had a node crash on Neptune causing brief issues with Atlas srm, known issue has already been logged with Oracle

Blocking Issues

• none

Planned, Scheduled and Cancelled Interventions

Entries in/planned to go to GOCDB

Advanced Planning

Tasks <<<<< REVIEW THIS >>>>>

• CASTOR 2.1.14 + SL5/6 testing. The change control has gone through today with few problems.
• iptables to be installed on lcgcviewer01 to harden the logging system against the injection of junk data by security scans.
• Quattor cleanup process is ongoing.
• Installation of new Preprod headnodes

Interventions

• (Tue 1 Apr) Facilities CASTOR Upgrade. Downtime between 0900-1600

Staffing

• Castor on Call person
  • Matthew
• Staff absence/out of the office:
  • (Mon-Fri) Rob A/L
  • (Friday) Bruno poss A/L