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)