RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 04/11/2016
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
5. Special topics
6. Actions
7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?
8. AoTechnicalB
9. Availability for next week
10. On-Call
11. AoOtherB
Operation problems
Preprod gdss702 and gdss763 were down and not available for patching; gdss763 is working now
gdss896 crashed during reboot after kernel upgrade - resolved
Preprod gdss651 has been down for some time - there is fabric intervention in progress
Problems with patching the vcert headnodes
Service callouts for unroutable files on CMS (resolved, see here)
Alice SRM was responding slowly
Multiple service alerts for lhcbDst having %2 free space
Operation news
All CASTOR production nodes have been patched
gdss681 has been deployed as V12 ds on preprod
New version of the castor_test.sh script is available, see elog entry here
Plans for next week
RA to get preprod tape system working
RA to finalise the writing up the of the disk pool merging procedure
GP to deploy 5 x OCF14 disk servers into aliceDisk RT176040
Long-term projects
Castor 2.1.15 upgrade has been postoponed until January 2017
GP to get a testable, i.e deployable to preprod, SL7 tape server in early December
Special topics
GP to present the WAN tuning effect on transfer rates
Actions
RA to update the list of CASTOR headnodes adding comments on VO specific configuration
Test DB upgrade to CASTOR 2.1.15 at the end of next week
GP to liase with Alex on patching vCert headnodes
Talk to AL about the issue with unrouted files to tape in CMS
AoTechnicalB
Change the scheduling logic of the NS dump script to run every 4th Friday of each Month
Staffing
GP on call next week
