RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 17/03/2014
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Operations News
- Tape servers have been upgraded to 2.1.14-11 - following advice from CERN and successful testing of one tape server.
- Ongoing testing of 2.1.14. We plan to upgrade Facilities on 1 Apr and Tier 1 NS a few weeks after
Operations Problems
- CMS was brought down twice on Friday morning with an unusual problem which appeared under high load. This appears similar to https://savannah.cern.ch/support/?132773 - an incident at CERN where a single subrequest without the corresponding Client entry caused problems.
Blocking Issues
- none
Planned, Scheduled and Cancelled Interventions
Entries in/planned to go to GOCDB
Advanced Planning
Tasks
- CASTOR 2.1.14 + SL5/6 testing. The change control has gone through today with few problems.
- iptables to be installed on lcgcviewer01 to harden the logging system against the injection of junk data by security scans.
- Quattor cleanup process is ongoing.
- Installation of new Preprod headnodes
Interventions
- none
Staffing
- Castor on Call person
- Matthew
- Staff absence/out of the office:
- (Mon-Wed) Bruno at QWG meeting
- (Mon-Fri) Shaun at EUDAT meeting then ISGC
- (Mon-Fri) Jens at EUDAT meeting then A/L
- (Thu-Fri) Rob at ISGC
