Week of 050926

• check possiblility of using LCG Quattor WG componets for LFC/DPM/... (Jan/Vlado/Sophie) TO TEST
• FTS Quick Fixes for BDII DONE
• Need to restart castor2 db to apply patch - schedule for gap between alice and cms (Vlado) SCHEDULED, WAITING 4th OCT

On Call: Patricia + David

Monday:

• Castor pb on saturday 3AM. High load again, but trigger & garbage collector off this time. -> to be investigated (Olof)

New Actions:

• FTS Quick Fixes RPMs done. Installation to do on tuesday morning (Gavin + Patricia) DONE on lxshare026d
• FTS server not visible from the VO box -> deploy another one (Simone + Gavin).
• Test the new myproxy server installed for FTS + inform the users (Simone + Gavin). DONE

Discussion:

• Olof : SRM problems at CNAF (reported by Daniele Bonacorsi) investigated by Olof : problems on the target
• Olof : David Cameron problems being investigated as well.
• Jan : 30 TB put on friday on cmsprod -> Everybody : no problem seen so far.
• Simone : new myproxy server installed for FTS

Tuesday:

New Actions:

IMPORTANT : Upgrade tomorrow morning :

• CASTOR upgrade to fix last week's problems. Already announced by email (Olof).
• at the same time, database change, in order to stop the number of processes to grow and crash the instance.

Discussion:

Wednesday

Actions:

• Network intervention to announce to the SC mailing lists -> to follow up (Jan/Sophie) NOT SC3 AREA ROUTER - NO PROBLEM
• Check problem with grid-mapfile for unosat on LFC boxes (Sophie /Patricia) TEMPORARY FIX - WAITING FOR MARIA

Discussion:

• Olof : upgrade exercised yesterday, tests performed. Went fine.
• Ben : will take advantage of the intervention to do add an SRM fix.
• Olof/Jan : another intervention foreseen : switch/router intervention by network group.

Thursday

Actions:

• Check why the router intervention didn't get announced to SC mailing lists (Sophie/Jan) NOT SC3 AREA ROUTER - NO PROBLEM
• intervention on the Pilot FTS (QF) -> today at 10:00 (Patricia/Gavin) DONE
• Quick Fixes to solve the FTS NDGF (Gavin)
• check access to lxb2088 for Simone DONE + change FTS configuration to use the new myproxy server (Gavin)
• LFC unosat : doesn't work for Patricia anymore -> to check (Sophie/Patricia) TEMPORARY FIX - WAITING FOR MARIA

Discussion:

• interventions : went fine (db + castor + router). Delay because of Quattor upgrading the RPMs. Pb with 64 bits machines - fixed as well during the intervention.
• NDGF FTS problem : too many pending jobs - query checking for pending jobs got bigger and bigger.

Friday

Actions:

• Monday : intervention myproxy FTS + Announce it today (Gavin)
• FTS : apply TODAY less privileges on the DB accounts. No stop of the database required (Gavin).
• Olof : suspecting that Fermilab is still using castorgrid instead of castorgridsc -> to check (Olof).

Discussion:

• Jamie : useful Operations Workshop in RAL. More integration with SFT (Sites Functional Tests). LCG/EGEE/OSG integration on the way. VO boxes.
• Important : Vlado & Jan are not at CERN next week. Olof is their backup.
• CASTOR2.1 development in progress : meeting with RAL, progress satisfactory.
• FTS visible from outside : installed, not yet configured, not yet tested.
• Eric : nothing to report. No growing processes (in CASTOR DB) noticed by the new monitoring in place so far.

-- SophieLemaitre - 30 Sep 2005