| General updates
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Tuesday 3rd May
- The WLCG T2 reliability/availability figures have arrived.
- ALICE: All okay.
- ATLAS:
- ECDF: 87%:87%
- BHAM: 78%:78%
- CMS: All okay.
- LHCb:
- QMUL: 12%:12%
- RHUL: 87%:89%
- ECDF: 84%:84%.
Tuesday 26th April
Monday 18th April
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| WLCG Operations Coordination - AgendasWiki Page
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Monday 1st May
- There was a WLCG ops coordination meeting last Thursday. Agenda | Minutes.
- SL5 decommissioning (EGI, April 30, 2016). SL5 'ops' service probes will get CRITICAL. The whole retirement process is tracked here.
- New Traceability and isolation working group will have a dedicated session in May pre-GDB.
- New Task Force on Accounting review is under preparation to start addressing accounting issues.
- A detailed review of the Networking and Transfers WG was done. This includes a status report, ongoing actions and future R&D projects. More details in the agenda slides.
Monday 18th April
- MW Readiness WG achievements October 2015 - March 2016 - link to MB.
Tuesday 22nd March
- There was a WLCG ops coordination meeting last Thursday.
- T0 & T1s requested to check 2016 pledges attached to the agenda.
- The Multicore TF accomplished its mission. Its twiki remains as a documentation source.
- The gLExec TF also completed. Support will continue. Its twiki is up-to-date.
- There was a WLCG Middleware Readiness meeting last Wednesday.
Tuesday 15th March
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| Tier-1 - Status Page
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Tuesday 26th April
A reminder that there is a weekly Tier-1 experiment liaison meeting. Notes from the last meeting here
- Castor 2.1.15 update is waiting. This is pending resolution of a problem around memory usage by the Oracle database behind Castor. We had thought to update the Castor SRMs to version 2.14 in the meantime. However, following advice from CERN this will not be done before the Castor update.
- "GEN Scratch" storage in Castor will be decommissioned. This has been announced via an EGI broadcast.
- Catalin is organizing the CernVM Users Workshop at RAL on the 6-8 June 2016.
- The HAProxy load balancer is now handling all of the requests to the Test FTS3 instance.
- We note that Lee Barnby has stood down as our ALICE contact. We thank him for all his help over the years.
- Technically nothing to do with the Tier1: However, HEP SYSMAN dates for the RAL meeting are 21-23 June, with the first day being a Security training day.
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| Storage & Data Management - Agendas/Minutes
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Wednesday 27 Apr
- Report from DPM collaboration meeting
- GridPP as an einfrastructure (update)
Wednesday 20 Apr
- Report from GridPP36. Closer to understanding what a future T2 looks like.
- Report from DataCentreWorld/CloudExpo: Usual bigger and better data centre servers, networks, combined with cloud applications adoption and exciting new IoT devices
Wednesday 06 Apr
- GridPP is a Science DMZ!
- Special Kudos to Marcus for all his exciting ZFS work (see blog!)
- No meeting next week (Wedn. 13th) due to GridPP36
Wednesday 30 Mar
Wednesday 16 Mar
- Oxford's new shiny DPM and others - if tests fail intermittently, surely the tests are wrong?
- MySQL optimisation. Who is afraid of 100GB?
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| Tier-2 Evolution - GridPP JIRA
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Tuesday 5 Apr
- Vac 00.22 release (01.00 pre-release) ready. Includes Squid-on-hypervisor config in Puppet module.
- Aim to do Vac 01.00 release immediately after Pitlochry.
Tuesday 22 Mar
- GridPP DIRAC SAM tests now have gridpp and vo.northgrid.ac.uk pages
- Some pheno jobs have been run on VAC.Manchester.uk
- ATLAS cloud init VMs now running at Liverpool too
Tuesday 15 Mar
- Vac 00.21 deployed on all/some machines at all 5 production Vac sites
- Oxford Vac-in-a-Box set up in production
- ATLAS pilot factory at CERN configured for our ATLAS cloud init VMs
- ATLAS cloud init VMs running production jobs at Manchester and Oxford; being enabled at other sites
- vo.northgrid.ac.uk DIRAC jobs running in GridPP DIRAC VMs: should work for any GridPP DIRAC VO, since a parameter to the VM config.
- Multipayload LHCb pilot scripts tested in VMs: same pilot scripts can be used on VM or batch sites in multiprocessor slots.
Monday 29 Feb
- Vac 00.21 released, with new MJF
- EGI operations MB presentation positively received
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| Accounting - UK Grid Metrics HEPSPEC06 Atlas Dashboard HS06
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Tuesday 9th February
- 4th Feb: The data from the APEL summariser that was fixed yesterday has now propagated through the data pipeline and the Accounting Portal views and the Sync and Pub tests are all working again.
- Sheffield is slightly behind other sites (but looks normal) and so is QMUL.
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 26th April
Statement on recent history of LSST VOMS records. To be discussed at Ops Meeting.
- Feb 16: 3 x VOMS servers, port 1503, names: voms.fnal.gov (DigiCert-Grid, admin), voms1.fnal.gov (DigiCert-Grid, not admin), voms2.fnal.gov (opensciencegrid , admin).
- Apr 18: 1 x VOMS server. port 15003, names: voms.fnal.gov (opensciencegrid, admin). Caused by a hitch with security that caused the omission of some data. GGUS: https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=120925. Fixed.
- Apr 21: 3 x VOMS servers, port 15003, names: voms.fnal.gov (opensciencegrid, admin), voms1.fnal.gov (opensciencegrid, not admin), voms2.fnal.gov opensciencegrid admin
So, similar to how it was in feb, but DNs (and CA_DNs) of 2 certs changed. But other things to note:
Please discuss.
Monday 18th April
Changes to Approved VOs. I scanned the EGI Operations Portal today, and found the following updates.
- For CDF, for voms.fnal.gov:15020 server, new DN and CA_DN.
- For DZERO, for voms.fnal.gov:15002 server, new DN and CA_DN.
- For LSST, voms1.fnal.gov:15003 and voms2.fnal.gov:15003 are not working properly. voms.fnal.gov:15003 is working properly, but for that, DN and CA_DN are new.
Note: apart from on the UI, it doesn't break to have defunct servers in the config.
And since servers have the nasty habit of coming back after they have been offline
for a few days or weeks, it may be best to delay removal - I don't know.
Anyway, I've updated Approved VOs to show the present parameters and I hope this is helpful.
https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs
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Tuesday 23rd February
- Tom has converted (most of) the DIRAC tutorial on job submission to work with the GridPP DIRAC service. You can find the guide here.
Tuesday 9th February
- Guidelines for using the DIRAC command line tools and the DIRAC File Catalog metadata functionality to the UserGuide.
Tuesday 12th January
- The VOID cards (and hence the Yaim records) for CDF, PLANCK, SUPERBVO, LSST, MAGIC and ENMR have changed a bit. Sites that support any of these may want to have a look. See the GridPP approved VOs page.
General note
See the worst KeyDocs list for documents needing review now and the names of the responsible people.
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| Monitoring - Links MyWLCG
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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.
Tuesday 31st March
Monday 7th December
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| On-duty - Dashboard ROD rota
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Tuesday 15th March
- Normal week with few alarms which were fixed in time. Birmingham has a low availability ticket. ECDF has ticket on hold as it test ARC CE and putting this CE in downtime might effect proper job test from ATLAS.
Tuesday 16th February
- Team membership discussed at yesterday's PMB. We will need to look to the larger GridPP sites for more support.
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| Rollout Status WLCG Baseline
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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 25th April
- Security threat Risk Assessment undertaken by EGI.
Tuesday 19th April
- Initial results for ARGUS banning tests presented at GridPP36: CREAM/50%, ARC/63%, SRM/31% (% successful banning) will be followed up in the coming weeks.
- UK NGI Security team meeting Weds 20th.
Tuesday 5th April
Tuesday 22nd March
- Some sites still appearing as vulnerable to SVG:Advisory-SVG-CVE-2016-1950
- EGI CSIRT broadcast relating to compromised FedCloud VM instance. Does not appear to affect UK.
- WLCG MW Readiness Minutes, see: On the deployment of Pakiti in WLCG production
- The IGTF will release a regular update to the trust anchor repository (1.73) - for distribution ON OR AFTER March 28th
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 22nd March
Tuesday 8th December
- Given the recent network issues and role of GridPP DIRAC, there are plans to have a slave DNS for gridpp.ac.uk at Imperial and hopefully the T1 too. Andrew will seek an update to the whois records and name servers once the other host sites are confirmed.
- Looking at the network problems this week will be of interest. Duncan supplied this link and Ewan the one for the dual stack instance.
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| Tickets
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Monday 25th of April 2016, 15.30 BST
31 Open UK Tickets.
A NEW CHALLENGER APPEARS
120998 (22/4)
Squire McNab has ticketed himself (which always feels like a weird thing to do) to set up the skatelescope.eu VO on the Manchester VOMS. No doubt many of us will be interested in enabling a SKA VO. Assigned (22/4)
A FEW FEWER WMSes
120973 (21/4)
Glasgow have announced the retirement of their WMSes and Logging and Bookkeeping server at the end of next month, with the Downtime starting in a fortnight (9/5). Assigned (Oh Hold or In Progress it?) (21/4)
The Tier 1 has a few tickets that peaked my interest:
120954 (21/4)
LHCB would like to amalgamate their endpoints at the Tier 1 - bringing the tape and the disk behind the same name. Brian rounded it out with a question- I think for LHCB. In progress (should be waiting for reply?) (25/4)
119841 (1/3)
This HTTP support ticket almost certainly looks like it should be On Hold, possibly awaiting some development work. In progress (22/3)
Talking of On Hold:
120204 (15/3)
This LHCB ticket for QMUL looks like it should be put On Hold, as it is awaiting an external fix that's outside the site's control (see ticket https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=120586). In progress (14/4)
And finally:
120019 (7/3)
A CMS ticket asking for a change of federation subscription for Oxford. I know Kashif and Pete are looking at it, but do you need a hand from someone who knows the arcane CMS ways? In progress (5/4).
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| Tools - MyEGI Nagios
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Tuesday 5th April 2016
Oxford had a scheduled network warning so active nagios instance was moved from Oxford to Lancaster. I am not planning to move it back to Oxford for the time being.
Tuesday 26th Jan 2016
One of the message broker was in downtime for almost three days. Nagios probes picks up a random message broker and failover is not working so a lot of ops jobs hanged for long time. Its a known issue and unlikely to be fixed as SAM Nagios is in its last leg. Monitoring is moving to ARGO and many things are not clear at the moment.
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 23rd February
ALICE:
All okay.
RHUL 89%:89%
Lancaster 0%:0%
RALPP: 80%::80%
RALPP: 77%:77%
- RHUL: The largest problem was related to the SRM. The DPM version was upgraded and it took several weeks to get it working again (13 Jan onwards). Several short-lived occurrences of running out of space on the SRM for non-ATLAS VOs. For around 3 days (15-17 Jan) the site suffered from a DNS configuration error by their site network manager which removed their SRM from the DNS, causing external connections such as tests and transfers to fail. For one day (25 Jan) the site network was down for upgrade to the 10Gb link to JANET. Some unexpected problems occurred extending the interruption from an hour to a day. The link has been successfully commissioned.
- Lancaster: The ASAP metric for Lancaster for January is 97.5 %. There is a particular problem with ATLAS SAM tests which doesn’t affect the site activity in production and analysis and this relates to the path name being too long. A re-calculation has been performed.
- RALPP: Both CMS and LHCb low figures are due to specific CMS jobs overloading the site SRM head node. The jobs should have stopped now.
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