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'''Tuesday 18th June'''
'''Monday 26th November'''
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* DPM Workshop last week - come to this week's storage meeting for an in-depth look.
* Winnie: a question about Site-BDII issues leads to long Rollout exchange. The short summary is.... [insert ops meeting comments]. Oh and LF also added "Hanging Top BDIIs" to the discussion and the EGI update.
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** https://indico.cern.ch/event/776832/
* [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGOpsMeetingWeek181126 Monday's ops minutes] are available. Main item to note is the EGI update.
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* DIRAC downtime this week due to the move to Slough - good luck!
* Simon asks: AMD worker nodes? Is there a wider discussion to be had on hardware purchasing at this time?
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* EGI Ops meeting this week.
* EGI Trust Anchor release 1.95-1 (see https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI_IGTF_Release for more details).
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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 19th November'''
 
* Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, RAL have created CE JSON files, there will be a discussion at the next WLCG Information System this week. https://indico.cern.ch/event/774735/
 
* There was an EGI OMB last week | [https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/4309/ Agenda].
 
* Schedule for T2K LFC migration agreed at technical meeting last week.
 
* WLCG ops meeting | [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGOpsMeetingWeek181112 12th Nov] | [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGOpsMeetingWeek181119 19th Nov].
 
* October was a good month for T2 A/R. [http://wlcg-sam.cern.ch/reports/2018/201810/wlcg/ Final figures] now uploaded.
 
  
'''Monday 5th November'''
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'''Tuesday 11th June'''
* Restarting Technical Meetings on Friday. Topics to be announced at the ops meeting.
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* ISGC 2019 Submission Deadline Extended to 19 November.
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* Technical Meeting last week about the New JSON based Information System:  https://indico.cern.ch/event/821105/
* Winnie: LCG frontier-squid server, w/DNS alias - ok?
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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/WLCGOpsMeetingWeek181105 WLCG weekly ops notes from Monday 5th].
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* The DPM Workshop is this week: https://indico.cern.ch/event/776832/ There's a Vidyo Room planned for people to listen in.
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* CentOS7 Migration https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasComputing/CentOS7Deployment
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'''Tuesday 4th June 2019'''
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* The Security Day  + HEPSYSMAN was on t'other week: https://indico.cern.ch/event/721692/
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* Please can sites review their GOCDB information: https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=141296
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* iris.ac.uk VO - Andrew explained this.
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* New(-ish) HEPOSLib release - 7.2.9 https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGBaselineTable
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* Gareth's query about the WS interface to ARC on TB-SUPPORT
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* Anything else?
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'''Tuesday 11th June'''
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* I got stuck (figuratively) in my machine room last Thursday afternoon so missed it. [https://indico.cern.ch/event/823800/ Agenda.] [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGOpsMinutes190606 Minutes.] Ste was there - any observations?
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'''Tuesday 14th May'''
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* Next meeting this Thursday.
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'''Tuesday 9th April'''
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* Ops meeting last week: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGOpsMinutes190404
  
'''Tuesday 30th October'''
 
* The ops meeting is shifting to the 8th November.
 
  
'''Tuesday 16th October'''
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'''Tuesday 26th March'''
* There was an ops coordination meeting on 11th October: [https://indico.cern.ch/event/757611/ Agenda/slides] | [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGOpsMinutes181011 Minutes].  
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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).
* Next meeting is on 1st November.
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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).
  
'''Monday 8th October'''
 
* There will be an Ops Coordination meeting this Thursday 12th: [https://indico.cern.ch/event/757611/ Agenda].
 
  
'''Monday 17th September'''
 
* There was a WLCG ops coordination meeting last Thursday. The [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGOpsMinutes180913 minutes] are now available and the presentations uploaded to [https://indico.cern.ch/event/756095/ this agenda page].
 
* Highlights:
 
** A report on EOS incidents, improvements and plans
 
** DPM Storage Resource Reporting deployment TF introduction
 
** CMS CRIC is deployed in production
 
** Sites should upgrade perfSONAR to v4.1 on CentOS 7
 
** The next meeting is planned for 11th October.
 
  
  
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'''Tue 27th November''' Report for the Experiments Liaison Report (20/11/2018) is [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Tier1_Operations_Report_2018-11-27 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].
 
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* PPD Tier-2 reverted its switch to IPv6. This resolved a variety of problems for the Tier-2 some of which were being blamed on the Tier-1 (e.g. FTS service failures).
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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.
  
* We believe the CMS AAA issues have been resolved. We will close the tickets but are continuing to look at ways of building more resilience in to the service. The change that appears to have fixed the problems were made on the 23rd November. This change reduced the chunk size being requested from Echo from 64MB to 4MB meaning that small data requests would be served much faster, with a slight (~10%) reduction in performance for large data requests. These changes were only made to the CMS AAA service. Since then the SAM tests have been all passing. 90% of the the CMS AAA Hammer Cloud test jobs have been passing, which is extremely good. The Hammer Cloud tests involve jobs at other sites requesting data from RAL. There can be a significant failure rate that is nothing to do with the site and anything above 70% success rate is considered a pass. The throughput on the proxy machines is much more balanced with the new chunk size in place.
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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.  
  
* The problem report by NA62 in the previous week, when they couldn’t recall data in a timely manner, was the result of a forgotten cron job on the new system. This cron assigns new media to tape pools as they run short. The ATLAS tape pool ran out of tapes and a 200 000 file backlog built up before this was noticed. The tape system priorities writing to tape above recalls (to ensure data is safe), and therefore once the problem was fixed, the next ~48 hours were dominated with clearing this back log.
 
 
* Since 22nd November, SAM tests against the (Old - tape only) CMS Castor instance appear to be "missing" from the reports (and in some plots appear to indicate 100% failure). If we check the actual results they are passing. Do not currently understand the issue, migration to new endpoint is only a week away.
 
 
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20181121-minutes.pdf Wed 21 Nov]'''
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20191030-minutes.txt Wed 30 Oct]'''
* DPM sites: We are now not recommending not upgrading to DOME! unless you're using YAIM
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* DOME upgrade problems at Edinburgh
* More operational issues on IPv6 routed networks
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* Data management support/development for IRIS users
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20191023-minutes.txt Wed 23 Oct]'''
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* Rucio reporting
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'''Wed 16 Oct'''
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* CEPH workshop at CERN report
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20191002-minutes.txt Wed 02 Oct]'''
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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?
  
'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20181114-minutes.pdf Wed 14 Nov]'''
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20190918-minutes.txt Wed 18 Sept]'''
* Interesting operational issue switching ATLAS from SRM to xroot
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* Report from yesterday's Rucio Face Meeting at Coseners
* Do we have a "data management solution" and if so, what does it look like?
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* Suggestions for following up from yesterday's CEPH day hosted by CERN
  
'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20181107-minutes.pdf Wed 07 Nov]'''
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20190911-minutes.txt Wed 11 Sept]'''
* More "data lake" and documentation
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* Storage related stuff at the FNAL (pre-)GDBs
* Progress with caching but need to watch access patterns
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* DOME upgrade tickets for non-DOME DPM sites
  
'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20181031-minutes.pdf Wed 31 Oct]'''
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20190904-minutes.txt Wed 04 Sept]'''
* The role of [http://eos.web.cern.ch/ EOS] in the present and future GridPP
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* Banning in SSC not entirely successful in non-DOME DPM, and end of support is nigh; tickets to upgrade will go out shortly.
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* Storage-and-data-management-wise, GridPP43 was interesting although no-one volunteered to install the next CEPH.
  
'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20181024-minutes.txt Wed 24 Oct]'''
 
* GridPP storage and data management - well placed to contribute to IRIS
 
* Rucio+cache, proposed EOS evaluations, DOME testing update(s)
 
  
 
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'''Monday 26th November'''
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'''Tuesday 30 Apr 2019'''
* VacMon running on a larger memory VM, again with CentOS7/ES5. http://vacmon.gridpp.ac.uk/1f4:15180::/ Normal performance again.
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* ATLAS CernVM4 VMs (equivalent to CentOS 7.6) being tested
* https://vacjson.gridpp.ac.uk/ has prototype CRR JSON files (ie the BDII replacement) generated on the fly from the VacMon ElasticSearch database. These are for all sites (UK + CERN + YANDEX) reporting Vac/Vcycle status to VacMon. There is a corresponding InformationSystem extension in GOCDB to declare the URL of the CRR JSON file.
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* General note: there is a [https://github.com/gridpp/info-sys GitHub repo] for scripts and sample JSON files which sites want to share.
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'''Tuesday 22rd October'''
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* VacMon monitoring pages running again, on CentOS7/ES5. Still slower than previous SL6/ES5 machine so may try again in a larger memory VM.
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'''Tuesday 18th September 2018'''
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''' Tue 9th July 2019'''
* We need to flag documents that are obsolete and update our [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/keydocs?sort=area monitoring]!
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'''Tuesday 18th September 2018'''
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LHCb has added this to their requirements:
* Changes to Approved VOs: LZ record at Imperial now showing up in the portal (had been inserted as a special case until now.)
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Sites not having an SRM installation must provide:
  
'''Tuesday 11th June 2018'''
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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)
  
Steve Jones is updating the User Guide with various mods that have cropped up since Tom Whyntie left (pending permission to edit GridPP website docs...)
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''' Tue 16th April 2019'''
  
'''Tuesday 11th June 2018'''
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Minor change to LHCB requirements in Approved VOs:
  
Approved VOs now contains two new SKA VOMS servers (at Oxford and Imperial, as well as Manchester).
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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:
 
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 8th May 2018'''
 
  
* Updating GridPP website certificate to avoid Chrome warnings
 
  
 
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''' Thursday 15 Nov 2018 '''
 
  
* Agenda:  https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/4309/
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''' 14 May 2019 '''
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* Meeting for May cancelled. Next meeting is on 10th June.
  
* Interesting discussion about UMD Product ID card
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''' Monday 11th March '''
  
* Information System/BDII future
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* Agenda: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Agenda-2019-03-11 
**Discussion about UK BDII plan and time line: Monitoring can be an issue
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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 
  
''' Monday 08 October 2018 '''
 
  
* Argo notification is working so sites can subscribe to notification by enabling notification from GOCDB
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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.
  
* I raised the issue about org.sam.SRM-put tests failing intermittently at sites. Opened a ticket as well: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=137636
 
  
'''Monday 17th September'''
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''' Friday 1st February '''
* There was an EGI ops meeting on 10th September. The agenda page is [https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Agenda-2018-09-10 here].
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''' Tuesday 24 July'''
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* Early adopters needed for HTcondor CE , https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=139377
  
* EGI OPS meeting on 16 July 2018, meeting agenda [https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Agenda-2018-07-16]
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''' Thursday 17th January EGI OMB meeting '''
  
*UMD 4.7.0 release
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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
  
Recommend not to update CREAM
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''' Monday 14th January 2019 '''
issue with canl-java, in progress https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=136074
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* Agenda https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Agenda-2019-01-14
  
* Does site requires MPI for Centos7? Is any site willing to support MPI for grid?
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* No UK specific issue mentioned.
  
* No meeting in August, next meeting on 10 Sep
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* IPv6 readiness plan is going to be summarized at OMB.
  
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Monday 2nd July
 
* [https://www.egi.eu/about/newsletters/ EGI monthly newsletter available].
 
 
'''Monday 11th June'''
 
* Meeting agenda : [https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Agenda-2018-06-11]
 
* Upcoming releases relevant to UK sites
 
** gfal2 major release(2.5.4)
 
** Arc 5.4.2
 
 
* Yearly review of information in GOCDB. UK ticket status is in progress. Should each site update the ticket?
 
* Sites can enable ARGO notification through GOCDB. It can be done at site level or at the service level
 
* Final call for WMS decommission. No UK WMS is in the list.
 
* WebDav probes will be added to ARGO_MON_CRITICAL profile which means that unavailability of webdav will be added to A/R figures. All UK endpoints are passing the test at the moment
 
* Next meeting 9th July
 
 
'''Monday 14th May'''
 
* Meeting today: [https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Agenda-2018-05-14 Agenda]
 
* Access to UMD3 repos has ceased: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=135100
 
* org.nordugrid.ARC-CE-sw-csh probe removed from CRITICAL and OPERATORS profiles
 
* Yearly review of the information registered into GOC-DB - to be completed by June 6 (see item in General section)
 
 
* Next meeting June 11th
 
 
* EGI repos guidance/Ongoing campaigns: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Muddleware
 
** Proposal to rename this to "EGI Operations"
 
 
'''Tuesday 24th April'''
 
* The next EGI OMB is on 3rd May
 
 
'''Tuesday 6/3
 
* Next meeting on Monday: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3639/
 
  
 
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'''Tuesday 5th February'''
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* Birmingham decommissioning of SRM and BDII still going on so tickets are on hold.
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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'''
 
'''Tuesday 14th August'''
 
* A couple of new availability tickets (QMUL and Lancaster), both for well-publicised reasons. Otherwise quiet. AM on shift this week.
 
* A couple of new availability tickets (QMUL and Lancaster), both for well-publicised reasons. Otherwise quiet. AM on shift this week.
 
'''Tuesday 12th June'''
 
* Four availability tickets still open. One ticket on hold at RAL as they are figuring out that how to deal with castor publishing issue.
 
* Dashboard struggled during the week and it was slow but now it seems to be OK.
 
* One Bristol ticket got stuck in weird state where it can not be deleted from dashboard although it has been solved.
 
 
'''Monday 21st May'''
 
* There was a problem with jobs accessing  http://repository.egi.eu:80/sw/production/cas/1/current/meta/ca-policy-egi-core.list to get the latest release so many arc ce test fails. No tickets opened for these alarms and the problem went away when the underlying issue was fixed.
 
 
 
'''Monday 5th March'''
 
* AM->GS. A quiet week last week.
 
  
  
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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
  • N/A
To note

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