RAL Tier1 weekly operations Fabric 20091019

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Summary of week gone

Developments

  • All
  • Martin:
    • Procurement evals
    • Preparation for HEPiX
  • Ian:
    • Disk procurement
    • Quattor work
  • James T:

A/L

  • Jonathan:
    • Changed sendmail configuration on pat to allow servers in 172.16 domain to relay mail
    • updated root SSH keys on many nodes
    • user changes (AFS quota) and local userid on new disk servers for testing
    • Nagios configuration changes
    • added iptables rule on nagger to allow any farm node send message to nsca daemon
    • SSC user training course
    • e-Science Seminar: The Closed World Assumption - C.J. Date
  • James A:
    • Continued pushing forward with SINDES.
    • Took over disk issues from James T.
  • Kash:

Operational Issues and Incidents

Index Description Start End Severity Affected VO(s)
EMC arrays serving 3D/LFC/FTS databases made unstable by attempts to stabilise the Castor EMC arrays Tuesday am not in site Catastrophic All

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
  • Martin:
    • Disk procurement ITT evaluation
    • CPU procurement ITT clarifications
  • Ian:
    • Disk Procurement
    • Quattor work
    • Quattor FP7 bid revision
    • Preparation for Hepix
  • James T:
    • on Leave
  • Jonathan:
    • complete update for root SSH keys
    • migrate home filesystem directory for users
    • work on Quattor configuration for Nagios slaves
    • Nagios configuration updates as required
  • James A:
    • Continue pushing forward with SINDES.
    • Take over disk issues from James T.
    • Integrate of BMS alerts into ARTEMIS data stream.
  • Kash:
    • Drive replacement.
    • Fixing broken WNs.
    • Continuous working on 2008 disk servers and working nodes.
    • Continuous Working on gdss67, 86, 126 and 170.

Absences

  • James T
    • James T on A/L from Thursday 15th until Monday November 2nd.
  • Jonathan
    • 1 day sick leave (Friday 16th)

Fabric On-Call

  • Mon-Fri:

Advanced Warning of Requirements and Blocking issues

Services Issues

  • Various requests for hardware.

Category:RAL_Tier1

RAL Tier1 weekly operations fabric

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