RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 20/05/2016

Operation news

Automated workflow for disk server deployment has been disabled New CASTOR functional testing using xrootd will be enabled on Monday 23/5/2016

CASTOR issues

Heavy workload on the Atlas scratch disk resulting in almost nothing being achieved

Full recovery from the tape robot and air condition problems. Chris checked status of migration queues last weekend and on Mon 16/5

Double putStart problem on CASTOR facilities

Some work to be done on the improvement of the new draining script's logic

gdss664 was brought back to production on 18/05/2016 at ca. 15:00 folowing a sucessfull rebuilding

gdss727 (production D1T0 CMS disk server) FSProbe Error Removed from Production and Overwatch Updated RT 172141

xrootd segmentation fault on atlas-xrd-proxy01. John Kelly investigated /var/log/messages and /var/log/xrootd/manager/atlas/xrootd.log.20160516 and found that the machine was busy shortly before the error. GP tried to debug the dumped core file but could not run xrootd as root.

Ongoing work on the upgrade to CASTOR 2.1.15 on preprod

GP and BD to chase the dteam VO for the GP membership request

GP and BD to perform stress testing of gdss596 to evaluate the new WAN parameters

GP to talk to Andrew Lahiff about a SL7 upgrade on the worker nodes using aquilon.

SRM DB duplicates removal script is under testing

BD AND RA will test the newly created tape families for ATLAS today Fri 20/5