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Week commencing Monday 21st May 2018

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General updates Monday 21st May CHEP 2018 registration is open until June 2nd. As of 15th May: EUGridPMA have announced a new set of CA rpms. Monday 14th May HEPSYSMAN registration and requests. The meeting will run 18th-20th June. Please register here. An annual review of GOCDB information will be carried out next week (as requested under GGUS 135038. Please check your site information during this week to reduce requests next week. The Spring HEPiX takes place this week 14th-18th May at the University of Wisconsin. Detailed agenda. The next WLCG SOC workshop - CERN 27th-29th June. EGI A/R figures per NGI for recent months can be seen on this page. The latest WLCG ops summary (from yesterday) is available in the wiki. Tuesday 8th May WLCG Monday ops meeting - notes from yesterday. EOSC-Gov - Open Call to all EOSC stakeholders for participation to Stakeholder Liaison Groups. EOSC-Gov is a project proposal being developed to set up an operational framework that supports the EOSC governance following principles of openness, transparency and participation. Created an egroup for the activities related to the WLCG DOMA (data organization, management, access) evolution project. Everyone is welcome to subscribe to wlcg-doma at cern.ch. Kick off meeting 4th-5th June. John|Simon: Debugging transfer failures. Example. WLCG T2 availability & reliability - April 2018. Webdav docs link. There was an EGI OMB last week. Agenda. Tier-2 H/w Survey 2018 - responses due. There is a WLCG GDB tomorrow. Agenda WLCG Operations Coordination - AgendasWiki Page WLCG archival storage WG - 7th May 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 Next WLCG Operations Coordination meeting will take place this Thursday 1st of March starting at 15:30 CEST. Tier-1 - Status Page Tuesday 22nd May Report for the Experiments Liaison Report (21th May 2018) is here. No incidents to report this week, Tier-1 is very much business as usual. No down-times scheduled for the coming week. Storage & Data Management - Agendas/Minutes Wed 16 May Operational issues some of which at least are due to timeouts hardwired in the system. Report on CERN data lakes - still lots of questions, though. Maybe if we could try it out? Wed 02 May DPM DOME discussion... will Glasgow (or someone else) volunteer to test before DPM workshop? Storage agenda for HEPiX Monday 30th April There is a new recommended GridFTP configuration change to accommodate checksum. Wed 25 Apr Discussion regarding CMS (ab)use of Bristol? Report on impact of Spectre and Meltdown BIOS patches Tier-2 Evolution - GridPP JIRA Tuesday 15th May New WLCG Lightweight Sites WG starting: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/LightweightSites Tuesday 8th May Updated the instructions in the wiki about supporting GridPP DIRAC Service VOs at Vac sites. This makes use of the multipart vacuum pipes in Vac 3.0, which allow the definitions of multiple VMs to be obtained from a single JSON file: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Vac_configuration_for_GridPP_DIRAC (The same mechanism will work in Vcycle 1.0) 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. Accounting - UK Grid Metrics HEPSPEC06 Atlas Dashboard HS06 Tuesday 6th February HEPSPEC06 on recent Intel CPUs. GridPP benchmarking page Tuesday 30th January Please keep updating the GridPP benchmarking page. Tuesday 24th Oct A talk on end-to-end validation of any site's APEL accounting was presented at the WLCG Accountuing Taskforce meeting, 19th Oct. There slides exist here: https://indico.cern.ch/event/673843/contributions/2756986/attachments/1542818/2420233/blackBoxAccTesting.pdf 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 8th May 2018 Updating GridPP website certificate to avoid Chrome warnings Tuesday 6th March 2018 The DTEAM VO has now changed its VOMS server. Please see alert notice here: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs Tuesday 22nd Jan 2018 CHANGE TO APPROVED VOs New Approved VO A VO, solidexperiment.org, has been included in the GridPP Approved VOs document. Sites are requested to support this experiment, resources permitting. https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs#Approved_Local_VOs In the Ops Portal, LHCb mentions a new cvmfs mount, /cvmfs/lhcb-condb.cern.ch A voms server for magic, voms02.pic.es, has an updated DN. Tuesday 9th Jan 2018 Changes to Approved VOs. a) VOMS servers for planck, ipv6.hepix.org and enmr are now restored to as they were before the flooding at CNAF. b) The DN of a VOMS server for magic has changed. https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs 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. 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 Monday 14th May Meeting today: Agenda Access to UMD3 repos has ceased: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=135100 org.nordugrid.ARC-CE-sw-csh probe removed from CRITICAL and OPERATORS profiles Yearly review of the information registered into GOC-DB - to be completed by June 6 (see item in General section) Next meeting June 11th EGI repos guidance/Ongoing campaigns: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Muddleware Proposal to rename this to "EGI Operations" Tuesday 24th April The next EGI OMB is on 3rd May Tuesday 6/3 Next meeting on Monday: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3639/ 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 Monday 21st May There was a problem with jobs accessing http://repository.egi.eu:80/sw/production/cas/1/current/meta/ca-policy-egi-core.list to get the latest release so many arc ce test fails. No tickets opened for these alarms and the problem went away when the underlying issue was fixed. Monday 5th March AM->GS. A quiet week last week. Rollout Status WLCG Baseline Monday 20th November IPv6: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/IPv6_site_status (up-to-date as of November) Batch systems and WN moves to SL7/CentOS7: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Batch_system_status (added column for date of last update) Historical 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 Tuesday 15th May Meeting scheduled for this afternoon Tuesday 8th May EGI IGTF CA update, version 1.91-1 ticket created [EGI #14315] Monday 30th April (David) Any feedback from the EOSC security communications meeting? Tuesday 24th April A reminder about the next SOC workshop. 27th-29th of June at CERN: https://indico.cern.ch/event/717615/ Tuesday 20th March Communication challenge took place on Wednesday 14th March.

Services - PerfSonar production dashboard |PerfSonar development dashboard | OSG Networking and perfSONAR pages | 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). Monday 30th April The next LHCOPN and LHCONE joint meeting will take place on Tuesday the 30th and Wednesday the 31st of October 2018 Monday 19th February Please could sites upgrade their perfsonar hosts to CentOS7. Instructions are here. Current OS versions here. Duncan has recreated the UK perfSONAR mesh. Link here! Tickets Monday 21st May 2018, 14.00 BST 43 Open UK Tickets this week. Sites getting Ticket Updates? We've had two anecdotal tales of sites not getting emails updates to some tickets (135139 at Lancaster and 134945 at RHUL). Has anyone else not been getting emails about their tickets? NGI 135038(9/5) The yearly review of our gocdb information. Everyone did check that their site (and their own) details were correct, right? (I had my old office phone number listed). Jeremy is proceeding to the NGI level review now. In progress (21/5) SKATELESCOPE.EU TICKETS QMUL: 135042 CAMBRIDGE: 134980 Both these tickets appears to be waiting for submitter/VO input, and perhaps are solved. BRISTOL 135121 (15/5) 135120 (15/5) I'm not sure what's going on with the dates on these, but both ROD tickets were submitted by Kashif last week and both are still in the assigned state at time of writing. Assigned (15/5) 134820 (29/4) This CMS pledge enquiry was answered, so I think it's waiting on CMS input. The ticket likely needs a prod to stir the pot. In progress (1/5) MANCHESTER 134684 (23/4) One of the "please upgrade perfsonar" tickets, this is waiting for an answer from Duncan. Waiting for reply (4/5) DURHAM 134687 (23/4) Also a perfsonar upgrade ticket, any progress with this? In progress (30/4) IMPERIAL (kind of) 134567 (17/5) I think this Pheno corrupt file cleanup ticket is nearly completed, it just needs to be kept an eye on to make sure it doesn't hang around after it's done. In progress (17/5) QMUL 132929 (18/1) After re-reading Adrian's last post I think there's a request for information in there to help debug things from the apel side. In progress (10/5) TIER 1 135133 (15/5) Chris has asked the ECHO admins to look at this CMS ticket, after seeing some odd behaviour. In progress (17/5) 133992 (12/3) This other ECHO related ticket, from atlas, looks like it has badly stalled. Is there still an active issue to fix? In progress (19/4) Tools - MyEGI Nagios Monday 20th November The WLCG dashboard is available here: http://dashboard.cern.ch/. Please review the results on Steve's test pages. 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. VOs - GridPP VOMS VO IDs Approved VO table 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. 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