Action! Host-Certificate-wrong alarms on Castor-2 diskservers

Carlos C calls about Host-Certificate-wrong alarms that the operators received this afternoon. This is the first time ever that these alarms fire...

This alarm is generated on Castor diskservers when the host certificate will expire in less than 2 weeks. This is a 'last resort', as the service manager has already been contacted by other means well before. In this case, the service manager has not acted (it's Christmas time!), and the expiry data of January 18 is coming close :)

Thanks to our new host-certificate-manager script (integrated in PrepareInstall) it is simple to fix this:

PrepareInstall --noks --noaims --hostcert lxfsra{060{3,4,5},080{1,2,3,6,7,8}}
wash root@lxfsra060\[3,4,5],lxfsra080\[1-3,6-8] ccm-fetch \; ncm-ncd --co sindes

Even though the alarm was merely a warning, there has been a nasty side-effect; the nodes are disabled by the CastorFilesystemConfiguration.pl cronjob running every ten minutes on the rmmaster nodes. High time to get rid of this cronjob...