Pile of Dross

16th February

Built postgres 8.1.3 for SL3, helped OS with dCache PoolManager
Mailed Zeus about 2 zero length files
Did various RGMA requests

15th February

Continued configuring new SL4 postgres server
Built slony 1.5 for postgres 8.1.3
GridPP-Storage phone conf
Shadowed ST doing relocateable WN upgrade to LCG 2.7.0

14th February

Mailed CERN about link - turned out to be CERN configuration issue
Mailed Lancaster about pingable host on their end of UKLight for more monitoring
Installed new SL4 postgres server

13th February

Monday Morning Ops meeting
Tweaked RT’s web ui on replies to not attempt to set Ticket owner to current owner - was interacting with autotaking
Restarted gftp servers - all stuck at max transfers
Noticed UKLight down, mailed Site Networking
Setup multiple io queues on disk servers - began restarting quiet ones - leave rest till powerdown
Configured gftp servers to use gftp queue

10th February

Meeting with ST- reviewed Job plan
Setup autotaking of tickets on reply in RT
Reviewed SFT failures for RC report

9th February

TOAST meeting
Mailed TB about huge number of errors reported in dCache logs from file acces from lcgui02 - looks like files not being closed properly - but still not really resolved.
Added query for grid v non-grid usage to T 1 metrics page on wiki

8th February

266,270 couldn’t access yumit - turned out to be nscd still using ip address of old system - nscd -i hosts got things working again
Helpdesk fell over - rebooted

7th February

Installed new certificates - but left keys encrypted causing gridftp transfers to fail for 4 hours - fixed
Checked GridPP-Storage table’s Tier 1 historical numbers for RAS
Supplied UKLight plots to MJB

6th February

Bulk requested 8 host certificates, provided feedback on experience to JJ and MV
Supplied gridusage plots to ST
Sent around updated TOAST agenda

3th February

Holiday

2nd February

Holiday

1st February

Holiday

31st January

Reported 2 problems with yum it to CC
Talking with PS, decide that RT < -> UKIROC Footprints problem was down to problematical site mail server, configured helpdesk to not use that mail server.

30th January

Monday morning ops meeting
Asked ca people about bulk cert request script
Mailed CC & ST about yumit not displaying packages in host detail
Updated scarf helpdesk aliases to point to HPCSG’s footprints box

27th January

Supplied RAS with Grid vs Non-Grid CPU time totals

26th January

Mailed GC some questions for CHEP

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