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'''Tuesday 18th June'''
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* DPM Workshop last week - come to this week's storage meeting for an in-depth look.
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** https://indico.cern.ch/event/776832/
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* DIRAC downtime this week due to the move to Slough - good luck!
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* EGI Ops meeting this week.
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** https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Agenda-2019-06-17
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** HTCondorCE commissioning ongoing, SRM decommissioning survey
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** State of SRM usage at DPM sites?
  
'''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.
 
* [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/userguide/data-on-the-grid/dirac-dfc-cli.html  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!).
 
* [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/GDBMeetingNotes20160113 Notes from the January GDB] are now available.
 
* Publishing CPUs...!
 
* Sam: WLCG WORKSHOP Site Feedback on Storage technologies.
 
  
'''Tuesday 19th January'''
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'''Tuesday 11th June'''
* There was a GDB last week. [http://indico.cern.ch/event/394776/ Agenda].
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* Additional material can now be found in the [https://indico.cern.ch/event/465560/ HEPSYSMAN meeting] and [http://indico.cern.ch/event/465558/ GANGA workshop] agenda pages.
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* Monday's ops update is available [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGDailyMeetingsWeek160118#Monday here].
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* As circulated to TB-SUPPORT: The T2 WLCG A/R results for December are now available.
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** [http://wlcg-sam.cern.ch/reports/2015/201512/wlcg/WLCG_All_Sites_ALICE_Dec2015.pdf ALICE]. All okay.
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** [http://wlcg-sam.cern.ch/reports/2015/201512/wlcg/WLCG_All_Sites_ATLAS_Dec2015.pdf ATLAS].
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*** QMUL: 71%: 76%
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*** RHUL: 89%: 95%
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*** Lancaster: 0%: 0%
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** [http://wlcg-sam.cern.ch/reports/2015/201512/wlcg/WLCG_All_Sites_CMS_Dec2015.pdf CMS]
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*** RALPP: 89%: 89%
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** [http://wlcg-sam.cern.ch/reports/2015/201512/wlcg/WLCG_All_Sites_LHCB_Dec2015.pdf LHCb]
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*** Lancaster: 81%: 96%
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*** RALPP: 87%: 87%
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* Technical Meeting last week about the New JSON based Information System:  https://indico.cern.ch/event/821105/
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* This week we will get round to looking at the outcome of the Security Day (and HEPSYSMAN).
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* The DPM Workshop is this week: https://indico.cern.ch/event/776832/ There's a Vidyo Room planned for people to listen in.
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* CentOS7 Migration https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasComputing/CentOS7Deployment
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'''Tuesday 4th June 2019'''
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* The Security Day  + HEPSYSMAN was on t'other week: https://indico.cern.ch/event/721692/
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* Please can sites review their GOCDB information: https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=141296
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* iris.ac.uk VO - Andrew explained this.
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* New(-ish) HEPOSLib release - 7.2.9 https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGBaselineTable
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* Gareth's query about the WS interface to ARC on TB-SUPPORT
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* Anything else?
  
 
'''Tuesday 12th January'''
 
* Reminder: WLCG workshop registration closes on 22nd.
 
* [http://indico.cern.ch/event/394776/ GDB this Wednesday] with a security focus.
 
 
 
'''Tuesday 5th January'''
 
* [https://indico.cern.ch/event/465560/ HEPSYSMAN meeting] Friday and [http://indico.cern.ch/event/465558/ GANGA workshop] Thursday next week.
 
* WLCG operations [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGDailyMeetingsWeek160104#Monday Monday 4th January report].
 
* [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/pub/LCG/WLCGBaselineVersions/dcache-bug.txt dCache bug reported] 17th December.
 
* The [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/GDBMeetingNotes20151209 December GDB notes] have been released.
 
* [https://indico.cern.ch/e/Spring2016HTCondorWorkshop Workshop for HTCondor] and ARC CE in Barcelona 29-Feb to 04-Mar 2016]
 
* A reminder that those going to the [https://indico.cern.ch/event/433164/timetable/#all.detailed WLCG workshop] in February need to register.
 
* There is a GDB next Wednesday (13th): [http://indico.cern.ch/event/394776/ Agenda] not yet ready but will cover "a number of talks focussing on security & related issues".
 
 
'''Tuesday 15th December'''
 
* Simon: Raised a question about switch monitoring.
 
* WMSes:
 
** How many WMS servers do you have in production?
 
** How many and which VOs are enabled?
 
** Which VOs are using the service most?
 
** If possible, can you provide the jobs number submitted per month (and per VO) through your instances during the last year (Dec 2014 - Nov 2015)?
 
* [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGDailyMeetingsWeek151207#Thursday Notes from Thursday's operations meeting].
 
* [https://espace.cern.ch/WLCG-document-repository/ReliabilityAvailability/2015/november-15/ T2 reliability & availability reports for November 2015], with corrections applied.
 
* Govind: Process for dealing with lost files.
 
* Janet issued a [https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/janet-network-service-update-10-dec-2015 statement] regarding the DDoS last week.
 
  
  
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'''Tuesday 11th June'''
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* I got stuck (figuratively) in my machine room last Thursday afternoon so missed it. [https://indico.cern.ch/event/823800/ Agenda.] [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGOpsMinutes190606 Minutes.] Ste was there - any observations?
  
* Minutes from the [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGDailyMeetingsWeek160118#Thursday Thursday 21st Ops Coordination Meeting].
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'''Tuesday 14th May'''
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* Next meeting this Thursday.
  
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'''Tuesday 9th April'''
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* Ops meeting last week: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGOpsMinutes190404
  
'''Tuesday 19th January'''
 
* The next WLCG MW readiness group meeting will be on 27th January: [http://indico.cern.ch/e/MW-Readiness_15 Agenda] at 15:00 UTC.
 
* There is an ops coordination meeting this Thursday at 14:30 UTC: [https://indico.cern.ch/event/466817/ Agenda].
 
  
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'''Tuesday 26th March'''
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* For information, there was an Ops meeting on the 7th: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/viewauth/LCG/WLCGOpsMinutes190307 (I think we might have dicussed this one).
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* Next meeting booked for 4th April
  
'''Tuesday 12th January'''
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'''Monday 11th February 2019'''
* There was an ops coordination meeting last week. [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGOpsMinutes160107 Minutes]
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* There was a WLCG ops coordination meeting last Thursday. You can view the meeting notes [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGOpsMinutes190207 here].
* Approach for configuring batch systems (e.g. setting up mem limits).
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** End of CREAM support Dec 2020.
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** Migration from CREAM to be discussed at the EGI conference 6-8 of May in Amsterdam.
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** Operational intelligence discussion ([https://indico.cern.ch/event/795889/sessions/302520/attachments/1792600/2920978/Operational_Intelligence_-_WLCG_Ops_Coord-2.pdf see slides]).
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** Experiment updates (see ATLAS discussion on DOMA)
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** WG updates (few).
  
'''Tuesday 5th January'''
 
* Ops coordination meeting on 17th December. [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGOpsMinutes151217 Minutes].
 
* The next meeting is on 7th January. [https://indico.cern.ch/event/466816/ Agenda].
 
  
'''Tuesday 7th December'''
 
* There was a WLCG operations coordination meeting last Thursday. [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGOpsMinutes151203 Minutes] | [https://indico.cern.ch/event/393621/ Agenda].
 
** Please register for the WLCG workshop.
 
** News: RedHat now fixing the openldap crash issue affecting Top BDII and ARC-CE. Stay tuned.
 
** T0: LSF 9 software deployed on all worker nodes
 
** T1: CC-IN2P3 & PIC: Globus host certificate validation changes
 
** T2: NTR
 
** ALICE: heavy ion run has been smooth from the grid perspective
 
** ATLAS: Tier-0 performance in terms of events/second reconstructed from the whole cluster are quite low (few tents of Hz), observed huge I/O wait in Wigner spinning disks nodes. Plan full reprocessing campaign start for the 14th of December.
 
** CMS: CMS Tier-0 workflows is driving some CERN Openstack hardware to its limits: GGUS:118056.
 
** LHCb: Significant MC generation in-coming. MC simulation workflows have been executed successfully on commercial clouds, on both DBCE (up to 600 simultaneous jobs running) and Azure.
 
** glexec: NTR
 
** M/J features: Ongoing discussions clarifying key/value pairs. Next steps to review experience with implementations and installations, and update in view of technical note discussions.
 
** HTTP TF: NTR
 
** Infro sys future: Future Use Cases Document is now ready in the WLCG Document Repository ([https://espace.cern.ch/WLCG-document-repository/Technical_Documents/WLCGFutureISUseCases_1.6.pdf PDF]). Looking at information system owned by WLCG (an interesting idea). Starting to prepare a Roadmap to GLUE 2.0.
 
** IPv6: VOMS still does not work with IPv6. ARGUS not really tested but no problem expected as Java has good IPv6 support.
 
** MW readiness: [http://indico.cern.ch/event/458821/ Virtual meeting on 2nd December]. Verification workflows in progress listed [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/MWReadinessMeetingNotes20151202 here].
 
** MC: NTR
 
** Network/transfer metrics: NTR
 
** RFC proxies: CMS have switched test pilot factories to RFC proxies.
 
** Squid monitoring/HTTP discovery: NTR
 
  
  
'''Monday 30th November'''
 
* [https://espace.cern.ch/WLCG-document-repository/Technical_Documents/WLCGFutureISUseCases_1.3.pdf An Information System future use cases document has been produced].
 
  
  
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'''Tuesday 26th January'''
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A reminder that there is a weekly [http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/RAL_Tier1_Experiments_Liaison_Meeting Tier-1 experiment liaison meeting]. Notes from the last meeting [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Tier1_Operations_Report_2016-01-20 here]
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'''17 June 2019''' Report for the Experiments Liaison Report (17/06/2019) is [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Tier1_Operations_Report_2019-06-17 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.
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* We plan to 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.
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* We have seen some problems with the CMSTape instance. Two out of the five disk servers in CMSTape were taken out of service on Monday (11th) owing to double disk failures. Some other parameter changes were made to optimise throughput. Service being kept under review. An additional disk server was added at the end of last week, with plans to add a further one in the next week or two.
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* We have seen a higher rate of problems on soem disk servers in recent weeks. These are mainly individual disk failures. This is being reviewed.
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* We are working a refresh of the database system behind the LFC.
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* Ongoing, we are seeing high outbound packet loss over IPv6.  Central networking performed a firmware update to the border routers but this didn’t resolve the issue.  Plan to move connections to the new border routers in Mid June.  Will do this before trying to debug any further.
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'''11 June 2019''' Report for the Experiments Liaison Report (10/06/2019) is [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Tier1_Operations_Report_2019-06-10 here].
 
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* Ongoing, we are seeing high outbound packet loss over IPv6.  Central networking performed a firmware update to the border routers but this didn’t resolve the issue.  Plan to move connections to the new border routers in Mid June.  Will do this before trying to debug any further.
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* Three certificates were revoked mistakenly on ARGUS on Thursday.  All SAM tests failed until this was fixed the next morning.  Batch farm also did not start any new jobs during this time.  We used this accidental draining to reboot nodes that needed to pick up security patching.
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* LHCb Castor instance has been completely disabled for LHCb and will be decommissioned.
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* Brian Davies has transferred from his role as GridPP Tier-2 Storage Support Officer and has joined the Tier-1 Production Team.  Although this has happened with immediate effect he will still be available for ad-hoc/informal storage support.
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20160120-minutes.txt Wednesday 20 Jan]'''
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20191030-minutes.txt Wed 30 Oct]'''
* Operational issues (DPM database errors) and kablooie
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* DOME upgrade problems at Edinburgh
* hepsysman report
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* Data management support/development for IRIS users
* Gathering site issues and thoughts in prep'n for the coming WLCG workshop and ATLAS jamboree
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20160113-minutes.txt Wednesday 13 Jan]'''
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20191023-minutes.txt Wed 23 Oct]'''
* "Diskless" Tier 2 testing to go ahead anyway at Oxford; also Bristol may be interesting/interested
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* Rucio reporting
* Need feedback from VOs on catalogue format and location before rolling out to remaining sites
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20160106-minutes.txt Wednesday 06 Jan]'''
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'''Wed 16 Oct'''
* Merry and happy. Apart from Glasgow losing power, most T2s came through the hols relatively unscathed
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* CEPH workshop at CERN report
* Key member of T2 storageanddatamanagement supportologists leaving *sad face*
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* Excellent [http://gridpp-storage.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/update-on-vodiracacuk-data-mopvement.html DiRAC progress] over hols (thanks, Lydia!), now need Leicester started.  
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20191002-minutes.txt Wed 02 Oct]'''
* 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.
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* Safe to upgrade to DPM 1.13 but make sure the BDII is working if you support DIRAC
* Will a future T2 be built on CEPH? Not likely...
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* Roadmap for xroot and http TPC for RAL FTS(es)
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20190925-minutes.txt Wed 25 Sept]'''
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* Storage support for IRIS VOs?
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20190918-minutes.txt Wed 18 Sept]'''
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* Report from yesterday's Rucio Face Meeting at Coseners
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* Suggestions for following up from yesterday's CEPH day hosted by CERN
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20190911-minutes.txt Wed 11 Sept]'''
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* Storage related stuff at the FNAL (pre-)GDBs
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* DOME upgrade tickets for non-DOME DPM sites
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20190904-minutes.txt Wed 04 Sept]'''
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* Banning in SSC not entirely successful in non-DOME DPM, and end of support is nigh; tickets to upgrade will go out shortly.
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* Storage-and-data-management-wise, GridPP43 was interesting although no-one volunteered to install the next CEPH.
  
'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20151216-minutes.html Wednesday 16 Dec]'''
 
* Sam presented at and reports from DPM workshop
 
* Last preparations/coordination before the hols
 
  
 
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'''Tuesday 30 Apr 2019'''
'''Monday 25 Jan'''
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* ATLAS CernVM4 VMs (equivalent to CentOS 7.6) being tested  
* Vac 00.20.00 released. Emulates OpenStack environment for VMs, Cloud Init, contextualization from HTTP.
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* Restarted testing of Cloud Init ATLAS VMs
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'''Tuesday 19 Jan'''
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* Vcycle now supports EC2 API, and preparing to test with Open Nebula at RAL Tier1
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* 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.
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* Some work last month on revised ATLAS VMs; hoping to converge with VMs run at CERN and on HLT.
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* Vac-in-a-Box updated for Vac 00.20 and NFS-less operation, and numerous feature requests (e.g. bulk adding of hypervisors)
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'''Tuesday 8 Dec'''
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* Liverpool has set up Vac with 126 VM slots. LHCb production MC and GridPP SAM tests running.
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* 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)
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* For rollout, would like to set up a JIRA component for each site ([https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/GRIDPP/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:components-panel several exist already].) Will be mailing sites to get the site contacts involved before we add each site.
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'''Tuesday 1 Dec'''
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* Vac (0.20pre) now provides contexualization, metadata (EC2/OpenStack), and Machine/Job Features via HTTP rather than ISO image and NFS. (GRIDPP-27). This should allow VMs expecting to be run by OpenStack to work on Vac without modification.
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* CernVM image signature checking, and APEL Sync record generation (GRIDPP-10) are now also in Vac 0.20pre.
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'''Tuesday 24 Nov'''
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* Cloud Init demonstrated with modified version of (old) GridPP DIRAC VMs
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* Cloud Init support in Vac 0.20pre (GRIDPP-27)
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* Progress on VMs for new GridPP DIRAC service: multi-VO config currently preventing matching. (GRIDPP-9)
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'''Tuesday 24th November'''
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'''Tuesday 6th February'''
* Slight delay for Sheffield.
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* HEPSPEC06 on recent Intel CPUs. [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/HEPSPEC06 GridPP benchmarking page]
  
'''Tuesday 3rd November'''
 
* APEL delay (normal state) Lancaster and Sheffield.
 
  
'''Tuesday 20th October'''
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'''Tuesday 30th January'''
The WLCG MB decided to create a Benchmarking Task force led by Helge Meinhard see [https://indico.cern.ch/event/433303/contribution/9/attachments/1154494/1658853/2015-09-15-LCGMB-Benchmarking.pdf talk]
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* Please keep updating the [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/HEPSPEC06 GridPP benchmarking page].
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'''Tuesday 24th Oct'''
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* 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
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'''Monday 16th January'''
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* The discussion topic for next week will be accounting comparisons. Please note Alessandra's comments last week.
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'''Monday 14th November'''
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* Alessandra has written an [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/AccountingFAQ FAQ] to extract numbers from ATLAS and APEL avoiding the SSB.
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'''Monday 26th September'''
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* 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.
  
 
* [http://accounting.egi.eu/egi.php?SubRegion=1.67&query=normcpu&startYear=2014&startMonth=8&endYear=2014&endMonth=9&yRange=SITE&xRange=VO&voGroup=lhc&chart=GRBAR&scale=LIN&localJobs=onlygridjobs APEL status]: An issue at Sheffield?
 
* [http://accounting.egi.eu/egi.php?SubRegion=1.67&query=normcpu&startYear=2014&startMonth=8&endYear=2014&endMonth=9&yRange=SITE&xRange=VO&voGroup=lhc&chart=GRBAR&scale=LIN&localJobs=onlygridjobs APEL status]: An issue at Sheffield?
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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 [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs 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:
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''' Tue 9th July 2019'''
https://indico.cern.ch/event/471965/
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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.)
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'''Tuesday 1st December'''
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LHCb has added this to their requirements:
* Sixt and hone have been removed from the GridPP list.
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'''Tuesday 24th November'''
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Sites not having an SRM installation must provide:
Steve J: problems with voms server at fnal, voms.fnal.gov, resolved. Approved VOs document updated with newest records for those VOs affected, CDF, DZERO, LSST. Also, note changes to CA_DN for PLANCK and CDF. https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs
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'''Friday 6th Nov, 2015'''
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* disk only storage
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* a GRIDFPT endpoint (a single dns entry)
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* an XROOT endpoint (a single dns entry)
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* a way to do the accounting (preferably following the WLCG TF standard: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/StorageSpaceAccounting)
  
SteveJ: Advice to admins published about a common GSS error, globus_gsi_callback_module: Could not verify
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''' Tue 16th April 2019'''
credential etc.
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https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Security_system_errors_and_workarounds
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Minor change to LHCB requirements in Approved VOs:
  
'''Tuesday 20th October, 2015'''
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* Sites having migrated to the Centos7 (including "Cern Centos7") operating system or  later versions are requested to provide support for singularity containers.
  
Approved VOs document updated with temporary section for [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs#Approved_VOs_in_the_process_of_being_established LZ]
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'''Tue 2nd April 2019'''
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Changes to Approved for DUNE (and LZ)
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There is a new "Approved VOs" document showing new settings for DUNE. And, since both LZ's voms servers now show up in the EGI Portal, I've removed the (now spurious) entry for voms.hep.wisc.edu that was formerly being inserted by hand.
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I've also created a new set of RPMs (each has all LSC, VOMS, and XML for one VO) for all approved VOs. See Approved VOs doc for details, version is 1.9.
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Sites with DUNE services need to update using whatever method they employ.
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Special note: Since voms1.fnal.gov changed yesterday, I've updated documentation for that right away. But voms2.fnal.gov remains as it is until 23rd April (3 weeks). I'll update documentation for that when it is closer. Staggering the updates like this gives a time margin, so any particular site can have at least one service properly configured at any time.  But it does mean that two site updates are needed; one now, and one in three weeks. However, since it's sufficient for only one (of the two) voms servers to be configured properly, sites could save effort and wait until (say) 19th April, then update both at once. But I can't dictate what site admins should do. It's your call.
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Ste
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'''Tuesday 5th Mar 2019'''
 +
New VOMs details for Biomed:
 +
https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs
 +
 
 +
New VOMs rpms to match.
 +
 
 +
http://hep.ph.liv.ac.uk/~sjones/RPMS.voms/
 +
 
 +
'''Tuesday 12th Feb 2019'''
 +
Documentation done for HTCondor-CE apel accounting.
 +
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/HtCondorCeAccounting
 +
 
 +
 
 +
'''Tuesday 12th Feb 2019'''
 +
New CA DN for Biomed
 +
<pre>
 +
< VOMS_CA_DN="'/C=FR/O=CNRS/CN=GRID2-FR' "
 +
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> VOMS_CA_DN="'/C=FR/O=MENESR/OU=GRID-FR/CN=AC GRID-FR Services' "
 +
</pre>
 +
 
 +
'''Tuesday 5th Feb 2019'''
 +
For enmr, certificate of voms-02.pd.infn.it
 +
 
 +
New DN: /DC=org/DC=terena/DC=tcs/C=IT/L=Frascati/O=Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare/CN=voms-02.pd.infn.it,
 +
New CA_DN: /C=NL/ST=Noord-Holland/L=Amsterdam/O=TERENA/CN=TERENA eScience SSL CA 3
 +
 
 +
Please check approved VOs: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs
  
'''Tuesday 29nd September'''
 
Steve J: problems with voms server at fnal, voms.fnal.gov, have been detected; I will resolve them soon and may issue an update to Approved VOs, alerting sites with TB_SUPPORT should that occur. Approved VOs potentially affected are CDF, DZERO, LSST. Please do not act act yet.
 
  
  
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'''Monday 11th January'''
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''' 14 May 2019 '''
* A meeting on Monday 11th. [https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Agenda-11-01-2016 Agenda]. For the meeting link see [https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=2735 Indico].
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* Meeting for May cancelled. Next meeting is on 10th June.
  
''' Tuesday 15th December
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''' Monday 11th March '''
  
There was a meeting yesterday, agenda is here: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Agenda-14-12-2015
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* Agenda: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Agenda-2019-03-11 
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* UMD 4.8.2 released :  ARC 15.03.19 - To address how ARC counts HELD job
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* DPM Legacy mode is going to end in June 2019
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* EGI will open tickets after June
 +
* HTCondor CE accounting status?
 +
* http://egi.ui.argo.grnet.gr/ : https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=139877 
  
* New meetings calendari: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/categoryDisplay.py?categId=32
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* New summary page: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Operations_Meeting
+
''' Tuesday 12th February '''
* UMD Preview repository
+
* There was an EGI ops meeting yesterday - [https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/4320/ Agenda]. We were asked to review the IPv6 readiness information ([https://wiki.egi.eu/w/index.php?title=IPV6_Assessment see here]). We should perhaps link in the GridPP IPv6 table for updates status.
* UMD releases
+
 
* Decommissioning of dCache 2.6
+
 
* Decommissioning of SL5
+
''' Friday 1st February '''
** SL5 services must be decommissioned by end of April 2016; broadcast at December, probes will be warning since February 2016 to start helping with decommissioning
+
 
* APEL on SL5
+
* Early adopters needed for HTcondor CE , https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=139377
* WMS Usage
+
 
* New CE/batch system accounting integration
+
''' Thursday 17th January EGI OMB meeting '''
* Raised a question on clarifying the future of the VO Nagios in a centralised ARGO world
+
 
 +
* CREAMCE to be out of support by Dec 2020
 +
* More effort to fix accounting issue of HTCondor CE
 +
 
 +
''' Monday 14th January 2019 '''
 +
* Agenda https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Agenda-2019-01-14
 +
 
 +
* No UK specific issue mentioned.
 +
 
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* IPv6 readiness plan is going to be summarized at OMB.
 +
 
 +
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'''Tuesday 4th July'''
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* There were a number of useful links provided in the monitoring talks at the WLCG workshop in Manchester - especially those in the [https://indico.cern.ch/event/609911/timetable/#20170621 Wednesday sessions].
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'''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 1st December'''
 
* Sites are kindly invited to update the monitoring status page at https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Site_monitoring_status
 
* Sites are kindly invited to update the monitoring status page at https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Site_monitoring_status
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''' Tuesday 31st March
 
 
* Glasgow Graphite/Grafana documentation: http://www.scotgrid.ac.uk/graphite/
 
 
'''Monday 7th December
 
 
* Meeting last Friday - agenda: https://indico.cern.ch/event/356853/ minutes: https://indico.cern.ch/event/356853/material/minutes/1.pdf
 
* This was the wrap-up meeting of the consolidation TF; the mailing list will remain extant for a while yet.
 
 
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'''Tuesday 5th February'''
* 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.  
+
* Birmingham decommissioning of SRM and BDII still going on so tickets are on hold.
* The current alarms in Manchester (vomsserver) are thought to be fixed - the dashboard just hasn't caught up.
+
* Few availability tickets on hold
 +
* Lancaster has WebDav ticket on hold which seems to be effect of DOME rollout
  
'''Monday 14th December'''
+
'''Tuesday 14th August'''
* Janet issue affected ROD dashboard access making it almost unusable.
+
* A couple of new availability tickets (QMUL and Lancaster), both for well-publicised reasons. Otherwise quiet. AM on shift this week.
* 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.
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* There were quite a few alarms throughout the week - most disappeared without intervention.
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* Three open tickets remain against QMUL, RHUL and Lancaster.  
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'''Tuesday 7th December'''
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'''Monday 20th November'''
* Raul reports: validation of site BDII on Centos 7 done.
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* 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)
  
'''Tuesday 15th September'''
 
* [http://repository.egi.eu/2015/09/10/release-umd-3-13-3/ UMD 3.13.3 is available].
 
  
'''Tuesday 12th May'''
 
* MW Readiness WG meeting Wed May 6th at 4pm. Attended by Raul, Matt, Sam and Jeremy.
 
  
  
'''References'''
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'''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:
 
* 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:
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'''Tuesday 11th June
* CVE-2016-0728
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* The IGTF has released a regular update to the trust anchor repository (1.71) - for distribution ON OR AFTER January 25th -
+
  
'''Tuesday 12th January'''
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* NTR
* JISC report on December DDOS available from - [https://www.jisc.ac.uk/network/issues https://www.jisc.ac.uk/network/issues]
+
* EGI SVG advisory for Linux Kernel vulnerabilities (Moderate/High risk) - [https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/SVG:Advisory-SVG-2015-CVE-2015-7613 Advisory-SVG-2015-CVE-2015-7613]
+
 
+
'''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 [https://operations-portal.egi.eu/csiDashboard security dashboard].
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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).
 
- 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'''
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'''Monday 5th March'''
* 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.
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* Next LHCOPN and LHCONE meeting: [https://indico.cern.ch/event/772031/ Umeå, Sweden, 4-5 Jun 2019]. Registration required.  
* Looking at the network problems this week will be of interest. Duncan supplied [http://maddash.aglt2.org/maddash-webui/index.cgi?dashboard=Latency%20tests%20between%20all%20WLCG%20hosts this link]  and Ewan the one for the [http://maddash.aglt2.org/maddash-webui/index.cgi?dashboard=Dual-Stack%20Mesh%20Config dual stack instance].  
+
  
'''Tuesday 6th October'''
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'''Monday 10th September'''
* A reminder, the next [https://indico.cern.ch/event/401680/ LHCOPN and LHCONE joint meeting]: Science Park Amsterdam (NL) 28-29 of October 2015
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* Please check perfSONAR status [https://psetf.opensciencegrid.org/etf/check_mk/index.py?start_url=%2Fetf%2Fcheck_mk%2Fview.py%3Ffilled_in%3Dfilter%26host_regex%3Duk%26view_name%3Dsearchhost here] especially the mesh URL (should be http://psconfig.opensciencegrid.org/pub/auto/FQDN)
  
'''Tuesday 14th July'''
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'''Monday 2nd 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 [https://gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/IPv6_site_status GridPP IPv6 status table].  
+
* Next LHCOPN and LHCONE meeting: [https://indico.cern.ch/event/725706/ Fermilab, Batavia US, 30-31October 2018]. Registration required.
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'''Monday 30th April'''
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* The [https://indico.cern.ch/event/725706/ next LHCOPN and LHCONE joint meeting] will take place on Tuesday the 30th and Wednesday the 31st of October 2018
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'''Monday 19th February'''
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 +
Please could sites upgrade their perfsonar hosts to CentOS7. Instructions are [https://opensciencegrid.github.io/networking/perfsonar/installation/ here]. Current OS versions [https://tinyurl.com/y9eode2b here].
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* Duncan has recreated the UK perfSONAR mesh. [http://maddash.aglt2.org/maddash-webui/index.cgi?dashboard=UK%20Config Link here]!
  
  
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[https://vo-nagios.physics.ox.ac.uk/nagios/cgi-bin/status.cgi?host=all&servicestatustypes=16&hoststatustypes=15 '''"OTHER VO" NAGIOS''']<br />
+
32 Open Tickets this week, which is an in depth a look as I've been able to take.
Looks like hepgrid2.ph.liv.ac.uk at Liverpool is playing up for all VOs, and the Sheffield SE is misbehaving for the gripp VO. Other then that it looks clean.
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43 Open UK Tickets this week.
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'''That ticket to the NGI...'''<br />
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[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=118930 118930] (18/1)<br />
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Steve J put in a comprehensive reply about what Liverpool do to get their publishing kinda right. The view on this ticket from last week was to close it with a <carefully|harshly> worded statement about why this is a bit of a pointless request. Who was formulating the reply? If it was me I dropped that ball! Assigned (19/1)
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'''Pilots Problems.'''<br />
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'''BRUNEL:''' [https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=117710 117710] Pheno. On Hold (19/11/15)<br />
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'''QMUL:''' [https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=117723 117723] Pheno - hopefully sorted. Waiting for reply (25/1)<br />
+
'''SHEFFIELD:''' [https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=114460 114460] gridpp et al. In Progress (20/1)<br />
+
'''RALPP:''' [https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=118628 118628] LZ (and maybe LSST?). In progress (14/1)
+
 
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We have a few pilot rollout tickets, the last two being worked on but proving problematic.
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'''RHUL'''<br />
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[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=119027 119027] (22/1)<br />
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As seen on the gridpp-storage list, Sno+ have asked RHUL (and will no doubt as others) for storage space (~20TB). In progress (22/1)
+
 
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(for the interest of others the Govind's other thread on gridpp-storage was likely triggered by https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=118553)
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'''QMUL'''<br />
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[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=118985 118985] (21/1)<br />
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QM have banished biomed from their cluster until they have a batch system that can put Biomed jobs in a c-group cage (looking at slurm). On Hold (21/1)
+
 
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'''BIRMINGHAM'''<br />
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[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=118155 118155] (4/12)<br />
+
Talking of Biomed, they've asked if they've successfully cleaned up all their files on the Birmingham SE - a cheeky uberftp onto your SE suggests the biomed directory is still full of cra.. I mean, files. In Progress (20/1)
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'''HTTP TF Tickets'''<br />
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[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=118787 118787] (ECDF)<br />
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[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=118764 118764] (SHEFFIELD)<br />
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Feel free to poke the gridpp storage group for help with these. (I left out the 2 Manchester tickets as their immediate showstopper isn't their configs- but they can ask for help too!).
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'''ATLAS CONSISTENCY CHECKS'''<br />
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Manchester, Oxford, Birmingham, Sussex, RHUL, Sheffield, Brunel and QMUL still open - a mix of chugging along nicely and being very much "On Hold".
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'''Monday 20th November'''
* The SAM/ARGO team has created a [https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Service_Level_Target_-_Availability_Reliability document] describing Availability reliability calculation in ARGO tool.
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* The WLCG dashboard is available here: http://dashboard.cern.ch/.
 
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* Please review the results on [http://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/~lloyd/gridpp/ Steve's test pages].
  
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'''Tuesday 18th July'''
 +
* Following our ops discussion last week, Steve will focus [http://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/~lloyd/gridpp/ his tests] on supporting the GridPP DIRAC area and decommission the other tests.
  
''' 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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* There is a current priority for enabling/supporting our joining communities.
 
  
'''Tuesday 5th May'''
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'''Monday 20th November'''
* We have a number of VOs to be removed. Dedicated follow-up meeting proposed.
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* 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 [http://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/ UK Biobank project].
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* All VOs in the incubation page being prompted for updates by the end of November (required input for OC documents).
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* 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.
  
'''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.
 
  
 
* Impact
 
* Impact
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'''Tuesday 24th February'''
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* Next review of status today.
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'''Tuesday 27th January'''
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* Squids not in GOCDB for: UCL; ECDF; Birmingham; Durham; RHUL; IC; Sussex; Lancaster
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* Squids in GOCDB for: EFDA-JET; Manchester; Liverpool; Cambridge; Sheffield; Bristol; Brunel; QMUL; T1; Oxford; Glasgow; RALPPD.
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'''Tuesday 2nd December'''
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* [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Batch_system_status Multicore status]. Queues available (63%)
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** YES: RAL T1; Brunel; Imperial; QMUL; Lancaster; Liverpool; Manchester; Glasgow; Cambridge; Oxford; RALPP; Sussex (12)
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** NO: RHUL (testing); UCL; Sheffield (testing); Durham; ECDF (testing); Birmingham; Bristol (7)
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* According to our [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Batch_system_status table] for cloud/VMs (26%)
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** YES: RAL T1; Brunel; Imperial; Manchester; Oxford (5)
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** NO: QMUL; RHUL; UCL; Lancaster; Liverpool; Sheffield; Durham; ECDF; Glasgow; Birmingham; Bristol; Cambridge; RALPP; Sussex (14)
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* [http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/php/gridpp-dirac-sam.php?action=viewlcg GridPP DIRAC jobs] successful  (58%)
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** YES: Bristol; Glasgow; Lancaster; Liverpool; Manchester; Oxford; Sheffield; Brunel; IC; QMUL; RHUL (11)
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** NO: Cambridge; Durham; RALPP; RAL T1 (4) + ECDF; Sussex; UCL; Birmingham (4)
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* [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/IPv6_site_status IPv6 status]
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** Allocation - 42%
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** YES: RAL T1; Brunel; IC; QMUL; Manchester; Sheffield; Cambridge; Oxford (8)
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** NO: RHUL; UCL; Lancaster; Liverpool; Durham; ECDF; Glasgow; Birmingham; Bristol; RALPP; Sussex
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* Dual stack nodes - 21%
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** YES: Brunel; IC; QMUL; Oxford (4)
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** NO: RHUL; UCL; Lancaster; Glasgow; Liverpool; Manchester; Sheffield; Durham; ECDF; Birmingham; Bristol; Cambridge; RALPP; Sussex, RAL T1 (15)
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'''Tuesday 21st October'''
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* 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).
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* Intel announced the new generation of Xeon based on Haswell.
 
  
  

Latest revision as of 14:09, 30 October 2019

Bulletin archive


Week commencing Monday 25th February 2019
Task Areas
General updates

Tuesday 18th June


Tuesday 11th June

Tuesday 4th June 2019


WLCG Operations Coordination - AgendasWiki Page

Tuesday 11th June

  • I got stuck (figuratively) in my machine room last Thursday afternoon so missed it. Agenda. Minutes. Ste was there - any observations?

Tuesday 14th May

  • Next meeting this Thursday.

Tuesday 9th April


Tuesday 26th March

Monday 11th February 2019

  • There was a WLCG ops coordination meeting last Thursday. You can view the meeting notes here.
    • End of CREAM support Dec 2020.
    • Migration from CREAM to be discussed at the EGI conference 6-8 of May in Amsterdam.
    • Operational intelligence discussion (see slides).
    • Experiment updates (see ATLAS discussion on DOMA)
    • WG updates (few).




Tier-1 - Status Page

17 June 2019 Report for the Experiments Liaison Report (17/06/2019) is here.

  • Ongoing, we are seeing high outbound packet loss over IPv6. Central networking performed a firmware update to the border routers but this didn’t resolve the issue. Plan to move connections to the new border routers in Mid June. Will do this before trying to debug any further.

11 June 2019 Report for the Experiments Liaison Report (10/06/2019) is here.

  • Ongoing, we are seeing high outbound packet loss over IPv6. Central networking performed a firmware update to the border routers but this didn’t resolve the issue. Plan to move connections to the new border routers in Mid June. Will do this before trying to debug any further.
  • Three certificates were revoked mistakenly on ARGUS on Thursday. All SAM tests failed until this was fixed the next morning. Batch farm also did not start any new jobs during this time. We used this accidental draining to reboot nodes that needed to pick up security patching.
  • LHCb Castor instance has been completely disabled for LHCb and will be decommissioned.
  • Brian Davies has transferred from his role as GridPP Tier-2 Storage Support Officer and has joined the Tier-1 Production Team. Although this has happened with immediate effect he will still be available for ad-hoc/informal storage support.
Storage & Data Management - Agendas/Minutes

Wed 30 Oct

  • DOME upgrade problems at Edinburgh
  • Data management support/development for IRIS users

Wed 23 Oct

  • Rucio reporting

Wed 16 Oct

  • CEPH workshop at CERN report

Wed 02 Oct

  • Safe to upgrade to DPM 1.13 but make sure the BDII is working if you support DIRAC
  • Roadmap for xroot and http TPC for RAL FTS(es)

Wed 25 Sept

  • Storage support for IRIS VOs?

Wed 18 Sept

  • Report from yesterday's Rucio Face Meeting at Coseners
  • Suggestions for following up from yesterday's CEPH day hosted by CERN

Wed 11 Sept

  • Storage related stuff at the FNAL (pre-)GDBs
  • DOME upgrade tickets for non-DOME DPM sites

Wed 04 Sept

  • Banning in SSC not entirely successful in non-DOME DPM, and end of support is nigh; tickets to upgrade will go out shortly.
  • Storage-and-data-management-wise, GridPP43 was interesting although no-one volunteered to install the next CEPH.


Tier-2 Evolution - GridPP JIRA

Tuesday 30 Apr 2019

  • ATLAS CernVM4 VMs (equivalent to CentOS 7.6) being tested


Accounting - UK Grid Metrics HEPSPEC06 Atlas Dashboard HS06

Tuesday 6th February


Tuesday 30th January

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.
Documentation - KeyDocs

Tue 9th July 2019

LHCb has added this to their requirements:

Sites not having an SRM installation must provide:

Tue 16th April 2019

Minor change to LHCB requirements in Approved VOs:

  • Sites having migrated to the Centos7 (including "Cern Centos7") operating system or later versions are requested to provide support for singularity containers.

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs#VO_Resource_Requirements

Tue 2nd April 2019

Changes to Approved for DUNE (and LZ)

There is a new "Approved VOs" document showing new settings for DUNE. And, since both LZ's voms servers now show up in the EGI Portal, I've removed the (now spurious) entry for voms.hep.wisc.edu that was formerly being inserted by hand.

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs

I've also created a new set of RPMs (each has all LSC, VOMS, and XML for one VO) for all approved VOs. See Approved VOs doc for details, version is 1.9.

Sites with DUNE services need to update using whatever method they employ.

Special note: Since voms1.fnal.gov changed yesterday, I've updated documentation for that right away. But voms2.fnal.gov remains as it is until 23rd April (3 weeks). I'll update documentation for that when it is closer. Staggering the updates like this gives a time margin, so any particular site can have at least one service properly configured at any time. But it does mean that two site updates are needed; one now, and one in three weeks. However, since it's sufficient for only one (of the two) voms servers to be configured properly, sites could save effort and wait until (say) 19th April, then update both at once. But I can't dictate what site admins should do. It's your call.

Ste


Tuesday 5th Mar 2019 New VOMs details for Biomed: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs

New VOMs rpms to match.

http://hep.ph.liv.ac.uk/~sjones/RPMS.voms/

Tuesday 12th Feb 2019 Documentation done for HTCondor-CE apel accounting. https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/HtCondorCeAccounting


Tuesday 12th Feb 2019 New CA DN for Biomed

< VOMS_CA_DN="'/C=FR/O=CNRS/CN=GRID2-FR' "
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> VOMS_CA_DN="'/C=FR/O=MENESR/OU=GRID-FR/CN=AC GRID-FR Services' "

Tuesday 5th Feb 2019 For enmr, certificate of voms-02.pd.infn.it

New DN: /DC=org/DC=terena/DC=tcs/C=IT/L=Frascati/O=Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare/CN=voms-02.pd.infn.it, New CA_DN: /C=NL/ST=Noord-Holland/L=Amsterdam/O=TERENA/CN=TERENA eScience SSL CA 3

Please check approved VOs: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs


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

14 May 2019

  • Meeting for May cancelled. Next meeting is on 10th June.

Monday 11th March


Tuesday 12th February

  • There was an EGI ops meeting yesterday - Agenda. We were asked to review the IPv6 readiness information (see here). We should perhaps link in the GridPP IPv6 table for updates status.


Friday 1st February

Thursday 17th January EGI OMB meeting

  • CREAMCE to be out of support by Dec 2020
  • More effort to fix accounting issue of HTCondor CE

Monday 14th January 2019

  • No UK specific issue mentioned.
  • IPv6 readiness plan is going to be summarized at OMB.

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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


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

Tuesday 5th February

  • Birmingham decommissioning of SRM and BDII still going on so tickets are on hold.
  • Few availability tickets on hold
  • Lancaster has WebDav ticket on hold which seems to be effect of DOME rollout

Tuesday 14th August

  • A couple of new availability tickets (QMUL and Lancaster), both for well-publicised reasons. Otherwise quiet. AM on shift this week.


Rollout Status WLCG Baseline

Monday 20th November



Historical References


Security - Incident Procedure Policies Rota

Tuesday 11th June

  • NTR


Services - PerfSonar production dashboard |PerfSonar ETF | 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 5th March

Monday 10th September

Monday 2nd July

Monday 30th April

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

32 Open Tickets this week, which is an in depth a look as I've been able to take.

Tools - MyEGI Nagios

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.


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.


Site Updates

Date



Meeting Summaries
Project Management Board - MembersMinutes Quarterly Reports

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GridPP ops meeting - Agendas Actions Core Tasks

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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

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NGI UK - Homepage CA

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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

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UK LHCb

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UK OTHER
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To note

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