CTA operations

Wednesday 11 Feb 2026, 10:30 → 11:45 Europe/Zurich

513/R-068 (CERN)

Julien Leduc (CERN)

This meetings covers EOSCTA service operations at CERN: minutes, community

 

Rota

• We have a rota physical token passed by previous person on rota to the next one
• 20250204-20250211
• Delphi requests from Ulrich...
  • He should be able to find all he needs from eosctapublic ns dumps and stage files himself

Tape infrastructure

Use cases

• Inconsistency in output of cta-admin fr ls --vid and cta-admin fr rm --objectid
• What exactly should be done to close this ticket?
• Features needed in production for 2026 run restart
• Deploying CTA 5.11.16.0-1 on preproduction
  • 5.11.16.0-1 frontend core dumped in repack instance, fixed in deployed 5.11.16.1-1
  • Additional protections on ctaproductionfrontend physics endpoint
    • Required as it takes a single admin command to take a frontend down
• Maintd monitoring tuning
  • Using standard node exporter custom probe

AOBs