RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 07/12/2018

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Standing 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)

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

  * Argo tests for CMS temporarily failed while preparing for CMS migration
  * Intensive CMS recall activity caused timeouts on PheDEx transfers

Operation news

 * CMS migrated to the new CASTOR instance
 * Three new disk servers deployed into Facilities diamondRecall pool
 * LHCb are staging data for the major reprocessing of Run1 and Run2 data (4.7 PB in total) that will be carried out in 2019

Plans for next few weeks

  * Complete kernel patching on CASTOR hosts
  * Oracle/kernel patching for CASTOR Facilities DB

Long-term projects

  * New CASTOR WLCGTape instance. Things need doing: Create a seperate xrootd redirector for ALICE
  * CASTOR disk server migration to Aquilon: gdss742 has been compiled with a draft aquilon profile
    but there are problems with the SL7 installation RT216885 

Actions

Staffing

  * RA out until 10/12