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Tuesday 4th April

• Minutes of Monday's operations meeting are available.
• This year's WLCG workshop will be held June 19-22 in Manchester: Agenda. Registration.
• Andrew L: Advance warning: FTS3 deprecation of SOAP (4th April CERN and soon at RAL)
  • people should no longer use the very old glite-transfer-* commands and instead use fts-transfer-* commands
  • when specifying an FTS server use port 8446 rather than 8443.
  • This move presents a problem for non-LHC VOs ... RAL options to postpone?
• Tier-2 reports for Q117 being generated. Please support their timely availability!
• ATLAS monitoring page usage survey. Their quick links page.
• There was an EGI OMB last Thursday | Agenda.
• cvmfs repo for the gridpp VO - status and plans for regional VOs to move
• There is a pre-GDB next Tuesday with an agenda focused on "Collaborating with other communities".
• The GDB next week has the following agenda and an afternoon discussion on containers.

Monday 27th March

• EGI Operations Broadcast - March 2017
• HSF Workshop on Visualization software - starting Tuesday March 28, 16hrs - BE Auditorium (6-2-024)

Tuesday 21st March

• Status of EMI and UMD UI/WN in CVMFS grid.cern.ch ... and planning CentOS7.
• GridPP VO CVMFS discussion. (Naming?).
• Minutes of Monday's WLCG ops meeting are available.
• Reminder of the survey (table) for GridPP38.
• The final T2 reliability and availability reports for February 2017 are available.
• Steve asks about ARGO monitoring for the UK and ARC site greyness. File a ticket.
• Simon points out there is a GridPP DIRAC users list at Imperial connected with support.
• On 16th: Many ATLAS sites were set in a test mode because of "no SE/SURL protocols defined for output". AGIS had the wrong update values.
• VAPOR application v2.2 is now online. Map |Faulty Resources | Figures - CPU & Storage split | API.

Tuesday 14th March

• Ivan: Any experience with adding storage to Fujitsu boxes?
• IPv6 status and plans. WG | Site status in GridPP.
• Steve: ARC Brainstorming Camp Summary.
• The March GDB took place last week at ISGC. Agenda.

Tuesday 4th April

• The next ops coordination meeting is this Thursday 6th April. Agenda. The theme is HTCondor accounting work at PIC.
  • Any T1 or T2 issues to be discussed?

Monday 20th March

• The only update relates to a discussion of the WLCG workshop agenda that took place last week.

Monday 6th March

• There was an ops coordination meeting on Thursday 2nd March - agenda | Minutes.
• The overview talks were: Mid-SLAs | Machine Job Features.
• The main summary items:
  • Lessons learned from ATLAS tape usage tests. Follow up via FTS steering group. Will share experience with other experiments.
  • "Mid SLA" resources. During the next months accumulate experience at CERN (providing such resources) and in experiments (using such resources). Review accumulated experience after a couple of months and decide what we need to do in terms of tagging, accounting, etc...
  • MJF deployment is not as successful as desired. Find help (at least temporary) for deployment campaign concentrating on the LHCb sites. See whether this task would become more important considering outcome of the benchmarking discussion.
  • In order to avoid inconsistencies in the naming of the service types along the WLCG IS chain (GocDB, OIM, SAM, experiment-specific systems like Dirac), there will be agreement between representatives from OSG, EGI and GocDB team and IS evolution task force on the policy for introducing of the new service types.
  • The next WLCG ops coordination meeting will be on 6th April.

Tuesday 4th April A reminder that there is a weekly Tier-1 experiment liaison meeting. Notes from the last meeting here

• Castor SRM updates to version 2.1.16: The LHCb SRMs were successfully updated last Thursday (23rd March). This including upgrading the OS on the systems to SL6. A problem was encountered with the upgrade of the Atlas SRMs on the 28th - with the upgrade being completed the next day. As only two of the four Atlas SRMs were upgraded at first the impact on Atlas was reduced. Since the upgrades, we have had problems with the LHCb SRMs. The remaining SRM upgrades which were scheduled for Thursday (30th) have been postponed until we understand and fix the LHCb problems.
• Ongoing work to replace two (of the four) chillers supplying the A/C for the R89 machine room. The first chiller has been replaced. The second was lifted into position on Thursday (30th) and it is being commissioned.
• Ongoing tests ongoing with some batch jobs for the LHC VOs running in SL6 containers on worker nodes running SL7.
• New capacity hardware has been delivered (both CPU and storage). This is now in the racks being cabled up.
• We have updating our web server. From Wednesday (29th March) www.gridpp.rl.ac.uk points to a new location. References to the old server (lcgwww.gridpp.rl.ac.uk) will no longer work.
• Out of Hours cover for the CEPH ECHO service is being piloted.

Wednesday 15 Feb

• Space tokens! Use them!
• Leafed through interesting topics (technology permitting) from the CS3 workshop

Wednesday 08 Feb

• More on accounting (again)

Wednesday 01 Feb

• Accounting - need to revisit (again); KeyDocs need updating
• Hardware - Simon's got a disk array to test drive

Wednesday 18 Jan

• Continued ZFS discussion
• Updates from the non-LHC VOs, data-wise. Mostly no news, except for DiRAC, Cambridge HPC and Edingburgh EPCC are debugging and testing; LSST expecting to do MC workflows end of Jan.

Tuesday 21 March 2017

• Please fill in the GridPP5 Tier2 plans survey table for GridPP meeting in Brighton.

Tuesday 14 March 2017

• Please fill in the GridPP5 Tier2 plans survey table for GridPP meeting in Brighton.

Tuesday 28 February 2017

• ATLAS jobs now running on Birmingham Vac VMs.
• LHCb is now running its standard DIRAC VMs on Google Compute Engine using GridPP's Vcycle.

Tuesday 21 February 2017

• Some ALICE production jobs running at Birmingham and Oxford in Vac VMs.

Tuesday 14 February 2017

• Vac installed at Birmingham. Running LHCb production jobs. Preparing to run ALICE VMs.
• ALICE VMs switched to using GSI proxies internally rather than host cert/keys.

Monday 16th January

• The discussion topic for next week will be accounting comparisons. Please note Alessandra's comments last week.

Monday 14th November

• Alessandra has written an FAQ to extract numbers from ATLAS and APEL avoiding the SSB.

Monday 26th September

• A problem with the APEL Pub and Sync tests developed last Tuesday and was resolved on Wednesday. This had a temporary impact on the accounting portal.

• APEL status: An issue at Sheffield?

Tue 7th Mar

I want to get rid of following stale docs...

• Ten Easy Network Questions
• GridPP Answers to 10 Easy Network Questions
• SL5 status
• Glasgow Middleware Operations Logbook
• London Tier2 Shares
• 23rd June 2010 Special Topic: NGS Technical Roadmap - Pete Gronbech
• SAM availability: Monthly summary table
• Transfer Tests Birmingham Endpoints
• EVO Tips and Tricks
• BaBar: bbrbsub270

Monday 13th Feb

• Please check the keydocs page. Would all owners please review their pages and prepare a short note on how they will bring things up-to-date in the coming months. This will be discussed at a core ops meeting (poll to be circulated shortly).
• There are several EGI operations document updates out for review. Please make comments to Jeremy by 20th Febraury for inclusion in the UK feedback:
  • - Resource Centre OLA https://documents.egi.eu/document/31
  • - Resource Infrastructure Provider OLA https://documents.egi.eu/document/463
  • - Corporate-level EGI OLA https://documents.egi.eu/document/2752

Monday 30th January

The fusion VO has been removed from GridPP Approved VOs.

Monday 9th January

• Tom put these together:
  • A snapshot of the GridPP UserGuide is now available as an offline document in the Zenodo repository:
  • ...and the v1.0 release of the LaTeX code used to compile it is here.
  • There are some minor differences (mainly hyperlink-related) to the online version [1], which has also had a v1.0 release here.

Tue 22nd Nov

• More on Accounting audit tools

The process for ARC, Toque and VAC is now documented here.

https://github.com/gridpp/audit/wiki

General note

See the worst KeyDocs list for documents needing review now and the names of the responsible people.

Tuesday 21st March

• The last meeting was on 13th March.
• Next meeting is on 10th April.

Monday 13th February

• There was an ops meeting on 13th February. Agenda
  • frontier-squid-3 in UMD 4.4.0 - changes to config
  • Assess IPv6 readiness:
    • Resource Centres: assess the IPv6 readiness of the site infrastructure (real machines, cloud managers)
    • NGIs/ROCs please start discussing with sites and provide suggestions for the overall plan
  • Decommissioning of dCache 2.10
  • Discussed stale ARGO results; being discussed with Product Teams.

Monday 16th January

• There was an ops meeting on 9th January. Agenda.

Monday 7th November

• There was an EGI Ops meeting today: agenda

• UMD 3.14.5 released today
  • VOMS 3.5.0, which makes RFC proxies the default for voms-proxy-init

• UMD 4.3.0 'October' release, release candidate ready, to be released by end of this week, including:
  • ARC, GFAL2, XROOT, Davix, dCache, ARGUS, Gridsite, edg-mkgrid, umd-release for CentOS7

• please start using UMD4/SL6 or UMD4/CentOS7 instead of UMD3/SL6 & please don't use anymore EMI3
  • (think there may be a campaign around this soon)

• Downtimes due to the vulnerability CVE-2016-5195: request an A/R recomputation
  • All the resource centres that were affected by the vulnerability CVE-2016-5195 and that declared a downtime between 2016-10-20 16:00 UTC and 2016-10-31 18:00 UTC are invited to request a recomputation of A/R figures for the days in which the downtime was ongoing.

• ARGO proposal to use GOCDB as the only source of topology information
  • https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3092/contribution/2/material/0/0.pdf

• VAPOR 2.1 released in September, it replaces GSTAT
  • each NGI should review the information provided by their sites and let us know any inconsistency: http://operations-portal.egi.eu/vapor/resources/GL2ResSummary

• Next meeting: Dec 5th, 2016 meeting calendar

Monday 13th Febraury

• This category is pretty much inactive. Are there any topics under "monitoring" that anyone wants reported at this ops meeting? If not we will remove this section from the regular updates area of the bulletin and just leave the main links.

Tuesday 1st December

• Sites are kindly invited to update the monitoring status page at https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Site_monitoring_status

Tuesday 16th June

• F Melaccio & D Crooks decided to add a FAQs section devoted to common monitoring issues under the monitoring page.
• Feedback welcome.

20th March

• Another quiet week. One ticket to Oxford and a new availablility ticket to Glasgow. Other than that, most of the tickets have been there for a couple of weeks.

27th February

• Forwarded two tickets (RALPP and ECDF) to the monitoring team, as this looks like more ARC shenanigans.
• There's also a bunch of low availability tickets which clog up the system.

Tuesday 21st February

• Very quiet!
• Rota responses enable planning through to May.

Monday 16th January

• Rota to be updated this week. Gordon is on shift this week.

Monday 13th February

• Please can we hear something from Raul and Sam (or others contributing to the middleware readiness work) about news in this area at the ops meeting next week? Thank you.
• Does anyone want specific questions in this area tackled in a roundtable discussion?

Tuesday 7th December

• Raul reports: validation of site BDII on Centos 7 done.

Tuesday 15th September

• UMD 3.13.3 is available.

Tuesday 12th May

• MW Readiness WG meeting Wed May 6th at 4pm. Attended by Raul, Matt, Sam and Jeremy.

References

• Staged Rollout pages (now separated into EMI1 & 2), and the page listing the deployed versions is extractable from the bdii, so they should all be reasonably up-to-date:
• http://www.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/~dbauer/grid/staged_rollout.html
• http://www.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/~dbauer/grid/staged_rollout_emi2.html
• http://www.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/~dbauer/grid/state_of_the_nation.html

Tuesday 4th April

• No advisories or incidents to report
• Last week's WISE workshop [1], not new but ...
  • For developers - SWAMP software assurance toolset [2]
  • For operations - Incident response in the Federated identity world - Sirtfi [3]
• UK Security Team meeting this afternoon.

Tuesday 28th March

• The following advisories were issued under [TLP:AMBER], check the advisory for details and if you might be affected -
  • 1 High risk vulnerability advisory issued by EGI SVG potentially affecting a number of services.
  • 1 Critical risk vulnerability advisory issued by EGI SVG affecting 1 service.
  • 1 Security Incident reported via the EGI CSIRT, not in the UK.
• Updated IGTF distribution 1.82 available - updated CA root certificates [4]
• WISE - Security for collaborating infrastructures meeting this week [5]

Tuesday 21st March

• One advisory to follow-up.

- This includes notifying of (inter)national services that will have an outage in the coming weeks or will be impacted by work elsewhere. (Cross-check the Tier-1 update).

Monday 6th March

• Last week it was noted that some ATLAS RIPE probes (the USB ones) have had hardware errors. If you need a replacement and RIPE are slow to respond then contact Jeremy.
• Is anyone running any tests with their RIPE probe?

Tuesday 14th February

• The development dashboard is now operational again. However the production dashboard is not currently displaying latency results (OSG ticket submitted).
• Birmingham pS host had lost its entire network connection and both Lancaster's hosts their IPv6 connection. Durham results are incomplete, GGUS ticket submitted (#126587).

Tuesday 25th October

• Duncan has recreated the UK perfSONAR mesh. Link here!

Monday 3rd April 2017, 14.30 BST
30 UK tickets this month

SUSSEX
122772 (11/7/16)
Atlas webdav/xroot ticket. Any luck, or would you like a hand at GridPP this week? On hold (26/1)

125503 (9/12/16)
Sno+ ticket about file access problems due to a wrong SE name in the LFC. Any word on this too? I think a plan was put in place. In progress (30/1)

RALPP
126902 (2/3)
CMS ticket, I got a bit lost trying to follow it but a moot point as CMS indicate it can be closed. In progress (3/4)

BRISTOL
126864 (28/2)
Request to enable LZ, Daniela has provided the requested information. In progress (31/3) Update - solved

126865 (28/2)
A CMS ticket from Daniela, concerning ipv6 transfer failures to/from Bristol. Things were looking better, although there is an outstanding question that Winnie highlighted about the CERN setup that perhaps Duncan or someone could answer? In progress (31/3)

BIRMINGHAM
127319 (27/3)
A low-availability ticket. Whilst these are boring it needs to be tended (i.e. put In Progress or On Hold). Assigned (27/3) In progress - Mark cites a misbehaving DHCP server causing hassle.

GLASGOW
124052 (25/9)
LHCB ticket concerning incorrect job publishing, to be fixed in the next generation of ARC CEs deployed at Glasgow. Sadly the time has come for another update, even if it's a totally dry one. On Hold (31/1)

127160 (16/3)
An availability ticket. Nothing more to say then that. On hold (16/3)

SHEFFIELD
127210 (19/3)
Atlas transfer timeout failures. After coming out of downtime failures persist. Perhaps a similar problem to what we saw at Lancaster last week? As per the post to the storage list those issues were apparently soothed by increasing the DPM threads. In progress (3/4)

MANCHESTER
127464 (3/4)
A very fresh atlas deletion error ticket. In progress (3/4)

127384 (29/3)
LSST authorisation failure ticket. Alessandra has tracked down hopefully all the config errors that crept in during the move from svn to git. Hopefully this is nearly sorted. In progress (31/3)

LIVERPOOL
124819 (3/11/16)
AFS ticket. After the firewall ports were opened the submitter provided some feedback, but no news back from the site. Perhaps just put this ticket out of its misery (like what will soonish happen for AFS itself)? In progress (13/2)

127353 (28/3)
Steve bravely rolled out a small Centos7 test cluster and Sno+ job accidentally landed on it - they kept it that way to test things out but sadly it looks like their tests failed and have asked for their jobs to not land on the test cluster anymore. In progress (2/4)

126956 (6/3)
Availability ticket due to the annoying ARC monitoring issues. On hold (27/3)

QMUL
127352 (28/3)
Icecube jobs failing on a QM GPU node - the likely cause has been spotted (old AMD libs sitting on the system with a new nvidia card in it) but it might be a little while till this is fixed. Dan has proposed using this as an opportunity to roll out a Centos7 test node which Icecube were okay with. In progress (31/3)

127144 (15/3)
LHCB saw problems with ce04, which Dan reckons were caused by load and has asked if there are still problems. Waiting for reply (31/3)

126261 (30/1)
A biomed ticket for ce04, although they rechecked if this was still a problem during the aforementioned load problems. There seems to be other errors too though- maybe related to the biomed infrastructure? In progress (31/3)

126650 (15/2)
cern@school errors due to a misconfig in the VO usernames (slurm only does lowercase usernames!). Dan has rolled out the new users and Daniela has rolled out some tests jobs. In progress (31/3)

127445 (1/4)
Another biomed submission error ticket, I'm not sure if this is a duplicate of 126261. It looks like a similar error (on ce5 this time though). Assigned (1/4)

BRUNEL
127117 (13/3)
A request from CMS to upgrade the spacemon client. Raul was on it. Any luck with this? Although I've just remembered that Raul is in a different hemisphere so that question might fall on a deaf inbox. In progress (14/3)

127126 (14/3)
Availability ticket, again by the looks of it due to the ARC monitoring playing up. On hold (27/3)

TIER 1
127251 (21/3)
A ticket from an atlas user concerning transfers into castor have trouble and some errors the user is seeing. John has requested more information as the files themselves seem present and correct, but someone who has some idea as to what the error messages listed by the submitter mean would be handy. Waiting for reply (27/3)

127449 (2/4)
One of the RAL ARCs wasn't working well for LHCB - but the problems appear to have passed and the ticket can be closed now. In progress (3/4)

126905 (2/3)
CVMFS commissioning for the SOLID experiment. With effort from Daniela and Catalin things all look to be working for solid now with /cvmfs/solidexperiment.egi.eu exported nicely and uploadable to by the VO. Looks like another ticket can be closed. Waiting for reply (29/3)

127388 (29/3)
LHCB troubles accessing some files at RAL. Have these issues passed with the other castor problems from the weekend? In progress (3/4)

127240 (21/3)
CMS request to run staging tests in prep for Run 2. There was a request from CMS for access to some monitoring plots, I assume for the transfer rates between buffers, but it wasn't very clear. In progress (27/3)

126184 (26/1)
Atlas request for site monitoring input. Alessandra went over this in last week's atlas uk meeting. It's not too late to have your say in the google docs. In progress (7/2)

124876 (7/11)
ROD ticket concerning tests to the RAL echo instance. Alastair's counter ticket (ticket 125026) hasn't had an update since last year - I think it needs a kick. On Hold (1/1)

117683 (18/11/15)
Castor Glue 2 publishing. Rob reported some good progress. On Hold (2/3)

NGI
126808 (24/2)
WMS usage ticket - mainly involving Imperial and the Tier 1. There was some worry from Daniela regarding the closure of old WMS tickets due to it being "no longer supported", but there were reassurances that security bugs would be fixed. Are you feeling reassured? In progress (20/3)

29th November 2016

LSST monitoring is available through vo-nagios

https://vo-nagios.physics.ox.ac.uk/nagios/cgi-bin/status.cgi?servicegroup=lsst&style=detail

13th September 2016

• New wiki page has been created for ARGO Nagios https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/ARGO_Nagios_Monitoring. I will add some more information to it later.
• Removed old wiki links about sam nagios from gridpp wiki page.
• VO nagios still exist and working. I have opened a ticket to explore ARGO VO Nagios, https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=123604

• Impact
  • Citation policy (https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/acknowledging.html)

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Atlas S&C week 2-6 Feb 2015

Production

• Prodsys-2 in production since Dec 1st

• Deployment has not been transparent , many issued has been solved, the grid is filled again

• MC15 is expected to start soon, waiting for physics validations, evgen testing is underway and close to finalised.. Simulation expected to be broadly similar to MC14, no blockers expected.

Rucio

• Rucio in production since Dec 1st and is ready for LHC RUN-2. Some fields need improvements, including transfer and deletion agents, documentation and monitoring.

• Rucio dumps available.

• Dark data cleaning

• files declaration . Only Only DDM ops can issue lost files declaration for now, cloud support needs to fill a ticket.

• Webdav panda functional tests with Hammercloud are ongoing

Monitoring

• Main page

• DDM Accounting

• space

• Deletion

ASAP

• ASAP (ATLAS Site Availability Performance) in place. Every 3 months the T2s sites performing BELOW 80% are reported to the International Computing Board.

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