Production Team Report 2011-02-21

RAL Tier1 Production Team Report for 21th February 2011.

AoD This Week

Mon - Thurs: John Fri: Gareth

Last week

• Garth: A/L (5 Days)
• John: AoD (1 days); GoD.
• Tiju: AoD (4 days);

Absence

• Gareth: From last tuesday till tomorrow 22nd Feb.
• Tiju: From Wed this week and all next week. (23/02 - 04/03)

Changes to Operating procedures

• None

Declared Outages in GOC DB

• Tuesday 22nd Feb: WAN tuning - remainder of disk servers.
• Wednesday 23 Feb: Roll out of quattorized FTS (part 2)

Advanced Warning - dates provisional

• Tuesday 1st March: Castor Nameserver upgrade
• Tuesday 1st March: Install isolating transformers in power supply to EMC kit.
• FTS re-configuration to make use of channel Groups (for CMS). Probably Wed 2nd March
• Monday 28th March: Castor Atlas Upgrade (2.1.9-10 OR 2.1.10-0)
• Tuesday 29th March: Castor CMS Upgrade (2.1.9-10 OR 2.1.10-0)
• Wednesday 30th March: Castor LHCb & GEN Upgrade (2.1.9-10 OR 2.1.10-0)
• Thursday 31st: - Switch castor to new database in R26

Other Changes

• Fabric:
  • 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:
  • Re-visit non-Castor database multipathing
  • Increase shared memory for LUGH & SOMNUS.
• Grid Services:
  • Changes to increase resilience of the BDII service
• Castor:
  • Change ATLAS castor permissions to prevent users deleting data
• Networks:
  • Firmware updates for central networking components (likely to have some short network breaks - maybe in March)