RAL T1 weekly ops Fabric 20110725

Developments

• All:

• Tim:
  • T10KC drive issues
  • T10KC tape server work
  • Castor rack reconsiliation
  • Work experiance student
  • SGI Test kit install
  • Atlas tape pool consolidation
  • CMS tape pool consolidation

• James A:
  • Added support for Nortel/Avaya switches to Observium.
  • Gave a tour to work experience students from ISIS.
  • Added checks to disk server deployment scripts to avoid multiple template snafus.
  • Changed IPs of Streamline 2008 WNs.

• Cheney
  • Backups - stability and performance improvements
  • DMF - testing of integrity and performance
  • look thru dns for servers to backup

• Kash:
  • Drive replacement.
  • Fixing broken WNs.
  • Decommissioning old disk servers/batch systems.
  • Appointment with Physio.
  • gdss335 went down. (Kernel panic)
  • SL08 15 disk servers (with no errors) for deployment.
  • EMC PSU failure. (Report)
  • gdss208 re-create raid array.
  • gdss193 back into production.
  • Replaced 10 drives in Viglen 2009 disk servers. (SMART errors)
  • Configured network ports and re-installed SL10 disk servers to fix network.
  • Add SL10 disk servers in Adaptec Storage Manager for monitoring.
  • gdss96 Kernel panic. (Started memory test)

• Martin:

• Ian:
  • On Leave

Operational Issues and Incidents

Index	Description	Start	End	Severity	Affected VO(s)

Summary of plans for week ahead

Scheduled and Cancelled Down Times

Type=Down/At Risk/Cancelled entries in/planned to go to GOCDB

Component	Description	Start	End	Affected VO(s)	Type

Development priorities

• All

• Tim:
  • Install T10KC tape servers
  • Further T10KC tape drive problem investigation
  • SGI test kit testing
  • ADS shutdown work
  • Amanda install time-line planning

• Cheney
  • Backups
  • DMF testing

• James A:
  • Change IPs of Viglen 2008 WNs.
  • Feed back patches to Observium.
  • Request and installation of certificates on all 2010 Storage Nodes.
  • Fixing and repackaging acceptance tests for distribution.

• Kash:
  • Drive replacement.
  • Fixing broken WNs.
  • Hardware failure review and metrics continue.
  • Continuous decommissioning old disk servers/batch systems.(R 27)
  • Continue Labelling racks and systems in UPS and HPD room

• Martin:

• Ian:
  • Helping Aslan (Nuffield Bursary student) get started
  • Install additional hypervisor
  • Start on eval of additional Equalogic array

Absences

• Ian on leave Weds PM Thursday and Friday
• Tim on leave Thursday and Friday

Fabric On-Call

• Ian Monday-Tuesday; Kash Wednesday - Sunday

Services Issues

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RAL Tier1 weekly operations fabric

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