RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 27/07/2009

Summary of Previous Week

SRM development. Testing now underway at CERN (Shaun)
Setting up BDII host for Certification for CIP testing (Cheney)
c2probe work (Cheney)
Investigating low data rates between BNL and RAL. Suspect it's max. TCP window size (Brian)
Cleaning ATLAS namespace (Brian)
Add final 2 tape drives to CASTOR - all online now(Tim)
Deployed 2.1.8-8 on 4 more tape servers (Chris)
Setting up SRM on certification to work with production for CMS (Shaun)
Rewriting and improving puppet restarter (Shaun)
CIP development on certification (Jens)
CASTOR Disaster Recovery document (Matt)
Increased lhcbDst total ROOTD slots from 100-400 (Matt)

CIP development on certification (Jens)
Investigate 2.1.8 NS client on 2.1.7 NS DB (Chris)
Deployed 2.1.8-8 on remaining tape servers (Chris)
Configuring disk servers to use gridftp-internal (Chris)
ATLAS bulk deletion on files in CASTOR but not in LSF (Brian)
Tier1 Production Manager (Matt)
CASTOR Disaster Recovery document (Matt)
Interviewing for CASTOR Pre Production Service Manager post (Matt)
Establish with experiments when to intervene with hardware on D0T1 disk servers (Matt)
Write CASTOR status for oversight committee (Matt)
Find out more about CERN's virtualized certification setup (Chris, Matt)
Python 3 training course (Cheney)

Ongoing

Fix missing graphs on castormon - Atlas tape migration and aggregated Gen monitoring(Brian)
Cleaning up database for a future 2.1.8 upgrade (Shaun)
Setting up Preproduction (Matt)

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Work with Fabric to add extra RAID card in remaining Viglen'06 disk servers (July/August)
SRM 2.8 upgrade (sometime during August)
CIP upgrade to include nearline publishing (July/August)
Improve resiliency to central services (This year)
Upgrade nameserver to 2.1.8 (Possibly during September)
Database optimization tasks (September)
Black and White lists? In discussion with ATLAS to establish their requirements