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