September 2013 Reports

30th September 2013 (Monday)

• Main activity are MC productions.
• Fall incremental stripping campaign will be launched this week (see also WLCG Operations Coordination meeting, 19 Sep)
• T0:
• T1:
  • RAL: one disk server down, technicians are looking into the issue, at the moment the files are declared unreachable within LHCb
  • GRIDKA: problem with staging during stress test

26th September 2013 (Thursday)

• Main activity are MC productions
• Fall incremental stripping campaign will be launched coming Monday 30 Sep (see also WLCG Operations Coordination meeting, 19 Sep)
• T0:
• T1:
  • RAL: one disk server down, technicians are looking into the issue, at the moment the files are declared unreachable within LHCb

23rd September 2013 (Monday)

• Main activity are MC productions
• Fall incremental stripping campaign will be launched coming Monday 30 Sep (see also WLCG Operations Coordination meeting, 19 Sep)
• T0:
• T1:
  • IN2P3: Currently in DT for sl6 upgrade
  • SARA: Currently in DT
  • GRIDKA: In DT as of 14.00 today

19th September 2013 (Thursday)

• Main activity are MC productions
• T0:
  • network intervention yesterday in th ecomputer center.

• T1:
  • RAL : Castor Database rebooted yesterday to fix an ORACLE error
  • PIC: configuration lost after the dcache intervention and it took some times to recover.

16th September 2013 (Monday)

• Main activity are MC productions
• T0:
  • info in the BDII for ce301 and ce302 was wrong. (now corrected)
  • FTS3 used the instance at CERN after the correction of the time.
• T1:
  • GRIDKA: one tape library is not beahving properly.
  • PIC: downtime today

9th September 2013 (Monday)

• Main activity are MC productions
• T0:
  • NTR
• T1:
  • GRIDKA: interaction with Site FTS server failing (Alarm ticket opened yesterday GGUS:97119). After restart of the web service at the Gridka instance, which had a problem reading CRLs, the issue is fixed.
  • RAL: failing to create runtime environment on several worker nodes, b/c of missing environment variable $HOME (GGUS:97122)

2nd September 2013 (Monday)

• Main activity are MC productions
• Plan to start another incremental stripping campaign in mid Sept -> heavy stress for tape systems
• Reminder for T1 sites to implement tape families for the future (see also https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LHCb/NameSpace)
• T0:
  • NTR
• T1:
  • NTR