Production Team Report 2010-06-21

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RAL Tier1 Production Team Report for 21st June 2010.

AoD This Week

Mon & Tues: John Wed: Gareth Thu & Fri: John

Last week

  • Gareth: AoD (1 day), E-Science review, Dm reveiws (Dust, Disk acceptance)
  • John: AoD (1 day), Prepared for technical talk, assisting Fabric team.
  • Tiju: Aod (3 days), started to set-up modem replacement for SURE.

Changes to Operating procedures

  • None - but note new date for demise of SAM submitted tests (23rd).

Declared Outages in GOC DB

  • June 28-30 OLD LHC Technical Stop Dates. Transformer checks. (Site At Risk). TX2 & TX3. At Risk on whole Tier1 from 08:30 on Monday 28th to 17:00 on Wednesday 30th.
  • July 19-22 NEW LHC Technical Stop Dates. Transformer checks. (Site At Risk). TX1 & TX4. At Risk on whole Tier1 from 08:30 on Monday 19th to 17:00 on Thursday 22nd July.

Advanced Warning

  • Fabric:
    • Move one power unit for one EMC array unit behind the non-Castor databases to UPS power.
    • Double the network link to the tape robot stack (stack 12), postponed from the last TS. (Requires Castor stop).
    • Swap out the older of the pair of SAN switches in the Tier1 Oracle databases for its new replacement. (Requires FTS, LFC, 3D stop).
    • Multipath mods to stop errors. (Not yet sure of effect).
    • Microcode update for tape robot
    • Swap Solaris tape controllers (for robot) over (?)
    • New kernels and glibc updates on non-castor Oracle RAC nodes. (Done for LUGH).
  • Database:
    • Restict access to FTS * LFC databases.
  • Grid Services:
    • Stop SL4 batch service (Start August)
    • Add Quatorised BDII to Top-BDII set. (Below threshold for technical stop).
    • glite 3.2 WMS (Below threshold for technical stop).
  • Castor:
    • Possible SRM update
  • Networks:
    • Commissioning OPN link