Production Team Report 2010-10-18
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RAL Tier1 Production Team Report for 18th October 2010.
AoD This Week
Mon - Tue: Tiju Wed: Gareth Thu - Fri: Tiju
Last week
- Gareth: AoD(3days), calculate metrics,...
- John: AoD(1day), attend Quattor workshop
- Tiju: AoD(1day), attend Quattor workshop
Changes to Operating procedures
- None.
Declared Outages in GOC DB
- Monday 18th October - R89 Transformer Checks.
- Wednesday 20th October - UPS maintenance.
- Mon - Wed 25-27 Oct: Castor GEN upgrade.
Advanced Warning
- Remaining Castor upgrades almost certainly on following dates:
- Upgrade CMS - during the week beginning 8 November
- Upgrade ATLAS - during the week beginning 22 November
- Monday 13th December - UPS test.
Other Changes
- Fabric:
- Tape Drive Microcode Update.
- 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).
- Update firmware in RAID controller cards for a batch of disk servers.
- Database:
- Re-visit non-Castor database multipathing
- Grid Services:
- Quattorization of MyProxy service.
- Replacing the MON box with glite-APEL
- Upgrade site-level BDIIs to glite 3.2 and SL5
- Castor:
- Possible SRM update
- Networks:
- None