AGLT2 is running smoothly.

Sometime next week we will take a short SE outage to upgrade dCache, and to finish off the H330 firmware updates.  This is in response to the Dell announcement that firmware prior to 25.5.0.0019 could potentially corrupt the controlled disks.  Two dCache pool servers at both sites, R730xd from the most recent Dell purchases, are impacted and need to be updated.  All WN updates have been completed. 

The dCache update that will simultaneously take place will update from our current 2.13.50 to the 2.16 Golden Release.  There is a problem with the 2.13 release in that certain certificates from RU and CA are not supported prior to 2.13.52, the last of the 2.13 release series.

All 2016 funds are spent out.  Five new R630 are in production at MSU, and of 4 N2048 switches purchased there, one is in full production, with the remaining 3 set to take the load off the last of the PC6248 at MSU towards the end of February when Mike Nila returns from 2 weeks at CERN.  13 R630 were purchased at UM.  Most cabling is in place for these, and the 10Gb network switch (S4048-ON) is received but not yet configured.  We hope to bring these into production next week.  The single N2048 purchased for UM is in production with 18 32-core WN attached in a bonded 2x1Gb configuration.  Kibana plots of stage-in rates shows a clear improvement for these machines over the rate when attached to the PC6248.

With all of the N2048 in place, the PC6248 at AGLT2 will no longer be in use for public NIC connections.

Sometime in the next few weeks we will be upgrading our gatekeepers to the most recent OSG release, 3.3.20 from our current 3.3.18.  This should bring into play several HTCondor-CE reporting updates that will soon be required.

The list of affected controllers includes the following RAID controllers: H330, H730, H730P, H830, SD33-2S, SD33-2D