RAL Tier1 Operations Report for 18th March 2015
| Review of Issues during the week 11th to 18th March 2015.
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- The replacement of the the primary Tier1 router did not fix the problem whereby the router fails after a few minutes in service.
| Resolved Disk Server Issues
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| Current operational status and issues
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- We are running with a single router connecting the Tier1 network to the site network, rather than a resilient pair.
| Ongoing Disk Server Issues
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| Notable Changes made this last week.
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- Five additional disk servers have been deployed into Castor storage for ALICE_Disk. This roughly doubles the disk space available to ALICE which is now approximately 390TB.
- On the CEs the upper memory limit was reduced from 5x requested memory to 3x.
- ATLAS are now putting all UK transfers through our test FTS3.
| Service
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Scheduled?
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Outage/At Risk
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Start
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End
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Duration
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Reason
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| All Castor (all SRMs)
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SCHEDULED
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OUTAGE
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08/04/2015 10:00
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08/04/2015 14:00
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4 hours
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Upgrade of Castor storage to version 2.1.14-15
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| Whole site
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SCHEDULED
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WARNING
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19/03/2015 07:45
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19/03/2015 08:30
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45 minutes
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Warning during tests of Tier1s network router. Possibility of two short (few minute) breaks in connectivity to the RAL Tier1.
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| Advanced warning for other interventions
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| The following items are being discussed and are still to be formally scheduled and announced.
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- Investigate problems on the primary Tier1 router. Further tests scheduled for tomorrow morning, 19th March.
- Update Castor to 2.1-14-15 (Proposed date - Wednesday 8th April).
Listing by category:
- Databases:
- Switch LFC/3D to new Database Infrastructure.
- Update to Oracle 11.2.0.4
- Castor:
- Update Castor to 2.1.14-15 (Proposed date - Wednesday 8th April).
- Update SRMs to new version (includes updating to SL6).
- Fix discrepancies found in some of the Castor database tables and columns. (The issue has no operational impact.)
- Networking:
- Resolve problems with primary Tier1 Router
- Enable the RIP protocol for updating routing tables on the Tier1 routers. (Install patch to Router software).
- Increase bandwidth of the link from the Tier1 into the RAL internal site network to 40Gbit.
- Make routing changes to allow the removal of the UKLight Router.
- Fabric
- Firmware updates on remaining EMC disk arrays (Castor, FTS/LFC)
| Entries in GOC DB starting since the last report.
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| Service
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Scheduled?
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Outage/At Risk
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Start
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End
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Duration
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Reason
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| Whole site
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SCHEDULED
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WARNING
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12/03/2015 07:45
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12/03/2015 08:30
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45 minutes
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Warning following installation of a replacement network router.
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| Whole site
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SCHEDULED
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WARNING
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11/03/2015 10:30
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11/03/2015 11:00
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30 minutes
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Warning on site access during firmware updates on pair of network switches.
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| Open GGUS Tickets (Snapshot during morning of meeting)
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| GGUS ID |
Level |
Urgency |
State |
Creation |
Last Update |
VO |
Subject
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| 112350
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Green
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Less Urgent
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In Progress
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2015-03-15
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2015-03-17
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SNO+
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Download issue
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| 112166
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Green
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Urgent
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In Progress
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2015-03-06
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2015-03-17
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Atlas
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RAL-LCG2 DATATAPE: destination transfer errors like "This SURL does not exist in the original request"
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| 111699
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Green
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Less Urgent
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In Progress
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2015-02-10
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2015-03-11
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Atlas
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gLExec hammercloud jobs keep failing at RAL-LCG2 & RALPP
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| 109694
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Red
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Urgent
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In Progress
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2014-11-03
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2015-03-11
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SNO+
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gfal-copy failing for files at RAL
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| 108944
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Red
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Less Urgent
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In Progress
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2014-10-01
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2015-03-03
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CMS
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AAA access test failing at T1_UK_RAL
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Key: Atlas HC = Atlas HammerCloud (Queue ANALY_RAL_SL6, Template 508); CMS HC = CMS HammerCloud
| Day |
OPS |
Alice |
Atlas |
CMS |
LHCb |
Atlas HC |
CMS HC |
Comment
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| 11/03/15 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
98 |
100 |
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| 12/03/15 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
95 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
Problem with CE tests - possibly triggered by network intervention.
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| 13/03/15 |
100 |
100 |
96 |
96 |
96 |
100 |
100 |
Remote monitoring problem.
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| 14/03/15 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
|
| 15/03/15 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
99 |
|
| 16/03/15 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
|
| 17/03/15 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
100 |
99 |
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