Tier1 Operations Report 2018-08-20

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RAL Tier1 Operations Report for 20th August 2018

Review of Issues during the week 13th August to the 20th August 2018.
  • The upgrade of Echo was completed successfully on Thursday (16/8/18), with a greatly reduced memory usage. The cluster was allowed to recover overnight. Everything appeared to be working well on the Friday (17/8/18), and there is currently no evidence of data loss. We therefore ended the downtime at Friday 12:00 UTC (17/8/18). As a precaution for the weekend, we limited the ATLAS (and CMS), quota on our batch farm to 50% of its nominal amount. Assuming we encounter no problems we intend to lift this on Monday (20/8/18).
Current operational status and issues
  • The new siny O2 SIM for the SMS service has been delivered and installed
Resolved Castor Disk Server Issues
Machine VO DiskPool dxtx Comments
- - - - -
Ongoing Castor Disk Server Issues
Machine VO DiskPool dxtx Comments
gdss747 Atlas atlasStripInput d1t0 Currently in intervention.
Limits on concurrent batch system jobs.
  • GROUP_CMS_LIMIT = 4000
  • GROUP_ATLAS_LIMIT = 8000
Notable Changes made since the last meeting.
  • None.
Entries in GOC DB starting since the last report.
Service ID Scheduled? Outage/At Risk Start End Duration Reason
- - - - - - - -
Declared in the GOC DB
Service ID Scheduled? Outage/At Risk Start End Duration Reason
- - - - - - - -
  • No ongoing downtime
  • No downtime scheduled in the GOCDB for next 2 weeks
Advanced warning for other interventions
The following items are being discussed and are still to be formally scheduled and announced.

Listing by category:

  • Castor:
    • Update systems to use SL7 and configured by Quattor/Aquilon. (Tape servers done)
    • Move to generic Castor headnodes.
  • Internal
    • DNS servers will be rolled out within the Tier1 network.
Open

GGUS Tickets (Snapshot taken during morning of the meeting).

Request id Affected vo Status Priority Date of creation Last update Type of problem Subject Scope
136757 mice in progress less urgent 17/08/2018 21/08/2018 Other Missing lsc files for mice VO on lfc.gridpp.rl.ac.uk ? EGI
136701 lhcb in progress very urgent 14/08/2018 21/08/2018 File Transfer background of transfer errors WLCG
136366 mice in progress less urgent 25/07/2018 20/08/2018 Local Batch System Remove MICE Queue from RAL T1 Batch EGI
136199 lhcb in progress very urgent 18/07/2018 07/08/2018 File Transfer Lots of submitted transfers on RAL FTS WLCG
136028 cms in progress top priority 10/07/2018 21/08/2018 CMS_AAA WAN Access Issues reading files at T1_UK_RAL_Disk WLCG
124876 ops in progress less urgent 07/11/2016 23/07/2018 Operations [Rod Dashboard] Issue detected : hr.srce.GridFTP-Transfer-ops@gridftp.echo.stfc.ac.uk EGI
GGUS Tickets Closed Last week
Request id Affected vo Status Priority Date of creation Last update Type of problem Subject Scope
136655 lhcb verified less urgent 10/08/2018 15/08/2018 File Access Missing File At RAL WLCG
136460 cms closed urgent 30/07/2018 15/08/2018 CMS_Data Transfers Transfers failing to RAL_Buffer WLCG
136427 atlas closed urgent 28/07/2018 13/08/2018 File Transfer UK RAL-LCG2: Transfer errors as destination WLCG
136408 cms closed urgent 27/07/2018 15/08/2018 CMS_Data Transfers missing files at RAL WLCG

Availability Report

Target Availability for each site is 97.0% Red <90% Orange <97%
Day Atlas Atlas-Echo CMS LHCB Alice OPS Comments
2018-08-13 100 100 0 100 100 100
2018-08-14 100 100 0 100 100 100
2018-08-15 100 100 0 100 100 100
2018-08-16 100 100 0 100 100 100
2018-08-17 100 100 60 100 100 100
2018-08-18 100 100 100 100 100 100
2018-08-19 100 100 100 100 100 100
2018-08-20 100 100 100 100 100 100
Hammercloud Test Report
Target Availability for each site is 97.0% Red <90% Orange <97%
Day Atlas HC CMS HC Comment
2018-08-13 0 0
2018-08-14 0 0
2018-08-15 0 0
2018-08-16 0 0
2018-08-17 76 60
2018-08-18 100 100
2018-08-19 100 100
2018-08-20 100 100

Key: Atlas HC = Atlas HammerCloud (Queue RAL-LCG2_UCORE, Template 841); CMS HC = CMS HammerCloud

Notes from Meeting.
  • The recent problems with Echo were discussed. A summary is also in the Operations report. Several points:
  • Current situation is that we have “production” access running
  • Atlas and CMS have upper limits on batch jobs about equal to pledge.
  • The additional memory for the Dell storage nodes has arrived. This will be added – at least initially in a rolling upgrade. However, it is expected this may take up to something like 2 weeks. (At which point we expect to be able to give full access to Echo). Discussions on the best way to do the memory upgrades is ongoing.
  • Before the problem we had noted that the LHCb files came from Castor in a “bursty” way. It was suggested last week that we limit the FTS to smooth out this burstiness.
  • When discussing GGUS tickets: LHCb are seeing some file transfer failures between worker nodes and Castor. This to be escalated.
  • The requirement for us to be able to easily contact all users of Echo in the event of a problem was noted.