General updates
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Monday 20th November
- ATLAS PanDA Queue consolidation - UCORE. The VAC question....
- GRIDPP2: Deployment and support of SRM and local storage management
Monday 13th November
- WLCG T2 availability & reliability for October 2017
Monday 6th November
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WLCG Operations Coordination - AgendasWiki Page
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Tuesday 7th November
- The WLCG ops coordination meeting last week (agenda | minutes had as highlights the topics:
- Security Operations Center WG Workshop/Hackathon
- Review of EL7 migration plans
- Providing reliable storage: presentation by BNL
Monday 23rd October
- The next WLCG ops coordination meeting will be on 2nd November.
Tuesday 10th October
- There was an ops coordination meeting last Thursday 5th October: Agenda | Minutes.
- There is one action for us to follow-up: "Collect plans from sites to move to EL7". We could make use of the Batch Systems table.
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Tier-1 - Status Page
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Tuesday 21st October
A reminder that there is a weekly Tier-1 experiment liaison meeting. Notes from the last meeting here
- Re-distribution of data in Echo onto the 2015 capacity hardware is now complete. There are now 8PBytes of usable space in Echo. However, there is some data re-balancing to be done before upping the quotas so the VOs can make use of the extra space.
- Castor was be unavailable for a few hours on Tuesday 14th Nov for patching of the nodes.
- The LHCb Castor SRMs were successfully updated on Wednesday 15th Nov. This new version (2.1.16-18) respects the user-specified bringOnline timeout rather than ignoring it and defaulting to 4 hours. It is planned to upgrade the other SRMs on Tuesday 5th December.
- Both Production and Test FTS services have IPv6 enabled (i.e. are now dual-stack).
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Storage & Data Management - Agendas/Minutes
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Wed 15 Nov
- More xcache progress at some sites; less at others who may be blocking on dependencies or be busy with Other Things(tm)
- Some interest in following the non-X.509 authentication/authorisation
Wed 08 Nov
- Not (very) modest at all progress on xcache testing... from Chris at RALPP
Wed 01 Nov
- (very) modest progress on xcache testing...
- Except that RALPP has it fully working for dCache - hope to get full report next week
Tuesday 3rd October
- Looking for small DPM ATLAS site to possibly test xrootd caching
- Tracking upgrade of SEs to new what will be new baseline versions. (dCache sites updated; 6/14 DPM up-to-date)
- Alastair D. to give T2 site storage evolution talk 4/10/17 at gridpp-storage meeting
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Tier-2 Evolution - GridPP JIRA
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Tuesday 14 Nov
- Single processor LHCb stoppable Monte Carlo VMs running in a mixture with fixed length 8 processor ATLAS VMs and single processor GridPP VMs. Please get in touch if you are running Vac and want to try this.
Tuesday 3 Oct
- Productions tests of Vac 03.00pre at Manchester.
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Accounting - UK Grid Metrics HEPSPEC06 Atlas Dashboard HS06
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Tuesday 24th Oct
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.
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Documentation - KeyDocs
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Tuesday 14th Nov 2017
A significant change to VOMS records has been detected, and this may result in the release of a new Approved VOs document (to be announced). The change results from the apparent sudden retirement of all CNAF voms servers, which may or may not be "real". I'll check (sjones). The change concerns three VOs: ipv6.hepix.org, planck and enmr.eu. Sites supporting those VOs should check TB_SUPPORT over coming days to see if the changes are real.
Tuesday 26th Sept 2017
- Safari on macOS autogenerated client certificates fix put into production last week.
Tuesday 19th Sept 2017
- Bug in Safari on macOS causes random Apple generated client cert to be presented to www.gridpp.ac.uk using a CA we don't know about. The connection is then rejected by Apache. Other browsers ok since we request but do not require that they supply a certificate. Workaround produced by (a) installing the Apple CA root and intermediary CA and (b) whitelisting UK e-Science DNs (+ CERN? Others?) in the HTTPS Wiki plugin. Tested but not yet in production.
Tuesday 5th Sept 2017
New Approved VO. SKA European regional data centre, skatelescope.eu
https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs
This VO is ramping up and has requested support. Andrew McNab is the contact person for GridPP.
General note
See the worst KeyDocs list for documents needing review now and the names of the responsible people.
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Interoperation - EGI ops agendas Indico schedule
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Monday 9th October
- MW
- UMD 4.6 in November
- UI, CREAM, ARGUS
- If not before in 4.5.1
- UMD Preview update on 22/9
- not rooted 4.7.0 has a bug, wait for update
- CREAM version in Preview, please test if applicable (leading to release as noted above)
- Ops
- cASO (OpenStack Accounting extractor) update: 100%IT done (GGUS ticket 130665)
- A/R nothing to report
- Computation Power
- Sites check data by end of the month
- EMI WMS
- mice noted as being enabled on DIRAC
- IPv6 Readiness
- Would be useful for us to provide a report
- webdav probes
- If you're advertising a webdav endpoint, make sure it's in the GOC DB
- Storage accounting deployment
- Enable by 30th October; tickets to follow. Note that per broadcast new data currently not showing, please ticket on errors in logs only
Tuesday 29th August
- There was an EGI Ops meeting last Monday. Agenda
- UMD 4.5 is out with CentOS 7 WN package (see broadcast)
- NGI_UK QoS ticket mentioned in agenda but not in meeting QoS ticket
- Proposal: WMS will be removed from production starting from 1st January 2018
- NGIs/ROCs please start discussing with sites and provide suggestions for the overall plan for IPv6
- WebDAV reporting: The Operations Centres are asked to verify with their sites if the webdav protocol is really (intentional) enabled on their storage elements (if not, the information should be removed from the BDII), and report to EGI Operations
- Next meeting 11th September https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3352/
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Monitoring - Links MyWLCG
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Tuesday 4th July
- There were a number of useful links provided in the monitoring talks at the WLCG workshop in Manchester - especially those in the Wednesday sessions.
Monday 13th February
- 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
Tuesday 16th June
- F Melaccio & D Crooks decided to add a FAQs section devoted to common monitoring issues under the monitoring page.
- Feedback welcome.
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On-duty - Dashboard ROD rota
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Monday 23rd October
- Generally quiet. RHUL affected by some transient issues. ECDF triggered low availability alarm a few weeks ago and still has time to go before it clears.
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Rollout Status WLCG Baseline
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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
Tuesday 12th May
- MW Readiness WG meeting Wed May 6th at 4pm. Attended by Raul, Matt, Sam and Jeremy.
References
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Security - Incident Procedure Policies Rota
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Monday 30th October
- EGI SVG ALERT [TLP:WHITE] Up to 'CRITICAL' risk, kernel exploit CVE-2017-7184 and others [EGI-SVG-CVE-2017-7184]
- Upcoming meetings
- Details and registration for SOC WG Workshop in December: Advert Indico
Monday 23rd October
Tuesday 10th October
Tuesday 3rd October
- EGI SVG ADVISORY [TLP:WHITE] 'HIGH' risk Linux kernel local root vulnerability CVE-2017-1000253
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Services - PerfSonar production dashboard |PerfSonar development dashboard | GridPP VOMS
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- 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 23rd October
- The LHCOPN/ONE meeting took place last week at KEK, co-hosted with the HEPiX Fall meeting.
- You can find a short report of the meeting here.
- All the slides presented are available in the agenda.
Tuesday 4th July
- Pete C is preparing another networking forward look document. Note that figures presented in the Manchester workshop were for a Tier-2 (not always a single site).
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- Duncan has recreated the UK perfSONAR mesh. Link here!
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