Production Team Report 2011-05-09

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RAL Tier1 Production Team Report for 9th May 2011.

AoD This Week

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

Last week

  • Gareth: AoD (1 day); preparing HEP Sysman meeting at RAL;
  • John: AoD (1 day);
  • Tiju: AoD (2 days);

Changes to Operating procedures

  • None

Declared Outages in GOC DB

  • Monday 9th May: Castor Oracle patches (At Risk)
  • Tuesday 10th May: GEN - SRM 2.10-2 upgrade. (Outage)
  • Tuesday 10th May: FTS patching. (Outage)
  • Tuesday 10th May: Somnus (LFC, FTS) Oracle patches (At Risk)

Advanced Warning

  • Overnight Tuesday/Wednesday - Maintenance work on OPN link.
  • Wednesday 11th May - R89 UPS maintenance
  • Tuesday 17th May: xroot client installation on farm.
  • Sometime this week: Move Atlas Production to use CVMFS.

Other Changes

  • Fabric:
    • Upgrade to networking for tape servers to enable sufficient bandwidth for T10KC tapes.
    • Microcode update on tape robots.
  • Database:
    • Switch Castor databases to array in R26 (3-4 hour outage of Castor)
    • Switch Castor databases back to array in R89 (3-4 hour outage of Castor)
    • Switch non-Castor databases to new array. (~1 hour outage of LFC, FTS, 3D)
  • Grid Services:
    • None
  • Castor:
    • Change ATLAS castor permissions to prevent users deleting data
    • Castor 2.1.10 client upgrade on WNs
    • Castor update to obtain functionality for T10KC tapes.
    • Updates to new hardware for castor head nodes.
  • Networks:
    • Firmware updates for central networking components (likely to have some short network breaks - maybe in March)