Speaker
Jan van ELDIK
(CERN)
Description
This paper presents work, both completed and planned, for streamlining the
deployment, operation and re-tasking of Castor2 instances. We present a summary of
what has recently been done to reduce the human intervention necessary for bringing
systems into operation; including the automation of Grid host certificate requests
and deployment in conjunction with the CERN Trusted CA and automated configuration
using Quattor.
We provide an overview of the software developed for monitoring operations so that
various types of problem are quickly identified and remedied. Many of these tasks
have been automated in a portable manner so that they can be used by other sites
running Castor.
To aid in taking diskservers out of production, for hardware interventions or to
retask the machine to another instance, we present the development of a program which
can take machines out of production while ensuring that data is reliably replicated.
Summary
Castor, castorReconcile, disknodeShutdown, operations management
