RAL Tier1 weekly operations Grid 20091116

Summary of Previous Week

Developments

• Alastair
  • Continued with various training/Tutorials
  • Produced first draft of experiment requirements
  • Produced code to access checksums on DDM faster
  • Finished UB schedule
• Andrew
  • deployed gdss383 to cmsFarmRead
  • completed scripts for automated generation of UB schedule spreadsheet
  • changed YAIM configuration files for change of VO name (t2k)
  • Installed MySQL client etc on lcgui02 using Quattor
  • attended CMS UK computing meeting (IC)
  • training: R89 machine room training
• Catalin
  • kernel and glite upgrades
  • SL5 VOBOX for Alice in production
  • few FronTier tests with squids at T2s
  • review of glite-services on nagios
• Derek
  • Kernel updates
  • Wrote profile for test batch server
  • Writing document about CE information system
  • Deployed SCAS but having difficulty testing
• Matt
  • Kernel updates (problems on top-level BDIIs)
  • CIP monitoring on site BDII
• Richard
  • Attended (via EVO) the GDB meeting
  • Updated one of the BDII RPMs to place a crontab entry omitted in the previous release
  • CASTOR activities: (i) Requested user accounts and groups used by CASTOR to be entered into NIS (ii) Re-arranged PPS quattor templates to allow 3 levels of conditionality (server type, instance and service class)
• Mayo
  • Metric system: fixed bug where IE was submitting duplicate records
  • Metric system: added page for users to view the whole months metric results
  • Worked on automated spreadsheet project
  • Worked on importing Nagios alarm data into svn

Operational Issues and Incidents

Description	Start	End	Affected VO(s)	Severity	Status

Plans for Week(s) Ahead

Plans

• Alastair
  • Away

• Andrew
  • complete VO name change (t2k to t2k.org)
  • FTS channel adjustments for CMS
  • learn more about the CMSSW framework
  • apply kernel upgrades to csflnx414
• Catalin
  • ready to start deployment on 2nd Alice SL5 VOBOX (waiting for HW)
  • ready to start deployment on LHCB SL5 VOBOX (waiting for "Quattor ready to go")
• Derek
  • Test SCAS
  • Testbed proposal
  • Working on helpdesk end to end restore
• Matt
  • Caching CIP information on site BDII
  • Disaster recovery planning
• Richard
  • CASTOR activities: Complete the new set of pre-production Quattor templates
  • Apply the recent quattor experience to completing quattor config/build for BDII servers
• Mayo
  • annual leave Monday- Tuesday
  • Continue working on new spreadsheet system
  • Continue working on automated spreadsheet project
  • Continue working on importing Nagios alarm data into svn

Downtimes

Description	Hosts	Type	Start	End	Affected VO(s)
Kernel upgrades	FTS	Scheduled Downtime	Tuesday 17 Nov 07:00	Tuesday 17 Nov 09:00	all
Kernel upgrades	MyProxy	Scheduled Downtime	Tuesday 17 Nov 08:00	Tuesday 17 Nov 09:00	all

Requirements and Blocking Issues

Description	Required By	Priority	Status
Hardware for 2nd ALICE SL5 64bit VOBOX	16 Nov 2009	High	Request to re-deploy lcg0614 (ALICE SW WN) as SL5 VOBOX (using quattor or not) - RT#53338
Hardware for LHCb SL5 64bit VOBOX	25 Nov 2009	Medium	Request for HW allocation (RT#53392)
Hardware for testing LFC/FTS resilience		High	DataServices want to deploy a DataGuard configuration to test LFC/FTS resilience; request for HW made through RT Fabric queue
Hardware for PPS		High	We have made a commitment to test PPS pre-releases, and have no hardware dedicated for this.
Hardware for Grid Services testbed		Medium

OnCall/AoD Cover

• Primary OnCall: Catalin (Mon, Tue, Thu-Sun)
• Grid OnCall:
• AoD: