RAL Tier1 weekly Operations Grid 20121210

Operational Issues

Description	Start	End	Affected VO(s)	Severity	Status

Downtimes

Description	Hosts	Type	Start	End	Affected VO(s)

Blocking Issues

Description	Requested Date	Required By Date	Priority	Status

Developments/Plans

Detailed Individual Reports

Andrew

• Last week:
  • Searched for, found, modified & built Maui rpms
  • Fixed issue with NA62 CPU accounting
  • Learned about shared-storage cluster, tested MyProxy
  • Re-installed lcgsquid0677 (lots of problems)
  • Various kernel/errata upgrades
  • More batch system testing
  • CMS processing
• Coming week:
  • FTS3 Nagios tests
  • Deploy new Maui
  • Upgrade PhEDEx
  • Write APEL upgrade to UMD2 change control
  • CMS processing

Catalin

• Last week
• This week

Ian

• Last week:

• Coming week:
  • Atlas Jamboree CERN
  • GDB

James

• Last Week
• This Week

Orlin

• Quattorise, Install & Test EMI2/SL6 WNs on the gridTetst queue [ongoing]
• Bring the Testbed back in order, check the list of services [ongoing]
• Upgrade WNs to SL5 EMI2 [done]
• Learn more about Frontier services and install test lcgvo01/02 frontiers following Alastair's wikipage [ongoing]
• Learn more about virtualization clustering from Martin and implement failover-cluster for Argus [ongoing]
• Prepare & Submit change-control for EMI2/SL6 Argus Server [done]
• Assign some production WNs to authenticate with EMI2/SL6 Argus Server [to do]
• Test a possibility of EMI2/SL6 WN - preinstalled cloud image with a batch-client [to do]
• Test and compare jobs running on cloud/hypervisor with physical hardware [to do]
• Test & implement Extra monitoring tools for CREAMCEs (if necessary) [to do]
• Grid certificates and elastic FTS [to think about]
• Test High Availability & failover for Argus server with Corosync/RGManager/CMAN [to think about - low priority]

OnCall/AoD Cover

OnCall Rota

• Primary OnCall: Ian (Mon-Sun)
• Grid OnCall: Andrew (Mon-Sun)

Absences

Ian: CERN Mon-Thu

Catalin: CERN Course Mon-Wed