RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 18/11/2016
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
gdss651 (preProd) is still down being re-installed RT177006
Unroutable file to tape in CMS. Not sure about the choice of the right file class so AL was notified and fixed the problem
Operation news
5 OCF14 disk servers have been deployed into full production in aliceDisk 176040
4 CV14 disk servers have been deployed into full production in lhcbDst 176041
All 2011 ds in aliceDisk were set to RO before draining
Long-term projects
Castor 2.1.15 upgrade has been postponed until January 2017
SL7 tapeserver: progress with organising the tape-server software repos in pan templates. Scheduled a meeting with Bruno to discuss what has been done and the organisation of tape-server features
Special topics
Remake transfer rate plots for larger files (> 0.5 GB) and covering longer time periods - implemented these requirements in the script. Need to modify the script to ingnore treansfers that finished on the next day after they started.
Actions
Discusss with Khash about the urgency of RAID upgrade on CV13 ds and plan the intervention
Present AL two alternatives to choose from: 1) Create generic fileclass/tapepool 2) Remove the "unroutable file to tape" call to working hours
Delete empty dirs from CASTOR (prompted by BD)
Test DB upgrade to CASTOR 2.1.15
Schedule with AL a CASTOR upgrade of preprod from scratch
RA to talk to AL about merging CMS disk pools
Staffing
CP on call next week
RA on A/L
AL on A/L
