Production Team Report 2011-06-27

RAL Tier1 Production Team Report for 27th June 2011.

AoD This Week

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

Last week

• Gareth: Staff awayday; AoD (2 days); A/L 2 (days); HEP SYSman preparations, Quattor discussions;
• John: Staff awayday; AoD (1 day);
• Tiju: Staff awayday; AoD (2 days);

Changes to Operating procedures

• None

Declared Outages in GOC DB

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

Advanced Warning

• This week: Roll-out of Castor 2.1.10 clients on worker nodes.
• Tuesday 5th July:
  • Networking team updating UKLight Router and intervening on SAR-Firewall link.
  • Castor 2.1.10 upgrade
  • Doubling up of network link to another switch stack.

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
  • Updates to new hardware for Castor head nodes.
• Networks:
  • Firmware updates for central networking components (SAR)