RAL Tier1 Operations Report for 13th December 2017
| Review of Issues during the week 7th to 13th December 2017.
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Echo:
• Background scrubbing has been going on. This has flushed out more bad disks – causing some callouts through the week.
Network:
• Emergency card replacement at Harwell PoP on Thursday morning. This was announced to us and caused a short break in two out of the three OPN links (as expected)
Infrastructure:
• There was a successful generator load test last Wednesday (13th Dec).
Certificates:
• The re-updating to pick up the updated UK CA certificate in the IGTF 1.88 rollout took place successfully last Tuesday (12th) as planned.
Christmas Plans (repeat of last week’s entry)
• We will follow the same pattern as in previous years. The on-call team will be in place as usual. Some additional checks will be made by those on-call. RAL is closed after Friday afternoon 22nd December and will re-open on Tuesday 2nd January.
| Current operational status and issues
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| 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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- Allocation in Echo for ATLAS increased to 4.1PB. They now have 4PB in datadisk and 100TB in scratchdisk. This is part of the gradual increase of their usage to 5.1PB.
- The maximum number of gridftp connections to each Echo gateways has been increased to 200 (from 100).
| Entries in GOC DB starting since the last report.
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No downtime scheduled in the GOCDB between 2017-12-12 and 2017-12-20
| 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:
Listing by category:
- Castor:
- Update systems (initially tape servers) to use SL7 and configured by Quattor/Aquilon.
- Move to generic Castor headnodes.
- Echo:
- Update to next CEPH version ("Luminous").
- Networking
- Extend the number of services on the production network with IPv6 dual stack. (Done for Perfsonar, FTS3, all squids and the CVMFS Stratum-1 servers).
- Services
- Internal
- DNS servers will be rolled out within the Tier1 network.
| Open GGUS Tickets (Snapshot during morning of meeting)
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| Ticket-ID
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Type
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VO
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Notified Site
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Resp. Unit
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Status
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Priority
|
Creation
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Last Update
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ToI
|
Subject
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| 132540
|
TEAM
|
lhcb
|
RAL-LCG2
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NGI_UK assign to:lcg-support@gridpp.rl.ac.uk
|
in progress
|
top priority
|
2017-12-18 09:32:00
|
2017-12-18 11:36:00
|
Other
|
Upload problems at RAL
|
| 132336
|
USER
|
ops
|
RAL-LCG2
|
NGI_UK
|
in progress
|
less urgent
|
2017-12-06 14:34:00
|
2017-12-18 11:40:00
|
Operations
|
[Rod Dashboard] Issue detected : org.nagios.GLUE2-Check@site-bdii.gridpp.rl.ac.uk
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| 132314
|
USER
|
ops
|
RAL-LCG2
|
NGI_UK assign to:lcg-support@gridpp.rl.ac.uk
|
in progress
|
less urgent
|
2017-12-05 10:48:00
|
2017-12-18 14:10:00
|
Operations
|
[Rod Dashboard] Issue detected : org.nordugrid.ARC-CE-SRM-result-ops@arc-ce02.gridpp.rl.ac.uk
|
| 131815
|
USER
|
t2k.org
|
RAL-LCG2
|
NGI_UK
|
in progress
|
less urgent
|
2017-11-13 14:42:00
|
2017-12-01 19:30:00
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Storage Systems
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Extremely long download times for T2K files on tape at RAL
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| 130207
|
USER
|
mice
|
RAL-LCG2
|
NGI_UK assign to:lcg-support@gridpp.rl.ac.uk
|
on hold
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urgent
|
2017-08-24 09:46:00
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2017-12-18 17:22:00
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Network problem
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Timeouts when copyiing MICE reco data to CASTOR
|
| 127597
|
USER
|
cms
|
RAL-LCG2
|
NGI_UK assign to:lcg-support@gridpp.rl.ac.uk share with:sexton@fnal.gov
|
on hold
|
urgent
|
2017-04-07 10:34:00
|
2017-10-05 09:14:00
|
File Transfer
|
Check networking and xrootd RAL-CERN performance
|
| 124876
|
USER
|
ops
|
RAL-LCG2
|
NGI_UK assign to:lcg-support@gridpp.rl.ac.uk
|
on hold
|
less urgent
|
2016-11-07 12:06:00
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2017-11-13 16:55:00
|
Operations
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[Rod Dashboard] Issue detected : hr.srce.GridFTP-Transfer-ops@gridftp.echo.stfc.ac.uk
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| 117683
|
USER
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none
|
RAL-LCG2
|
NGI_UK assign to:lcg-support@gridpp.rl.ac.uk
|
on hold
|
less urgent
|
2015-11-18 11:36:00
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2017-11-06 16:59:00
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Information System
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CASTOR at RAL not publishing GLUE 2
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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
|
| 6/12/17 |
99 |
99 |
81 |
|
| 7/12/17 |
89 |
100 |
100 |
|
| 8/12/17 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
|
| 9/12/17 |
100 |
0 |
100 |
Atlas HC Echo - No test run in time bin
|
| 10/12/17 |
100 |
0 |
100 |
Atlas HC Echo - No test run in time bin
|
| 11/12/17 |
100 |
0 |
100 |
Atlas HC Echo - No test run in time bin
|
| 12/12/17 |
99 |
0 |
100 |
Atlas HC Echo - No test run in time bin
|
- EGI will withdraw support for the WMS from the end of 2017. Our WMS service will be stopped on this timescale.
- There is a problem with Perfsonar measurements using IPv6 to nodes accessed via JANET.
- There was a discussion about how best to bring files back online from tape. The MICE VO needs a better (bulk) solution than they are using at the moment.
