Production Team Report 2011-01-10

RAL Tier1 Production Team Report for 10th January 2011.

AoD This Week

Mon: Gareth Tue - Wed: Tiju Thu: Gareth Fri: Tiju

Last week

• Gareth: AoD for 1 day; Work on Post Mortems
• John: AoD - 3 days. nagios work; dumped Wiki
• Tiju: A/L

Changes to Operating procedures

• None

Declared Outages in GOC DB

• Mon/Tues 17/18 January: 64-bit OS on Atlas Castor disk servers.

Advanced Warning

• Sat 22nd January - Power outage in Atlas building.

Other Changes

• Fabric:
  • Application of kernel update to batch server.
  • Addition of additional gateway address to enable additional IP range.
  • Double the network link to the tape robot stack (stack 12). (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).
• Database:
  • Oracle 10.2.0.5 upgrade. (Will do after CERN has done updates to like databases).
  • Re-visit non-Castor database multipathing
  • Increase shared memory for OGMA, LUGH & SOMNUS (proposed for Tuesday 18th Jan).
• Grid Services:
  • Changes to increase resilience of the BDII service
  • glite update on site BDII nodes.
  • Change batch Job OS selection mechanism (part of enable scheduling by node).
  • Deployment of Atlas Squid servers.
• Castor:
  • Upgrade CMS Disk Servers to 64-bit - end January / Early February.
  • Upgrade GEN Disk Servers to 64-bit - date TBD.
  • Change ATLAS castor permissions to prevent users deleting data
  • Upgrade Puppetmaster & Clients
• Networks:
  • None