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'''Tuesday 18th June'''
'''Tuesday 19th September'''
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* DPM Workshop last week - come to this week's storage meeting for an in-depth look.
* There was a GDB last week - [https://indico.cern.ch/event/578990/ Agenda]. The pre-GDB was on storage - [https://indico.cern.ch/event/578974/ Agenda].
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** https://indico.cern.ch/event/776832/
* The next [https://indico.cern.ch/event/578991/ GDB is on 11th October].
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* DIRAC downtime this week due to the move to Slough - good luck!
* Several discussions at [https://indico.cern.ch/event/656544/timetable/ GridPP39] (last week) were connected with Tier-2s and operations.
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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?
  
  
'''Monday 11th September'''
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'''Tuesday 11th June'''
* A reminder that there is a pre-GDB and GDB at CERN this Tuesday and Wednesday (links below).
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'''Monday 4th September'''
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* Technical Meeting last week about the New JSON based Information System:  https://indico.cern.ch/event/821105/
* [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGOpsMeetingWeek170904 WLCG weekly ops meeting notes].
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* This week we will get round to looking at the outcome of the Security Day (and HEPSYSMAN).
* There is a [https://indico.cern.ch/event/578974/ pre-GDB next week on storage].
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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.
* There is a [https://indico.cern.ch/event/578990/ draft GDB agenda] available.
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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?
  
  
 
'''28th August'''
 
* Weekly [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGOpsMeetingWeek170828 WLCG ops meeting notes].
 
* Network forward look document now in preparation based on input provided.
 
* Globus Toolkit TBDecommissioned - Stakeholders in discussion about fork and support approach.
 
  
 
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'''Tuesday 19th September'''
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'''Tuesday 11th June'''
* The [https://indico.cern.ch/event/665082/ agenda] and [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGOpsMinutes170914 minutes] from the WLCG ops meeting on 14th September are now available.  
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* The next meeting is planned for 5th October.
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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?
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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
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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 18th July'''
 
* The next WLCG ops coordination meeting is planned for September 14th 2017.
 
  
  
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'''Tuesday 12th September'''
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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_2017-09-06 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].
* There were further problems with Echo at the end of last week. These appear similar to those of the previous week but we believe are now better understood. Media errors in the hardware that has been added into Echo uncovered a bug in the CEPH Erasure Coding when back-filling.
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* There has been a successful test transfer of CMS data into Echo using PhEDEx.
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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/20170830-minutes.txt Wednesday 30 Aug]'''
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20191030-minutes.txt Wed 30 Oct]'''
* How will experiements use object stores in the future?  Could the Sept. pre-GDB clarify this?
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* DOME upgrade problems at Edinburgh
* Fair bit of stuff known about advantages and disadvantages of erasure coding data, compressing data, etc. prior to storing it.
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* Data management support/development for IRIS users
* Bristol's curious missing SE - dropped out of the inforamtion system?
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20170816-minutes.txt]'''
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20191023-minutes.txt Wed 23 Oct]'''
* Pre-GDB planning: could we present something?  Topics seem fairly T1ish
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* Rucio reporting
* Also suggestions for storagey topics for GridPP
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* Anyone to host next DPM workshop?
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20170719-minutes.txt Wednesday 19 July]'''
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'''Wed 16 Oct'''
* Discussion of potential topics for data pre-GDB in September, without being able to commit yet
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* CEPH workshop at CERN report
* Switching to fortnighly calls over the rest of July + August
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20170712-minutes.txt Wednesday 12 July]'''
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20191002-minutes.txt Wed 02 Oct]'''
* Lots of loose ends including Matt's IPv6 testing
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* Safe to upgrade to DPM 1.13 but make sure the BDII is working if you support DIRAC
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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 5 Sep'''
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'''Tuesday 30 Apr 2019'''
* Docker and Singularity container support in Vac 02.02pre
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* ATLAS CernVM4 VMs (equivalent to CentOS 7.6) being tested  
 
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'''Tuesday 29 Aug'''
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* Prerelease of Vac-in-a-Box (i.e. GitHub master) is now running on CentOS 7, for Vac 02.01.
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* Aiming for combined Vac/Vac-in-a-Box release with CentOS 7, but with continued SL6 support for Vac.
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'''Tuesday 22 Aug'''
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* CentOS 7 support  in Vac 02.01pre. Release being prepared and tested.
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* Basic Singularity container support working in Vac 02.02pre
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* DIRAC project prioritising Singularity support in Pilot framework
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'''Tuesday 6th February'''
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* HEPSPEC06 on recent Intel CPUs. [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/HEPSPEC06 GridPP benchmarking page]
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'''Tuesday 30th January'''
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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'''
 
'''Monday 16th January'''
 
* The discussion topic for next week will be accounting comparisons. Please note Alessandra's comments last week.
 
* The discussion topic for next week will be accounting comparisons. Please note Alessandra's comments last week.
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'''Tuesday 19th Sept 2017'''
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''' Tue 9th July 2019'''
* Bug in Safari on macOS causes random Apple generated client cert to be presented to www.gridpp.ac.uk using a CA we don't know about. The connection is then rejected by Apache. Other browsers ok since we request but do not require that they supply a certificate. Workaround produced by (a) installing the Apple CA root and intermediary CA and (b) whitelisting UK e-Science DNs (+ CERN? Others?) in the HTTPS Wiki plugin. Tested but not yet in production.
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'''Tuesday 5th Sept 2017'''
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LHCb has added this to their requirements:
  
New Approved VO. SKA European regional data centre, skatelescope.eu
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Sites not having an SRM installation must provide:
  
https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs
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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)
  
This VO is ramping up and has requested support. Andrew McNab is the contact person for GridPP.
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''' Tue 16th April 2019'''
  
'''Tuesday 25th July'''
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Minor change to LHCB requirements in Approved VOs:
  
London grid (vo.londongrid.ac.uk) VO removed from 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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Ste
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'''Tuesday 5th Mar 2019'''
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New VOMs details for Biomed:
 
https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs
 
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 4th July'''
 
* A round of reminders is coming!
 
* Need to ensure decisions captured regarding supported other VOs.
 
  
  
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'''Tuesday 29th August'''
 
* There was an EGI Ops meeting last Monday. [https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Agenda-21-08-2017 Agenda]
 
* UMD 4.5 is out with CentOS 7 WN package (see broadcast)
 
* NGI_UK QoS ticket mentioned in agenda but not in meeting  [https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=129964 QoS ticket]
 
* Proposal: WMS will be removed from production starting from 1st January 2018
 
* NGIs/ROCs please start discussing with sites and provide suggestions for the overall plan for IPv6
 
* WebDAV reporting: The Operations Centres are asked to verify with their sites if the webdav protocol is really (intentional) enabled on their storage elements (if not, the information should be removed from the BDII), and report to EGI Operations
 
* Next meeting 11th September https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3352/
 
  
'''Monday 31st July'''
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''' 14 May 2019 '''
* There was an EGI OMB last Thursday.
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* Meeting for May cancelled. Next meeting is on 10th June.
  
'''Tuesday 4th July'''
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''' Monday 11th March '''
* There was an EGI OMB last Thursday. [https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3238/ Agenda].  
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* Membership of the ops VO is being reduced.  
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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
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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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''' Tuesday 12th February '''  
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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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'''6th June'''
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'''Tuesday 5th February'''
* There are issues with the ARC CE tests again, so the ARC sites have not have any results in days and the corresponding availability tickets are going nowhere.
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* Birmingham decommissioning of SRM and BDII still going on so tickets are on hold.
* New rota being compiled.
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* Few availability tickets on hold
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* Lancaster has WebDav ticket on hold which seems to be effect of DOME rollout
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'''Tuesday 14th August'''
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* A couple of new availability tickets (QMUL and Lancaster), both for well-publicised reasons. Otherwise quiet. AM on shift this week.
  
'''Tuesday 2nd May'''
 
* Generally quiet. A few low availability tickets.
 
  
 
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'''Monday 13th February'''
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'''Monday 20th November'''
* Please can we hear something from Raul and Sam (or others contributing to the middleware readiness work) about news in this area at the ops meeting next week? Thank you.
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* IPv6: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/IPv6_site_status (up-to-date as of November)
* Does anyone want specific questions in this area tackled in a roundtable discussion?
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* 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 7th December'''
 
* Raul reports:  validation of site BDII on Centos 7 done.
 
  
'''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.
 
  
 
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'''Historical References'''
'''References'''
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* 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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'''Monday 31st July'''
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'''Tuesday 11th June
* Ian has now left GridPP. Please direct queries to the security team via ukngi-security at cern.ch.
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* NTR
'''Tuesday 25th July'''
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* No advisories issued this week.
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'''Tuesday 18th July'''
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* No advisories issued this week.
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* GDB - WLCG Authz WG [https://indico.cern.ch/event/578988/contributions/2646082/attachments/1491770/2319458/20170712-GDB-WLCG-Auth-WG-Overview-v2.pdf .PDF] from [https://indico.cern.ch/event/578988/ GDB]
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** Requirements and strategy to deal with federated identities, VO-centric user suspension, EU GDPR data protection
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** Everyone welcome at [https://e-groups.cern.ch/e-groups/Egroup.do?egroupId=145146 egroup]
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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 4th July'''
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'''Monday 5th March'''
* Pete C is preparing another networking forward look document. Note that figures presented in the Manchester workshop were for a Tier-2 (not always a single site).
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* Next LHCOPN and LHCONE meeting: [https://indico.cern.ch/event/772031/ Umeå, Sweden, 4-5 Jun 2019]. Registration required.  
  
'''Tuesday 6th June'''
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'''Monday 10th September'''
* An update from the DIRAC workshop? GridPP is still the only true multi-VO instance, so we will continue to see issues with this. release quality of dirac has improved within the past year. gfal2/EL7 problems seem to be coming to an end after being cooped up with all authors for 3 days on end. The Imperial GridPP module now has integrated testing. It was also noted that every dirac instance has it's own special module to adapt to their community on top of main dira. We are trying to push as much of out special functionality back into the main dirac branch.
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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 25th April'''
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'''Monday 2nd July'''
* perfSONAR version 4 was released on 17th April. Sites with auto-update on should have been automatically upgraded. Note perfSONAR 4.0 requires more CPU than previous versions as a result of some of the increased functionality. Full details [http://www.perfsonar.net/release-notes/version-4-0/ here]
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* 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].
  
 
* Duncan has recreated the UK perfSONAR mesh. [http://maddash.aglt2.org/maddash-webui/index.cgi?dashboard=UK%20Config Link here]!
 
* Duncan has recreated the UK perfSONAR mesh. [http://maddash.aglt2.org/maddash-webui/index.cgi?dashboard=UK%20Config Link here]!
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'''Monday 18th September 2017, 15.00 BST'''<br />
 
27 Open UK Tickets this week.
 
 
'''BIOMED PUBLISHING QUERIES'''<br />
 
[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=130264 130264] (RALPP's ARC CE)<br />
 
[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=130263 130263] (BRUNEL's ARC CE)<br />
 
[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=130262 130262] (QMUL's STORM SE)<br />
 
Biomed have thrown a bunch of tickets our way, along the theme of "publishing invalid data". Interestingly the ARC devs have stepped in to the Brunel ticket.
 
 
'''OXFORD'''<br />
 
[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=130032 130032] (11/8)<br />
 
LHCB having trouble uploading job outputs. Similar to other issues seen, there are some tests in the linked ticket (130190) that Raja would like to try out. If there is still a problem it would be worth trying out those tests. Also the last update mentions some odd behaviour at QMUL between July and August, which righted itself but may provide a clue. In progress (23/8)
 
 
Two other OXFORD tickets could do with an update (even if there's no progress):<br />
 
[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=129931 129931] <br />
 
[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=130173 130173]
 
 
'''BIRMINGHAM'''<br />
 
[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=130274 130274] (28/8)<br />
 
Birmingham "underperforming" for na62, mainly as they might not be submitting to the VAC resources. Are na62 jobs automagically sent to a site's VACs? In Progress (31/8)
 
  
'''BRISTOL'''<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=130386 130386] (5/9)<br />
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xroot not working for the GridPP VO at Bristol. Winnie posted an interesting question - does xroot require any v6 specific configuration, as some behaviour in the logs suggests that it might. In progress (7/9)
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'''QMUL'''<br />
 
[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=130232 130232] (25/8)<br />
 
A quick note that this icecube GPU issue looks solved, so this ticket can be closed. In Progress (26/8)
 
 
[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=130574 130574] (14/9)<br />
 
An LHCB ticket about "not enough jobs running at QM", although it's more a lesson in fairshare and expectation management, as Daniel points out LHCB has had a lot of CPU over the last few months. I think the ticket should be "Waiting for Reply" though. In progress (15/9)
 
 
'''TIER 1'''<br />
 
[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=130193 130193] (23/8)<br />
 
CMS having trouble staging from tape at RAL, Brian points out that there seem to be a few missing files. Any news on this? Daniela points out that transfers have stalled for 3 weeks now. In progress (4/9)
 
 
[https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=130467 130467] (10/9)<br />
 
Somewhat related, CMS SAM tests failing due to there being no room on CASTOR. Chris points out there seems to be 190TB unaccounted for. Waiting for reply (11/9)
 
 
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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'''
 
'''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.
 
* 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.
 
 
''' 29th November 2016 '''
 
 
LSST monitoring is available through vo-nagios
 
 
https://vo-nagios.physics.ox.ac.uk/nagios/cgi-bin/status.cgi?servicegroup=lsst&style=detail 
 
 
''' 13th September 2016 '''
 
 
* New wiki page has been created for ARGO Nagios https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/ARGO_Nagios_Monitoring. I will add some more information to it later.
 
* Removed old wiki links about sam nagios from gridpp wiki page.
 
* VO nagios still exist and working. I have opened a ticket to explore ARGO VO Nagios,  https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=123604
 
  
  
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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.
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* Impact
 
* Impact

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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