RAL Tier1 weekly operations Grid 20101018

Operational Issues

Description	Start	End	Affected VO(s)	Severity	Status
lcgce01			All WLCG vos have reduced resiliency		Replacement host lcgce09 in testing, will be moving into production shortly

Downtimes

Description	Hosts	Type	Start	End	Affected VO(s)

Blocking Issues

Description	Requested Date	Required By Date	Priority	Status
HW needed for quattorised glite-LB	11 Oct 2010		medium	[18-10-2010]Fabric acknowledged the request
HW needed for XROOT non-Castor tests	14 Oct 2010		medium	[18-10-2010]Fabric acknowledged the request

Developments/Plans

Detailed Individual Reports

Alastair

• Working on ATLAS software server, testing CVMFS
  • 825 test jobs have been run.
  • lcg0805 has been setup for production style testing, need to add queue into ATLAS system.
  • Production tasks submitted.
• Writing script to graph transfer times for FTS transfers [on hold]
• Investigating FTS glite-3.2 transfer problems. [ongoing]
• Finishing draining of gdss81 for removal from production.
• Working on Hammer cloud test of castor 2.1.9 [ongoing]

Andrew

• Re-quattorized lcgapel0676; submitted change control document [Ongoing]
• Capacity planning system project [Ongoing]
• Setting up / testing backup PhEDEx instances [Ongoing]
• CMS data ops
  • Running data rereco at ASGC, sorting out problems due to lost files [Ongoing]
  • Run backfill at the Tier-1s using WMAgent [To do]

Catalin

• work on glite-LB quattor profile [ongoing]
• investigate (x)ROOT(d) [ongoing]
• prepare deployment of production glite 3.2 LB [ongoing]
• work on making IPMI interfaces available on grid services nodes [ongoing]

Derek

• CREAM CE quattor profile [ongoing]
• Investigating CREAM CE instability [ongoing]
• Sync'd quattor templates to QWG
• QWG Workshop
• Change Control process development

Matt

• Further testing of Quattorised gLite3.2 FTS FEs. [Ongoing]
• Quattorisation of MyProxy nodes (Change Control approved). [Ongoing]
• Test FTS SRM/GridFTP ratio configuration.
• Disk Deployment meeting. [New]
• Quattor FTM profiles. [New]
• Prep for Tier-1 Resources meeting. [Done]
• Nagios logfile monitoring development. [Done]

Richard

• Change control request entered for update to RAL site-level BDIIs [Done]
• Developing a set of Quattor templates for an ARGUS server [Ongoing]
• Developing a "pseudo-update" to apply a gLite update to BDIIs
• Working on the "team status page" being developed as an action from team awayday [Ongoing]
• Reviewing G/S process documentation [Ongoing]
• CASTOR items:

OnCall/AoD Cover

OnCall Rota

• Primary OnCall:
• Grid OnCall: Matt