RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 24/03/2014
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Operations News
- Final testing of 2.1.14 on Preprod to verify that 2.1.14 works with the NS 2.1.13 Compatibility Flag enabled.
Operations Problems
- CMS load is still causing problems on the transfer manager due to the few disk servers in cmsDisk. We've been called out a few times in the past and had to restart transfer/diskmanagers to get things working again.
- NSFind has been shown to generate unacceptable load on the NS. We're waiting for CERN to confirm that this is a bug.
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-Fri) Shaun,Rob at ASGC
- (Tue-Fri) Matthew at RDA
