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- * glibc updates applied, all CASTOR systems rebooted. initial issues with head nodes, 7 failed to reboot due t ...pen times - Andrey reports that CERN use 100GB of memory for DB servers in castor to run 2.1.15 (vs our 32GB), Oracle are not providing adequate support at t5 KB (810 words) - 13:23, 14 March 2016
- ...pen times - Andrey reports that CERN use 100GB of memory for DB servers in castor to run 2.1.15 (vs our 32GB), Oracle are not providing adequate support at t * Could not drain gdss702 (castor 2.1.15) in Preprod (all files failed according to draindiskserver -q) - doe3 KB (493 words) - 16:23, 18 March 2016
- ...pen times - Andrey reports that CERN use 100GB of memory for DB servers in castor to run 2.1.15 (vs our 32GB), Oracle are not providing adequate support at t * CASTOR 2.1.152 KB (380 words) - 16:05, 1 April 2016
- * CERN steered us not to move to SRM 2.1.14 before castor 2.1.15 ...pen times - Andrey reports that CERN use 100GB of memory for DB servers in castor to run 2.1.15 (vs our 32GB), Oracle are not providing adequate support at t3 KB (459 words) - 10:47, 8 April 2016
- * 2.1.16 castor needs deployment to tape servers * CERN steered us not to move to SRM 2.1.14 before castor 2.1.153 KB (532 words) - 10:57, 15 April 2016
- 1. Castor 2.1.15 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?2 KB (322 words) - 11:08, 21 November 2016
- 7.Anything for CASTOR-Fabric? * gfalcat does not work with castor, underlying issue fixed for gfalcopy but not gfalcat (gfal developers respo3 KB (429 words) - 09:34, 6 May 2016
- ... There was a question as to how batch is turned back on, concerns swamping castor? * gfalcat does not work with castor, underlying issue fixed for gfalcopy but not gfalcat (gfal developers respo3 KB (476 words) - 11:08, 13 May 2016
- New CASTOR functional testing using xrootd will be enabled on Monday 23/5/2016 == CASTOR issues ==1 KB (237 words) - 13:03, 23 May 2016
- Automated workflow for disk server deployment has been disabled New CASTOR functional testing using xrootd will be enabled on Monday 23/5/2016 CASTOR issues3 KB (466 words) - 12:06, 1 June 2016
- 7.Anything for CASTOR-Fabric? 40 files in atlas scratch had zero size in CASTOR namespace, BD declare lost to Atlas3 KB (522 words) - 09:30, 10 June 2016
- The CASTOR 2.1.15 upgrade seems to work apart from the part that deals with the SRM re BD to review outstanding RT tickets on CASTOR queue3 KB (485 words) - 10:59, 24 June 2016
- Further progress has been made with CASTOR 2.1.15 upgrade BD and CP to find out about zero-sized files on CASTOR facilities3 KB (477 words) - 11:58, 10 June 2016
- CASTOR will be replaced in CERN by 2022. Need to consider what will happen in RAL BD to review outstanding RT tickets on CASTOR queue3 KB (602 words) - 12:30, 24 June 2016
- CASTOR will be replaced in CERN by 2022. Need to consider what will happen in RAL CASTOR TEAM Durham / Leicester Dirac data - need to create separate tape pools / u4 KB (632 words) - 12:50, 8 July 2016
- CASTOR will be replaced in CERN by 2022. Need to consider what will happen in RAL CASTOR TEAM Durham / Leicester Dirac data - need to create separate tape pools / u3 KB (614 words) - 13:12, 15 July 2016
- 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric? The gridFTP problem in CASTOR 2.1.15 was fixed. Xroot remains to be fixed1 KB (192 words) - 11:19, 12 August 2016
- Draining of gdss748 is complete. The server is out of castor and handed over to the fabric team to swap back drives with gdss755 ...upgrade continues liaising with CERN. Need to find the license under which CASTOR is distibuted for the new users.3 KB (482 words) - 13:25, 15 July 2016
- 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric? CASTOR TEAM Durham / Leicester Dirac data - need to create separate tape pools / u3 KB (438 words) - 09:33, 29 July 2016
- # Anything for CASTOR-Fabric? CASTOR TEAM Durham / Leicester Dirac data - need to create separate tape pools / u2 KB (351 words) - 10:17, 12 August 2016
- All 9 new Dell tape-backed disk servers have been deployed into CASTOR Good progress has been made with the CASTOR 2.1.15 upgrade. The gridFTP transfer problem was fixed and a configuration2 KB (377 words) - 09:28, 12 August 2016
- 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric? Work on Castor 2.1.15 draining continues1 KB (189 words) - 10:46, 26 August 2016
- 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric? Work on Castor 2.1.15 draining continues1 KB (144 words) - 09:00, 26 August 2016
- ** Tape library for CASTOR-side testing in progress now * CASTOR metric reporting for GridPP4 KB (562 words) - 09:54, 5 April 2019
- 1. Castor 2.1.15 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?2 KB (346 words) - 11:09, 9 September 2016
- 1. Castor 2.1.15 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?1 KB (186 words) - 15:04, 27 September 2016
- 1. Castor 2.1.15 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?2 KB (312 words) - 09:05, 5 October 2016
- 1. Castor 2.1.15 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?1 KB (188 words) - 09:25, 28 October 2016
- 1. Castor 2.1.15 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?2 KB (230 words) - 09:31, 28 October 2016
- 1. Castor 2.1.15 2. SL7 upgrade on tape servers 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?2 KB (255 words) - 10:01, 31 October 2016
- 1. Castor 2.1.15 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?2 KB (314 words) - 12:34, 4 November 2016
- 1. Castor 2.1.15 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?2 KB (311 words) - 12:43, 11 November 2016
- 1. Castor 2.1.15 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?2 KB (330 words) - 16:34, 8 December 2016
- 1. Castor 2.1.15 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?3 KB (398 words) - 12:16, 25 November 2016
- 1. Castor 2.1.15 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?1 KB (187 words) - 09:14, 3 February 2017
- Alice use farm (quite significant) but dont really use castor *2014 disk serevrs can be put into castor - poss cms .. for IO throughput848 B (147 words) - 09:43, 8 December 2016
- 1. Castor 2.1.15 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?3 KB (458 words) - 09:16, 16 December 2016
- 1. Castor 2.1.15 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?2 KB (312 words) - 14:05, 16 December 2016
- 1. Castor 2.1.15 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?2 KB (218 words) - 14:21, 9 January 2017
- | 20131023-03 || Normal || ATLAS || Matthew || Report back about ATLAS CASTOR deletion problem after F2F discussion with developers || Closed. || 2014-01 | 20140827-02 || Normal || N/A || Rob || Report on plans for Castor 2.1.15 upgrade. || Done || 2014-10-282 KB (289 words) - 14:09, 21 December 2016
- ...mal || CMS || Andrew L || Ensure the relevant people are looking into CMS CASTOR problems || Closed || 2015-02-11 ... || Normal || All || Rob Appleyard || Propagate information about upcoming CASTOR interventions || Done || 2015-08-261 KB (163 words) - 14:10, 21 December 2016
- 1. Castor 2.1.15 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?1 KB (147 words) - 13:57, 17 January 2017
- 1. Castor 2.1.15 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?1 KB (172 words) - 10:17, 25 January 2017
- 1. Castor 2.1.15 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?1 KB (175 words) - 14:58, 9 February 2017
- 2. SRM upgrade to SL6/CASTOR 2.1.16 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?1 KB (216 words) - 12:18, 13 February 2017
- 2. SRM upgrade to SL6/CASTOR 2.1.16 7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?1 KB (169 words) - 12:00, 17 February 2017
- 2. SRM upgrade to SL6/CASTOR 2.1.16 3. SL5 elimination from CASTOR functional test boxes and tape verification server1 KB (215 words) - 11:00, 6 March 2017
- 2. SRM upgrade to SL6/CASTOR 2.1.16 3. SL5 elimination from CASTOR functional test boxes and tape verification server1 KB (168 words) - 11:42, 26 April 2017
- 2. SRM upgrade to SL6/CASTOR 2.1.16 3. SL5 elimination from CASTOR functional test boxes and tape verification server1 KB (176 words) - 13:35, 3 May 2017
- 2. SRM upgrade to SL6/CASTOR 2.1.16 3. SL5 elimination from CASTOR functional test boxes and tape verification server1 KB (149 words) - 13:30, 11 May 2017
- 2. SRM upgrade to SL6/CASTOR 2.1.16 3. SL5 elimination from CASTOR functional test boxes and tape verification server2 KB (260 words) - 10:27, 12 May 2017
- 2. SRM upgrade to SL6/CASTOR 2.1.16 3. SL5 elimination from CASTOR functional test boxes and tape verification server2 KB (229 words) - 13:45, 25 May 2017
- 2. SRM upgrade to SL6/CASTOR 2.1.16 3. SL5 elimination from CASTOR functional test boxes and tape verification server2 KB (217 words) - 13:21, 31 May 2017
- 2. SRM upgrade to SL6/CASTOR 2.1.16 3. SL5 elimination from CASTOR functional test boxes and tape verification server2 KB (310 words) - 07:47, 8 June 2017
- 2. SRM upgrade to SL6/CASTOR 2.1.16 3. SL5 elimination from CASTOR functional test boxes and tape verification server1 KB (194 words) - 10:41, 15 June 2017
- 2. SRM upgrade to SL6/CASTOR 2.1.16 3. SL5 elimination from CASTOR functional test boxes and tape verification server2 KB (261 words) - 16:16, 19 June 2017
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- | 20151014-01 || Normal || LHCB || Rob Appleyard || LHCb Writes from WN to Castor failing || Closed || 2017-02-08 | 20170215-01 || Normal || LHCB || Raja || LHCb Writes from WN to Castor failing , and then also failing to other sites. Raja to follow up. || Close2 KB (234 words) - 11:02, 8 January 2018
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- * Juan to patch castor dbs beginning of Nov PSU patches – standard change ...inate a number of excess tables and other entities left over from previous CASTOR versions. This will be change-controlled in the near future.2 KB (297 words) - 16:23, 19 September 2014
- * VO Pheno have been enabled to use Castor. ** Apply latest Oracle patches (PSU) to the production database systems (Castor, LFC).12 KB (1,304 words) - 10:59, 24 September 2014
- [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * gdss659 is still but will be decommissioned out of CASTOR.2 KB (383 words) - 10:53, 4 February 2015
- * useful breakout sessions at Castor face to face - deadlock analysis & bugs confirmed, discussions to simplify * Juan to patch castor dbs starting next week (PSU patches) – standard change2 KB (274 words) - 15:25, 26 September 2014
- * Access to Castor has been given to the Pheno VO.49 KB (6,449 words) - 10:22, 29 September 2014
- [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * SL6 name server upgrade postponed due to castor team resource - likely to be this week2 KB (366 words) - 15:20, 16 January 2015
- * Castor SRM updates: Planning for LHCb SRMs to be the first to be updated on 22nd M42 KB (5,079 words) - 18:37, 19 March 2017
- * useful breakout sessions at Castor face to face - deadlock analysis & bugs confirmed, discussions to simplify ...nt on gdss720. Server currently in read only and will revisit post current castor issues.3 KB (479 words) - 09:41, 7 October 2014
- ...) was moved to the standby database system. This required an outage of the Castor Atlas and GEN instances which lasted around 2 hours. The standby is, under ...e declared lost to ALICE, both from AliceDisk. These were picked up by the Castor checksum checker.15 KB (1,740 words) - 10:50, 15 October 2014
- * SL6 Headnode work progressing well - hoping for test in castor vcert next week ...h due to emc failure. Action Add CIP into instructions for castor failover.Castor team decided to wait until dbs rolled back.3 KB (479 words) - 16:36, 10 October 2014
- ... experiencing a problem with a disk array that holds the Castor databases. Castor performance may be degraded and we await an engineer to fix the faulty arra ...heck at RAL, and asking if things are alright. When looking over the whole Castor namespace it appears that all files are present and correct which doesn't e46 KB (5,940 words) - 04:40, 13 October 2014
- |CASTOR |CASTOR6 KB (928 words) - 16:45, 3 January 2019
- ...f different file types for accessing Dirac files, Mass Storage Files (e.g. castor), LCG SE files and Google Drvie files and all can accept wilcards.15 KB (2,621 words) - 14:40, 27 May 2020
- ...y (Tuesday 14th October) there was a scheduled outage of the Atlas and GEN Castor instances while the database configuration was put back in its normal opera ** Apply latest Oracle patches (PSU) to the production database systems (Castor, LFC). (Underway).14 KB (1,556 words) - 13:12, 15 October 2014
- ...; margin-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.1em; padding-bottom: 0.1em;" | Resolved Castor Disk Server Issues ...0; margin-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.1em; padding-bottom: 0.1em;" | Ongoing Castor Disk Server Issues16 KB (1,535 words) - 13:37, 20 June 2018
- ...; margin-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.1em; padding-bottom: 0.1em;" | Resolved Castor Disk Server Issues ...0; margin-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.1em; padding-bottom: 0.1em;" | Ongoing Castor Disk Server Issues16 KB (1,476 words) - 07:41, 16 May 2018
- * SL6 Headnode work progressing well - tested in vcert2, hoping for test in castor vcert next week and production end of Nov. * Successfully moved Castor atlas/gen stager/srm back to primary db following EMC cache battery replace2 KB (378 words) - 12:09, 17 October 2014
- .... The disk array has been fixed and this morning we have a downtime of the Castor Atlas and GEN instances to revert to the 'normal' database configuration. ...et to the first order (confirming that the files in question are indeed in castor), so the ticket could be solved - or at least CMS could be asked to see if39 KB (4,711 words) - 03:39, 21 October 2014
- ... expected to be a transparent intervention. The 'Pluto' database hosts the Castor Nameserver as well as the CMS and LHCb stager databases. ** Apply latest Oracle patches (PSU) to the production database systems (Castor, LFC). (Underway).14 KB (1,591 words) - 11:09, 22 October 2014
- * 2-1-14-14 castor upgrade priority dropped as we have a draining workaround. Revisit once SL6 ...inate a number of excess tables and other entities left over from previous CASTOR versions. This will be change-controlled in the near future.2 KB (270 words) - 14:50, 27 October 2014
- ... expected to be a transparent intervention. The 'Pluto' database hosts the Castor Nameserver as well as the CMS and LHCb stager databases. ** Apply latest Oracle patches (PSU) to the production database systems (Castor, LFC). (Underway).14 KB (1,569 words) - 13:13, 29 October 2014
- * The intervention to put our Castor Oracle database configuration to its 'normal' state was completed OK last T40 KB (4,976 words) - 10:25, 27 October 2014
- ...inate a number of excess tables and other entities left over from previous CASTOR versions. This will be change-controlled in the near future. * Possible future upgrade to CASTOR 2.1.14-15 post christmas2 KB (355 words) - 10:19, 3 November 2014
- * The intervention to put our Castor Oracle database configuration to its 'normal' state was completed OK last T42 KB (5,228 words) - 10:37, 4 November 2014
- ...inate a number of excess tables and other entities left over from previous CASTOR versions. This will be change-controlled in the near future. * Possible future upgrade to CASTOR 2.1.14-15 post Christmas1 KB (226 words) - 13:51, 12 November 2014
- ...w castor reports read-only disk servers, Brian has put in a request to the Castor team for information on this. On hold (3/11) * Gfal-copy and castor issue48 KB (6,138 words) - 09:19, 10 November 2014
- * Some problems on Atlas Castor instance. At various times in the last couple of weeks the Atlas workload h * OS Errata rolled out to Castor GEN instance (headnodes & disk servers) this morning (12th Nov).13 KB (1,376 words) - 15:37, 12 November 2014
- * Gfal-copy and castor issue * Some problems on Atlas Castor instance. At various times in the last couple of weeks the Atlas workload h39 KB (4,698 words) - 18:46, 16 November 2014
- ...inate a number of excess tables and other entities left over from previous CASTOR versions. This will be change-controlled in the near future. * Possible future upgrade to CASTOR 2.1.14-15 post Christmas2 KB (267 words) - 14:41, 14 November 2014
- * Some problems on Atlas Castor instance. At various times in the last couple of weeks the Atlas workload h * None, A proposed at risk to update errata on Atlas, CMS and LHCb castor instance machines was cancelled.12 KB (1,302 words) - 14:14, 19 November 2014
- ...inate a number of excess tables and other entities left over from previous CASTOR versions. This will be change-controlled in the near future. * Possible future upgrade to CASTOR 2.1.14-15 post Christmas2 KB (265 words) - 14:14, 21 November 2014
- ...ause has been understood and a fix will be provided in a future version of Castor. * Some problems on Atlas Castor instance. At various times in recent weeks the Atlas workload has led to di14 KB (1,484 words) - 15:28, 26 November 2014
- [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * gdss659 is still but will be decommissioned out of CASTOR.2 KB (364 words) - 15:03, 2 December 2014
- ...M storage capacity mismatch. At last word Brian had submitted a request to Castor to find out how it reports read-only volumes. Any news? On Hold (3/11) * Gfal-copy and castor issue41 KB (5,123 words) - 10:02, 1 December 2014
- * CMS managed to fill up their Castor space allocation yesterday 2nd December. The VO was informed and they delet * Today CMS jobs have been overwhelming Castor with xrootd jobs. We hope to fix this by switching CMS to use RFIO and by r13 KB (1,397 words) - 12:01, 3 December 2014
- [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * gdss659 is still but will be decommissioned out of CASTOR.2 KB (331 words) - 10:53, 4 February 2015
- * The headnodes of LHCb instance of Castor is being upgraded to SL6 today 10:00-14:00. * Investigating problems on the CMS Castor instance.50 KB (6,536 words) - 00:08, 7 December 2014
- * The headnodes of LHCb instance of Castor is being upgraded to SL6 today 10:00-14:00. * Investigating problems on the CMS Castor instance.40 KB (4,992 words) - 19:01, 15 December 2014
- * The problem with xroot access to the Castor GEN instance was fixed during the afternoon of Wednesday 14th Jan. (This pr ... were updated to SL6 on Monday 19th Jan. This operation was transparent to Castor users.14 KB (1,514 words) - 17:14, 21 January 2015
- Castor not publishing glue2. Stephen Burke has offered a hand with the task. In pr ...z, with his mice (mouse?) hat on, cannot copy data from the Imperial SE to Castor via the FTS, but can do uploads/downloads using the regular tools. Early da117 KB (18,736 words) - 11:05, 4 January 2016
- * Completing Castor headnode upgrades to SL6: Tuesday 6th Jan - GEN; Wednesday 7th Jan - Namese * Castor:14 KB (1,504 words) - 14:50, 17 December 2014
- [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * Kernel and errata upgrade on Castor SL6 headnodes (including reboot) - Tues 23rd 10:00 - 12:003 KB (386 words) - 11:33, 19 December 2014
- * In addition upgrading the Castor Headnodes to SL6 needs to be completed:44 KB (5,642 words) - 20:59, 21 December 2014
- * In addition upgrading the Castor Headnodes to SL6 needs to be completed:46 KB (5,865 words) - 23:34, 26 December 2014
- * On Sunday 21st December there was a problem with the LHCb Castor instance when teh transfer manager processes became unresponsive. These wer * On Tuesday 6th Jan the Castor GEN instance headnodes were successfully upgraded to SL6.17 KB (1,780 words) - 12:56, 7 January 2015
- [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * Testing CASTOR rebalancer on preproduction.4 KB (574 words) - 15:27, 11 May 2015
- ...There is a 'warning' on the Tier1 Castor tomorrrow (Wednesday 7th) for the Castor "nameserver" component to be likewise updated.47 KB (5,942 words) - 15:24, 8 January 2015
- [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * SL6 name server upgrade postponed due to castor team resource - needs to be rescheduled2 KB (368 words) - 13:40, 9 January 2015
- * There is a problem with xroot access to the Castor GEN instance (not affecting ALICE). | All Castor (All SRM endpoints).14 KB (1,559 words) - 10:52, 21 January 2015
- ...lace last week. This is being re-scheduled for next Monday (19th Jan). The Castor service will be At Risk during this work. * SL6 updates on Castor Namesevers announced for next Monday (19th Jan). (Castor services At Risk during this upgrade).44 KB (5,523 words) - 22:20, 18 January 2015
- [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * Redundant atlasHotdisk service class and disk pool from CASTOR2 KB (358 words) - 14:00, 23 January 2015
- * The delayed upgrade of the Castor Namservers to SL6 took place successfully yesterday, Monday (19th Jan). * Some Castor updates done (SL6 updates on Namesevers; Addition of a third SRM node for L44 KB (5,505 words) - 10:46, 26 January 2015
- * On Monday (26th Jan) some redundant Castor stager schemas were cleaned up. | Castor CMS & GEN instances (srm-alice, srm-biomed, srm-cms, srm-cms-disk, srm-dtea13 KB (1,340 words) - 12:21, 28 January 2015
- [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * Facilities CASTOR patched for kernel/errata (not Ghost)3 KB (502 words) - 14:28, 30 January 2015
- * The delayed upgrade of the Castor Namservers to SL6 took place successfully yesterday, Monday (19th Jan). * Kernel and errata updates (requiring a reboot) are being applied to Castor disk servers this week.45 KB (5,609 words) - 09:48, 2 February 2015
- ...des within the RAC. After these were moved to their correct locations some Castor service restarts were carried out to ensure the connections to the database ...d not come back after being shutdown for a reboot during scheduled work on Castor on Monday (2nd Feb). It was found to have a faulty disk drive. After being13 KB (1,435 words) - 11:48, 4 February 2015
- * Castor: ** Fix discrepancies were found in some of the Castor database tables and columns. (The issue has no operational impact.)12 KB (1,187 words) - 13:13, 18 February 2015
- * Outage for reboot of Castor systems yesterday (to pick up latest OS patches).46 KB (5,740 words) - 12:49, 8 February 2015
- | All Castor (All SRMs) | Castor services At Risk during application of regular patches to back end database13 KB (1,290 words) - 11:23, 11 February 2015
- [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * storageD retrieval from castor problems - investigation ongoing3 KB (429 words) - 15:30, 16 February 2015
- * Patching of Oracle databases behind Castor scheduled for Feb 11th, declared as WARNING in GOCDB.48 KB (6,051 words) - 10:02, 16 February 2015
- ...ridpp.ac.uk/tier1a/Tier1_Experiment_Liaisons_Meeting/CASTOR_Accounting.pdf CASTOR information provider and accounting] ...ww.gridpp.ac.uk/tier1a/Tier1_Experiment_Liaisons_Meeting/CASTOR_2.1.13.pdf CASTOR 2.1.13]948 B (132 words) - 09:36, 25 February 2015
- [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * storageD retrieval from castor problems - investigation ongoing3 KB (491 words) - 09:48, 25 February 2015
- * Move of some racks containing Castor disk servers needed to make space for new deliveries exopected to take plac45 KB (5,650 words) - 15:12, 20 February 2015
- ** ALICE: High activity. VO boxes switching to RFC proxies. Some CERN CASTOR instabilities. * Castor update to 2.1.14-15 planned for next week.43 KB (5,265 words) - 10:52, 6 April 2015
- | All Castor (all SRM endpoints) | Upgrade of Castor storage to version 2.1.14-1512 KB (1,197 words) - 08:36, 8 April 2015
- ...created a few weeks ago - which was the second occurrence of a rare bug in Castor. * Castor:12 KB (1,175 words) - 14:56, 4 March 2015
- * Update Castor to 2.1-14-15 (Proposed date - Wednesday 8th April). * Castor:12 KB (1,242 words) - 14:15, 11 March 2015
- [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] ...while draining (had difficulties previously) - now back and draining final castor partition3 KB (550 words) - 14:59, 9 March 2015
- [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] ...it current version - never seen by RAL. CERN have a workaround in place on castor 2.1.154 KB (574 words) - 12:14, 13 March 2015
- * Proposed date for Castor upgrade to version 2.1.14-15 is the 8th April. (To be confirmed).48 KB (6,074 words) - 10:36, 16 March 2015
- * Five additional disk servers have been deployed into Castor storage for ALICE_Disk. This roughly doubles the disk space available to AL | All Castor (all SRMs)12 KB (1,182 words) - 14:05, 18 March 2015
- [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * storageD retrieval from castor problems - investigation ongoing3 KB (537 words) - 17:53, 20 March 2015
- * Proposed date for Castor upgrade to version 2.1.14-15 is the 8th April. * Five additional disk servers have been deployed into Castor storage for ALICE_Disk. This roughly doubles the disk space available to AL44 KB (5,438 words) - 08:48, 23 March 2015
- | All Castor (all SRM endpoints) | Upgrade of Castor storage to version 2.1.14-1513 KB (1,330 words) - 10:18, 1 April 2015
- * Proposed date for Castor upgrade to version 2.1.14-15 is the 8th April. * Five additional disk servers have been deployed into Castor storage for ALICE_Disk. This roughly doubles the disk space available to AL44 KB (5,487 words) - 08:53, 30 March 2015
- | All Castor (all SRM endpoints) | Upgrade of Castor storage to version 2.1.14-1512 KB (1,175 words) - 10:12, 8 April 2015
- [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * Upgrade of CASTOR DBs to Oracle version DB 11.2.04 complete.3 KB (514 words) - 16:13, 1 May 2015
- * UPS power for castor Disk Servers * Instigate regular check of Castor logs for tape access for this type of problem. (229)8 KB (1,074 words) - 09:36, 18 September 2018
- ==RAL-LCG2 Incident 20150408 network intervention preceding Castor upgrade== ... to resolve (and was not finally cleared until the following morning.) The Castor update had to be backed out and there were some problems in doing this.15 KB (2,406 words) - 16:43, 17 August 2015
- ** T0 & T1 services: CERN CASTOR upgrades 6th and 7th April. T1s various SE upgrades. ** ALICE: High activity. Most VO Boxes now use RFC proxies. Various CERN CASTOR instabilities. CRL URL being firewalled for IPv6.44 KB (5,515 words) - 13:09, 12 April 2015
- [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * testing CASTOR rebalancer (new version in 2.1.14-15)3 KB (520 words) - 09:25, 1 May 2015
- ...e Tier1 network and caused significant disruption of services. The planned Castor upgrade for that day had to be abandoned. A post mortem is being generated * Castor was successfully upgraded to version 2.1.14-15 this morning.13 KB (1,382 words) - 13:27, 15 April 2015
- ** T0 & T1 services: CERN CASTOR upgrades 6th and 7th April. T1s various SE upgrades. ** ALICE: High activity. Most VO Boxes now use RFC proxies. Various CERN CASTOR instabilities. CRL URL being firewalled for IPv6.49 KB (6,238 words) - 08:07, 18 April 2015
- [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * Tier 1 CASTOR 2.1.14-15 upgrade completed successfully3 KB (542 words) - 13:38, 20 April 2015
- Extensive loss/corruption of CEDA data stored in Facilities CASTOR instance ** This hardware is then deployed into CASTOR.3 KB (435 words) - 13:57, 24 April 2015
- ** T0 & T1 services: CERN CASTOR upgrades 6th and 7th April. T1s various SE upgrades. ** ALICE: High activity. Most VO Boxes now use RFC proxies. Various CERN CASTOR instabilities. CRL URL being firewalled for IPv6.43 KB (5,339 words) - 06:42, 27 April 2015
- ...E: New job record of 80k+. Taking advantage of resource availability. Some CASTOR file access instabilities for re-reco jobs. ...DIGI-RECO of Upgrade MC at T1s. At EOS unmerged area quota limit. Possible CASTOR connections saturation issue.40 KB (4,831 words) - 21:51, 8 May 2015
- ...E: New job record of 80k+. Taking advantage of resource availability. Some CASTOR file access instabilities for re-reco jobs. ...DIGI-RECO of Upgrade MC at T1s. At EOS unmerged area quota limit. Possible CASTOR connections saturation issue.40 KB (4,963 words) - 21:55, 8 May 2015
- [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * Testing CASTOR rebalancer on preproduction, and developing associated tools.4 KB (566 words) - 14:12, 15 May 2015
- * Problems with Castor xroot response for CMS have been very acute. In particular the time require * Castor xroot performance problems seen by CMS - particularly in file open times.14 KB (1,523 words) - 12:07, 13 May 2015
- * ALICE: CASTOR at CERN - some re-reco job instabilities. * LHCb: Various operational issues reported - CASTOR/CERN SRM access problems; other data access issues.46 KB (5,803 words) - 11:48, 16 May 2015
- [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] ...e are examining options for running this in a slow-and-steady fashion with CASTOR up.4 KB (657 words) - 12:54, 22 May 2015
- ... || Medium || || Andrew S || Discuss strategy for funding LSF in 2012 with CASTOR team || No longer necessary, since an LSF license has been purchased for th | 20120321-01 || Medium || ALICE || Lee, Shaun || Find out about the load on CASTOR from Japan || Closed. No longer relevant. || 2012-04-254 KB (566 words) - 09:26, 20 May 2015
- * ALICE: CASTOR at CERN - some re-reco job instabilities. * LHCb: Various operational issues reported - CASTOR/CERN SRM access problems; other data access issues.46 KB (5,732 words) - 18:32, 23 May 2015
- ...h an outage was added to the GOC DB - but removed before it became active. Castor was in a 'warning' state for some time. * Castor xroot performance problems seen by CMS - particularly in very long file ope13 KB (1,470 words) - 11:04, 27 May 2015
- [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * Mice (Castor Gen) will be operating overnight and able to call pri oncall5 KB (830 words) - 15:06, 29 May 2015
- * Tier-1problems with secondary database system for Castor - resolved quickly. * T0 services: CASTOR updated to 2.1.15. SRM validation ongoing. xroot is the main access protoco43 KB (5,271 words) - 22:18, 31 May 2015
- * There have been some severe problems with the CMS Castor instance that are traiggered by particular high loads. The amount of CMS wo * Castor xroot performance problems seen by CMS - particularly in very long file ope16 KB (1,741 words) - 13:24, 10 June 2015
- [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * CASTOR rebalancing from Monday6 KB (919 words) - 14:23, 5 June 2015