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Week commencing Monday 4th September 2017

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General updates Monday 4th September WLCG weekly ops meeting notes. There is a pre-GDB next week on storage. There is a draft GDB agenda available. 28th August Weekly WLCG ops meeting notes. Network forward look document now in preparation based on input provided. Globus Toolkit TBDecommissioned - Stakeholders in discussion about fork and support approach. 31st July new VAPOR release (2.3) ready for testing. Report issues via GGUS 129391. EGI OMB held on 27th July. Steve Lloyd's tests have been redeveloped as per our feedback. Please review and feedback. WLCG Operations Coordination - AgendasWiki Page Tuesday 18th July The next WLCG ops coordination meeting is planned for September 14th 2017. Tuesday 11th July Agenda from Thursday's WLCG ops coordination meeting. Tuesday 4th July There will be a WLCG ops coordination meeting this week on Thursday at 14:30 BST. Agenda. The theme is 'providing reliable storage'. Minutes will be available. Tier-1 - Status Page Tuesday 5th September A reminder that there is a weekly Tier-1 experiment liaison meeting. Notes from the last meeting here There was a problem with the Echo CEPH storage that led to the loss of a placement group - some 22,000 files were declared lost to Atlas. Storage & Data Management - Agendas/Minutes Wednesday 30 Aug How will experiements use object stores in the future? Could the Sept. pre-GDB clarify this? Fair bit of stuff known about advantages and disadvantages of erasure coding data, compressing data, etc. prior to storing it. Bristol's curious missing SE - dropped out of the inforamtion system? [1] Pre-GDB planning: could we present something? Topics seem fairly T1ish Also suggestions for storagey topics for GridPP Anyone to host next DPM workshop? Wednesday 19 July Discussion of potential topics for data pre-GDB in September, without being able to commit yet Switching to fortnighly calls over the rest of July + August Wednesday 12 July Lots of loose ends including Matt's IPv6 testing Tier-2 Evolution - GridPP JIRA Tuesday 29 Aug Prerelease of Vac-in-a-Box (i.e. GitHub master) is now running on CentOS 7, for Vac 02.01. Aiming for combined Vac/Vac-in-a-Box release with CentOS 7, but with continued SL6 support for Vac. Tuesday 22 Aug CentOS 7 support in Vac 02.01pre. Release being prepared and tested. Basic Singularity container support working in Vac 02.02pre DIRAC project prioritising Singularity support in Pilot framework Accounting - UK Grid Metrics HEPSPEC06 Atlas Dashboard HS06 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? Documentation - KeyDocs 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. Tuesday 25th July London grid (vo.londongrid.ac.uk) VO removed from Approved VOs. https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs Tuesday 4th July A round of reminders is coming! Need to ensure decisions captured regarding supported other VOs. General note See the worst KeyDocs list for documents needing review now and the names of the responsible people. Interoperation - EGI ops agendas Indico schedule Tuesday 29th August There was an EGI Ops meeting last Monday. Agenda UMD 4.5 is out with CentOS 7 WN package (see broadcast) NGI_UK QoS ticket mentioned in agenda but not in meeting QoS ticket Proposal: WMS will be removed from production starting from 1st January 2018 NGIs/ROCs please start discussing with sites and provide suggestions for the overall plan for IPv6 WebDAV reporting: The Operations Centres are asked to verify with their sites if the webdav protocol is really (intentional) enabled on their storage elements (if not, the information should be removed from the BDII), and report to EGI Operations Next meeting 11th September https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3352/ Monday 31st July There was an EGI OMB last Thursday. Tuesday 4th July There was an EGI OMB last Thursday. Agenda. Membership of the ops VO is being reduced. Monitoring - Links MyWLCG 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. On-duty - Dashboard ROD rota 6th June There are issues with the ARC CE tests again, so the ARC sites have not have any results in days and the corresponding availability tickets are going nowhere. New rota being compiled. Tuesday 2nd May Generally quiet. A few low availability tickets. Rollout Status WLCG Baseline Monday 13th February Please can we hear something from Raul and Sam (or others contributing to the middleware readiness work) about news in this area at the ops meeting next week? Thank you. Does anyone want specific questions in this area tackled in a roundtable discussion? Tuesday 7th December Raul reports: validation of site BDII on Centos 7 done. Tuesday 15th September UMD 3.13.3 is available. Tuesday 12th May MW Readiness WG meeting Wed May 6th at 4pm. Attended by Raul, Matt, Sam and Jeremy. 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 Security - Incident Procedure Policies Rota Monday 31st July Ian has now left GridPP. Please direct queries to the security team via ukngi-security at cern.ch. Tuesday 25th July No advisories issued this week. Tuesday 18th July No advisories issued this week. GDB - WLCG Authz WG .PDF from GDB Requirements and strategy to deal with federated identities, VO-centric user suspension, EU GDPR data protection Everyone welcome at egroup

Services - PerfSonar production dashboard |PerfSonar development dashboard | GridPP VOMS - 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 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). Tuesday 6th June An update from the DIRAC workshop? GridPP is still the only true multi-VO instance, so we will continue to see issues with this. release quality of dirac has improved within the past year. gfal2/EL7 problems seem to be coming to an end after being cooped up with all authors for 3 days on end. The Imperial GridPP module now has integrated testing. It was also noted that every dirac instance has it's own special module to adapt to their community on top of main dira. We are trying to push as much of out special functionality back into the main dirac branch. Tuesday 25th April perfSONAR version 4 was released on 17th April. Sites with auto-update on should have been automatically upgraded. Note perfSONAR 4.0 requires more CPU than previous versions as a result of some of the increased functionality. Full details here Duncan has recreated the UK perfSONAR mesh. Link here! Tickets Friday 25th August 2017 Matt is on leave until the 11th of September, so until then here's the obligatory link to all the UK Tickets. Tools - MyEGI Nagios 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. 29th November 2016 LSST monitoring is available through vo-nagios https://vo-nagios.physics.ox.ac.uk/nagios/cgi-bin/status.cgi?servicegroup=lsst&style=detail 13th September 2016 New wiki page has been created for ARGO Nagios https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/ARGO_Nagios_Monitoring. I will add some more information to it later. Removed old wiki links about sam nagios from gridpp wiki page. VO nagios still exist and working. I have opened a ticket to explore ARGO VO Nagios, https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=123604 VOs - GridPP VOMS VO IDs Approved VO table Impact Citation policy (https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/acknowledging.html) Site Updates Date

Meeting Summaries

Project Management Board - MembersMinutes Quarterly Reports Empty GridPP ops meeting - Agendas Actions Core Tasks Empty RAL Tier-1 Experiment Liaison Meeting (Wednesday 13:30) Agenda Meeting takes place on Vidyo. Highlights from this meeting are now included in the Tier1 report farther up this page. WLCG Grid Deployment Board - Agendas MB agendas Empty

NGI UK - Homepage CA Empty Events UK ATLAS - Shifter view News & Links 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. UK CMS Empty UK LHCb Empty UK OTHER N/A To note N/A