RAL Tier1 Operations Report for 2nd July 2018
| Review of Issues during the week 25th June to the 2nd July 2018.
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- Tier-1 are currently undertaking a campaign of better keep a track of our smaller VOs and trying to provide a more proactive approach to monitoring VOs usage (and where required, intervention). Among a number of methods we are using a combination of InfluxDB, Telegraf and Grafana we are now monitoring and alerting on weekly usage of all the smaller VOs.
| Current operational status and issues
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| Resolved Castor Disk Server Issues
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| Ongoing Castor 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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| Entries in GOC DB starting since the last report.
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- No downtime scheduled in the GOCDB for next 2 weeks
| 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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Listing by category:
- Castor:
- Update systems to use SL7 and configured by Quattor/Aquilon. (Tape servers done)
- Move to generic Castor headnodes.
- 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).
- Internal
- DNS servers will be rolled out within the Tier1 network.
- Infrastructure
- There is currently a scheduled three day period (July 24th - July 26th), where RAL Tier-1 will be undertaking server room circuit breaker testing. Although it is believed that these tests should not effect our services, such is the nature of these tests all Tier-1 production services should be considered "At Risk" during this time. All VOs are asked to give consideration with respect to possible unexpected outage to any high priority/critical jobs they may wish to run during this period.
| Open
GGUS Tickets (Snapshot taken during morning of the meeting).
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| Request id
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Affected vo
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Status
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Priority
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Date of creation
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Last update
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Type of problem
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Subject
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Scope
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| 135901
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ops
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in progress
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less urgent
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03/07/2018
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03/07/2018
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Operations
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[Rod Dashboard] Issue detected : org.bdii.GLUE2-Validate@site-bdii.gridpp.rl.ac.uk
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EGI
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| 135822
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cms
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in progress
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very urgent
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26/06/2018
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29/06/2018
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CMS_Central Workflows
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File Read Problems for Production at T1_UK_RAL
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WLCG
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| 134685
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dteam
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in progress
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less urgent
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23/04/2018
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03/07/2018
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Middleware
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please upgrade perfsonar host(s) at RAL-LCG2 to CentOS7
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EGI
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| 124876
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ops
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reopened
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less urgent
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07/11/2016
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28/06/2018
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Operations
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[Rod Dashboard] Issue detected : hr.srce.GridFTP-Transfer-ops@gridftp.echo.stfc.ac.uk
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EGI
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| GGUS Tickets Closed Last week
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| Request id
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Affected vo
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Status
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Priority
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Date of creation
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Last update
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Type of problem
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Subject
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Scope
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| 135723
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lhcb
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solved
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top priority
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19/06/2018
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28/06/2018
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File Transfer
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lcgfts3 FTS server fails all transfers
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WLCG
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| 135661
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atlas
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closed
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less urgent
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14/06/2018
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28/06/2018
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Databases
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RAL-LCG2: ATLAS RAL Frontier server down
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WLCG
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| 135455
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cms
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solved
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less urgent
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31/05/2018
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25/06/2018
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File Transfer
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Checksum verification at RAL
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EGI
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| 135367
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snoplus.snolab.ca
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closed
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less urgent
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28/05/2018
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27/06/2018
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Other
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Lost access to srm-snoplus.gridpp.rl.ac.uk
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EGI
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| 135342
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ops
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verified
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less urgent
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27/05/2018
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02/07/2018
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Operations
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[Rod Dashboard] Issue detected : egi.eu.lowAvailability-/RAL-LCG2@RAL-LCG2_Availability
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EGI
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| 135308
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mice
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closed
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top priority
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24/05/2018
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27/06/2018
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Information System
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Can't send data to RAL Castor
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EGI
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| 135293
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ops
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verified
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less urgent
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23/05/2018
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02/07/2018
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Operations
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[Rod Dashboard] Issues detected at RAL-LCG2
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EGI
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| Target Availability for each site is 97.0%
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Red <90%
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Orange <97%
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| Day
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Atlas
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Atlas-Echo
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CMS
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LHCB
|
Alice
|
OPS
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Comments
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| 2018-06-25
|
98
|
98
|
99
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
|
| 2018-06-26
|
100
|
100
|
98
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
|
| 2018-06-27
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
|
| 2018-06-28
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
|
| 2018-06-29
|
100
|
100
|
99
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
|
| 2018-06-30
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
|
| 2018-07-01
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
|
| 2018-07-02
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
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| Target Availability for each site is 97.0%
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Red <90%
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Orange <97%
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| Day |
Atlas HC |
CMS HC |
Comment
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| 2018/06/25 |
100 |
96 |
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| 2018/06/26 |
0 |
100 |
0 : No test run in time bin
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| 2018/06/27 |
0 |
58 |
0 : No test run in time bin
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| 2018/06/28 |
0 |
100 |
0 : No test run in time bin
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| 2018/06/29 |
0 |
92 |
0 : No test run in time bin
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| 2018/06/30 |
100 |
98 |
|
| 2018/06/01 |
99 |
100 |
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Key: Atlas HC = Atlas HammerCloud (Queue RAL-LCG2_UCORE, Template 841); CMS HC = CMS HammerCloud
- MICE
- Will create a (GGUS) ticket to record the Castor file permission changes
- SKA
- There is an ongoing permissions problem that causes FTS file transfers to Echo to fail to overwrite files.
- Need to resolve the access to various Rucio machines for the SKA contact in this area.
- Question about FTS transfers appearing as either belonging to the SKA VO or to the individual submitter.
- A couple of batch worker nodes are reserved for the SKA multi-core jobs (i.e. for those requiring a large number of cores).
- Dune
- Job Submissions. These are OK through ARC-CE01, ARC-CE02 and ARC-CE04. Awaiting confirmation that job submission via ARC-CE03 is now OK.
- Dune are carrying out data transfer tests. There is a problem with use of our UK-CA (IGTF) certificates. There is a workaround in place but some more definitive solution is needed.
- Euclid
- An RT ticket has been created to track progress. There is a problem getting the Euclid environment in our Docker images and an issue of job sequencing.
- Procedure Improvements:
- The Grafana plot of non-LHC VO batch jobs was presented. This provides useful information. Some details of the layout to be tweaked.
