RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 02/03/2018

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Draft agenda

1. Problems encountered this week

2. Upgrades/improvements made this week

3. What are we planning to do next week?

4. Long-term project updates (if not already covered)

  1. SL5 elimination from CIP and tape verification server
  2. CASTOR stress test improvement
  3. Generic CASTOR headnode setup
  4. Aquilonised headnodes

5. Special topics

6. Actions

7. Review Fabric tasks

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8. AoTechnicalB

9. Availability for next week

10. On-Call

11. AoOtherB

Operation problems

aliceDisk run out of space - VO's responsibility lcgclsf01 went into swap, restarted transfermanagerd.

Operation news

New version of ral_castor_tools deployed. Planned Oracle patching round on Thursday cancelled due to weather problems.

Plans for next few weeks

Patching of the Neptune and Pluto DB and testing of switching over to R26 postponed until 27th March. Patching of the Juno database on 7th of March: CASTOR downtime from 10:30 to 13:30

GP: Fix-up on Aquilon SRM profiles: 1) Move nscd feature to a sub-dir task 2) Make castor/cron-jobs/srmbed-monitoring part of castor/daemons/srmbed feature task

Long-term projects

Headnode migration to Aquilon - Stager, scheduler, utility and nameserver configuration mainly complete. Stager, scheduler, utility tested seperately and all together on preprod. Will start combining the Stager, scheduler, utility features in one node.

'Macroheadnode' configuration testable :D

HA-proxyfication of the CASTOR SRMs: HA proxy is back and can be tested on preprod

Target: Combined headnodes running on SL7/Aquilon - implement CERN-style 'Macro' headnodes.

Draining of 4 x 13 generation disk servers from Atlas that will be deployed on genTape

Draining of 10% of the 14 generation disk servers

Actions

RA/BD: Run GFAL unit tests against CASTOR. Get them here: https://gitlab.cern.ch/dmc/gfal2/tree/develop/test/

RA to organise a meeting with the Fabric team to discuss outstanding issues with Data Services hardware

GP to talk to Alastair about draining of 10% of 14 gen disk servers

GP/RA to write a Nagios test to check for large number of requests that remain for a long time

Staffing

GP on call RA out from Friday until 26th March.