Operations Report 18/10/2010

Summary of Previous Week

• CASTOR: Investigated Poor Performance on LHCB (linked to Database Backup Validation)
• CASTOR: Upgraded Memory on Neptune1
• CASTOR: Index Corruption on ATLAS Stager (fixed but root cause under investigation with CERN and Oracle)
• CASTOR: Generated List of Files to be Deleted During GEN 2.1.9 Upgrade
• CASTOR: Investigating Tape Backup Problems

Operational Issues and Incidents

• CASTOR: ATLAS Index Corruption
• CASTOR: LHCB Performance

Plans for Week(s) Ahead

• CASTOR: GEN 2.1.9 Upgrade - Final Run Through

Downtimes and At Risk

None

Development Priorities

• Install ATLAS TAGs to 64bit systems

Requirements and Blocking Issues

• Waiting for new hardware for CASTOR databases

OnCall

• Carmine

Absences

• Eter: Mon - Weds
• Keir: Tues