RAL Tier1 weekly operations Grid 20110214

Operational Issues

Description	Start	End	Affected VO(s)	Severity	Status

Downtimes

Description	Hosts	Type	Start	End	Affected VO(s)

Blocking Issues

Description	Requested Date	Required By Date	Priority	Status

Developments/Plans

Detailed Individual Reports

Alastair

• Working on ATLAS permission change. [On hold]
• Setting up xrootd for ATLAS at RAL.
• Disk pool merging and DB change.
• Preparing for Beauty 2011 conference.
• File consistency checking.

Andrew

• CMS condor training 14-15 Feb
• Capacity planning system [Ongoing]
• Wrote PhEDEx installation documentation [Done]
• Migration testing with default policies
• Plan changing CMS squid names [To do]
• CMS data ops
  • Data skims at KIT
  • MC rereco, MC rereco preproduction at IN2P3, FNAL

Catalin

• involved with CREAM CEs installation and configuration [ongoing]
• update Grid Services documentation (WMS, Frontier) [done]
• work on 'pheno' issues with WMS job submission [done]

Derek

• Investigating whole node jobs effect on scheduler [done]
• Reviewing CE documentation [done]
• Tidying up/Finishing off in preparation for 2 weeks A/L [done]

Matt

• Update CRL checks Nagios plugin. [New]
• Look at Derek's CA patch for Quattor. [New]
• First phase of migration of FTS agents to Quattorised h/w. [New]
• Test new implementation plan for FTS Group config. [Done]
• Prepare FTS hardware for Agent Quattorisation. [Done]
• Review VOBOX/CE incident. [Ongoing]

Richard

• Added new glite updates 21 and 22 into Quattor. Currently building a test top BDII to check the updates. [Ongoing]
• Moving 1 site and 1 top BDII into UPS room for increased resilience. [Ongoing]
• Trying out new hypervisor (hv-10) to see how much performance has improved (have moved an existing VM across to the new h/v) [Ongoing].
• Building an ARGUS server using the new QWG templates [Ongoing]
• Working on the "team status page" being developed as an action from team awayday [Ongoing]
• Reviewing G/S process documentation [Ongoing]
• CASTOR items:
  • Working with SDW to import latest CASTOR quattor structure into the "cert-in-a-box" cluster. [Ongoing]

OnCall/AoD Cover

OnCall Rota

• Primary OnCall: Catalin
• Grid OnCall:
• AoD: