Production Team Report 2010-09-13

RAL Tier1 Production Team Report for 13th September 2010.

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

Gareth: AoD(1+ Day), A/L (Mon), Common Technologies, chasing some operational issues (e.g. NDGF link).
John: AoD(1+ Day), Work on castor Nagios tests, Wiki copy,
Tiju: AoD(1 days), A/L Half-day, Nagios reorganisation, Security Task, Preparing sv-08-17

Sept 9-16 : lcgwms02 - Maintenance and update (glite-WMS 3.1.29). Includes time for drain ahead of intervention.
Tuesday 14 September - Site At Risk for Firewall Reboot, and outage on FTS for drain of transfers.
Monday 13 September 10:00-12:00 At Risk for switch to local Nameserver on LHCb instance.
Tuesday 14 September 10:00-12:00 At Risk for switch to local Nameserver on GEN instance.
Wednesday 15 September 10:00-12:00 At Risk for switch to local Nameserver on CMS instance.
Thursday 16 September 10:00-12:00 At Risk for switch to local Nameserver on Atlas instance.

Wednesday 8 Sept to Wed 15th Sept: Migrate Nagios checks for batch workers to new slave server
Tuesday 14th Sept. Bring now Quattorized front ends for LFC Atlas into use.
Tuesday `21st September. Firmware update on site firewall.
Weekend 2/3 October: Power outage in atlas building.
Update WNs (glite update) - ongoing.
Wednesday 20th October - UPS maintenance.
Monday 13th December - UPS test.

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).
- Update firmware in RAID controller cards for a batch of disk servers.
Database:
- Re-visit non-Castor database multipathing
Grid Services:
- New Quattorized front ends for LFC.
- New Quattorized front ends for FTS.
Castor:
- Possible SRM update
- Castor 2.1.9 upgrade
Networks: