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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 23rd February'''
 
* site advice on how to deal with umbrella VOs
 
* gridpp.ac.uk has no AAAA record
 
* From the 29th Feb the WLCG Operation meeting will be held only on Monday (the Thursday meeting will be cancelled). In addition sites are asked to pre-fill their report or to send an email to the SCOD list.
 
* The WLCG MB has decided to stop further deployment of glexec. Current deployments are expected to continue with support.
 
* Steve's tests - are they still useful... could they be made more relevant?
 
* Reminder: [https://indico.cern.ch/event/477023/ Registration for GridPP36] is now open.
 
* Lisbon follow-up. [https://indico.cern.ch/event/459359/contribution/7/attachments/1229167/1800972/MB-LisbonFollowUp-160216.pdf Ian Bird's MB summary].
 
  
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'''Tuesday 11th June'''
  
'''Tuesday 16th February'''
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* Technical Meeting last week about the New JSON based Information System:  https://indico.cern.ch/event/821105/
* [https://indico.cern.ch/event/477023/ Registration for GridPP36] is now open. Let us know if you have suggested topics for the agenda.  
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* This week we will get round to looking at the outcome of the Security Day (and HEPSYSMAN).
* [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGDailyMeetingsWeek160215#Monday Notes are available from Monday 15th's WLCG ops meeting].
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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.
* Tom has put forward a VO-GridPP MoU proposal - being discussed.
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* CentOS7 Migration https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasComputing/CentOS7Deployment
* Query from Dundee University group about CryoEm software and use in EGI. Does anyone use it?
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* Matt at Lancaster raised a query about support for [http://www-microboone.fnal.gov/ MicroBooNE]. Manchester are progressing with a setup using FNAL VOMS.  
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'''Tuesday 4th June 2019'''
* The [https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/2875/overview EGI programme and registration for the EGI Conference 2016] (Amsterdam, Science Park, 06-08 April) has been announced.
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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 9th February'''
 
* The WLCG Collaboration meeting took place last week: [https://indico.cern.ch/event/433164/other-view?view=standard Agenda].
 
* Alessandra: Changes of memory settings in panda
 
* CHEP2016 first [http://chep2016.org/sites/default/files/bulletins/CHEP2016FirstBulletin.pdf bulletin].
 
* NOTICE: Java upgrade impacts experiment activities -  a recent set of java 6-7-8 openjdk upgrades on SL5/SL6/SL7 disable support for the MD5 hash algorithm in certificates and proxies requiring sysadmin intervention.
 
* RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative.
 
* voms2 for lsst
 
  
  
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'''Tuesday 23rd February'''
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'''Tuesday 11th June'''
* There was an [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGOpsMinutes160218 ops coordination meeting on Thursday 18th].
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* The new Experiments Test Framework (ETF) will be tentatively ready in April. It will contain few user changes.
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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?
* The WLCG workshop and the MB decided to freeze the gLExec deployment.
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* LHCb to discuss with Multicore deployment TF experts about the future of the TF and advise the sites.
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'''Tuesday 14th May'''
* The T0 and T1s to install the patches for the critical vulnerability https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/SVG:Advisory-SVG-CVE-2015-7547 announced Wednesday.
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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
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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
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'''Monday 11th February 2019'''
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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].
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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).
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'''Tuesday 9th February'''
 
* The next ops coordination meeting will be on 18th February.
 
  
'''Tuesday 26th January'''
 
* Minutes from the [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGDailyMeetingsWeek160118#Thursday Thursday 21st Ops Coordination Meeting].
 
  
'''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 23rd February'''
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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_2016-02-10 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].
* Usage of our OPN link (to CERN and other Tier1s) is still high - but not quite so high as a couple of weeks ago.
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* We are working a refresh of the database system behind the LFC.
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* We are preparing to put a HAProxy load-balancer in front of the FTS service. Initially this will be for our "test" FTS3 service (used by Atlas).
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* Lots of patching ongoing (Castor, FTS today).
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* 'At Risk' on the site for a replacement of the NIS master delayed until next Tuesday (1st March) owing to ongoing patching.
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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/20160217-minutes.txt Wednesday 17 Feb]'''
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20191030-minutes.txt Wed 30 Oct]'''
* Report from the secret ATLAS meeting on Monday
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* DOME upgrade problems at Edinburgh
** Sites to run cache with RUCIO and ARC CEs?
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* Data management support/development for IRIS users
** Dynafed or RUCIO redirect?
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* Which goals if any should we set for achieving interesting things to be reported at GridPP36?
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20160210-minutes.txt Wednesday 10 Feb]'''
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20191023-minutes.txt Wed 23 Oct]'''
* Duncan and Sam reporting from the WLCG workshop, Elena from ATLAS Jamboree
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* Rucio reporting
** Grid as object store, fewer SRM endpoints
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** Caching and metadata management implementations/strategies
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20160120-minutes.txt Wednesday 20 Jan]'''
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'''Wed 16 Oct'''
* Operational issues (DPM database errors) and kablooie
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* CEPH workshop at CERN report
* hepsysman report
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* 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/20191002-minutes.txt Wed 02 Oct]'''
* "Diskless" Tier 2 testing to go ahead anyway at Oxford; also Bristol may be interesting/interested
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* Safe to upgrade to DPM 1.13 but make sure the BDII is working if you support DIRAC
* Need feedback from VOs on catalogue format and location before rolling out to remaining sites
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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.
  
  
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'''Tuesday 30 Apr 2019'''
'''Tuesday 23 Feb'''
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* ATLAS CernVM4 VMs (equivalent to CentOS 7.6) being tested  
* Vacuum Platform draft HSF technical note, setting out interfaces between VMs and VM lifecycle managers, in particular user_data templates, the $JOBOUTPUTS mechanism, and the VacQuery UDP protocol.
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* Submitted first step of Vacuum Platform as an EGI community platform. Slot at EGI Operations MB this week.
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* Next Vac release (00.21) with new MJF ready for release.
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'''Monday 8 Feb'''
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* Cloud Init ATLAS VMs successfully running production jobs at Manchester. Looking at logging and VM lifetime.
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'''Monday 25 Jan'''
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* 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, and now getting jobs running to Finished state.
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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 9th February'''
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'''Tuesday 6th February'''
* 4th Feb: The data from the  APEL summariser that was fixed yesterday has now propagated through the data pipeline and the Accounting Portal views and the Sync and Pub tests are all working again.
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* HEPSPEC06 on recent Intel CPUs. [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/HEPSPEC06 GridPP benchmarking page]
* Sheffield is slightly behind other sites (but looks normal) and so is QMUL.
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'''Tuesday 24th November'''
 
* Slight delay for Sheffield.
 
  
'''Tuesday 3rd November'''
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'''Tuesday 30th January'''
* APEL delay (normal state) Lancaster and Sheffield.
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* Please keep updating the [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/HEPSPEC06 GridPP benchmarking page].
  
'''Tuesday 20th October'''
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'''Tuesday 24th Oct'''
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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* 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 23rd February'''
 
* Tom has converted (most of) the DIRAC tutorial on job submission to work with the GridPP DIRAC service. You can find the guide [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/userguide/grid-first-job/grid-first-job.html here].
 
  
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''' Tue 9th July 2019'''
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LHCb has added this to their requirements:
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Sites not having an SRM installation must provide:
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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)
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''' Tue 16th April 2019'''
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Minor change to LHCB requirements in Approved VOs:
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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.
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https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs#VO_Resource_Requirements
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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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https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs
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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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'''Tuesday 5th Mar 2019'''
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New VOMs details for Biomed:
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https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs
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New VOMs rpms to match.
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http://hep.ph.liv.ac.uk/~sjones/RPMS.voms/
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'''Tuesday 12th Feb 2019'''
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Documentation done for HTCondor-CE apel accounting.
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https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/HtCondorCeAccounting
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'''Tuesday 12th Feb 2019'''
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New CA DN for Biomed
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<pre>
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< 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' "
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'''Tuesday 5th Feb 2019'''
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For enmr, certificate of voms-02.pd.infn.it
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New DN: /DC=org/DC=terena/DC=tcs/C=IT/L=Frascati/O=Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare/CN=voms-02.pd.infn.it,
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New CA_DN: /C=NL/ST=Noord-Holland/L=Amsterdam/O=TERENA/CN=TERENA eScience SSL CA 3
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Please check approved VOs: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs
  
'''Tuesday 9th February'''
 
* Guidelines for using the DIRAC command line tools and the DIRAC File Catalog metadata functionality to the [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/userguide/data-on-the-grid/data-on-the-grid.html UserGuide].
 
  
'''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].
 
  
 
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'''Monday 8th January'''
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''' 14 May 2019 '''
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* Meeting for May cancelled. Next meeting is on 10th June.
  
* EGI Ops meeting today, agenda: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Agenda-08-02-2016
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''' Monday 11th March '''
* Major items:  
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** Aligning Fedcloud sites to the A/R procedures
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* Agenda: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Agenda-2019-03-11 
** No sites will be suspended until the end of May
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* UMD 4.8.2 released : ARC 15.03.19 - To address how ARC counts HELD job
** New SL5 testing probes
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* DPM Legacy mode is going to end in June 2019
** SL5 progress tracking page: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/SL5_retirement
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* EGI will open tickets after June
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* HTCondor CE accounting status?
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* http://egi.ui.argo.grnet.gr/ : https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=139877 
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* 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.
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''' Friday 1st February '''
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* Early adopters needed for HTcondor CE , https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=139377
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''' Thursday 17th January EGI OMB meeting '''
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* CREAMCE to be out of support by Dec 2020
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* More effort to fix accounting issue of HTCondor CE
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''' Monday 14th January 2019 '''
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* Agenda https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Agenda-2019-01-14
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* No UK specific issue mentioned.
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* IPv6 readiness plan is going to be summarized at OMB.
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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].
 +
 +
'''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 16th February'''
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'''Tuesday 5th February'''
* Team membership discussed at yesterday's PMB. We will need to look to the larger GridPP sites for more support.
+
* 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'''
'''Tuesday 26th January'''
+
* A couple of new availability tickets (QMUL and Lancaster), both for well-publicised reasons. Otherwise quiet. AM on shift this week.
* On Friday, one of the message brokers was in downtime and due to a bug, nagios probes were not failing over to the working one.
+
* There was another issue which prevented applying a workaround in the gridppnagios server.  
+
* A new rota is being compiled.
+
 
+
'''Monday 11th January'''
+
* 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.
+
* The current alarms in Manchester (vomsserver) are thought to be fixed - the dashboard just hasn't caught up.
+
  
  
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'''Tuesday 7th December'''
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'''Monday 20th November'''
* Raul reports: validation of site BDII on Centos 7 done.
+
* 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'''
+
'''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
  
* "Critical" risk glibc remote code execution [https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/SVG:Advisory-SVG-CVE-2015-7547 SVG-CVE-2015-7547]
+
* NTR
* IGTF has released a regular update to the trust anchor repository (1.72) - for distribution ON OR AFTER February 29th
+
 
+
'''Tuesday 16th February'''
+
* Vulnerabilities CVE-2015-7181/2/3 in nss, nss-util, nspr libraries subject of [https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/SVG:Advisory-SVG-2015-CVE-2015-7183 EGI-SVG Advisory on 11-Nov-2015] rated as HIGH risk are still showing in EGI Pakiti monitoring at a number of UK sites. Please check and update as appropriate or let IanN know if this is a monitoring error.
+
 
+
'''Monday 8th February'''
+
* EGI SVG Advisory 'HIGH' risk CVE-2016-0728 Linux Kernel vulnerability [EGI-SVG-2016-10376]
+
* WLCG Collaboration Workshop: Approximate summary of security session with a ~3yr timeframe (by IanN)
+
** Use of federated identity management will continue increase - more reliance/trust on home institutions and vo's to manage and trace users.
+
** VMs/Containers/cgroups will replace glexec ("hurrah!") but only as appropriate accountability/traceability policy enforcement mechanisms are put in place ("aww!"). (esp. multi-user pilots etc.)
+
** Changing risk assessment: more targeted phishing; incidents on commercial clouds; move to more standard software ....
+
** All above drives need for improved monitoring and "intelligence" sharing (SOC model and Sirtfi collaboration etc)
+
*** Improve incident response support for sites lacking expertise. Perhaps looking at developing monitoring "appliance".
+
 
+
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'''
+
'''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.
+
* 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].  
+
 
 +
'''Monday 10th September'''
 +
* 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)
 +
 
 +
'''Monday 2nd July'''
 +
* Next LHCOPN and LHCONE meeting: [https://indico.cern.ch/event/725706/ Fermilab, Batavia US, 30-31October 2018]. Registration required.
 +
 
 +
'''Monday 30th April'''
 +
* 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
 +
 
 +
'''Monday 19th February'''
  
'''Tuesday 6th October'''
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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].
* A reminder, the next [https://indico.cern.ch/event/401680/ LHCOPN and LHCONE joint meeting]: Science Park Amsterdam (NL) 28-29 of October 2015
+
  
'''Tuesday 14th July'''
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* Duncan has recreated the UK perfSONAR mesh. [http://maddash.aglt2.org/maddash-webui/index.cgi?dashboard=UK%20Config Link here]!
* 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].
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37 Open UK Tickets this week.
 
  
'''NGI'''<br />
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32 Open Tickets this week, which is an in depth a look as I've been able to take.
[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=118930 118930] (18/1)<br />
+
This information system ticket really needs some attention. Assigned (19/1)
+
 
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'''CMS Multicore'''<br />
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'''Brunel:''' [https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=119618 119618]<br />
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'''Imperial:''' [https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=119617 119617]<br />
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'''RALPP:''' [https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=119616 119616]<br />
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CMS are to be rolling multicore pilots soonish and requested some information to set up their test queues with. Brunel might have missed the ticket, the other two are chugging along nicely. ''Update - Brunel's updated their ticket, so all's good.''
+
 
+
'''Whilst we're talking CMS'''<br />
+
[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=119013 119013] (21/1)<br />
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This ticket (wrongly assigned to just QMUL at the moment) seems to have become an odd catchall for enabling Glasgow and QM as Tier 3s. The CMS guys seem to think jobs should be flowing/trickling now, so maybe this can be closed? Assigned (18/2)
+
 
+
'''RHUL'''<br />
+
[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=119509 119509] <br />
+
Govind is away and when the admin isn't looking things start breaking - in the case of this ticket Sno+ have disabled submission to RHUL so the ticket should be On Holded (I didn't want to On Hold the ticket myself, as that's a recipe for the ticket getting forgotten about). Or perhaps someone has a suggestion to tackle the problem? Assigned (12/2)
+
 
+
'''100IT'''<br />
+
[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=119534 119534] (15/2)<br />
+
ROD ticket for 100IT, where they're accused of failing a test that they shouldn't be failing. David opened a ticket about this (https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=119513) but not received any attention at all - was it submitted to the right group? In progress (22/2)
+
 
+
'''GLASGOW'''<br />
+
[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=118052 118052] (30/11)<br />
+
HTTP support on the Glasgow SE. You seem to have been "upgraded" to "failing intermittently" (a possible title for my autobiography). Did you change anything to upgrade your status? In progress (16/2)
+
 
+
'''TIER 1'''<br />
+
[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=119389 119389] (5/2)<br />
+
This LHCB data transfer ticket to the Tier 1 has been waiting for a reply for a while now. Any news from lhcb? Waiting for reply (15/2)
+
 
+
'''Those 8 Atlas Storage Consistency Check Tickets'''<br />
+
A chat about this at the Thursday atlas UK cloud meeting revealed that the chap handling these has gone to Argentina. It was unclear whether this was business, pleasure or as a GGUS fugitive escaping the grumpyness of dozens of site admins.
+
 
+
'''''Updates:'''''
+
 
+
'''''Unsolved but not Unforgotten, the tarball glexec tickets'''''<br />
+
ECDF: [https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=95303 95303]<br />
+
Lancaster: [https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=95299 95299]
+
 
+
'''''Can be solved'''''<br />
+
Brunel: [https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=119682 119682] This ROD ticket looks like it's sorted now. Good stuff!
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'''Monday 20th November'''
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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].
  
''' Tuesday 26th Jan 2016 '''
+
'''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.
One of the message broker was in downtime for almost three days. Nagios probes picks up a random message broker and failover is not working so a lot of ops jobs hanged for long time. Its a known issue and unlikely to be fixed as SAM Nagios is in its last leg. Monitoring is moving to ARGO and many things are not clear at the moment.
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'''Monday 30th November'''
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* 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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''' Tuesday 6 Oct 2015'''
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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.
+
* 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).
 +
* 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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* For January:
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[http://wlcg-sam.cern.ch/reports/2016/201601/wlcg/WLCG_All_Sites_ALICE_Jan2016.pdf ALICE]:
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All okay.
+
 
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* [http://wlcg-sam.cern.ch/reports/2016/201601/wlcg/WLCG_All_Sites_ATLAS_Jan2016.pdf ATLAS]:
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RHUL 89%:89%
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Lancaster 0%:0%
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* [http://wlcg-sam.cern.ch/reports/2016/201601/wlcg/WLCG_All_Sites_CMS_Jan2016.pdf CMS]:
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RALPP: 80%::80%
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* [http://wlcg-sam.cern.ch/reports/2016/201601/wlcg/WLCG_All_Sites_LHCB_Jan2016.pdf LHCb]:
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RALPP: 77%:77%
+
 
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* Site responses:
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** RHUL: The largest problem was related to the SRM. The DPM version was upgraded and it took several weeks to get it working again (13 Jan onwards). Several short-lived occurrences of running out of space on the SRM for non-ATLAS VOs. For around 3 days (15-17 Jan) the site suffered from a DNS configuration error by their site network manager which removed their SRM from the DNS, causing external connections such as tests and transfers to fail. For one day (25 Jan) the site network was down for upgrade to the 10Gb link to JANET. Some unexpected problems occurred extending the interruption from an hour to a day. The link has been successfully commissioned.
+
 
+
** Lancaster: The ASAP metric for Lancaster for January is 97.5 %. There is a particular problem with ATLAS SAM tests which doesn’t affect the site activity in production and analysis and this relates to the path name being too long. A re-calculation has been performed.
+
 
+
** RALPP: Both CMS and LHCb low figures are due to specific CMS jobs overloading the site SRM head node. The jobs should have stopped now.
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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

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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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