| General updates
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Tuesday 9th May
- April R/A draft figures available
- ALICE
- ATLAS
- QMUL: 82%:83%
- Birmingham: 86%: 86%
- RALPP: 86%:86%
- CMS
- LHCb
- QMUL: 65%:66%
- RALPP: 72%:72%
- HEPSYSMAN topics proposed & call for more.
- There is a GDB this Wednesday. Agenda.
- Notes from yesterday's WLCG ops meeting are available.
- WLCG workshop registration reminder. GridPP is going to pay for the travel expenses
- TB-SUPPORT discussions:
- Elena: Xeon E5-2640 v4 or E5-2650 v4. Questions about hardware.
- Andy: transfer source checksum operation timed out error.
- Reminder of the GOCDB information review. Please update the GridPP table created by Matt. Looks like just RAL Tier-1 and ECDF to be checked.
- Created storage sites status as per action O-170124-01
- Created a "Site status" category to group pages where we track sites status. Please add it to the pages you know which are not already listed.
Tuesday 2nd May
- HEPiX took place 24th-28th April.
- EGI: WMS service decommissioning and transition to DIRAC queries (noted Dirac and T2K).
- EGI considering the WLCG proposal for adoption in EGI for downtime notifications:
- a scheduled intervention shorter than 5 days must be declared at least 24 hours in advance
- a scheduled intervention longer than 5 days must be declared at least 1 month in advance
- any other intervention that don't fulfill the rules above will be considered unscheduled
- GOCDB information review. The GridPP tracking table is in the wiki. It relates to GGUS 127588.
- A reminder that registration for the WLCG ops workshop in Manchester is open.
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| WLCG Operations Coordination - AgendasWiki Page
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Tuesday 9th May
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 16th May
A reminder that there is a weekly Tier-1 experiment liaison meeting. Notes from the last meeting here
- Castor central services were upgraded to version 2.1.16 on Tuesday 9th May. It was not possible to do the LHCb stager and SRMs the same day and this is being on done Thursday (11th). Remaining updates to bring the rest of Castor to this version likely to be in around two weeks time.
- As reported for last week's meeting: On Friday 28th April there was a problem with the UPS for building R89. The UPS switched itself into "bypass" mode - which effectively means we have no UPS. We have run in this way since then. The cause was overheating of internal capacitors which failed. At the moment costs are being gathered for a way forward. In the current situation the diesel generator cannot be used either.
- The new version of FTS3, installed on our "test" FTS service (used by Atlas) last week no longer supports the SOAP API. There are still some access to our "production" FTS3 service via this API (mainly SNO+ and MICE). We will wish to upgrade the production FTS3 srevice - and need VOs to move to the rest API provided with the newer versions of FTS. Would like to set deadline when we upgrade the "production" instance and hence no longer support the SOAP API.
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| Storage & Data Management - Agendas/Minutes
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Wednesday 19 Apr
- Case for (re)testing CVMFS for T2s? (and non-LHC VOs?)
- Other storage related issues arising from use of containers?
Wednesday 12 Apr
- Musings on the outcome of last week's GridPP meeting
- Discussion of which of a selection of coming events to aim to do something for. If that makes sense, gramatically.
Wednesday 15 Feb
- Space tokens! Use them!
- Leafed through interesting topics (technology permitting) from the CS3 workshop
Wednesday 08 Feb
- More on accounting (again)
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| Tier-2 Evolution - GridPP JIRA
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Tuesday 2nd May
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.
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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 2nd May
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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Tuesday 2nd May
- Generally quiet. A few low availability tickets.
Monday 24th April
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.
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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 16th May
- No EGI advisories this week
- Main security-related sessions
- AAI, including RC-Auth CA, EGI CheckIn service and Indigo Access Manager [1]
- General EGI security group reports [2]
- UK Security team meeting this afternoon
Tuesday 9th May
- No EGI advisories this week
- Intel announced Critical Elevation of Privilege vulnerability in AMT firmware (1/5/2017, updated 5/5/2017). Sites recommended to carefully check for vulnerability & mitigations. [3]
- EGI & INDIGO DataCloud summit conf. this week [4]
- Security related tracks Tues pm (AAI) & Weds pm (Activity reports)
Tuesday 2nd May
- One EGI SVG Update to advisory issued under [TLP:WHITE] regarding privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the Linux kernel n_hdlc module (originally issued 09/03/2017, updated 27/04/2017) [5]
- Patched versions now available for all relevant Linux distributions.
- UK 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).
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
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 15th May 2017, 15.00 BST
34 Open UK Tickets this week - we're whittling them down.
Merseyside Webdav Access
128328 (15/5)
The Liver Lads got a ticket concerning Liverpool's information in the gocdb and how it was lacking a webdav endpoint. I'm not sure DPMs explicitly have a https://<hostname>443/webdav/<vo? endpoint, and webdav access just used the same namespace as everything else. But I could be wrong. Steve was on it though. In progress (15/5)
Sneaky Ticket at ECDF
128294 (12/5)
This ROD availability ticket snuck in on Friday and looks like it hasn't been noticed yet. Assigned (12/5)
Also regarding the SE ticket 128129 - we've been bitten by similar sounding issues at Lancaster, our SE was looking really clogged up and service restarts weren't cutting it - we had to reboot which seemed to cheer everything up.
And regarding the perfsonar ticket 127940, we had the same error message was was fixed by sorting out IPv6 for the node which had gotten into a weird state. Not sure if that applies though.
UK XROOTD Redirector at RAL
127598 (7/4)
Andrew reports that the machine to host this service is installed and awaiting firewall holes. Nice. In progress (12/5)
THANKS TO DANIELA AND DAN for helping Sussex out.
122772 (11/7/16)
Webdav/xroot ticket - atlas have enabled webdav and I assume it's working for them. In progress (9/5)
125503 (9/12/16)
Sno+ troubles after Sussex SE renaming- Daniela has been helping out and devising an LFC renaming strategy. Waiting for reply (10/5)
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