RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 07/10/2016
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
Operation news
Network upgrade
Long-term projects
Castor 2.1.15 upgrade has been postoponed until January 2017
Development continues to migrate castor tape servers to aquilon
Actions
GP to present the WAN tuning effect on transfer rates
Get dedlines from Fabric team for OCF/CV14 hand over to CASTOR
RA/GP to deploy the former Ceph OCF14 servers into aliceDisk (see RAL disk server deployment plan by Alastair)
Talk to AL about the issue with unrouted files to tape in CMS
Check if there is a nagios test that checks for facilities tape drives being down
Completed actions
RA disks servers requiring RAID update - locate servers and plan for update with fabric RT175801
RA to identify a spare machine to be used for the tape server migration to aquilon
John Kelly to enquire about the nagios messages on gdss619
Staffing
GP away from 10/10 until 24/10
