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    ** [[Using Castor At RAL]]
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 09/02/2015
    [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * Tier 1 CASTOR stop and rebooted for Ghost vulnerability (and CIP)
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 15/09/2014
    ...ing - need to investigate if a fix is already available, if not discuss at castor face to face * Break in connectivity Monday 8th, it appears that this did not affect castor internally in any way however if transfers were in process they would have
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor
    [[Category:CASTOR]] == Tier1 Castor at RAL Weekly Operations ==
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 17/03/2014
    * CASTOR 2.1.14 + SL5/6 testing. The change control has gone through today with few * Castor on Call person
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2019-06-17
    ...; 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 Issues
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-05-06
    ...en many zero-sized files created for Alice in Castor. This appears to be a Castor timeout affecting files that are written over a period of more than two hou * A start has been made on updating the Castor tape servers to SL6. (One server for each of the 'C' and 'D' drives was upd
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  • Operations Bulletin Latest
    * LHCb Castor instance has been completely disabled for LHCb and will be decommissioned.
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  • Operations Bulletin 110416
    ...ind Castor. In the meantime we will carry out the (separate) update of the Castor SRMs to version 2.14. * "GEN Scratch" storage in Castor will be decommissioned.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2016-03-16
    * We have uncovered a problem where draining of Castor disk servers is now going very slowly. We need to drain a few old servers t ...w but persistent rate of failure when copying the results of batch jobs to Castor. There is also a further problem that sometimes occurs when these (failed)
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2016-02-17
    ...w but persistent rate of failure when copying the results of batch jobs to Castor. There is also a further problem that sometimes occurs when these (failed) * The Castor repack instance was updated from version 2.1.14.13 to 2.1.14.15.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-12-09
    ...w but persistent rate of failure when copying the results of batch jobs to Castor. There is also a further problem that sometimes occurs when these (failed) ** This morning the link to the Castor headnodes was moved.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-06-25
    ...roblems with the special xroot configuration for Alice following since the Castor 2.1.14 update on Tuesday (24th). These were resolved this morning (25th). ...e xroot settings were tuned. Significant improvement were made and the CMS Castor instance is now working OK but being closely monitored.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-05-07
    * Problems with "CMSDisk" in Castor reported last week have been resolved. CMS deleted files freeing up space a | All Castor (SRM) endpoints
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  • Past Ticket Bulletins 2014
    ...ier 1 concerning not being able to get the gfal commands to work accessing Castor. Duncan has posted to the ticket that things are working for him now, along ... discussed recently in the Ops meeting, a conversation is ongoing with the Castor devs about this, but there wasn't much noise from them at last check. The t
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-09-10
    * A high rate of Atlas file access failures into/from Castor was seen during the day yesterday (9th Sep). A number of measures were take ... files. These are likely to be the results of partly failed transfers into Castor in the past. These are being checked and will be followed up with the appro
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2018-07-09
    ...; 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 Issues
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2017-01-04
    * We have had load issues on the CMS Castor instance throughout the holiday period which has led to repeated SAM test f ...w but persistent rate of failure when copying the results of batch jobs to Castor. There is also a further problem that sometimes occurs when these (failed)
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  • RAL Tier1 CASTOR Experiments Completed Actions 2016
    ...transfers from one non-LHC VO from affecting other due to the use a shared CASTOR instance - Able to set limits for each VO srm endpoint , need to decide and
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-05-20
    * Castor xroot performance problems seen by CMS - particularly in very long file ope * The Castor tape servers are being updated to SL6.
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  • RAL Tier1 CASTOR Experiments Completed Actions 2013
    ...313-01 || Medium || ATLAS || Alastair || Make sure ATLAS GGUS ticket about CASTOR problems affecting FTS is up-to-date || Closed || 2013-05-01
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-03-19
    * There have been problems with the CMS Castor instance through the last week. These are triggered by high load on CMS_Tap ...is significantly adcanced and further investigations are ongoing using the Castor Preprod instance. Ideas for a workaround are being developed.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2016-01-20
    ...w but persistent rate of failure when copying the results of batch jobs to Castor. There is also a further problem that sometimes occurs when these (failed) * Castor:
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 24/03/2014
    * CASTOR 2.1.14 + SL5/6 testing. The change control has gone through today with few * Castor on Call person
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 21/7/2017
    2. SL5 elimination from CASTOR functional test boxes and tape verification server 3. CASTOR stress test improvement
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2017-07-26
    * There have been problems with the Atlas Castor instance that appear to be within the SRM. AtlasScratch shows some high loa * Since yesterday morning there has been a problem with Castor file transfers for those transfers initiated by the CERN FTS3 service. This
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  • Operations Bulletin 090315
    * Last Tuesday we moved a number of Castor disk servers physically within the machine room. This was required to make * The Castor Team plan to upgrade to version 2.1.14-15 ahead of migrating to the next ve
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 31/03/2014
    * CASTOR 2.1.14 Upgrade Progress - Reversion to 2.1.13-9 software and databases on p * (Tue 1 Apr) Facilities CASTOR Upgrade. Downtime between 0900-1600
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  • Operations Bulletin 310314
    ...the CMS Castor instance at the end of last week and the start of this. The Castor /Database teams have some ideas for the cause of this which looks to be loa * There have been problems with the CMS Castor instance caused by load issues through the disk cache in front of CMS_Tape.
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  • Operations Bulletin 240314
    ...the CMS Castor instance at the end of last week and the start of this. The Castor /Database teams have some ideas for the cause of this which looks to be loa * There have been problems with the CMS Castor instance caused by load issues through the disk cache in front of CMS_Tape.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-04-02
    * There was a failover of an Atlas Castor Database early evening on Tuesday 25th March. The failover triggered a call * There have been problems with the CMS Castor instance in recent weeks. These are triggered by high load. Work is underwa
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 07/04/2014
    * Facilities CASTOR was successfully upgraded to 2.1.14-11 ...rian to discuss with Alastair. Other tier 1s are not keen but RAL tier 1 / castor should be able to cope with this.
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  • Operations Bulletin 070414
    * Load related problems with the CMS Castor instance have been ongoing. Plans to mitigate this are in place.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-04-16
    * The load related problems reported for the CMS Castor instance have not been seen this last fortnight. However, work is underway ...is significantly adcanced and further investigations are ongoing using the Castor Preprod instance. Ideas for a workaround are being developed.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-04-09
    * The load related problems reported for the CMS Castor instance havenot been seen this last week. However, work is underway to tac ...is significantly adcanced and further investigations are ongoing using the Castor Preprod instance. Ideas for a workaround are being developed.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 14/04/2014
    * The NN_FILE_STAGERTIME constraint has been removed for the Facilities CASTOR database, completing the 2.1.14 upgrade. This upgrade was thought to be tra * The xrootd timeout in castor.conf is now set to 30s for all nodes.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-04-23
    * The load related problems reported for the CMS Castor instance have not been seen for a few weeks. However, work is underway to t ...is significantly advanced and further investigations are ongoing using the Castor Preprod instance. Ideas for a workaround are being developed.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 28/04/2014
    * A new version of CASTOR 2.1.14 (2.1.14-12) has been released. This version makes no changes to the * CASTOR 2.1.14 upgrade for Tier 1.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-12-10
    ... continued through until the night of Thursday/Friday (4/5 December). With Castor very full there were very few disk servers available with any space on to r * CMS Castor headnodes were updated to SL6 on Tuesday 9th December and the Atlas ones th
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-04-30
    * There have been problems with "CMSDisk" in Castor caused by it becoming very full. * The load related problems reported for the CMS Castor instance have not been seen for a few weeks. However, work is underway to t
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 05/05/2014
    * CASTOR 2.1.14 upgrade for Tier 1. Possible date for first stage of intervention (N * CASTOR 2.1.14 for Tier 1
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 12/05/2014
    ...een identified that may have contributed to the deletion problems on their CASTOR instance. However, the key test of running the ATLAS deletion scripts local * CASTOR 2.1.14 upgrade for Tier 1. Possible date for first stage of intervention (N
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  • Operations Bulletin 120514
    * In process of scheduling Castor 2.1.14 upgrade. * In process of scheduling Castor 2.1.14 upgrade. Proposed date for Nameserver upgrade: Wednesday 28th May.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-05-14
    * Provisional dates for the Castor 2.1.14 upgrade delayed to: Nameserver: Tuesday 10th June; Stagers to follow * Castor:
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2019-02-25
    * Castor disk server were physically moved to make room for new procurements. This * We have had two Castor disk server crashes since the move gdss776 and gdss783 both lhcbDst disk se
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 19/05/2014
    ...een identified that may have contributed to the deletion problems on their CASTOR instance. However, the key test of running the ATLAS deletion scripts local * CASTOR 2.1.14 upgrade for Tier 1. First stage of intervention (NS upgrade) is book
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  • Operations Bulletin 190514
    * LHCb: Incremental stripping campaign finished, all productions closed. CASTOR->EOS migration of LHCb user data finished. * In process of scheduling Castor 2.1.14 upgrade. (Now likely to be 10th June).
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-05-21
    * The checksum checker found a corrupt LHCb file in Castor which has been declared lost. * Provisional dates for the Castor 2.1.14 upgrade: Nameserver: Tuesday 10th June; Stagers: CMS- Tue 17th June;
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-05-28
    ...rs were the OCF'12 batch, which are in AtlasDataDisk, CMSDisk and LHCbDst. Castor recovered OK from this. The network change itself was carried out to comple ...May) two network switches that provide connectivity to the 2012 batches of Castor disk servers were moved to the mesh network.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 02/06/2014
    ...een identified that may have contributed to the deletion problems on their CASTOR instance. However, the key test of running the ATLAS deletion scripts local ...n our issues was reported/fixed. These servers are now in acceptance test. Castor team will only deploy V13 servers to non prod until further notice.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 26/05/2014
    ...een identified that may have contributed to the deletion problems on their CASTOR instance. However, the key test of running the ATLAS deletion scripts local ...n our issues was reported/fixed. These servers are now in acceptance test. Castor team will only deploy V13 servers to non prod until further notice.
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  • Operations Bulletin 020614
    * Castor 2.1.14 upgrade. Firming update of 10th June for nameserver with stagers CMS * Castor Nameserver 2.1.14 update on 10th June announced in GOC DB. Stager dates to
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-12-02
    ...w but persistent rate of failure when copying the results of batch jobs to Castor. There is also a further problem that sometimes occurs when these (failed) | All Castor (All SRM endpoints)
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  • Operations Bulletin 090614
    * Castor 2.1.14 upgrade. Firming update of 10th June for nameserver with stagers CMS * Castor Nameserver 2.1.14 update on 10th June announced in GOC DB. Stager dates to
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 09/06/2014
    ...een identified that may have contributed to the deletion problems on their CASTOR instance. However, the key test of running the ATLAS deletion scripts local ...have been upgraded need further configurations (James) before releasing to castor team. V13 machines in production should have firmware update, best approach
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-06-11
    ...k - D1T0) failed to restart after kernel/errata updates applied during the Castor update on 10th June. It was returned to production just befor this meeting ...e firmware in some network switches and apply kernel/errata updates to the Castor disk servers.
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  • Operations Bulletin 020315
    * A Castor namesever box has been set-up to enable queries against Castor metadata to be made without affecting the throughput of production work. * A system has been set-up to provide Atlas with Castor information that is not supplied by the SRM.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-06-18
    * The CMS Castor stager update to version 2.1.14-13 took place yesterday (Tuesday) as planne * Yesterday (17th June) the CMS Castor stager was updated to version 2.1.14-13.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 16/06/2014
    ...een identified that may have contributed to the deletion problems on their CASTOR instance. However, the key test of running the ATLAS deletion scripts local * A partitioning alignment issue (3rd CASTOR partition) has been identified, proposal is to resolve this for new machine
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  • Operations Bulletin 160614
    * Castor and batch services currently down for Castor Namserver Upgrade (to version 2.1.14). If all goes well plan to upgrade sta * Castor Nameserver 2.1.14-13 updated successfully yesterday (10th June). Stager dat
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 23/06/2014
    ...een identified that may have contributed to the deletion problems on their CASTOR instance. However, the key test of running the ATLAS deletion scripts local * A partitioning alignment issue (3rd CASTOR partition) has been identified, proposal is to resolve this for new machine
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  • Operations Bulletin 230614
    * Castor Namserver Upgrade (to version 2.1.14) successful last week. CMS Stager upda * Castor CMS Stager 2.1.14-13 updated yesterday (17th June) although there were some
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 30/06/2014
    .... CERN provided a solution for SL5.9. We need to consider SL6 upgrade post CASTOR 2.1.14-13 upgrades. ...een identified that may have contributed to the deletion problems on their CASTOR instance. However, the key test of running the ATLAS deletion scripts local
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  • Operations Bulletin 300614
    * Castor Stager Upgrade was carried out last week. 'GEN' stager update this morning. * Castor GEN Stager 2.1.14-13 updated yesterday (24th June). Some problems with xroo
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-07-02
    ... SRM test failures during last week which were traced to load on the Atlas Castor system during searches for dark data. Less intrusive ways of carrying out t * We continue to monitor closely the performance of xroot access to CMS Castor following the upgrade on the 17th June. Performance is generally good altho
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  • WebDAV
    |Castor |<span style="color:red">Test CASTOR WebDAV developed. Not production ready.</span>
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 07/07/2014
    ...een identified that may have contributed to the deletion problems on their CASTOR instance. However, the key test of running the ATLAS deletion scripts local * CMS db locking issue 3/7/14 early hours, resulted in lost CMS test file, castor current shows diskcopy_failed in stager logs. Proposal is to identify if th
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-07-09
    * There were problems with the SRM (not Castor) for the GEN instance on Thursday and Friday of last week (3/4 July). It wa * We are still investigating xroot access to CMS Castor following the upgrade on the 17th June.
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  • Operations Bulletin 070714
    ... was carried out successfully last Thursday. The final update is the Atlas Castor instance stager which is planned for the Atlas - Tue 1st July. The information publishing police have pointed out that the RAL Castor isn't publishing a sane version. Brian suspects an rogue ":" causing the pr
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 14/07/2014
    ...ek with the task of investigating visualisation and querying solutions for CASTOR use. * CASTOR 2.1.14-13 upgrade for Repack - planned for Tuesday or Wednesday this week.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-07-16
    * There have been recurring problems with the SRM processes for the castor GEN instance crashing since Friday (11th). This appears to be linked to a p * We are still investigating xroot access to CMS Castor following the upgrade on the 17th June.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-02-25
    * Yesterday (Tuesday) there was an outage of part of Castor as some racks containing disk servers (the 2011 batches) were shutdown whil ...a single file was reportd lost to CMS. This file had been picked up by the Castor checksum checker.
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  • Operations Bulletin 210714
    ...e was carried out successfully last Tuesday (8th July). This completes the Castor 2.1.14 upgrades apart from some internal changes (E.g. the 'repack' instanc * All Castor instances have been updated to version 2.1.14-13. Some issues remain and ar
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 21/07/2014
    ...on with the task of investigating visualisation and querying solutions for CASTOR use. * Incorrect service classes in castor.conf on disk servers, Atlas issues resolved by Rob. Other non production is
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  • Operations Bulletin 280714
    * All Castor instances have been upgraded to version 2.1.14. The upgrade is complete apa
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-07-23
    * The recurring problems with the SRM processes for the castor GEN instance crashing has been solved. The problem started on Friday 11th J * On Thursday (17th) the Castor disk cache for AtlasTape filled up. This was traced to the garbage collecto
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 28/07/2014
    ...on with the task of investigating visualisation and querying solutions for CASTOR use. * Facilities castor error
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-07-30
    ...und (code to trap and fixup the mal-formed filename) was inserted into the Castor GEN instance. * There have been some problems with the Atlas SRM/Castor instance in the last couple of days that are under investigation.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 04/08/2014
    * We have received word that a 2.1.14-15 version of CASTOR may be forthcoming. * Kashyap's Elasticsearch query script has been rolled out to CASTOR headnodes. Users are encouraged to test it and report any bugs.
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  • Operations Bulletin 040814
    * All Castor instances have been upgraded to version 2.1.14. The upgrade is complete inc ..._id=106655 GGUS 106655]. Cross-contamination of information due to the GEN-CASTOR SRMs sharing a database, and some VOs sharing service classes. In progress.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-08-06
    ...epancies were found in some of the Castor database tables and columns. The Castor team are considering options with regard to fixing these. The issue has no * There are problems with disk server draining for Atlas in Castor 2.1.4. This is under investigation.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 11/08/2014
    * Kashyap's Elasticsearch query script has been rolled out to CASTOR headnodes. Users are encouraged to test it and report any bugs. ...inate a number of excess tables and other entities left over from previous CASTOR versions. This will be change-controlled in the near future.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-08-13
    ...t triggered by attempts to use the disk server re-balancing feature now in Castor. ...oblems with disk server draining in Castor (and specifically for Atlas) in Castor 2.1.4. This is under investigation.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 18/08/2014
    * Kashyap's Elasticsearch query script has been rolled out to CASTOR headnodes. Users are encouraged to test it and report any bugs. ...inate a number of excess tables and other entities left over from previous CASTOR versions. This will be change-controlled in the near future.
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  • Operations Team Completed Actions
    ...not part of RAL-LCG2. RAL APEL accounting of course includes both Echo and CASTOR jobs.
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  • Operations Bulletin 180814
    * Ongoing investigations into problems with draining disk servers in Castor 2.1.14.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2019-12-11
    | Decommission RAL's Castor Disk endpoint for ALICE
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 25/08/2014
    * passive draining produces file duplication - fixed in castor 2.1.14-14 * SL6 castor stalled due to resource limitations
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  • Operations Bulletin 250814
    * Ongoing investigations into problems with draining disk servers in Castor 2.1.14.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-11-05
    * Port opened up to allow external Castor WebDav access (requested by LHCb). * Castor:
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-08-27
    * Following some problems with disk server draining in Castor 2.1.14 a modified procedure has been tested on one disk server and been suc ...epancies were found in some of the Castor database tables and columns. The Castor team are considering options with regard to fixing these. The issue has no
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 01/09/2014
    * passive draining produces file duplication - fixed in castor 2.1.14-14 * SL6 castor stalled due to resource limitations & A/L
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  • Operations Bulletin 010914
    * We have resumed draining disk servers after the Castor 2.1.14 upgrade. There were some problems with this that are now resolved.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-09-03
    ...t took some time to fix. Not all services were affected - the site (except Castor) was declared down for around 6 hours on Saturday. ...epancies were found in some of the Castor database tables and columns. The Castor team are considering options with regard to fixing these. The issue has no
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  • RAL Tier1 Incident 20140830 Network Related Problems
    ...ver. Storage (Castor) services were unaffected. The Tier1 site (apart from Castor storage) was declared down in the GOC DB for 5.5 hours from 09:00 on Saturd | Start of unscheduled 'outage' in the GCDB for the whole Tier1 apart from Castor.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 08/09/2014
    * 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.
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  • Dirac on a vm at cern
    BackendType = castor Path = /castor/cern.ch/grid/dteam/
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-10-01
    * There were problems with the Atlas Castor instance over the weekend which was linked to the draining of a disk server * Oracle patches (PSU) applied to the standby Neptune database (Castor Atlas & GEN) yesterday (Tuesday 30th Sep).
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  • RAL Tier1 Incident 20130628 Atlas Castor Outage
    ==RAL Tier1 Incident 20130628 Atlas Castor Outage======Description:=== The ATLAS CASTOR instance encountered a problem where large numbers of invalid subrequests g
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-09-17
    * On Saturday (13th Sep) there was a problem with the Atlas Castor instance that persisted into the beginning of Sunday. A number of measures ** Apply latest Oracle patches (PSU) to the production database systems (Castor, LFC).
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 22/09/2014
    * 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.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-09-24
    * VO Pheno have been enabled to use Castor. ** Apply latest Oracle patches (PSU) to the production database systems (Castor, LFC).
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 15/12/2014
    [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.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 29/09/2014
    * 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 change
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  • Operations Bulletin 290914
    * Access to Castor has been given to the Pheno VO.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 19/01/2015
    [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 - likely to be this week
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  • Operations Bulletin 200317
    * Castor SRM updates: Planning for LHCb SRMs to be the first to be updated on 22nd M
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 06/10/2014
    * 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.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-10-08
    ...) 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.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 13/10/2014
    * 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.
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  • Operations Bulletin 131014
    ... 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 e
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  • Suggestions for suitable hardware to run a Grid SE
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  • Guide to Ganga
    ...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.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-10-15
    ...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).
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2018-06-18
    ...; 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 Issues
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2018-05-14
    ...; 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 Issues
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 20/10/2014
    * 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 replace
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  • Operations Bulletin 201014
    .... 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 if
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-10-22
    ... 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).
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 27/10/2014
    * 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.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-10-29
    ... 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).
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  • Operations Bulletin 271014
    * The intervention to put our Castor Oracle database configuration to its 'normal' state was completed OK last T
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 3/11/2014
    ...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 christmas
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  • Operations Bulletin 031114
    * The intervention to put our Castor Oracle database configuration to its 'normal' state was completed OK last T
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 10/11/2014
    ...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 Christmas
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  • Operations Bulletin 101114
    ...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 issue
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-11-12
    * 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).
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  • Operations Bulletin 171114
    * Gfal-copy and castor issue * Some problems on Atlas Castor instance. At various times in the last couple of weeks the Atlas workload h
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 17/11/2014
    ...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 Christmas
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-11-19
    * 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.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 24/11/2014
    ...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 Christmas
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-11-26
    ...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 di
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 01/12/2014
    [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.
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  • Operations Bulletin 011214
    ...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 issue
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-12-03
    * 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 r
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 08/12/2014
    [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.
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  • Operations Bulletin 081214
    * The headnodes of LHCb instance of Castor is being upgraded to SL6 today 10:00-14:00. * Investigating problems on the CMS Castor instance.
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  • Operations Bulletin 151214
    * The headnodes of LHCb instance of Castor is being upgraded to SL6 today 10:00-14:00. * Investigating problems on the CMS Castor instance.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-01-21
    * 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.
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  • Past Ticket Bulletins 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 da
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2014-12-17
    * Completing Castor headnode upgrades to SL6: Tuesday 6th Jan - GEN; Wednesday 7th Jan - Namese * Castor:
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 22/12/2014
    [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 - 12:00
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  • Operations Bulletin 221214
    * In addition upgrading the Castor Headnodes to SL6 needs to be completed:
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  • Operations Bulletin 291214
    * In addition upgrading the Castor Headnodes to SL6 needs to be completed:
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-01-07
    * 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.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 11/05/2015
    [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * Testing CASTOR rebalancer on preproduction.
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  • Operations Bulletin 050115
    ...There is a 'warning' on the Tier1 Castor tomorrrow (Wednesday 7th) for the Castor "nameserver" component to be likewise updated.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 12/01/2015
    [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 rescheduled
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-01-14
    * There is a problem with xroot access to the Castor GEN instance (not affecting ALICE). | All Castor (All SRM endpoints).
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  • Operations Bulletin 190115
    ...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).
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 26/01/2015
    [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * Redundant atlasHotdisk service class and disk pool from CASTOR
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  • Operations Bulletin 260115
    * 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 L
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-01-28
    * 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-dtea
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 02/02/2015
    [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * Facilities CASTOR patched for kernel/errata (not Ghost)
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  • Operations Bulletin 020215
    * 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.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-02-04
    ...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 being
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-02-18
    * Castor: ** Fix discrepancies were found in some of the Castor database tables and columns. (The issue has no operational impact.)
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  • Operations Bulletin 090215
    * Outage for reboot of Castor systems yesterday (to pick up latest OS patches).
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-02-11
    | All Castor (All SRMs) | Castor services At Risk during application of regular patches to back end database
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 16/02/2015
    [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * storageD retrieval from castor problems - investigation ongoing
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  • Operations Bulletin 160215
    * Patching of Oracle databases behind Castor scheduled for Feb 11th, declared as WARNING in GOCDB.
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  • RAL Tier1 Experiments Liaison Meeting Presentations
    ...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]
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 23/02/2015
    [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * storageD retrieval from castor problems - investigation ongoing
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  • Operations Bulletin 240215
    * Move of some racks containing Castor disk servers needed to make space for new deliveries exopected to take plac
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  • Operations Bulletin 060415
    ** ALICE: High activity. VO boxes switching to RFC proxies. Some CERN CASTOR instabilities. * Castor update to 2.1.14-15 planned for next week.
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  • Tier1 Operations Reprot 2015-04-08
    | All Castor (all SRM endpoints) | Upgrade of Castor storage to version 2.1.14-15
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-03-04
    ...created a few weeks ago - which was the second occurrence of a rare bug in Castor. * Castor:
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-03-11
    * Update Castor to 2.1-14-15 (Proposed date - Wednesday 8th April). * Castor:
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 09/03/2015
    [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 partition
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 16/03/2015
    [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 2.1.15
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  • Operations Bulletin 160315
    * Proposed date for Castor upgrade to version 2.1.14-15 is the 8th April. (To be confirmed).
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-03-18
    * 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)
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 23/03/2015
    [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * storageD retrieval from castor problems - investigation ongoing
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  • Operations Bulletin 230315
    * 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 AL
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-04-01
    | All Castor (all SRM endpoints) | Upgrade of Castor storage to version 2.1.14-15
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  • Operations Bulletin 300315
    * 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 AL
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-04-08
    | All Castor (all SRM endpoints) | Upgrade of Castor storage to version 2.1.14-15
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 04/05/2015
    [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.
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  • RAL Tier1 Summary of Post Mortems
    * UPS power for castor Disk Servers * Instigate regular check of Castor logs for tape access for this type of problem. (229)
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  • RAL Tier1 Incident 20150408 network intervention preceding Castor upgrade
    ==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.
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  • Operations Bulletin 130415
    ** 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.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 27/04/2015
    [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)
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-04-15
    ...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.
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  • Operations Bulletin 200415
    ** 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.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 20/04/2015
    [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * Tier 1 CASTOR 2.1.14-15 upgrade completed successfully
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  • RAL Tier1 Incident 20150417 ElasticTape truncation of input tarballs
    Extensive loss/corruption of CEDA data stored in Facilities CASTOR instance ** This hardware is then deployed into CASTOR.
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  • Operations Bulletin 270415
    ** 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.
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  • Operations Bulletin 040515
    ...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.
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  • Operations Bulletin 110515
    ...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.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 18/05/2015
    [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * Testing CASTOR rebalancer on preproduction, and developing associated tools.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-05-13
    * 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.
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  • Operations Bulletin 180515
    * ALICE: CASTOR at CERN - some re-reco job instabilities. * LHCb: Various operational issues reported - CASTOR/CERN SRM access problems; other data access issues.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 25/05/2015
    [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.
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  • RAL Tier1 CASTOR Experiments Completed Actions 2012
    ... || 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. || 2012-04-25
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  • Operations Bulletin 250515
    * ALICE: CASTOR at CERN - some re-reco job instabilities. * LHCb: Various operational issues reported - CASTOR/CERN SRM access problems; other data access issues.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-05-27
    ...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 ope
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 01/06/2015
    [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 oncall
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  • Operations Bulletin 010615
    * 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 protoco
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-06-10
    * 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 ope
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 08/06/2015
    [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * CASTOR rebalancing from Monday
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  • Operations Bulletin 080615
    * 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 protoco
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 15/06/2015
    [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * CASTOR Gen rebalancing underway
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  • Operations Bulletin 150615
    * Tier-1problems with secondary database system for Castor - resolved quickly. ...hts/summary of the Tier1 Monday operations meeting (Grid Services; Fabric; CASTOR and Other)
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  • RAL Tier1
    ! VO !! Batch !! CASTOR !! Echo !! LFC |[[castor|Castor]]|| [[RAL Tier1 CASTOR SRM]]
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-08-26
    ...of migrations to tape for Atlas as the instance was seeing very high load. Castor caught up with the backlog overnight Thursday/Friday (21/21 Aug) - and ther ...ues for CMS. There is a problem with the Xroot (AAA) redirection accessing Castor and file open times using Xroot are slow. The poor batch job efficiencies h
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-06-17
    * The behaviour of the CMS Castor instance has been improved since a change made last week. * A problem with a couple of entries in the Castor gridmap file was flagged up by LHCb. This was chased to the relevant updati
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 22/06/2015
    [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * Facilities CASTOR - change to time to write to tape from 30 mins to 5 mins now
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  • Operations Bulletin 220615
    * Tier-1problems with secondary database system for Castor - resolved quickly. ...hts/summary of the Tier1 Monday operations meeting (Grid Services; Fabric; CASTOR and Other)
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 06/07/2015
    [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * Juno (CASTOR Facilities) Oracle update to 11.2.0.4
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-07-01
    ... week we reported that the change had already been made for the LHCb & CMS Castor instances.) ...ersion of xrootd (upgraded from version 3.3.3 to 3.3.6) was applied to the Castor GEN instance to enable 3rd party transfers for Alice.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-06-24
    * As reported at the last meeting. AtlasDataDisk in Castor became full on the morning of Wed 17th June. Four additional disk servers w ... this for some years). Stored checksums have been retrospectively added to Castor for these cases.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 29/06/2015
    [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * Change to improve file open times on CASTOR (central db, subrequest todo procedure) - has now been deployed to LHCb and
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  • Operations Bulletin 290615
    * ALICE: High activity. CASTOR issue with xrd3cp. Request sites to plan for Xrootd v4.1. ...hts/summary of the Tier1 Monday operations meeting (Grid Services; Fabric; CASTOR and Other)
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  • Operations Bulletin 060715
    * ALICE: High activity. CASTOR issue with xrd3cp. Request sites to plan for Xrootd v4.1. ...hts/summary of the Tier1 Monday operations meeting (Grid Services; Fabric; CASTOR and Other)
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-07-15
    ...f a 'wait' to study the effect on file open times. Initial change for LHCb Castor instance this morning (Wed 15th July). ... Oracle 11.2.0.4. This will affect all services that use Oracle databases: Castor, Atlas Frontier (LFC done)
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-07-08
    * A test of using the Castor re-balancer more aggressively was made. However, these showed some internal ...Wednesday afternoon (1st July). This change has now been rolled out to all Castor instances.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 13/07/2015
    [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * Proposed CASTOR face to face W/C Oct 5th or 12th
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 20/07/2015
    [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * Proposed CASTOR face to face W/C Oct 5th or 12th
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  • Operations Bulletin 200715
    ...i evening Jun 26 caused all VOBOXes for CERN to become unreachable; latest CASTOR versions are incompatible with old xrd3cp implementation. ...hts/summary of the Tier1 Monday operations meeting (Grid Services; Fabric; CASTOR and Other)
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-07-22
    * A race condition has been uncovered in Castor whereby some stored files do not have the correct location on disk recorded ...as creating multiple bad copies. This is not a problem seen by the VOs (as Castor will still use the original good copy) - but it needs to be resolved.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 27/07/2015
    [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_weekly_operations_castor List of CASTOR meetings] * Proposed CASTOR face to face W/C Oct 5th or 12th
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-07-29
    ...es for CMS. These are a problem with the Xroot (AAA) redirection accessing Castor; Slow file open times using Xroot; and poor batch job efficiencies. ... Oracle 11.2.0.4. This will affect all services that use Oracle databases: Castor, Atlas Frontier (LFC done)
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 24/08/2015
    ** all VOs / all castor disks * Upgrade CASTOR disk servers to SL6
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 03/08/2015
    * Proposed CASTOR face to face W/C Oct 5th or 12th * Upgrade CASTOR disk servers to SL6
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-08-12
    ...es for CMS. These are a problem with the Xroot (AAA) redirection accessing Castor; Slow file open times using Xroot; and poor batch job efficiencies. * Investigative work into the ongoing issues for CMS Castor. We have now changed the I/O scheduler on the disk servers.
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-08-19
    ...es for CMS. These are a problem with the Xroot (AAA) redirection accessing Castor; Slow file open times using Xroot; and poor batch job efficiencies. The cha * Upgrade of Castor disk servers to SL6. We plan to do this for the D1T0 Service Classes on the
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  • SL5 status
    | Castor SRM systems. Small number of internal service machines. Database systems on
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-08-05
    ...es for CMS. These are a problem with the Xroot (AAA) redirection accessing Castor; Slow file open times using Xroot; and poor batch job efficiencies. ...sues for CMS Castor. This included putting the CMS xroot reads through the Castor scheduler again.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 10/08/2015
    * Upgrade CASTOR disk servers to SL6 * Proposed CASTOR face to face W/C Oct 5th or 12th
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  • Operations Bulletin 100815
    * ALICE: High activity. Raw data copies in CASTOR timing out at CERN and job submissions have become slow a few times. NDGF r ...ading Castor disk servers OS during second half of August and updating the Castor Oracle database during September.
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  • Operations Bulletin 030815
    * ALICE: High activity. Raw data copies in CASTOR timing out at CERN and job submissions have become slow a few times. NDGF r ...ading Castor disk servers OS during second half of August and updating the Castor Oracle database during September.
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 17/08/2015
    * Upgrade CASTOR disk servers to SL6 * Proposed CASTOR face to face W/C Oct 5th or 12th
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  • Operations Bulletin 170815
    * ALICE: High activity. Raw data copies in CASTOR timing out at CERN and job submissions have become slow a few times. NDGF r ...ading Castor disk servers OS during second half of August and updating the Castor Oracle database during September.
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  • Operations Bulletin 240815
    * ALICE: High activity. Raw data copies in CASTOR timing out at CERN and job submissions have become slow a few times. NDGF r ...p (provisionally for 26/27 August). Also finalizing plans for updating the Castor Oracle database during September/October. (See dates in report linked just
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 31/08/2015
    ** all VOs / all castor disks * Upgrade CASTOR disk servers to SL6
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  • Operations Bulletin 310815
    * CERN is going to disable in few weeks write operations via RFIO v2 to Castor in the context of the RFIO access decommission. * The Castor disk servers are being upgraded to SL6 (26/27 Aug).
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-09-02
    * Following the upgrade of Castor disk servers in the disk-only service classes on Wednesday and Thursday las ...ues for CMS. There is a problem with the Xroot (AAA) redirection accessing Castor - although this has been much better understood in the last week. The poor
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 07/09/2015
    ** all VOs / all castor disks * Upgrade CASTOR disk servers to SL6
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  • Operations Bulletin 070915
    * CERN is going to disable in few weeks write operations via RFIO v2 to Castor in the context of the RFIO access decommission. * The Castor disk servers are being upgraded to SL6 (26/27 Aug).
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  • Operations Bulletin 140915
    * CERN is going to disable in few weeks write operations via RFIO v2 to Castor in the context of the RFIO access decommission. * The Castor disk servers are being upgraded to SL6 (26/27 Aug).
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-09-16
    * At the end of last week there was a problem with the Atlas Castor instance - which a few times became unresponsive for some tens of minutes. ...es). A new server has been provided for the CMS Xroot (AAA) redirection to Castor but the problems remain. File open times using Xroot remain slow but this i
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 21/09/2015
    ** all VOs / all castor disks * Upgrade CASTOR disk servers to SL6
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  • Operations Bulletin 210915
    * CERN is going to disable in few weeks write operations via RFIO v2 to Castor in the context of the RFIO access decommission. * The first step of the update of the Oracle databases behind Castor was made on Tuesday 15th. There are further steps to do - as announced in t
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-09-23
    ...tember). This has re-enabled the Oracle DataGuard copy for the Atlas & GEN Castor stager databases. * Updating the first batch of the remaining Castor disk servers (those in tape-backed service classes) to SL6. This will be do
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  • Operations Bulletin 290915
    * The first step of the update of the Oracle databases behind Castor was made on Tuesday 15th. There are further steps to do - as announced in t
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-09-30
    ...ed a current problem that sometimes occurs when writing these files to our Castor storage. | All Castor
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  • RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 02/10/2015
    ...d from castor and back to fabric to gather spares cv11 spec – no further castor action. ** all VOs / all castor disks
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  • Tier1 Operations Report 2015-10-14
    * We have been seeing problems with very high load on the AtlasTape Castor instance. This was leading to a big backlog of files waiting to go to tape ...ed a current problem that sometimes occurs when writing these files to our Castor storage.
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  • Operations Bulletin 191015
    ...o version 11.2.0.4 is taking place '''today'''. At the time of the meeting Castor is down.
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  • Operations Bulletin 121015
    ...o version 11.2.0.4 is taking place '''today'''. At the time of the meeting Castor is down. This is the upgrade of the "Pluto" database which hosts the Namese
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