General updates
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- Alessandra: Changes of memory settings in panda
- 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.
- CHEP2016 first bulletin.
Tuesday 26th January
- RHUL: spacetoken for snoplus?
- Winnie: CREAM-CEs red, "No handlers could be found for logger "stomp.py""
- Elena: how to limit the number of running jobs per user in condor -> Concurrency Limits.
- DIRAC File Catalog Command Line Interface guide added to the GridPP User Guide by Tom.
- What to update when adding a VO (the LSST example!).
- Notes from the January GDB are now available.
- Publishing CPUs...!
- Sam: WLCG WORKSHOP Site Feedback on Storage technologies.
Tuesday 19th January
- There was a GDB last week. Agenda.
- Additional material can now be found in the HEPSYSMAN meeting and GANGA workshop agenda pages.
- Monday's ops update is available here.
- As circulated to TB-SUPPORT: The T2 WLCG A/R results for December are now available.
- ALICE. All okay.
- ATLAS.
- QMUL: 71%: 76%
- RHUL: 89%: 95%
- Lancaster: 0%: 0%
- CMS
- LHCb
- Lancaster: 81%: 96%
- RALPP: 87%: 87%
Tuesday 12th January
- Reminder: WLCG workshop registration closes on 22nd.
- GDB this Wednesday with a security focus.
Tuesday 5th January
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WLCG Operations Coordination - AgendasWiki Page
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Tuesday 26th January
Tuesday 19th January
- The next WLCG MW readiness group meeting will be on 27th January: Agenda at 15:00 UTC.
- There is an ops coordination meeting this Thursday at 14:30 UTC: Agenda.
Tuesday 12th January
- There was an ops coordination meeting last week. Minutes
- Approach for configuring batch systems (e.g. setting up mem limits).
Tuesday 5th January
- Ops coordination meeting on 17th December. Minutes.
- The next meeting is on 7th January. Agenda.
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Tier-1 - Status Page
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Tuesday 26th January
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 will migrate Atlas and LHCb data from the T10KC (5TB) to T10KD (8TB) generation tapes. Details (including timings) yet to be finalized but likely to start with Atlas first.
- We have seen a higher rate of problems on some disk servers in recent weeks. These are mainly individual disk failures. This is being reviewed. We had significant data loss from a disk server in AtlasScratchDisk when it suffered a triple disk failure a week ago.
- We are working a refresh of the database system behind the LFC.
- Both CPU and Disk capacity orders have been placed following a recent tender exercise.
- ARC-CE01 has been updated (to version 5.0.5). Remaining ARC-CE upgrades scheduled (warnings in GOC DB)
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Storage & Data Management - Agendas/Minutes
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Wednesday 20 Jan
- Operational issues (DPM database errors) and kablooie
- hepsysman report
- Gathering site issues and thoughts in prep'n for the coming WLCG workshop and ATLAS jamboree
Wednesday 13 Jan
- "Diskless" Tier 2 testing to go ahead anyway at Oxford; also Bristol may be interesting/interested
- Need feedback from VOs on catalogue format and location before rolling out to remaining sites
Wednesday 06 Jan
- Merry and happy. Apart from Glasgow losing power, most T2s came through the hols relatively unscathed
- Key member of T2 storageanddatamanagement supportologists leaving *sad face*
- Excellent DiRAC progress over hols (thanks, Lydia!), now need Leicester started.
- More generally, GridPP as a data (only) infrastructure, bring your own compute. Good case, but you need to bring your own catalogue (more or less), too, which may not suit everyone.
- Will a future T2 be built on CEPH? Not likely...
Wednesday 16 Dec
- Sam presented at and reports from DPM workshop
- Last preparations/coordination before the hols
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Tier-2 Evolution - GridPP JIRA
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Monday 25 Jan
- Vac 00.20.00 released. Emulates OpenStack environment for VMs, Cloud Init, contextualization from HTTP.
- Restarted testing of Cloud Init ATLAS VMs, and now getting jobs running to Finished state.
Tuesday 19 Jan
- Vcycle now supports EC2 API, and preparing to test with Open Nebula at RAL Tier1
- Next Vac release (00.20) being tested with LHCb production. This removes the need to have an internal NFS server and supports VMs using Cloud Init.
- Some work last month on revised ATLAS VMs; hoping to converge with VMs run at CERN and on HLT.
- Vac-in-a-Box updated for Vac 00.20 and NFS-less operation, and numerous feature requests (e.g. bulk adding of hypervisors)
Tuesday 8 Dec
- Liverpool has set up Vac with 126 VM slots. LHCb production MC and GridPP SAM tests running.
- GridPP DIRAC VMs now working with new dirac.gridpp.ac.uk service: needed an ad-hoc configuration value adding (/Resources/Computing/CEDefaults/VirtualOrganization=gridpp) for the pilots due to the multi-VO support (GRIDPP-9)
- For rollout, would like to set up a JIRA component for each site (several exist already.) Will be mailing sites to get the site contacts involved before we add each site.
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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 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.
- WLCG Information System Evolution Task Force is drafting refined definitions for LOG_CPU and PHYS_CPU, as well as the benchmark/calibration process. Progress is documented in this agenda:
https://indico.cern.ch/event/471965/
In particular, sites should note the 'BenchmarkingProcess.txt' (attached to agenda) which lays out in general terms how to run benchmark instances to obtain maximum throughput, and the GridPP Publishing Tutorial (https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Publishing_tutorial) which WLCG propose to adopt (with some modifications.)
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 26th January
- On Friday, one of the message brokers was in downtime and due to a bug, nagios probes were not failing over to the working one.
- There was another issue which prevented applying a workaround in the gridppnagios server.
- A new rota is being compiled.
Monday 11th January
- There was a problem with the dashboard during the week, where alarms wouldn't clear even though they had cleared in the nagios. The portal people are aware of this.
- The current alarms in Manchester (vomsserver) are thought to be fixed - the dashboard just hasn't caught up.
Monday 14th December
- Janet issue affected ROD dashboard access making it almost unusable.
- GGUS was updated on Wednesday (09/12/15) and was in downtime for two hours. The update did not go smoothly and the downtime was extended. The GGUS interface did not work through the dashboard for most of the morning on Wednesday.
- There were quite a few alarms throughout the week - most disappeared without intervention.
- Three open tickets remain against QMUL, RHUL and Lancaster.
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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 8th February
- EGI SVG Advisory 'HIGH' risk CVE-2016-0728 Linux Kernel vulnerability [EGI-SVG-2016-10376]
Tuesday 26th January
- CVE-2016-0728 Linux kernel: use after free in keyring facility local privilege escalation. EGI SVG Advisory in the works. Affects RH7 and derivatives/similar. RH5,RH6 and derivatives are not affected. RH/SL/CentOS updates published 25/01/2016
- The IGTF has released a regular update to the trust anchor repository (1.71) - for distribution ON OR AFTER January 25th -
Tuesday 12th January
Tuesday 15th December
- No updates applicable for the UK
- News from elsewhere: EGI CSIRT activity is now suspending multiple sites following CVE-2015-7181/2/3, largely due to simple failure to acknowledge the notification, which was all that was required.
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 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.
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 1st February 2016, 14.30 GMT
50 Open UK Tickets this week, no Ops meeting scheduled so postponing a full review.
org.bdii.GLUE2-Validate tickets
We have 8 sites with these tickets (7 as Bristol have slain theirs), these are being discussed on TB-SUPPORT. A lot of these are still just assigned though - even if the issue is not really our fault we still need to handle the ticket proper. Rising above it all and all that.
If someone has submitted or knows of a counter-ticket for this issue please let me know.
NGI
Talking about a pain in the Information System, the UK still has this ticket to close (which has a similar root problem): 118930
CMS Siteconf problems.
GLASGOW 119196
EDINBURGH 119195
OXFORD 119197
CMS have spotted a number of misconfigured T3s across the globe (on a Friday afternoon)- the fix seems to be straightforward enough and Glasgow look like they're done already. Proper job!
ATLAS CONSISTENCY CHECKS
We still have 8 tickets open on this issue, although a couple are waiting for feedback from atlas. I'll bring this up in the Thursday UK atlas meeting to see if we can't shimmy along the tickets waiting for atlas feedback.
PILOTS
117723
Whilst investigating pilot issues at QM Daniela reminds us of this page that tells us what Dirac things should be going on at your site. Might be handy to preempt problems:
http://www.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/~dbauer/dirac/site_pilot_status.html
118628
Whilst rolling out similar changes for LZ at RALPP Chris stumbled upon a problem, for which he submitted a bug report to nordugrid:
http://bugzilla.nordugrid.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3529
AND FINALLY
QMUL
118985 (21/1)
Biomed have got back to Dan suggesting that rather then ban them altogether until he has a cgroup-corral to put their jobs in if he would be willing and able to supply a list of the problem users. Of course this requires that there be any non-problem users in the VO... On hold (1/2)
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Tools - MyEGI Nagios
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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 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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