RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 19/04/2010

Summary of Previous Week

Matthew:
- PMB F2F, GridPP24
- setting up new puppetmaster
- CoD work
Shaun:
- ..
Chris:
- Tested cold stand-by central castor servers
- Disk server deployment duties
- Castor 2.1.8/2/1.9 upgrade work
- Worked on Certification instance
Richard:
- 2 days at GridpPP 24
- Continued stress testing on pre-prod instance
Brian:
- ..
Jens:
- Nothing much castorific; at GridPP most of the week.

Matthew:
- building and testing new puppetmaster server
- testing quattorized disk server deployment
Shaun:
- ..
Chris:
- Test SL5 (64bit) disk server with xfs
- Test cold stand-by central castor servers and then write documentation
- Disk server deployment duties
- Test Quattor disk server procedure and build castor disk server
- Castor 2.1.8/2/1.9 upgrade work
- Doing work related to Tier1 Security Group project
Richard:
- Stress testing on pre-prod instance
Brian:
- ..
Jens:
- See if I can finish one or more CIP development strands. Hack, hack.

CMS migrations stopped due to cmsWanIn & cmsFarmRead shared tape pools stopping each others streams being created, during CMS reprocessing, while cmsWanIn was quiet and cmsFarmRead was busy. cmsWanIn mighunter schedule changed from 5->30 minutes which fixed the problem.
passwd file on gdss92 dropped entry for stager which stopped atlasFarm recalls to this machine
hone gsoap errors due to an lsf group not being created

None

Entries in/planned to go to GOCDB

None

Upgrade to 2.1.8/2.1.9 2010
Upgrade to SRM 2.8-6 after testing is complete
ATLAS want to know how much capacity is available in disabled servers (published as Capability). Low priority CIP change to do this.
CASTOR Instance for Non LHC 2010Q2
Install/enable gridftp-internal on Gen (Before 2.1.8 upgrade)