RAL Tier1 Operations Report for 15th November 2017
Review of Issues during the week 9th to 15th November 2017.
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- Successful patching of CASTOR. CASTOR was patched and rebooted The target kernel and errata versions are 2.6.32-696.13.2.el6 and 20171011. (RT#197242)
- LHCb need a new version of the SRM software that respects the user-specified bringOnline timeout rather than ignoring it and defaulting to 4 hours. LHCB to be upgraded to CASTOR version 2.1.16-18 (RT#197286)
Current operational status and issues
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- There is a problem on the site firewall which is causing problems for some specific data flows. Discussions have been taking place with the vendor. This is having an effect on our data that flows through the firewall (such as to/from worker nodes).
Resolved Disk Server Issues
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Ongoing Disk Server Issues
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Limits on concurrent batch system jobs.
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Notable Changes made since the last meeting.
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- Re-distribution of data in Echo onto the 2015 capacity hardware is ongoing. This is expected to complete in a week or two.
- A start has been made on updating Castor tape servers to SL7.
- The "Test" FTS service (used by Atlas) has been enabled for IPv6 (i.e. dual stack enabled).
Entries in GOC DB starting since the last report.
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Service
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Scheduled?
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Outage/At Risk
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Start
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End
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Duration
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Reason
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srm-alice.gridpp.rl.ac.uk, srm-atlas.gridpp.rl.ac.uk, srm-biomed.gridpp.rl.ac.uk, srm-cert.gridpp.rl.ac.uk, srm-cms-disk.gridpp.rl.ac.uk, srm-cms.gridpp.rl.ac.uk, srm-dteam.gridpp.rl.ac.uk, srm-ilc.gridpp.rl.ac.uk, srm-lhcb.gridpp.rl.ac.uk, srm-lhcb.gridpp.rl.ac.uk, srm-mice.gridpp.rl.ac.uk, srm-minos.gridpp.rl.ac.uk, srm-na62.gridpp.rl.ac.uk, srm-pheno.gridpp.rl.ac.uk, srm-preprod.gridpp.rl.ac.uk, srm-snoplus.gridpp.rl.ac.uk, srm-solid.gridpp.rl.ac.uk, srm-t2k.gridpp.rl.ac.uk,
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SCHEDULED
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OUTAGE
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14/11/2017 09:30
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14/11/2017 13:00
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3 hours and 30 minutes
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Security patching of CASTOR nodes
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Advanced warning for other interventions
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The following items are being discussed and are still to be formally scheduled and announced.
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Ongoing or Pending - but not yet formally announced:
- Re-distribute the data in Echo onto the 2015 capacity hardware. (Ongoing)
- Update the LHCb Castor SRMs so as to be able to configure timeouts.
- The Production FTS service will be enabled for IPv6 (i.e. dual stack enabled).
Listing by category:
- Castor:
- Update systems (initially tape servers) to use SL7 and configured by Quattor/Aquilon.
- Move to generic Castor headnodes.
- Echo:
- Re-distribute the data in Echo onto the remaining 2015 capacity hardware.
- Update to next CEPH version ("Luminous").
- Networking
- Extend the number of services on the production network with IPv6 dual stack. (Done for Perfsonar, all squids and the CVMFS Stratum-1 servers).
- Services
- The Production and "Test" (Atlas) FTS3 services will be merged and will make use of a resilient distributed database.
- Internal
- DNS servers will be rolled out within the Tier1 network.
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Open GGUS Tickets (Snapshot during morning of meeting)
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GGUS ID |
Level |
Urgency |
State |
Creation |
Last Update |
VO |
Subject
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131815
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Green
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Urgent
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Assigned
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2017-11-14
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2017-11-14
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Other
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solidexperiment.org CASTOR tape copy fails
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131815
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Green
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Less Urgent
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Assigned
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2017-11-13
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2017-11-13
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T2K.Org
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Extremely long download times for T2K files on tape at RAL
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130207
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Red
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Urgent
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On Hold
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2017-08-24
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2017-11-13
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MICE
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Timeouts when copyiing MICE reco data to CASTOR
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127597
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Red
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Urgent
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Assigned
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2017-04-07
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2017-10-05
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CMS
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Check networking and xrootd RAL-CERN performance
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124876
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Red
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Less Urgent
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On Hold
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2016-11-07
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2017-11-13
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Ops
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[Rod Dashboard] Issue detected : hr.srce.GridFTP-Transfer-ops@gridftp.echo.stfc.ac.uk
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117683
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Red
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Less Urgent
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Waiting for Reply
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2015-11-18
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2017-11-06
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CASTOR at RAL not publishing GLUE 2
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Day |
OPS |
Alice |
Atlas |
CMS |
LHCb |
Atlas Echo |
Comment
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08/11/17 |
100 |
100 |
98 |
46 |
100 |
100 |
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09/11/17 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
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10/11/17 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
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11/11/17 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
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12/11/17 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
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13/11/17 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
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14/11/17 |
100 |
100 |
85 |
83 |
100 |
100 |
CASTOR patch update.
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Key: Atlas HC = Atlas HammerCloud (Queue ANALY_RAL_SL6, Template 845); Atlas HC Echo = Atlas Echo (Template 841);CMS HC = CMS HammerCloud
Day |
Atlas HC |
Atlas HC Echo |
CMS HC |
Comment
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08/11/17 |
100 |
100 |
46 |
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09/11/17 |
100 |
98 |
100 |
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10/11/17 |
100 |
97 |
100 |
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11/11/17 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
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12/11/17 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
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13/11/17 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
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14/11/17 |
96 |
100 |
39 |
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- Following the merger of AtlasScratchDisk with AtlasDataDisk in Castor some months ago - all data sitting on the older disk servers that made up AtlsScratchDisk has now been moved (or removed). These servers will be decommissioned.