General updates
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Monday 5th February
- Chris B: IPv6 and Data Transfer Zones.
- Steve’s & Duncan’s view on GridPP IPv6 enablement
- Sites are now being ticketed in respect of Meltdown/Spectre. EGI overview page has been updated.
- EGI
- NGIs argus servers to update
- webdav probes in the ARGO_MON_OPERATORS monitoring profile
- UMD 4.6.0 regular release
Tuesday 30th January
- WLCG Monday operations meeting minutes are available.
- John/Liverpool: WAN woes.
- Kashif: DPM upgrade and migration to CS7. Are there any summary pages?
- Ivan: CPU comparisons/benchmarks - Xeon 6126, Xeon 6130, Xeon E5-2683v4, EPYC 7501. Is this page up-to-date for your site?
- Tom/Catalin investigating "confidential" CVFMS software repository on the RAL Stratum 0.
Monday 22nd January
- There is a GDB on 10th January. Agenda.
- The CHEP2018 abstract submissions deadline has been extended until January 15 2018.
- VAC wide cert issue.
- Vulnerability discussions.
- CMS requirement for Singularity on worker nodes by March 2018. CMS plans to include the SAM Singularity probe in the critical profile in March.
- Matt: xrdcp permission denied errors with a CA flavour.
- WLCG-HSF Naples Workshop - Monday 26 March at 9am to Thursday 29 March at 12 noon.
- 8th Jan Cloud workshop details.
- EGI IGTF CA update, version 1.89-1
- SoLid experiment recently started data taking. More sites to provide CPU would be welcomed. VO is in portal.
- There will be a February pre-GDB 2nd Febraury on HPC utilisation and another on 13th February on GPU Utilisation. The GDB is on 14th.
- There is a proposal for a new HEPiX WG on Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) and Software Defined Networks (SDN). It will be more research oriented and aims to bring together people interested in networking R&D for HEP.
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WLCG Operations Coordination - AgendasWiki Page
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Monday 29th January
- The majority of T1 sites and VOs confirmed that they do use SAM tests from the critical profiles and regularly check A/R reports.
Suggestions for improvements:
- Propose policy for accepting A/R recalculation requests. The draft should be reviewed at the next meeting.
- VO should have flexibility in the definition of the critical profile. Though the impact of the changes in the critical profile should be carefully tested by the VO and should be announced in advance to the sites, no approval of the MB is required.
- Make tests as close as possible to the real production flow. ATLAS is planning some work in this direction.
- The proposal to include real production flows in the critical profile was not supported.
- Sites which do have local fabric monitoring like Nagios for example, are recommended to use an API to import test results into the local fabric monitoring. **This would help to avoid test failures staying unnoticed for months.
- Transparent navigation from the SAM UI to the log files is required to facilitate test failure debugging. This feature has to be preserved in the new SAM UI being developed by the monitoring team.
Tuesday 23rd January
- There was a WLCG ops coordination meeting on 18th January.
- Theere was a theme of SAM tests and their use in WLCG reporting. The short summary is that there is overwhelming support for use of SAM tests for operational benefits but there is often a gap between the SAM reports and experiment perceptions of site performance. One major concern was the effort required to recompute results given the number of requests where sites are trying to show even small improvements in their performance to their management/funders. A more useful measure would include a reference to job accounting. A proposal will be made to the MB. GridPP may make a statement to the WLCG MB regarding our management use.
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Tier-1 - Status Page
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Tuesday 6th February
Report from the last Tier1 - Experiments Liaison Meeting at on 31st January is here.
- There were problems with the Atlas Castor instance. The Atlas stager database became fragmented and one of its tables was rebuilt overnight 23/24 Jan. Since then the Atlas Castor instance has operated normally.
- There was a problem with the system that runs the tape library control software overnight Wed/Thu (24/25 Jan). Staff were called late Wednesday evening but were unable to get the system up then. Overnight we were unable to mount tapes - effectively blocking tape access (although writes to the disk buffers in front of tape, plus reads of any data in those buffers, carried on). The fault on the server was resolved Thursday morning and normal tape service resumed.
- There is a problem on one of the BMS (Building Management System) in the R89 machine room that has had an intermittent fault. Work is ongoing to look at how to replace the faulty board in the system while ensuring the cooling carries on OK.
- The upgrade of Echo to the next version of CEPH ("Luminous") was completed during the week leading up to 26th Jan.
- ALICE and LHCb VOBOXes are now dual stack IPv4/6.
- The Hyper-K VO has been enabled on the batch farm.
- Atlas have moved their FTS transfers from our "test" FTS service to the Production one. This change was made at our request and effectively consolidates us with a single production FTS service.
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Storage & Data Management - Agendas/Minutes
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Wed 06 Dec
- Another success story - CERN@School running machine learning at QMUL
- Technical events coming up - hepsysman and cloud workshop at Crick. We ought to do something Useful or Interesting.
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
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Tier-2 Evolution - GridPP JIRA
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Tuesday 12 Dec
- Vcycle updated for Glance API 2.0 and to support Vacuum Pipe VM definitions.
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.
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Accounting - UK Grid Metrics HEPSPEC06 Atlas Dashboard HS06
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Tuesday 30th January
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 22nd Jan 2018
CHANGE TO APPROVED VOs
A VO, solidexperiment.org, has been included in the GridPP Approved VOs document. Sites are requested to support this experiment, resources permitting.
https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs#Approved_Local_VOs
- In the Ops Portal, LHCb mentions a new cvmfs mount, /cvmfs/lhcb-condb.cern.ch
- A voms server for magic, voms02.pic.es, has an updated DN.
Tuesday 9th Jan 2018
Changes to Approved VOs.
a) VOMS servers for planck, ipv6.hepix.org and enmr are now restored to as they were before the flooding at CNAF.
b) The DN of a VOMS server for magic has changed.
https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs
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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Tuesday 30th January
Tuesday 23rd January
- There was an EGI Operations Meeting last Monday: Agenda
- Middleware
- Long list of updates in UMD 4.6
- UMD3 deprecation - start using UMD4 as soon as possible
- Products missing, let them know - this is a heads up
- Operations
- New weights in A/R
- "Several sites are still missing the necessary information for computing the weights: check on VAPOR the values published by your sites in order to properly publishing in the GLUE2 schema the number of logical CPUs and the Hep-Spec06 benchmark."
- http://operations-portal.egi.eu/vapor/resources/GL2ResSummary
- IPv6
- https://wiki.egi.eu/w/index.php?title=IPV6_Assessment
- webdav probes in production
- "During the January OMB we are going to discuss the inclusion of the probes in the operators and in the critical profile" [may be superceded]
- Storage accounting deployment
- "IMPORTANT: be sure to have installed the star-accounting.py script v1.0.4"
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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 29th January
- There were a couple of alarms which showed up on the dashboard, but not on the corresponding nagios.
- DB got fed up with Imperial failing the job-cancel test for CREAM -- the CE is just busy and returns the cancelled state about 30 s after the test 'fails' -- so she filed a ticket questioning the usefulness of the test: https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=133004.
Monday 20th November
- Generally quiet. There are three outstanding tickets: low availability at Birmingham, one at Liverpool which might just have gone green, and out-of-date IGTF CAs at Sheffield.
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Security - Incident Procedure Policies Rota
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Tuesday 30th January 2018
The security team would to address the on-going Meltdown/Spectre saga.
Tuesday 23rd January 2018
On-going Meltdown/Spectre - dominated work so far this year.
EGI CSIRT F2F next week at CERN.
Plan to improve/update some of the GridPP security wiki pages in coming weeks.
Tuesday 12th December
Tuesday 5th December
Nothing to report concerning the UK.
DI4R conference was last week, https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3455/
Plans for integration/co-operation between various projects security teams during EOSC (European Open Science Cloud) project presented
https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3455/session/12/contribution/77
- GGUS tickets and the trust anchor. Who to ticket result?
Tuesday 28th November
- Nothing new to report (tracking update from last week - remember you can check your site!)
Tuesday 21st November
A few sites have showed up in pakiti with high risk vulnerabilities. If you haven't been prodded about this already then expect an email from someone in the security team soon.
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
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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 22nd January
Monday 20th November
- perfSONAR: No news.
- GridPP DIRAC: DPM & xrootd version. Upgrade due 16th November.
- RIPE ATLAS probes: Status & tests TBC
- The next LHCOPN/LHCONE meeting will be at RAL 6-7th March 2018. The UK position on LHCONE is being reviewed. RAL T1 will (likely) connect via the LHCOPN in the coming months. T2s watch this space!
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).
here
- Duncan has recreated the UK perfSONAR mesh. Link here!
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Tools - MyEGI Nagios
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Monday 20th November
Tuesday 18th July
- Following our ops discussion last week, Steve will focus his tests on supporting the GridPP DIRAC area and decommission the other tests.
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VOs - GridPP VOMS VO IDs Approved VO table
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Monday 20th November
- Tom Whyntie has requested (and been granted) access to the GridPP VO to get some pipelines working for large-scale processing and analysis of MRI scans associated with the UK Biobank project.
- All VOs in the incubation page being prompted for updates by the end of November (required input for OC documents).
- QMUL (Steve L) is following up on the biomed MoU. GridPP want to be cited in research papers for the support our resources/sites provide.
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