Week of 050725

Open Actions from last week:

• tape tests
• testing of smoke tests
• new FTS release / deployment plans.

On Shift: Maarten/Patricia

Monday:

• Transfers fairly stable. Midnight Sat/Sun lost SARA (tech. problems with tape silo) Problems again last night with BNL. RAL 2-3 hours downtime.
• Need to work out schedule with sites to debug / tune transfers.
• FTS: 1% of transfers abort in gridftp. Grouped by site. Maarten will take a look...
• FTS new version - still testing. Issue with MyProxy. Workaround... Need to agree / resolve release schedule.
• James has populated ia32 disk servers. Olof to move to wan pool. (18 ia64 + 8-9 ia32)

New Actions:

Tuesday:

• One problem with FTS006 - ASIS_OR_SPMA error - understood
• LFC002 - GSSDATLAS Server - error in log due to list_replicax - fixed in 1.3.6
• One of the new IA32 nodes still in closed state - Olof to check.
• QF version of config service updated with config lockfile fix.

• Wed/Thur - Olof/Sebastien/Ben in RAL. Jan on SMOD - will only turn up at 9.15

New Actions:

Wednesday

• GRIDVIEW not stable - was an RGMA problem, but not sure if this explains all
• LFC for LHCb deployed and LHCb gave OK for features
• QF deployed already on FTS nodes (Gavin)
• At PEB, experiments agreed to provide storage rates and capacity and num CPU for T0/1/2.

Actions:

• Maarten: Look into GRIDVIEW numbers -
• Jan/J-P: deploy new LFC on all pilot nodes DONE

Thursday

• Still problems with Gridview - imported some of the outstanding data, RGMA team will import rest once system is stable
• Waiting for IA64 version of RGMA - not urgent, have workaround (fri)
• testing new version with load-gen to castorsrm

Actions:

• Wait on Olof/... to return from RAL to reconfigure phedex nodes for DPM
• discussion needed on resources for service phase at T1/T2. - for tuesday

Friday

• Problem with lfc002 (atlas) - NO_CONTACT - seemed to not be a problem
• tracking down problems in lcg-mon-gridftp and - r-gma - got a new version of the monitor that works with edg-rgma rpms
• Andreas Unterkircher will work 50% on SC work until he joins in April
• CMS have submitted test jobs they can do
• Korean site for CMS joining the challenge. Need to start the process now.

Actions:

• update LSF config and new version of lcg-mon-gridftp (Jan)
• 'canned emails' for interventions (Patricia/Maarten)
• start setting up Korean networking (David/James)

Todo:

• new version of SRM (Ben/Vlado on tuesday)
• QF for myproxy/oracle issue in FTS (install new RPM + restart)