Production Team Report 2010-08-02

RAL Tier1 Production Team Report for 2nd August 2010.

AoD This Week

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

Last week

• Gareth: A/L Mon-Wed, AoD (1 day), e-mail catch-up.
• John: AoD (3 days), Gareth stand-in, setting up Nagios checks for Castor 2.1.9.
• Tiju: AoD (2 days), Modem script, Nagios clean-up

Changes to Operating procedures

• None.

Declared Outages in GOC DB

• August 2 -> 8: Turn off lcgce02.

Advanced Warning

• 2nd August: Stop SL4 batch service (& turn off SL3 UIs)
• 5th August (Thursday): Test of seal under 1st floor kitchen.

Other Changes

• Fabric:
  • 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).
  • New kernels and glibc updates on non-castor Oracle RAC nodes. (Done for LUGH).
  • Updates to amanda backup - unblocking possible other updates.
• Database:
  • Re-visit non-Castor database mulitpathing
• Grid Services:
  • Worker node update (to latest glite version).
• Castor:
  • Possible SRM update
• Networks:
  • Commissioning OPN link