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| Report from the last Tier1 - Experiments Liaison Meeting at on 16th April is [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Tier1_Operations_Report_2018-04-16 here]. | | Report from the last Tier1 - Experiments Liaison Meeting at on 16th April is [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Tier1_Operations_Report_2018-04-16 here]. |
− | * The upgrade (replacement) of the RAL firewall is scheduled to take place on the morning of the 25th April. Hopefully this will fix problems we have seen with data flows to/from our worker nodes. | + | * The upgrade (replacement) of the RAL firewall is (finally!), scheduled to take place on the morning of the 25th April. This should fix problems we have seen with data flows to/from our worker nodes. |
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General updates
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Monday 16th April
Tuesday 20th March
- The deadline for GridPP40 registration is 3pm today.
Monday 5th March
- For the WLCG-HSF workshop: ideas, plans or proposals for technology watch activities requested. Please let Helge et. al. know by Monday 19 March. They would particularly appreciate proposals in the form of a single PowerPoint slide.
- GridPP technical meeting this Friday will focus on CentOS7. (Here is a link to 2nd March agenda for Vidyo details).
- WLCG baseline for Singularity - 2.4.2
- Need for JISC list VO-ADMINS.
- WLCG T2 availability & reliability - January 2018
Monday 26th February
- WLCG-HSF Workshop in Naples
- Minutes of the weekly WLCG weekly ops meeting are available here.
- Alessandra: Mentioned here grid enabled GPU behind an ARC-CE implementation.
- GalDyn and GridPP. Would like to submit work to DiRAC and make use of GridPP resources.
- GridPP40 registration is open.
- Rajan: SL7 UI Machine
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WLCG Operations Coordination - AgendasWiki Page
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Monday 16th April
- There was a meeting on 12th. Agenda | Minutes.
- Balazs Konya is new in the role of WLCG Middleware Officer.
- Next meeting 7th June.
- Delay for submission of GGUS tickets for recalculation should be respected. It is 10 days after monthly drafts of the availability reports are sent around by WLCG project office. If the GGUS tickets are not submitted respecting 10 days delay, they are not accepted.
- A/R recalculations will be accepted if they are relevant to the site MoU commitment or concern time ranges of sufficient length.
Monday 5th March
- The agenda and minutes from the WLCG ops coordination meeting last week are available.
- Special topics were: CNAF recovery update; SAM recalculation policy draft discussion and Progress on WLCG Storage Space Accounting Prototype including tape metrics.
Tuesday 27th February
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Tier-1 - Status Page
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Tuesday 17th April
Report from the last Tier1 - Experiments Liaison Meeting at on 16th April is here.
- The upgrade (replacement) of the RAL firewall is (finally!), scheduled to take place on the morning of the 25th April. This should fix problems we have seen with data flows to/from our worker nodes.
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Tier-2 Evolution - GridPP JIRA
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Tuesday 10 Apr
- Vac 3.0 and Vcycle 1.0 released: see GridPP40 talk for details. In particular, it is now possible to add all the GridPP DIRAC VOs to a Vac or Vcycle site with three lines of configuration.
Tuesday 3 Apr
- Vac 02.00.03 released with a workaround for CernVM bug CVM-1501, which is due to a bug in Cloud Init 0.7.5 which CernVM 3 has used since Thursday of last week. VM creation fails due to malformed EC2 meta-data URLs.
Tuesday 27 Mar
- Vac 3.0pre publishing capacity info and VO shares to GOCDB
Tuesday 20 Mar
- Working Puppet configuration for Vac 3.0pre
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Accounting - UK Grid Metrics HEPSPEC06 Atlas Dashboard HS06
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Tuesday 6th February
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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Interoperation - EGI ops agendas Indico schedule
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Tuesday 6/3
Tuesday 27th February
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 5th March
- AM->GS. A quiet week last week.
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 20th March
Communication challenge took place on Wednesday 14th March.
Monday 5th March
Tuesday 6th February on 2018
- Update on Meltdown/Spectre
- Security Team meeting this afternoon
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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 19th February
Please could sites upgrade their perfsonar hosts to CentOS7. Instructions are here. Current OS versions here.
Monday 5th February
- 'Campus network engineering for data-intensive science workshop' in October 2016, had this agenda. Note particularly the Imperial and Cambridge overviews.
- There is a JISC document which seeks to help set expectations for what the network can deliver.
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).
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- 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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