RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 12/10/2018

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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)

  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. Review Fabric tasks

  1.   Link

8. AoTechnicalB

9. Availability for next week

10. On-Call

11. AoOtherB

Operation problems

OPS tests for WLCGTape are failing and a change in static ldif file needs to be made

AAA issues with CMS GGUS137650

gdss734 and gdss738 failed and temporarily removed from prod; they are back now

tnsnames.ora issue on vCert and WLCGTape (the file was updated by a cron job script provided by oracle-instantclient-tnsnames.ora-1-3.el7.cern.noarch). Now fixed

Operation news

Two drives were added to fdscts01 and fdscts04

Plans for next few weeks

  * Push gsi authentication for xrootd in production
  * Decommission gdss747 & gdss753

  * Proceed with the atlasStripInput decommissioning
  * Proceed with the cmsDisk decommissioning

Long-term projects

gsi authentication for xrootd: 1) Ask Raja and Tim to run a functional test on preprod to make sure their prod users work 2) Perform a stress test

New CASTOR WLCGTape instance. Things need doing: 1) Update of the CASTOR ldif file and 2) Xrootd functional test on castor-fuctional-test1 3) Fix a misconfiguration on the Eris disk array (cannot bring WLCGTape into prod before this is done) 4) xrootd for ALICE

Actions

GP to add ldif entry for the new srm-wlcgtape endpoint

Staffing

RA on call