RAL Tier1 weekly operations Fabric 20100913

Developments

• All:

• Martin:

• Ian:

• Tim:
  • Ongoing repack tickling
  • DMF hangs
  • Monthly stats
  • Non-lhc tape library usage
  • Castor "stuff"

• Jonathan:

• James A:
  • Benchmarking nodes for tender evaluation.
  • Two days of SINDES work.
  • Continued moving repos away from touch.
  • Moved five servers to the UPS room for Grid Services.
  • Tidied test area.
  • Updated quattor worker node scripting to handle new cluster layout.
  • Added power cabling to Castor Rack G.

• James T
  • CASTOR 2.1.9 upgrade test
  • SL09 re-cabling for vendor testing
  • Disk server fixing in Kash's absence
  • OPB planning with James A. and Duncan
  • AoD on Friday
  • New loggers

• Cheney
  • busily quatting the facilities castor
  • replace drives on rhubarb
  • rename buxton to kiki for patching

• Kash:

Away all week. (A/L)

Absences

• Jonathan on partial retirement (not in on Monday and Friday)
• Cheney dentist monday morning and leave tuesday.

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

• Martin:

• Ian:

• Tim:

• Cheney
  • quatt the facilities castor

• Jonathan:

• James T:
  • CASTOR 2.1.9 upgrade testing
  • Preparation for Atlas power outage
    • New loggers
    • Replacements for gdss51, csfnfs5{5,8}
  • Streamline 2009 testing
  • A/L Friday PM

• James A:
  • Two days of SINDES work.
  • Finishing benchmarking nodes for tender.
  • Continuing moving repos away from touch.

• Kash:
  • Drive replacement.
  • Fixing broken WNs.
  • Start acceptance test on gdss380.
  • Replaced raid card in gdss477 as borrowed for gdss473.
  • Catch up with James Thorne.
  • Liase with Streamline in James T absense for SL09 disk servers testing.
  • gdss470 and gdss475 chase vendor about logs/fault.
  • Update daily status of Streamline 2009 disk servers testing.
  • Continuous decommissioning old batch systems.(R 27)

Absences

• Jonathan on partial retirement (not in on Monday and Friday)
• James T A/L Friday PM

Fabric On-Call

• Kashif Hafeez

Services Issues

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RAL Tier1 weekly operations fabric

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