RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 03/2/2017
Contents
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. Castor 2.1.15 2. SL7 upgrade on tape servers 3. SRM upgrade to SL6
5. Special topics
6. Actions
7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?
8. AoTechnicalB
9. Availability for next week
10. On-Call
11. AoOtherB
Operations problems
Lhcb transfer failures due to excessive number of open DB cursor leaks
CMS SAM tests have been failing since the CASTOR upgrade to 2.1.15 RT185411
gdss776 down
Operations news
CMS was upgraded to CASTOR to 2.1.15
Plans for next week
2.1.15 upgrade on facilities on Tuesday
Long-term projects
CIP migration to aquilon and upgrade to SL6
SRM upgrade to SL6
Tape-server migration to aquilon and SL7 upgrade
Actions
Drain 10% of the 13 generation of disk servers (lhcbDst) for decommissioning
Add GP to the mail of CASTOR overwatch script
GP to plan a meeting with Gareth about patching the Tier-1 CASTOR name servers
Search the logs from SAM tests and hack into working
Staffing
GP on call next week
