Pile of Dross

For somewhat dumb reasons (not mine – I’m the smug smartarse who pointed out failing of logic, but anyway) I now have a Gizmo account – apparently our site networking folk prefer(allow) it to Skype. And it integrates with Adium, my current IM client, as a bonus.

Chuck me an e-mail if you want contact details.

7th March

T1 – multiple T2 transfer, GS not around – only IC and QMUL doing transfers – initiated transfers to OX, GLA, BHAM and MAN myself at 10am, stopped at noon
ESC-Services Network Operations meeting

6th March

Monday Morning Ops Meeting
SC phone conference

3rd March

RC report
Tried to get replication status information out of slony

2nd March

T1 to multiple T2 transfer tests – attempting to diagnose network fault previously seen

1st March

GridPP-Storage phone conference
SC phone conference

28th February

T1 to multiple T2 Transfer tests, started at 10am asked to stop by Site Networking at 2:50pm due to affecting other site traffic
Asked DK about APEL publishing- RAS had noticed we’d stopped publishing
Attended meeting about Lustre
Did some lingering rpm updates from run by ST

27th February

Monday Morning Operations Meeting
Noted RAL-LCG2 failing SFT due to CA certificate update, asked LCG-ROLLOUT when new release via LCG expected – no reply
Mailed GS about files to be use in transfer test- replicated the intended file over more disk servers. Debugged some transfers failing due to permission problems – permision changer script hadn’t started back aup again after restart
Mailed person who had sent e-mail about OPN to CERN outage asking about current status – still down

24th February

Applied various outstanding updates to systems
RC Report with ST

23rd February

Found 2 CMS transfers, to same pool, through same gridftp server at FNAL at same time -1 failed – 1 succeeded, reported these to TB, who replied telling me about problems with the stager at FNAL.

22nd February

GridPP-Storage phone conference

21st February

Debugging CMS transfers