RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 30/11/2009

Summary of Previous Week

• New Quattor configuration works, also with individual files don't have to rebuild RPMs (Richard)
• Gave access to Gen for non-LHC evaluation of CASTOR (Shaun)
• Setting T2K up (Shaun)
• MICE configuration - waiting for Henry to test (Shaun)
• Liaising for ATLAS during data-taking (Brian)
• Got PHP rpm from CERN and added to our repository (Chris)
• CoC duties (Chris)
• Polymorphic servers and improving resilience on central servers (Chris, Shaun)
• Repacking bad tapes (Tim)
• Assisting DB team test failover on Vulcan (Cheney)
• TSBN stats (Cheney)
• Successfully test restored 2 servers from backup, following documentation (Cheney)
• Finalizing disaster recovery document (Matthew)
• Chasing strategic objectives (Matthew)

Developments for this week

• Polymorphic servers and improving resilience on central servers (Chris, Shaun)
• Configuring new (non-LHC) CIP instance for publishing T2K information (Jens)
• SRM development (Shaun)
• Testing builds (Richard)
• Nagios monitoring scripts (Cheney)
• Investigate lhcbUser D2D copy problems (Matthew)

Operations Issues

• Memory issue on ATLAS SRM database - caught in time and service redistributed across two nodes

Blocking issues

none

Planned, Scheduled and Cancelled Down Times

none

Advanced Planning

• Gen upgrade to 2.1.8 2010Q1
• Black and White lists will *not* now be introduced on ATLAS until 2.1.8
• Install/enable gridftp-internal on Gen (This year/before 2.1.8 upgrade)

Staffing

• Castor on Call person: Shaun