FTS Daily Procedure

This procedure should be followed every day to check the general health of the ongoing transfers and try to find problems. It is also the procedure to rescue jobs that the FTS has given up on.

List each of the channels:

glite-transfer-channel-list

For each channel, look for jobs in the Hold state. A job in Hold state will contain files that have been tried unsuccessfully 3 times:

glite-transfer-list -c CERN-RAL Hold

or:

glite-transfer-list -c CERN-RAL Hold | wc -l

to count them.

You should sample some of the jobs amd see what the problems were:

glite-transfer-status --verbose -l fb9080da-1a2e-11da-9a6c-c2709c5b2fc9

An example output:

Request ID:     fb9080da-1a2e-11da-9a6c-c2709c5b2fc9
Status:         Hold
Channel:        CERN-GRIDKA
Client DN:      /C=UK/O=eScience/OU=Edinburgh/L=NeSC/CN=andrew cameron smith
Reason:         <None>
Submit time:    2005-08-31 14:53:25.000
Files:          1
Priority:       3
VOName:         lhcb
        Done:           0
        Active:         0
        Pending:        0
        Canceled:       0
        Canceling:      0
        Failed:         0
        Finished:       0
        Submitted:      0
        Hold:           1
        Waiting:        0
        CatalogFailed:  0
  Source:      srm://castorgridsc.cern.ch:8443/srm/managerv1?SFN=/castor/cern.ch/grid/lhcb/production/DC04/v2/00000849/DST/00000849_00000696_5.dst
  Destination: srm://f01-015-103-e.gridka.de:8443/srm/managerv1?SFN=/pnfs/gridka.de/sc3/lhcb/unregistered/andrewstest/lhcb/production/DC04/v2/00000849/DST/00000849_00000696_5.dst
  State:       Hold
  Retries:     3
  Reason:       Failed on SRM put: Failed SRM put call. Error is
RequestFileStatus#-2147415143 failed with error:[ GetStorageInfoFailed : file exists, cannot write ]

-- GavinMcCance - 30 Sep 2005