RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 31/03/2014

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Operations News

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Operations Problems

  • CMS load continues to cause problems 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

  • 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:
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