RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 27/04/2018
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. SL5 elimination from CIP and tape verification server 2. CASTOR stress test improvement 3. Generic CASTOR headnode setup 4. Aquilonised headnodes
5. Special topics
6. Actions
7. Review Fabric tasks
1. Link
8. AoTechnicalB
9. Availability for next week
10. On-Call
11. AoOtherB
Operation problems
* Firewall update on 25/04 caused transient problems with CASTOR services [1]
* Network interface of gdss766 was misconfigured as eth2 causing problems with access - now fixed
* Transfers from RAL_Disk to Florida are failing GGUS ticket
Operation news
Plans for next few weeks
Long-term projects
Headnode migration to Aquilon - Trying to configure former vCert headnodes as generic CASTOR headnodes. Almost done but have some problems with SRM
No point to move Atlas and CMS to the macroheadnode setup since their d1t0 data are moving to Echo over the next two months
HA-proxyfication of the CASTOR SRMs: HA proxy set up has been tested on the SRMs
RA writing a new accounting system to match WLCG archival requirements
Actions
RA/GP to talk to Chris Brew about alerts for new CMS file classes and tape families
JK to investigate why ralreplicas fails and submit a "bug" report
RA/BD: Run GFAL unit tests against CASTOR. Get them here: https://gitlab.cern.ch/dmc/gfal2/tree/develop/test/
GP/RA to write a Nagios test to check for large number of requests on the NewRequests DB table that remain for a long time
Staffing
RA on call
