RAL Tier1 weekly operations Fabric 20091214

Summary of week gone

Developments

• All:

• Martin:
  • Minor procurements
  • Preperation for Tier1 Review

• Ian:
  • Castor LSF triplet

• James T:

• Jonathan:

• James A:

• Kash:
  • Drive replacement.
  • Fixing broken WNs.
  • Decommissioning old batch systems.(R 27)
  • gdss138 fixed and given back to castor.
  • gdss89, 107 and 167 given back to castor.
  • gdss77 replaced memory (borrowed from gdss86) with James T and James A.(Back to castor)
  • gdss367 replaced raid card battery and given back to castor.
  • gdss339 replaced 4x2gb memory fixed and given back to castor.
  • gdss196 replaced 8x1gb memory fixed and given back to castor.(Ready for deployment)
  • Working on 2008 Disk servers and working nodes.
  • Working on gdss105, 171 and 282.

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 6/0ct am	UPS issues to be fixed	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
  • Monday: Tier1 Review as required

• Martin:
  • Minor procurements

• Ian:

• James T:

• Jonathan:

• James A:

• Kash:
  • Drive replacement.
  • Fixing broken WNs.
  • Continuous decommissioning old batch systems.(R 27)
  • Continuous working on 2008 disk servers and working nodes.
  • Continuous working on gdss105, 171 and 282.

Absences

• Ian, Jonathan: S/L Monday
• Kashif: A/L Thursday

Advanced Warning of Requirements and Blocking issues

• Unable to proceed with Atlas TAG migration to 64bit due to arrays being used for 3D systems while EMC kit is flakey.

Services Issues

• Various requests for hardware.
  • Working on various hardware requests for Services team.

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RAL Tier1 weekly operations fabric