RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 23/03/2015

List of CASTOR meetings

Operations News

• SRM certs have been renewed
• Draining - Atlas still draining

Operations Problems

• GDSS757 cmsDisk still waiting for new motherboard
• Process to generate new grid-mapfiles has not been failing, currently being corrected

• OLDER>>>>
• Issue with missing files in LHCb – race condition reported to CERN
• Atlas are putting files (sonar.test files) into un-routable paths - this looks like an issue with the space token used. Brian / Rob actions below.
• There is a problem with latest gfal libraries - not a new problem but Atlas are starting to exercise functionality and identifying these issues
• storageD retrieval from castor problems - investigation ongoing
• CMS heavy load & high job failure – hot spotting 3 servers, files spread to many servers which then also became loaded. CMS moved away from RAL for these files. Need to discuss this issue in more detail.
• castor functional test on lcgccvm02 causing problems - Gareth reviewing
• 150k zero size files reported last week have almost all been dealt with, CMS files outstanding
• Files with no ns or xattr checksum value in castor are failing transfers from RAL to BNL using the BNL FTS3 server.

Blocking Issues

• grid ftp bug in SL6 - stops any globus copy if a client is using a particular library. This is a show stopper for SL6 on disk server.

Planned, Scheduled and Cancelled Interventions

• Upgrade Oracle DB to version 11.2.0.4 (Late February?)
• 2.1.14-15 Facilities on Tuesday 31st March, and Tier 1 on Wednesday 8th April (expected outage 4 hours TBC)

Advanced Planning

Tasks

• SL6 tape server
• Bruno working on SL6 disk servers
• DB team need to plan some work which will result in the DBs being under load for approx 1h
• Provide new VM? to provide castor client functionality to query the backup DBs
• Plan to ensure PreProd represents production in terms of hardware generation are underway
• Possible future upgrade to CASTOR 2.1.14-15 in March or April
• Switch from admin machines: lcgccvm02 to lcgcadm05
• Correct partitioning alignment issue (3rd CASTOR partition) on new castor disk servers

Interventions

Actions

• Rob - revisit deployment plans (esp people in office towards the end of March)
• Brian - On Wed, tell Tim if he can start repacking mctape
• Rob - change checksum validator so it maintains case when displaying
• Rob - talk with Shaun to see if its possible to reject anything that does not have a spacetoken
• Brian - to discuss unroutable files / spacetokens at at DDM meeting on Tuesday
• Rob to pick up DB cleanup change control
• Bruno to document processes to control services previously controlled by puppet
• Gareth to arrange meeting castor/fab/production to discuss the decommissioning procedures
• Chris/Rob to arrange a meeting to discuss CMS performance/xroot issues (is performance appropriate, if not plan to resolve) - inc. Shaun, Rob, Brian, Gareth
• Gareth to investigate providing checks for /etc/noquatto on production nodes & checks for fetch-crl

Staffing

• Castor on Call person
  • Matt

• Staff absence/out of the office:
  • Rob – back on Monday 30th
  • Shaun – back on Monday 30th (for a couple of days only)
  • Brian – out for approx 2 months (mixture of conferences and holiday)
  • Chris - out all week at Hepix

• • Juan – wed/thurs
  • Jens – wed/thurs