Production Team Report 2011-06-06

RAL Tier1 Production Team Report for 6th June 2011.

AoD This Week

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

Last week

• Gareth: AoD (1 day); A/L 2 (days); HEP SYSman preparations, Some Nagios work (including for facilities); handling of bad-checksum notifications.
• John: AoD (2 day);
• Tiju: AoD (2 days); Nagios tests for Castor facilities Functional test.

Changes to Operating procedures

• The SMS backup to the Pagers for Primary on-call is now a 'production' service. The GSM modem is located in the machine room.

Declared Outages in GOC DB

• Tues 7 - Tue 14 June: CE08 - update of glite3.2 CREAM release

Advanced Warning

• None

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 alternative array in UPS room (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)