RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 29/9/2017
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. SL7 upgrade on tape servers 2. SL5 elimination from CASTOR functional test boxes and tape verification server 3. CASTOR stress test improvement 4. Generic CASTOR headnode setup
5. Special topics
6. Actions
7. Anything for CASTOR-Fabric?
8. AoTechnicalB
9. Availability for next week
10. On-Call
11. AoOtherB
Operation problems
gdss762 went out production
Gen Argo test failures since 11:00 yesterday
Intermintent sessions on ATLAS SRMs
Operation news
SOLID VO added to CASTOR
Plans for next week
Long-term projects
Tape-server migration to aquilon and SL7 upgrade
CASTOR stress test improvement
Configure multiple instances of a CASTOR generic headnode
Drain and decomission/recomission the 12 generation disk servers
Actions
RA to check if the disk server setting, changed to bring disk servers back more quickly after a CASTOR shutdown, is still in place
Ensure that Fabric is on track with the deployment of the new DB hardware
RA to ensure that proper Nagios checks are in place for the xroot manager boxes
RA and JK to do the the new service checklist for the new functional test box (castor-functional-test1)
GP to talk to AL about service ownership/handover of the xroot manager boxes
Staffing
RA out on A/L
GP on call
