| General updates
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Tuesday 4th April
- Minutes of Monday's operations meeting are available.
- This year's WLCG workshop will be held June 19-22 in Manchester: Agenda. Registration.
- Andrew L: Advance warning: FTS3 deprecation of SOAP (4th April CERN and soon at RAL)
- people should no longer use the very old glite-transfer-* commands and instead use fts-transfer-* commands
- when specifying an FTS server use port 8446 rather than 8443.
- This move presents a problem for non-LHC VOs ... RAL options to postpone?
- Tier-2 reports for Q117 being generated. Please support their timely availability!
- ATLAS monitoring page usage survey. Their quick links page.
- There was an EGI OMB last Thursday | Agenda.
- cvmfs repo for the gridpp VO - status and plans for regional VOs to move
- There is a pre-GDB next Tuesday with an agenda focused on "Collaborating with other communities".
- The GDB next week has the following agenda and an afternoon discussion on containers.
Monday 27th March
- EGI Operations Broadcast - March 2017
- HSF Workshop on Visualization software - starting Tuesday March 28, 16hrs - BE Auditorium (6-2-024)
Tuesday 21st March
- Status of EMI and UMD UI/WN in CVMFS grid.cern.ch ... and planning CentOS7.
- GridPP VO CVMFS discussion. (Naming?).
- Minutes of Monday's WLCG ops meeting are available.
- Reminder of the survey (table) for GridPP38.
- The final T2 reliability and availability reports for February 2017 are available.
- Steve asks about ARGO monitoring for the UK and ARC site greyness. File a ticket.
- Simon points out there is a GridPP DIRAC users list at Imperial connected with support.
- On 16th: Many ATLAS sites were set in a test mode because of "no SE/SURL protocols defined for output". AGIS had the wrong update values.
- VAPOR application v2.2 is now online. Map |Faulty Resources | Figures - CPU & Storage split | API.
Tuesday 14th March
- Ivan: Any experience with adding storage to Fujitsu boxes?
- IPv6 status and plans. WG | Site status in GridPP.
- Steve: ARC Brainstorming Camp Summary.
- The March GDB took place last week at ISGC. Agenda.
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| WLCG Operations Coordination - AgendasWiki Page
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Tuesday 4th April
- The next ops coordination meeting is this Thursday 6th April. Agenda. The theme is HTCondor accounting work at PIC.
- Any T1 or T2 issues to be discussed?
Monday 20th March
Monday 6th March
- There was an ops coordination meeting on Thursday 2nd March - agenda | Minutes.
- The overview talks were: Mid-SLAs | Machine Job Features.
- The main summary items:
- Lessons learned from ATLAS tape usage tests. Follow up via FTS steering group. Will share experience with other experiments.
- "Mid SLA" resources. During the next months accumulate experience at CERN (providing such resources) and in experiments (using such resources). Review accumulated experience after a couple of months and decide what we need to do in terms of tagging, accounting, etc...
- MJF deployment is not as successful as desired. Find help (at least temporary) for deployment campaign concentrating on the LHCb sites. See whether this task would become more important considering outcome of the benchmarking discussion.
- In order to avoid inconsistencies in the naming of the service types along the WLCG IS chain (GocDB, OIM, SAM, experiment-specific systems like Dirac), there will be agreement between representatives from OSG, EGI and GocDB team and IS evolution task force on the policy for introducing of the new service types.
- The next WLCG ops coordination meeting will be on 6th April.
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| Tier-1 - Status Page
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Tuesday 4th April
A reminder that there is a weekly Tier-1 experiment liaison meeting. Notes from the last meeting here
- Castor SRM updates to version 2.1.16: The LHCb SRMs were successfully updated last Thursday (23rd March). This including upgrading the OS on the systems to SL6. A problem was encountered with the upgrade of the Atlas SRMs on the 28th - with the upgrade being completed the next day. As only two of the four Atlas SRMs were upgraded at first the impact on Atlas was reduced. Since the upgrades, we have had problems with the LHCb SRMs. The remaining SRM upgrades which were scheduled for Thursday (30th) have been postponed until we understand and fix the LHCb problems.
- Ongoing work to replace two (of the four) chillers supplying the A/C for the R89 machine room. The first chiller has been replaced. The second was lifted into position on Thursday (30th) and it is being commissioned.
- Ongoing tests ongoing with some batch jobs for the LHC VOs running in SL6 containers on worker nodes running SL7.
- New capacity hardware has been delivered (both CPU and storage). This is now in the racks being cabled up.
- We have updating our web server. From Wednesday (29th March) www.gridpp.rl.ac.uk points to a new location. References to the old server (lcgwww.gridpp.rl.ac.uk) will no longer work.
- Out of Hours cover for the CEPH ECHO service is being piloted.
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| Storage & Data Management - Agendas/Minutes
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Wednesday 15 Feb
- Space tokens! Use them!
- Leafed through interesting topics (technology permitting) from the CS3 workshop
Wednesday 08 Feb
- More on accounting (again)
Wednesday 01 Feb
- Accounting - need to revisit (again); KeyDocs need updating
- Hardware - Simon's got a disk array to test drive
Wednesday 18 Jan
- Continued ZFS discussion
- Updates from the non-LHC VOs, data-wise. Mostly no news, except for DiRAC, Cambridge HPC and Edingburgh EPCC are debugging and testing; LSST expecting to do MC workflows end of Jan.
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| Tier-2 Evolution - GridPP JIRA
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Tuesday 21 March 2017
Tuesday 14 March 2017
Tuesday 28 February 2017
- ATLAS jobs now running on Birmingham Vac VMs.
- LHCb is now running its standard DIRAC VMs on Google Compute Engine using GridPP's Vcycle.
Tuesday 21 February 2017
- Some ALICE production jobs running at Birmingham and Oxford in Vac VMs.
Tuesday 14 February 2017
- Vac installed at Birmingham. Running LHCb production jobs. Preparing to run ALICE VMs.
- ALICE VMs switched to using GSI proxies internally rather than host cert/keys.
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| Accounting - UK Grid Metrics HEPSPEC06 Atlas Dashboard HS06
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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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| Documentation - KeyDocs
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Tue 7th Mar
I want to get rid of following stale docs...
- Ten Easy Network Questions
- GridPP Answers to 10 Easy Network Questions
- SL5 status
- Glasgow Middleware Operations Logbook
- London Tier2 Shares
- 23rd June 2010 Special Topic: NGS Technical Roadmap - Pete Gronbech
- SAM availability: Monthly summary table
- Transfer Tests Birmingham Endpoints
- EVO Tips and Tricks
- BaBar: bbrbsub270
Monday 13th Feb
- Please check the keydocs page. Would all owners please review their pages and prepare a short note on how they will bring things up-to-date in the coming months. This will be discussed at a core ops meeting (poll to be circulated shortly).
- There are several EGI operations document updates out for review. Please make comments to Jeremy by 20th Febraury for inclusion in the UK feedback:
Monday 30th January
The fusion VO has been removed from GridPP Approved VOs.
Monday 9th January
- Tom put these together:
- A snapshot of the GridPP UserGuide is now available as an offline document in the Zenodo repository:
- ...and the v1.0 release of the LaTeX code used to compile it is here.
- There are some minor differences (mainly hyperlink-related) to the online version [1], which has also had a v1.0 release here.
Tue 22nd Nov
- More on Accounting audit tools
The process for ARC, Toque and VAC is now documented here.
https://github.com/gridpp/audit/wiki
General note
See the worst KeyDocs list for documents needing review now and the names of the responsible people.
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| Interoperation - EGI ops agendas
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Tuesday 21st March
Monday 13th February
- There was an ops meeting on 13th February. Agenda
- frontier-squid-3 in UMD 4.4.0 - changes to config
- Assess IPv6 readiness:
- Resource Centres: assess the IPv6 readiness of the site infrastructure (real machines, cloud managers)
- NGIs/ROCs please start discussing with sites and provide suggestions for the overall plan
- Decommissioning of dCache 2.10
- Discussed stale ARGO results; being discussed with Product Teams.
Monday 16th January
- There was an ops meeting on 9th January. Agenda.
Monday 7th November
- There was an EGI Ops meeting today: agenda
- UMD 3.14.5 released today
- VOMS 3.5.0, which makes RFC proxies the default for voms-proxy-init
- UMD 4.3.0 'October' release, release candidate ready, to be released by end of this week, including:
- ARC, GFAL2, XROOT, Davix, dCache, ARGUS, Gridsite, edg-mkgrid, umd-release for CentOS7
- please start using UMD4/SL6 or UMD4/CentOS7 instead of UMD3/SL6 & please don't use anymore EMI3
- (think there may be a campaign around this soon)
- Downtimes due to the vulnerability CVE-2016-5195: request an A/R recomputation
- All the resource centres that were affected by the vulnerability CVE-2016-5195 and that declared a downtime between 2016-10-20 16:00 UTC and 2016-10-31 18:00 UTC are invited to request a recomputation of A/R figures for the days in which the downtime was ongoing.
- ARGO proposal to use GOCDB as the only source of topology information
- VAPOR 2.1 released in September, it replaces GSTAT
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| Monitoring - Links MyWLCG
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Monday 13th Febraury
- 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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20th March
- Another quiet week. One ticket to Oxford and a new availablility ticket to Glasgow. Other than that, most of the tickets have been there for a couple of weeks.
27th February
- Forwarded two tickets (RALPP and ECDF) to the monitoring team, as this looks like more ARC shenanigans.
- There's also a bunch of low availability tickets which clog up the system.
Tuesday 21st February
- Very quiet!
- Rota responses enable planning through to May.
Monday 16th January
- Rota to be updated this week. Gordon is on shift this week.
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| Rollout Status WLCG Baseline
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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
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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Tuesday 11th April
- One EGI SVG advisory issued under [TLP:AMBER] regarding Openstack
Tuesday 4th April
- No advisories or incidents to report
- Last week's WISE workshop [1], not new but ...
- For developers - SWAMP software assurance toolset [2]
- For operations - Incident response in the Federated identity world - Sirtfi [3]
- UK Security Team meeting this afternoon.
Tuesday 28th March
- The following advisories were issued under [TLP:AMBER], check the advisory for details and if you might be affected -
- 1 High risk vulnerability advisory issued by EGI SVG potentially affecting a number of services.
- 1 Critical risk vulnerability advisory issued by EGI SVG affecting 1 service.
- 1 Security Incident reported via the EGI CSIRT, not in the UK.
- Updated IGTF distribution 1.82 available - updated CA root certificates [4]
- WISE - Security for collaborating infrastructures meeting this week [5]
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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 6th March
- Last week it was noted that some ATLAS RIPE probes (the USB ones) have had hardware errors. If you need a replacement and RIPE are slow to respond then contact Jeremy.
- Is anyone running any tests with their RIPE probe?
Tuesday 14th February
- The development dashboard is now operational again. However the production dashboard is not currently displaying latency results (OSG ticket submitted).
- Birmingham pS host had lost its entire network connection and both Lancaster's hosts their IPv6 connection. Durham results are incomplete, GGUS ticket submitted (#126587).
Tuesday 25th October
- Duncan has recreated the UK perfSONAR mesh. Link here!
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| Tickets
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Monday 10th April 2017, 15.00 BST
43 Open UK tickets this week (not quite a record, but getting close).
UK NGI - GOCDB INFORMATION REVIEW
127588 (7/4)
There's a yearly drive to double check the NGI contact information in the GOCDB. There's a list of tasks for NGI managers, but RC managers (aka site admins) are also requested to review their contact details. If everyone could double check the information as requested that would be great - we've got a leg up on this thanks to Ian's Security Contact Challenge. They have asked for this to be completed by the 28th of April - so we'll bring this up again at that week's Ops meeting. In progress (10/4)
CMS RFIO tickets (5/4)
CMS have released a bunch of tickets to Glasgow, Edinburgh, UCL, Brunel and the Tier 1 asking for the rfio protocol to be removed from their site 'storage.xml's. The Edinburgh and UCL tickets might not have been noticed yet as they were still in the "assigned" state at time of writing, the rest seem to be going okay:
UCL: 127526
ECDF: 127527
QMUL Biomed ticket
127445 (1/4)
I don't think this ticket was a poorly thought out April Fool's day joke, so please could it be acknowledged (or just dismissed with a prompt solving/unsolving if it's a load of cobblers). Assigned (1/4)
IC MICE TICKET
127473 (3/4)
This Mice ticket has been bounced around a bit, so you may not have noticed it arrive in the Imperial Inbox (on top of all the other work).
That's all for this week, next week I'm enjoying Lancaster's generous long Easter closure so if there is a meeting I won't be there, so here's a link to all the UK tickets in case you need it.
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