RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 31/10/2011
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Operations News
- New firmware updated on all V09 D0T1 disk servers (CMS) which fixes a problem where wrong SMART errors are reported
Operations Problems
- A neptune node rebooted for unknown reasons on Friday morning. SRM ALTAS was unaffected.
Blocking Issues
- We need to understand the cause of the new database disk array hardware problem before we can migrate production databases over to it.
Planned, Scheduled and Cancelled Interventions
Entries in/planned to go to GOCDB none
Advanced Planning
- Move Tier1 instances to new Database infrastructure which with a Dataguard backup instance in R26
- Upgrade SRMs to 2.11 which incorporates VOMS support
- Certify 2.1.11 and evaluate the Transfer Manager (the new LSF replacement)
- Quattorization of remaining SRM servers
- Hardware upgrade, Quattorization and Upgrade to SL5 of Tier1 CASTOR headnodes
Staffing
- Castor on Call person: Shaun
- Staff absence/out of the office:
- ..
