RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 28/01/2011

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Operations News

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Operations Issues

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Blocking Issues

  • Lack of production-class hardware running ORACLE 10g needs to be resolved prior to CASTOR for Facilities going into full production. Been ordered. Servers arriving this week, RAID device mid-March.

Planned, Scheduled and Cancelled Interventions

Entries in/planned to go to GOCDB

Description Start End Type Affected VO(s)
Upgrade NS to 2.1.10 (STC) mid March mid March Downtime ALL

Advanced Planning

  • CASTOR certification and upgrade to 2.1.10 and upgrade of SRM to 2.10 which incorporates:
    • fix for gridftp-internal to support multiple service classes, enabling checksums for Gen
    • fix to report files on draining disk servers accessed by FTS to be NEARLINE not UNAVAILABLE
  • Move Tier1 instances to new Database infrastructure which with a Dataguard backup instance in R26
  • Move Facilities instance to new Database hardware running 10g
  • Start migrating from T10KA to T10KC media later this year

Staffing

  • Castor on Call person: Chris
  • Staff absence/out of the office:
    • Shaun, Richard (all week)