Production Team Report 2010-09-27

RAL Tier1 Production Team Report for 27th September 2010.

AoD This Week

Mon - Wed: Tiju Thu: Gareth Fri: Tiju

Last week

• Gareth: AoD(1 Day), Common Technologies Workshop & preparation; Some planning for LHCb outage, Followed up with problem on Lancaster link, Disk Post Mortems.
• John: AoD(4 Day), Work on castor Nagios tests - preparations for castor LHCb update.
• Tiju: Review nagios configuration, Security task, Make offline copy of Wiki.

Changes to Operating procedures

• None.

Declared Outages in GOC DB

• LHCb Castor update (27-29 September).

Advanced Warning

• Weekend 2/3 October: Power outage in atlas building.
• Monday 18th October - R89 Transformer Checks.
• Wednesday 20th October - UPS maintenance.
• Monday 13th December - UPS test.

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).
  • 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 FTS.
• Castor:
  • Possible SRM update
  • Castor 2.1.9 upgrades
• Networks:
  • None