General updates
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Tuesday 1st December
- Switch over of the GridPP website. Soft launch this week on Tuesday with some unavailability expected during the afternoon.
- The next WLCG GDB is on Wednesday 9th December. [ https://indico.cern.ch/event/319754/ Agenda].
- Change of HEPSYSMAN dates due to Manchester room availability. Now anticipate 13th/14th.
- Installing a UI on SL.
- Core ops members - please provide your task list for Q3 15!
- EGI: How many apel-publishers on sl5 in your NGI? (Instances in GOC-DB registered as glite-APEL.)
- EGI: What is your WMS usage?
- The dilemma: foreman/puppet or ansible?
- Release date for GOCDB v5.5 is Wed 2nd December.
Tuesday 24th November
- Some ATLAS sites (as of Monday) still had PRODDISK listed in the BDII.
- ATLAS DPM 'dump' - a list of files?
- An agenda for December's GDB is developing - see here. Tier-2 representation has wained recently. Perhaps someone attending the DPM meeting could attend the GDB too?
- Andrew's BDII patch used in relation to LSST job breakdown issues.
- Installing a UI on SL6.
Tuesday 17th November
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WLCG Operations Coordination - AgendasWiki Page
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Monday 30th November
Tuesday 24th November
- There was a WLCG ops coordination meeting last Thursday: Agenda | Minutes.
- Baselines: dCache 2.6.x decommissioned deadline was end of September.
- News: Critical Vulnerability broadcast by SVG on Friday 06 affecting NSS.
- T0 news: IPv6 enabled in MyProxy and VOMS for testing purposes, in dual-stack mode (IPv4 and IPv6). LSF 9 upgrade of the WNs is in QA testing.
- ALICE: Good activity. Preparations for heavy ion reco jobs. At CERN ALICE jobs can request 2 cores and hence have twice the memory but with an impact on efficiency.
- ATLAS: new record in parallel running slots: 250k. Some mc15b campaign jobs were requesting an excessive amount of conditions data. Deletion agents: deletion agents were switched off for a few days for operational reasons but once on again struggled to keep up.PRODDISK has been decommissioned on all the Tier2s.
- CMS: High loads:~120k parallel jobs. Multi-billion events MC RECO campaign ahead.
- LHCb: Very high activity. Several days of failures at SARA when srm was overloaded by a local user. Working on interface to HTCondor-CE.
- glexec TF: NTR
- HTTP TF: [ https://indico.cern.ch/event/459419 Meeting on 5th November]. Have a working Nagios probe, endpoint lists from the experiments, regular monitoring of the infrastructure (see links on agenda) and a GGUS support unit.
- IS evolution: The first draft of the Future Use Cases document is now available for comments. Deadline to provide input is on 24th November. There was a TF meeting on 12th November. Looking at options for publishing a subset of the current GLUE schema that is useful for WLCG in JSON/HTTPS.
- IPv6: NTR
- MW readiness: Tests reported for EOS, DPM, dCache, BDII, MW readiness app. Next meeting 2nd December.
- Multicore: NTR
- Network and transfer metrics: perfSONAR collector, datastore, publisher and dashboard in production (stable operations). ALL sites are encouraged to enable auto-updates for perfSONAR. Pilots: ATLAS Panda, perfSONAR stream now in ATLAS Network Analytics. LHCb DIRAC bridge is now functional.
- RFC proxies: NTR
- Squid monitoring and proxy discovery: NTR.
- AOB: Andrew McNab will take over the coordination of the Machine/Job Features task force.
Tuesday 17th November
Tuesday 10th November
- There was a WLCG ops coordination meeting last Thursday: Minutes. (Alessandra chaired and might be able to talk over the main items at our ops meeting).
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Tier-1 - Status Page
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Tuesday 1st December
A reminder that there is a weekly Tier-1 experiment liaison meeting. Notes from the last meeting here
- We are investigating why LHCB batch jobs sometimes fail to write results back to Castor (and the sometimes fail to write remotely as well). A recent change has improved, but not fixed, this problem.
- We are continuing with the detailed network changes needed to remove our old core switch from the network. We anticipate significant steps on the 8th and 9th December.
- As reported last week, the tenders for the next round of Disk and CPU purchases are now out.
- We have seen some increased data transfer rates to/from the Tier1. We have a plan to increase the bandwidth on the bypass link (to Tier2s) from 10 to 20 Gbit.
- We are implementing a new algorithm for the draining of worker nodes to make space for multi-core jobs. The new version allows "pre-emptable" jobs (ie. jobs that can be stopped at short notice) to run in the job slots until they are needed.
- We had failures of three Atlas disk servers over the weekend. It looks like a coincidences as we have found no common cause - at least as yet. All three servers back running now, although temporarily read-only.
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Storage & Data Management - Agendas/Minutes
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Wednesday 18 Nov
- New member from Edinburgh!
- Updates on PRODDISK cleanup at T2s, catalogue synchronisation (aka syncat), and what does "world readable" mean?
- Summary of EGI community forum - interoperation and standards for moving data
Wednesday 11 Nov
Wednesday 04 Nov
- Brian presented GridPP achievements at the E2E workshop
- Storage accounting with EGI
Wednesday 28 Oct
- Summary of "UK T0" workshop - GridPP well represented
- Sites should not upgrade to DPM 1.8.10 just yet
Wednesday 02 Sep
- Catch up with MICE
- How to do transfers of lots of files with FTS3 without the proxy timing out (in particularly if you need it vomsified)
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Tier-2 Evolution - GridPP JIRA
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Tuesday 1 Dec
- Vac (0.20pre) now provides contexualization, metadata (EC2/OpenStack), and Machine/Job Features via HTTP rather than ISO image and NFS. (GRIDPP-27). This should allow VMs expecting to be run by OpenStack to work on Vac without modification.
- CernVM image signature checking, and APEL Sync record generation are now also in Vac 0.20pre.
Tuesday 24 Nov
- Cloud Init demonstrated with modified version of (old) GridPP DIRAC VMs
- Cloud Init support in Vac 0.20pre (GRIDPP-27)
- Progress on VMs for new GridPP DIRAC service: multi-VO config currently preventing matching. (GRIDPP-9)
Tuesday 17 Nov
- New depo.gridpp.ac.uk service for uploading files to via HTTPS
- ATLAS VMs now upload log files to depo.gridpp.ac.uk for debugging (GRIDPP-24)
Monday 9 Nov
- Vac 0.19.0 released last week: new VacQuery protocol
- Prototyping Vcycle(/Vac) GLUE2 publishing: talk at WLCG InfoSys Evolution TF on Thursday
- Please now use https://repo.gridpp.ac.uk/vacproject/ URLs for user_data and cernvm3.iso files (in preparation for move to new www.gridpp.ac.uk website.)
- See Laurence's GDB talk "Helix Nebula Price Enquiry Results" for more use of Vcycle
Tuesday 3 Nov
- LHCb prototype of GOCDB pointers to resource BDII done
- T2C tests at Oxford ongoing
Tuesday 20 Oct
- LHCb multipilot VMs now in production
- Support for APEL-Sync records in Vac, but need to co-ordinate with APEL team to validate it. This is to allow pure-VM sites like UCL to pass APEL SAM tests (GRIDPP-10)
- Last GridPP Technical Meeting decided to test disk-less operation at Oxford for CMS (GRIDPP-20) and LHCb (GRIDPP-21).
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Accounting - UK Grid Metrics HEPSPEC06 Atlas Dashboard HS06
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Tuesday 24th November
- Slight delay for Sheffield.
Tuesday 3rd November
- APEL delay (normal state) Lancaster and Sheffield.
Tuesday 20th October
The WLCG MB decided to create a Benchmarking Task force led by Helge Meinhard see talk
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Documentation - KeyDocs
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Tuesday 1st December
- Sixt and hone have been removed from the GridPP list.
Tuesday 24th November
Steve J: problems with voms server at fnal, voms.fnal.gov, resolved. Approved VOs document updated with newest records for those VOs affected, CDF, DZERO, LSST. Also, note changes to CA_DN for PLANCK and CDF. https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs
Friday 6th Nov, 2015
SteveJ: Advice to admins published about a common GSS error, globus_gsi_callback_module: Could not verify
credential etc.
https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Security_system_errors_and_workarounds
Tuesday 20th October, 2015
Approved VOs document updated with temporary section for LZ
Tuesday 29nd September
Steve J: problems with voms server at fnal, voms.fnal.gov, have been detected; I will resolve them soon and may issue an update to Approved VOs, alerting sites with TB_SUPPORT should that occur. Approved VOs potentially affected are CDF, DZERO, LSST. Please do not act act yet.
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
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Tuesday 10th November
Meeting yesterday was cancelled in favour of OMB; next meeting scheduled for 14/12.
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Monitoring - Links MyWLCG
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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 31st March
Monday 7th December
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On-duty - Dashboard ROD rota
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Monday 30th November
- A quiet week, mostly just cloing alarms for not-in-production services. There are no open ROD tickets.
Monday 23rd November
- Still seeing the alarms for systems at QMUL and RHUL that are not in production.
- Closed some tickets for the rolling availabilities. Confused by the rolling availability plots. It seems the "rolling average" period was cut back to 20 days.
Tuesday 3rd November
- The long-standing UCL availability alarm went green yesterday on 29th October. We are not sure why!
- Quite a lot of activity on the dashboard this week, but only one or two new tickets.
- Tickets: Five for availability / reliability: Sussex, Sheffield, Liverpool, Lancaster and UCL. Two for GLUE2 validation: Liverpool and QMUL. One for the CEs at QMU
Tuesday 20th October
Lots of bits here and there, but no big pattern. Tickets about CE and storage problems open at several sites. QMUL notable as going on for a while, probably with some kind of configuration problem they're not identifying.
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Rollout Status WLCG Baseline
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Tuesday 15th September
Tuesday 12th May
- MW Readiness WG meeting Wed May 6th at 4pm. Attended by Raul, Matt, Sam and Jeremy.
Tuesday 17th March
- Daniela has updated the [ https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Staged_rollout_emi3 EMI-3 testing table]. Please check it is correct for your site. We want a clear view of where we are contributing.
- There is a middleware readiness meeting this Wednesday. Would be good if a few site representatives joined.
- Machine job features solution testing. Fed back that we will only commence tests if more documentation made available. This stops the HTC solution until after CHEP. Is there interest in testing other batch systems? Raul mentioned SLURM. There is also SGE and Torque.
References
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Security - Incident Procedure Policies Rota
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Tuesday 2nd December
Tuesday 24th November
- Call on NGIs to participate in "Security Threat Risk Assessment - with Cloud Focus" work.
- Check Pakiti for CVE-2015-7183 issues.
Tuesday 17th November
- Advisory-SVG-2015-CVE-2015-7183 issued 06/11/2015: a few UK sites show as unpatched in EGI monitoring. WNs, as tested by the monitoring, may be less vulnerable than affected middleware services but they could be taken as an indication of general site readiness and sites are encouraged to check their status.
The EGI security dashboard.
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Services - PerfSonar 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).
Tuesday 6th October
Tuesday 14th July
- GridPP35 in September will have a part focus on networking and IPv6. This will include a review of where sites are with their deployment. Please try to firm up dates for your IPv6 availability between now and September. Please update the GridPP IPv6 status table.
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Tickets
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Monday 30th November 2015, 15.30 GMT
33 Open Tickets this week. 14 are for the same Atlas request.
GAZILLION ATLAS CONSISTENCY TICKETS
I won't go over all these - but ECDF, BIRMINGHAM and IMPERIAL are still just "assigned". As Ewan did with Oxford's ticket feel free to down the "Priority" for these tickets - these requests aren't urgent at all! A few sites are done already, a few are on holding their tickets till later.
RALPP
117740 (20/11)
Atlas request to delete proddisk data which digressed a bit (after the original issue was confirmed as solved) but then stalled. Last check Brian asked for a list of files in ./users. In progress (23/11)
TIER 1
116864 (12/10)
CMS xrootd tests failing. No news since CMS replied on the 20th. Are things churning along in the background? In progress (20/11)
Forgot about this one:
GLASGOW
118052 (30/11)
Atlas, for the "WLCG HTTP Deployment Task Force" have ticket Glasgow after their SE showed up on this http probe page. I notice a few other UK sites in the red on that page. In progress (1/12)
I think that's it for "exciting" tickets - as always let me know if that's not the case.
Not much news on the Other VO nagios - it's looking pleasantly plain.
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Tools - MyEGI Nagios
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Monday 30th November
- The SAM/ARGO team has created a document describing Availability reliability calculation in ARGO tool.
Tuesday 6 Oct 2015
Moved Gridppnagios instance back to Oxford from Lancaster. It was kind of double whammy as both sites went down together. Fortunately Oxford site was partially working so we managed to start SAM Nagios at Oxford. Sam tests were unavailable for few hours but no affect on egi availibilty/reliability. Sites can have a look at https://mon.egi.eu/myegi/ss/ for a/r status.
Tuesday 29 Sep 2015
Following an air-conditioning problem at machine room in Oxford Tier-2 site on 26 September, gridppnagios(OX) was shut down and gridppnagios(Lancs) became active instance. Oxford site is in downtime until 1st Oct and it may be extended depending on the situation.
VO-Nagios was also unavailable for two days but we have started it yesterday as it is running on a VM. VO-nagios is using oxford SE for replication test so it is failing those tests. I am looking to change to some other SE.
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VOs - GridPP VOMS VO IDs Approved VO table
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Tuesday 19th May
- There is a current priority for enabling/supporting our joining communities.
Tuesday 5th May
- We have a number of VOs to be removed. Dedicated follow-up meeting proposed.
Tuesday 28th April
- For SNOPLUS.SNOLAB.CA, the port numbers for voms02.gridpp.ac.uk and voms03.gridpp.ac.uk have both been updated from 15003 to 15503.
Tuesday 31st March
- LIGO are in need of additional support for debugging some tests.
- LSST now enabled on 3 sites. No 'own' CVMFS yet.
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Site Updates
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Tuesday 24th February
- Next review of status today.
Tuesday 27th January
- Squids not in GOCDB for: UCL; ECDF; Birmingham; Durham; RHUL; IC; Sussex; Lancaster
- Squids in GOCDB for: EFDA-JET; Manchester; Liverpool; Cambridge; Sheffield; Bristol; Brunel; QMUL; T1; Oxford; Glasgow; RALPPD.
Tuesday 2nd December
- Multicore status. Queues available (63%)
- YES: RAL T1; Brunel; Imperial; QMUL; Lancaster; Liverpool; Manchester; Glasgow; Cambridge; Oxford; RALPP; Sussex (12)
- NO: RHUL (testing); UCL; Sheffield (testing); Durham; ECDF (testing); Birmingham; Bristol (7)
- According to our table for cloud/VMs (26%)
- YES: RAL T1; Brunel; Imperial; Manchester; Oxford (5)
- NO: QMUL; RHUL; UCL; Lancaster; Liverpool; Sheffield; Durham; ECDF; Glasgow; Birmingham; Bristol; Cambridge; RALPP; Sussex (14)
- GridPP DIRAC jobs successful (58%)
- YES: Bristol; Glasgow; Lancaster; Liverpool; Manchester; Oxford; Sheffield; Brunel; IC; QMUL; RHUL (11)
- NO: Cambridge; Durham; RALPP; RAL T1 (4) + ECDF; Sussex; UCL; Birmingham (4)
- IPv6 status
- Allocation - 42%
- YES: RAL T1; Brunel; IC; QMUL; Manchester; Sheffield; Cambridge; Oxford (8)
- NO: RHUL; UCL; Lancaster; Liverpool; Durham; ECDF; Glasgow; Birmingham; Bristol; RALPP; Sussex
- Dual stack nodes - 21%
- YES: Brunel; IC; QMUL; Oxford (4)
- NO: RHUL; UCL; Lancaster; Glasgow; Liverpool; Manchester; Sheffield; Durham; ECDF; Birmingham; Bristol; Cambridge; RALPP; Sussex, RAL T1 (15)
Tuesday 21st October
- High loads seen in xroot by several sites: Liverpool and RALT1... and also Bristol (see Luke's TB-S email on 16/10 for questions about changes to help).
Tuesday 9th September
- Intel announced the new generation of Xeon based on Haswell.
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