Difference between revisions of "Operations Bulletin Latest"

Tuesday 15th January

• Please could everyone think about their WLCG (and beyond) engagements and commitments and put anything of note in the wiki table here.
• There was an EGI ops meeting on Monday 14th - Agenda.
• There will be an EGI OMB this Thursday - Agenda.
• There is a GDB on Wednesday 16th January. Agenda.
• An overview of the WLCG ops meeting from yesterday can be found here.

Monday 17th December

• Minutes of the weekly ops meeting are available.

Monday 3rd December

• DPM workshop 2019 - LHEP (Bern). 13-14 June 2019.
• Weekly WLCG ops meeting minutes.
• CERN announcement yesterday: "After an outstanding performance, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the accelerator complex and the experiments are now stopping for two years for major improvements and upgrading."
• Next Tuesday there is a pre-GDB of the Authorization Working Group. Agenda.
• Wednesday is the December GDB. Agenda.
• UMD 4.8.0 was released on November 29th November.
• Friday's GridPP technical meeting was on Testing and Deployment of HTCondor CEs.
• Minutes from the November EGI OMB are now available.
• Vip asked about: Preventing a VO running on a Worker Node

Monday 26th November

• Winnie: a question about Site-BDII issues leads to long Rollout exchange. The short summary is.... [insert ops meeting comments]. Oh and LF also added "Hanging Top BDIIs" to the discussion and the EGI update.
• Monday's ops minutes are available. Main item to note is the EGI update.
• Simon asks: AMD worker nodes? Is there a wider discussion to be had on hardware purchasing at this time?
• EGI Trust Anchor release 1.95-1 (see https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI_IGTF_Release for more details).

Monday 10th December

• WLCG ops coordination meeting held Thursday 6th. minutes.
  • IPv6 deployment update
  • CentOS / CC7 timelines for lxbatch and lxplus
  • Container WG update
  • CREAM CE end of support is Dec 2020
• Next meeting 7th February 2019.

Tuesday 4th December

• The next WLCG ops coordination meeting is this Thursday 6th. Agenda | [ https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGOpsMinutes181206 Minutes]. The focus will be on IPv6 status - so please ensure your site information is up-to-date.

Tuesday 30th October

• The ops meeting is shifting to the 8th November.

Tuesday 16th October

• There was an ops coordination meeting on 11th October: Agenda/slides | Minutes.
• Next meeting is on 1st November.

Monday 8th October

• There will be an Ops Coordination meeting this Thursday 12th: Agenda.

Monday 17th September

• There was a WLCG ops coordination meeting last Thursday. The minutes are now available and the presentations uploaded to this agenda page.
• Highlights:
  • A report on EOS incidents, improvements and plans
  • DPM Storage Resource Reporting deployment TF introduction
  • CMS CRIC is deployed in production
  • Sites should upgrade perfSONAR to v4.1 on CentOS 7
  • The next meeting is planned for 11th October.

Tue 14th January Report for the Experiments Liaison Report (14/01/2019) is here.

• With the minor exceptions below, it's still (suspiciously!), calm and peaceful at the Tier-1. Very much business as usual.
• Ongoing issues with ARC CEs. Not causing significant operational issues yet. We have identified a large number of LHCb MCFastSimulation jobs that are probably creating the load on the system.
• On Wednesday 9th January an Echo storage node started rebooting itself and was removed from the cluster. No loss of availability to the cluster. Engineer to attend site to fix.

Wed 05 Dec

• Rucio update - towards a recommended data management thing?
• IRIS needs a data lake? or distributed filesystem?

Wed 28 Nov

• Round table update!

Wed 21 Nov

• DPM sites: We are now not recommending not upgrading to DOME! unless you're using YAIM
• More operational issues on IPv6 routed networks

Wed 14 Nov

• Interesting operational issue switching ATLAS from SRM to xroot
• Do we have a "data management solution" and if so, what does it look like?

Wed 07 Nov

• More "data lake" and documentation
• Progress with caching but need to watch access patterns

Monday 14th January

• Separate problems with LHCb and ATLAS VM definitions being investigated

Tuesday 6th February

• HEPSPEC06 on recent Intel CPUs. GridPP benchmarking page

Tuesday 30th January

• Please keep updating the GridPP benchmarking page.

Tuesday 24th Oct

• A talk on end-to-end validation of any site's APEL accounting was presented at the WLCG Accountuing Taskforce meeting, 19th Oct. There slides exist here: https://indico.cern.ch/event/673843/contributions/2756986/attachments/1542818/2420233/blackBoxAccTesting.pdf

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?

Tuesday 18th September 2018

• We need to flag documents that are obsolete and update our monitoring!

Tuesday 18th September 2018

• Changes to Approved VOs: LZ record at Imperial now showing up in the portal (had been inserted as a special case until now.)

Tuesday 11th June 2018

Steve Jones is updating the User Guide with various mods that have cropped up since Tom Whyntie left (pending permission to edit GridPP website docs...)

Tuesday 11th June 2018

Approved VOs now contains two new SKA VOMS servers (at Oxford and Imperial, as well as Manchester).

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs

Tuesday 8th May 2018

• Updating GridPP website certificate to avoid Chrome warnings

General note

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

Thursday 17th January EGI OMB meeting

• CREAMCE to be out of support by Dec 2020
• More effort to fix accounting issue of HTCondor CE

Monday 14th January 2019

• Agenda https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Agenda-2019-01-14

• No UK specific issue mentioned.

• IPv6 readiness plan is going to be summarized at OMB.

Thursday 15 Nov 2018

• Agenda: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/4309/

• Interesting discussion about UMD Product ID card

• Information System/BDII future
  • Discussion about UK BDII plan and time line: Monitoring can be an issue

Monday 08 October 2018

• Argo notification is working so sites can subscribe to notification by enabling notification from GOCDB

• I raised the issue about org.sam.SRM-put tests failing intermittently at sites. Opened a ticket as well: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=137636

Monday 17th September

• There was an EGI ops meeting on 10th September. The agenda page is here.

Tuesday 24 July

• EGI OPS meeting on 16 July 2018, meeting agenda [1]

• UMD 4.7.0 release

Recommend not to update CREAM issue with canl-java, in progress https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=136074

• Does site requires MPI for Centos7? Is any site willing to support MPI for grid?

• No meeting in August, next meeting on 10 Sep

Monday 2nd July

• EGI monthly newsletter available.

Monday 11th June

• Meeting agenda : [2]
• Upcoming releases relevant to UK sites
  • gfal2 major release(2.5.4)
  • Arc 5.4.2

• Yearly review of information in GOCDB. UK ticket status is in progress. Should each site update the ticket?
• Sites can enable ARGO notification through GOCDB. It can be done at site level or at the service level
• Final call for WMS decommission. No UK WMS is in the list.
• WebDav probes will be added to ARGO_MON_CRITICAL profile which means that unavailability of webdav will be added to A/R figures. All UK endpoints are passing the test at the moment
• Next meeting 9th July

Monday 14th May

• Meeting today: Agenda
• Access to UMD3 repos has ceased: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=135100
• org.nordugrid.ARC-CE-sw-csh probe removed from CRITICAL and OPERATORS profiles
• Yearly review of the information registered into GOC-DB - to be completed by June 6 (see item in General section)

• Next meeting June 11th

• EGI repos guidance/Ongoing campaigns: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Muddleware
  • Proposal to rename this to "EGI Operations"

Tuesday 24th April

• The next EGI OMB is on 3rd May

Tuesday 6/3

• Next meeting on Monday: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3639/

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

• 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.

Tuesday 14th August

• A couple of new availability tickets (QMUL and Lancaster), both for well-publicised reasons. Otherwise quiet. AM on shift this week.

Tuesday 12th June

• Four availability tickets still open. One ticket on hold at RAL as they are figuring out that how to deal with castor publishing issue.
• Dashboard struggled during the week and it was slow but now it seems to be OK.
• One Bristol ticket got stuck in weird state where it can not be deleted from dashboard although it has been solved.

Monday 21st May

• There was a problem with jobs accessing http://repository.egi.eu:80/sw/production/cas/1/current/meta/ca-policy-egi-core.list to get the latest release so many arc ce test fails. No tickets opened for these alarms and the problem went away when the underlying issue was fixed.

Monday 5th March

• AM->GS. A quiet week last week.

Monday 20th November

• IPv6: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/IPv6_site_status (up-to-date as of November)
• Batch systems and WN moves to SL7/CentOS7: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Batch_system_status (added column for date of last update)

Historical 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 21st January

• Site Patch Status

Tuesday 15th January

• Latest vulnerabilities and their patch status (see discussion thread yesterday).

- 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 10th September

• Please check perfSONAR status here especially the mesh URL (should be http://psconfig.opensciencegrid.org/pub/auto/FQDN)

Monday 2nd July

• Next LHCOPN and LHCONE meeting: Fermilab, Batavia US, 30-31October 2018. Registration required.

Monday 30th April

• The next LHCOPN and LHCONE joint meeting will take place on Tuesday the 30th and Wednesday the 31st of October 2018

Monday 19th February

Please could sites upgrade their perfsonar hosts to CentOS7. Instructions are here. Current OS versions here.

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

Monday 21st January 2019, 16.30 GMT
39 Open UK Tickets this week.

First a look at a few regular tickets:

TIER 1
138665 (4/12/18)
This MICE LFC ticket that was mentioned last week still could do with some attention, it still hasn't been updated since last year. It looks like a connection issue (and a bit of an odd one at that). In Progress (12/12/18)

RALPP
139222 (18/1)
A ROD ticket for webdav test failures. Chris has asked where to get some help with figuring out the error code seen when the test fails - the test description link in the ticket appears to be broken. In progress (21/1)

QMUL
139097 (7/1)
Any luck fixing these LHCB data transfer failures? In progress (8/1)

THE IPv6 TICKETS
OXFORD: 131615
Kashif provided a comprehensive update at the start of the month - it looks like some progress is soon going being made, although it looks like it will be a slow process due to the low priority of IPv6 with the Oxford networking people. On Hold (7/1)

BRISTOL: 131613
Things are looking positive at Bristol, just waiting on some holes in the site firewall for the perfsonar boxen. Any job with that? In progress (21/12)

BIRMINGHAM: 131612
More positive news, the new central infrastructure is in place and so hopefully Mark can have a go at dual-stacking soon (I assume after he's killed off his DPM). On Hold (24/12/18)

GLASGOW: 131611
Sadly not so positive an update from Glasgow - Gareth explained how their perfsonar revealed v6 traffic issues when it was dual-stacked (which is its job), so they're waiting on this getting fixed. Luckily the usual sticking point of v6 reverse DNS isn't an issue. In progress (4/12)

ECDF: 131610
Rob explained in the last update how the physical migration of the site *didn't* break the v6 connectivity of the perfsonar and test DPM (yey!). Dualstacking the production storage was predicted to start around nowish (give or take a month I assume). Any recent news? Now worries if there's not though. In Progress (4/12/18)

DURHAM: 131609
Adam forwarded Duncan's information about the JISC Secondary DNS service to the Durham networking team - v6 packets can otherwise flow (just no DNS!). Any word back from them? On Hold (4/12)

SHEFFIELD: 131608
There was hope that the perfsonar box could be dualstacked in November, but I assume the usual end of the year rush happened. Any luck dual-stacking it this year? An update for this ticket would be great. In progress (30/10/18)

MANCHESTER: 131607
Manchester got a shiny new IPv6 range towards the end of last year. Any luck dual-stacking your storage yet? Any timeframe for doing so if you haven't got round to it yet? In progress (3/12/18)

LIVERPOOL: 131606
John gave a nice chunky update last month - the site stands ready to dualstack their storage, but just waiting on getting the WAN routing fixed (hopefully sometime soonish). But at least their perfsonar is happily v6'd. In Progress (5/12/18)

RHUL: 131603
At last check RHUL were waiting on v6 DNS before they could proceed. Simon reported that RHUL were looking at outsourcing this service to JANET, but no word on if/how well that's going/gone. Any news? An update would be appreciated. In progress (29/10)

Monday 20th November

• The WLCG dashboard is available here: http://dashboard.cern.ch/.
• Please review the results on Steve's test pages.

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.

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.

• 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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