RAL Tier1 weekly operations Grid 20110307

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.
  • Talking to ALICE
  • Looking into upgrading castor client on all WN.
• Disk pool merging and DB change.
  • Cleaning up dark data [Ongoing]
  • Writing change control [Done]
  • Moving files! [Ongoing]
• Preparing for Beauty 2011 conference.
• Requested new VO box for ATLAS Frontier.

Andrew

• Migration to FTS groups for CMS [Done]
• Prepared FTS groups setup for ATLAS [Done]
• Feb accounting; migrated tape usage from vmgr to ns in UB schedule & capacity planning system [Done]
• Kernel/errata updates [Done]
• CMS storage consistency check; setup script/cron to run monthly. [Done]
• CMS squid name changes [Ongoing]
• CMS data ops
  • Installed new PA instances required for FNAL move to Lustre [Done]

Catalin

• work on quattorised ATLAS Frontier installation
• apply latest errata and kernel
• assist work on LFC Oracle DB change [ongoing]
• involved with CREAM CEs installation and configuration [ongoing]
• two new VOS to be added to the LFC [done]
• GGUS issue with pheno affecting lcgwms03 [done]

Derek

• Catching up after leave [done]
• Investigating load problems on lcgce05 [done]
• Investigating BLParser isssues on lcgce09 [ongoing]
• Publishing whole node queue [ongoing]

Matt

• Deploying test Hadoop instance. [Ongoing]
• Contact NFS users. [Ongoing]
• Deploying FTS test instance on new virtual hosts. [Done]

Richard

• Updating Site level BDIIs to level 21. [Ongoing]
• Moving one more top BDII into UPS room for better 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:
  • Developed a script to stress test FTS xfers in/out of preprod instance. [Ongoing]

VO Reports

CMS

• 2011-02-28: CREAM CE temporarily blacklisted by a CERN WMS, leading to 35 Job Robot jobs aborting.
• Large MC reprocessing will start across all T1s sometime this week

OnCall/AoD Cover

OnCall Rota

• Primary OnCall:
• Grid OnCall: Derek
• AoD: