General updates
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Monday 22nd January
- There is a GDB on 10th January. Agenda.
- The CHEP2018 abstract submissions deadline has been extended until January 15 2018.
- VAC wide cert issue.
- Vulnerability discussions.
- CMS requirement for Singularity on worker nodes by March 2018. CMS plans to include the SAM Singularity probe in the critical profile in March.
- Matt: xrdcp permission denied errors with a CA flavour.
- WLCG-HSF Naples Workshop - Monday 26 March at 9am to Thursday 29 March at 12 noon.
- 8th Jan Cloud workshop details.
- EGI IGTF CA update, version 1.89-1
Monday 18th December
- There was a WLCG GDB last week. Minutes are available.
- There was an EGI OMB last Thursday. Agenda. Note WMS decommissioning schedule and storage accounting.
Monday 4th December
Monday 27th November
- HSF CWP "Roadmap for HEP Software and Computing R&D for the 2020s"
- CHEP 2016 proceedings have been published.
- The next WLCG GDB will be on 13th December. Agenda.
- perfSONAR configuration change.
Monday 20th November
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WLCG Operations Coordination - AgendasWiki Page
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Tuesday 23rd January
Tuesday 21st November
- The next WLCG ops coordination meeting will be on 7th December. Do we have any topics we would like covered?
Tuesday 7th November
- The WLCG ops coordination meeting last week (agenda | minutes had as highlights the topics:
- Security Operations Center WG Workshop/Hackathon
- Review of EL7 migration plans
- Providing reliable storage: presentation by BNL
Monday 23rd October
- The next WLCG ops coordination meeting will be on 2nd November.
Tuesday 10th October
- There was an ops coordination meeting last Thursday 5th October: Agenda | Minutes.
- There is one action for us to follow-up: "Collect plans from sites to move to EL7". We could make use of the Batch Systems table.
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Tier-1 - Status Page
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Tuesday 16th January
Report from the last Tier1 - Experiments Liaison Meeting at on 10th January is here.
- Ongoing patching for latest security issues.
- We had announced the decommissioning of our WMS service. This was brought forward. The WMS service had no jobs in it and would have needed patching. It was set into drain mode so as to stop accepting any new data on Wednesday 10th Jan.
- Disk server gdss745 (AtlasDataDisk - D1T0) has failed with loss of all data on the server. The problem was triggered by a failed drive. However, errors seen on other disk drives while this one was rebuilding led to loss of the RAID6 array. There were around 960,000 files on the server - around half of which were unique. A post mortem investigation of this incident will be carried out.
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Storage & Data Management - Agendas/Minutes
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Wed 06 Dec
- Another success story - CERN@School running machine learning at QMUL
- Technical events coming up - hepsysman and cloud workshop at Crick. We ought to do something Useful or Interesting.
Wed 15 Nov
- More xcache progress at some sites; less at others who may be blocking on dependencies or be busy with Other Things(tm)
- Some interest in following the non-X.509 authentication/authorisation
Wed 08 Nov
- Not (very) modest at all progress on xcache testing... from Chris at RALPP
Wed 01 Nov
- (very) modest progress on xcache testing...
- Except that RALPP has it fully working for dCache - hope to get full report next week
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Tier-2 Evolution - GridPP JIRA
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Tuesday 12 Dec
- Vcycle updated for Glance API 2.0 and to support Vacuum Pipe VM definitions.
Tuesday 14 Nov
- Single processor LHCb stoppable Monte Carlo VMs running in a mixture with fixed length 8 processor ATLAS VMs and single processor GridPP VMs. Please get in touch if you are running Vac and want to try this.
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Accounting - UK Grid Metrics HEPSPEC06 Atlas Dashboard HS06
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Tuesday 24th Oct
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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Tuesday 22nd Jan 2018
CHANGE TO APPROVED VOs
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.
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Interoperation - EGI ops agendas Indico schedule
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Monday 20th November
- There was an EGI Operations Meeting today: Agenda.
Monday 9th October
- MW
- UMD 4.6 in November
- UI, CREAM, ARGUS
- If not before in 4.5.1
- UMD Preview update on 22/9
- not rooted 4.7.0 has a bug, wait for update
- CREAM version in Preview, please test if applicable (leading to release as noted above)
- Ops
- cASO (OpenStack Accounting extractor) update: 100%IT done (GGUS ticket 130665)
- A/R nothing to report
- Computation Power
- Sites check data by end of the month
- EMI WMS
- mice noted as being enabled on DIRAC
- IPv6 Readiness
- Would be useful for us to provide a report
- webdav probes
- If you're advertising a webdav endpoint, make sure it's in the GOC DB
- Storage accounting deployment
- Enable by 30th October; tickets to follow. Note that per broadcast new data currently not showing, please ticket on errors in logs only
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Monitoring - Links MyWLCG
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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
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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Monday 20th November
- Generally quiet. There are three outstanding tickets: low availability at Birmingham, one at Liverpool which might just have gone green, and out-of-date IGTF CAs at Sheffield.
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Security - Incident Procedure Policies Rota
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Tuesday 12th December
Tuesday 5th December
Nothing to report concerning the UK.
DI4R conference was last week, https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3455/
Plans for integration/co-operation between various projects security teams during EOSC (European Open Science Cloud) project presented
https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3455/session/12/contribution/77
- GGUS tickets and the trust anchor. Who to ticket result?
Tuesday 28th November
- Nothing new to report (tracking update from last week - remember you can check your site!)
Tuesday 21st November
A few sites have showed up in pakiti with high risk vulnerabilities. If you haven't been prodded about this already then expect an email from someone in the security team soon.
Monday 30th October
- EGI SVG ALERT [TLP:WHITE] Up to 'CRITICAL' risk, kernel exploit CVE-2017-7184 and others [EGI-SVG-CVE-2017-7184]
- Upcoming meetings
- Details and registration for SOC WG Workshop in December: Advert Indico
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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 20th November
- perfSONAR: No news.
- GridPP DIRAC: DPM & xrootd version. Upgrade due 16th November.
- RIPE ATLAS probes: Status & tests TBC
- The next LHCOPN/LHCONE meeting will be at RAL 6-7th March 2018. The UK position on LHCONE is being reviewed. RAL T1 will (likely) connect via the LHCOPN in the coming months. T2s watch this space!
Monday 23rd October
- The LHCOPN/ONE meeting took place last week at KEK, co-hosted with the HEPiX Fall meeting.
- You can find a short report of the meeting here.
- All the slides presented are available in the agenda.
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).
here
- Duncan has recreated the UK perfSONAR mesh. Link here!
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Tools - MyEGI Nagios
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Monday 20th November
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.
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VOs - GridPP VOMS VO IDs Approved VO table
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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.
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