RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 09/02/2018

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. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?

8. AoTechnicalB

9. Availability for next week

10. On-Call

11. AoOtherB

Operation problems

Follow up on gdss762 and fdsdss36

Operation news

New hardware is being ordered for Facilities headnodes and disk servers

Plans for next week

Run new check_tape_pools version on all Castor stagers

GP: Fix-up on Aquilon SRM profiles.

Long-term projects

Headnode migration to Aquilon - Stager configuration and testing complete. Aquilon profiles for lst and utility nodes compile OK. Replicate current RAL setup as an intermediate step towards the making 'Macro' headnodes.

HA-proxyfication of the CASTOR SRMs

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

Draining of remainder of 12 generation HW - waiting on CMS migration to Echo. No more draining ongoing.

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/

GP/RA to chase up Fabric team about getting action on RT197296(use fdscspr05 as the preprod stager - replacement for ccse08)

Miguel to determine of there is a need to have a nagios test for checking the number of entries on the newrequests table

GP to generate a ralreplicas version for repack

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

Staffing

RA on call

GP out on Wed 14/2