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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?
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'''Tuesday 11th June'''
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* Technical Meeting last week about the New JSON based Information System:  https://indico.cern.ch/event/821105/
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* This week we will get round to looking at the outcome of the Security Day (and HEPSYSMAN).
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* The DPM Workshop is this week: https://indico.cern.ch/event/776832/ There's a Vidyo Room planned for people to listen in.
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* CentOS7 Migration https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasComputing/CentOS7Deployment
 
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'''Tuesday 25th November'''
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'''Tuesday 4th June 2019'''
* STFC Computing Strategy Survey - GridPP filled out some information for sites and circulated to CB.
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* The Security Day  + HEPSYSMAN was on t'other week: https://indico.cern.ch/event/721692/
* ATLAS: Grid draining Saturday-Sunday due to an Oracle DB procedure. Old voms servers blocked for ATLAS Monday 24th at 13:30. ([https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGDailyMeetingsWeek141124#Monday More from the WLCG ops meeting]).
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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 18th November'''
 
* [https://indico.cern.ch/event/350917/ HEPSYSMAN] took place on Monday and covered: IPv6; multicore; cgroups; Dirac (CERN@school); HS06 from haswell; Elasticsearch (logs analytics); HEPiX review; snmp log match and blanking disks.
 
* At HEPSYSMAN reference was made to the WLCG agreement with Oracle. This does include Tier-2 sites for WLCG related work.
 
* The [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/GDBMeetingNotes20141112#Introduction_M_Jouvin notes from the November GDB] last Wednesday ([https://indico.cern.ch/event/272779/ agenda]) are now available together with those of the [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/GDBMeetingNotes20141111 pre-GDB on volunteer computing]. The [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/GDBActionInProgress GDB actions list] has been updated.
 
  
 
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'''Tuesday 25th November'''
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'''Tuesday 11th June'''
* There was a WLCG ops meeting last Thursday. The [https://indico.cern.ch/event/341737/ agenda] and [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGOpsMinutes141120 minutes] are linked here. Highlights for easier digestion:
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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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* News: ARGUS future workshop in December. WLCG survey pending web form update.
 
* Middleware: WLCG repository is now signed.
 
* Baselines: UMD 3.9.0 - gfal2, BDII, WN and UI updates.
 
* MW issues: RHEL6.6 kernel fuse bug affecting CVMFS NFS installations. Recommend all sites with this type of installation to not upgrade to SL6.6. gridftp logging too verbose on DPM 1.8.9 - wait to upgrade as also publishes webDAV while EGI ops probes SRM.
 
* T0 & T1 updates: Some dCache upgrades to 2.10.10. CERN move to FTS v3.2.30.
 
* Oracle: CERN upgrades ongoing.
 
* T0 news: myproxy.cern.ch will be upgraded to 6.0-2 on Tuesday, November 25th. VO feedback sought on voms-admin test instance - move in January? voms.cern.ch and lcg-voms.cern.ch to be replaced by voms2.cern.ch and lcg-voms2.cern.ch on Wednesday November 26th.
 
** VOMRS registration page (https://lcg-voms.cern.ch:8443/vo/{vo-name}/vomrs) will remain in lcg-voms.cern.ch.
 
* Tier-1 news: NDGF-T1 2 new tape systems are getting deployed (Oslo and Copenhagen).
 
* Tier-2 news: NTR
 
* ALICE: High activity. RAL ARC CEs direct submission work in progress.
 
* ATLAS: ATLAS Central Service status (migration to AI) ongoing. ProdSys2 and Rucio migration timeline agreed - ramping up but stopping the prodys1 so low no of jobs for next ~2weeks.
 
* CMS: Various tests ongoing (VOMS; data transfer; tape...). Moving CRAB and central production into a single global Condor pool. Reminder of site config requests.
 
* LHCb: MC and user jobs in the last 2 weeks. Stripping 21 validation revealed a problem and delayed the start of the campaign.
 
* glexec: in PanDA testing ongoing - some issues.
 
* Machine/job features: NTR
 
* Middleware readiness: Following technical discussions between the MW Package Reporter and Pakiti developers and the WLCG and EGI Security responsibles, a technical solution of common agreement was adopted by which each site will be given the option to enable pakiti only, the Package Reporter or both. Thus security concerns are addressed and the site independence is respected. A release along these lines is expected during the 1st quarter 2015.
 
* Multicore: Passing parameters to batch systems [https://indico.cern.ch/event/272779/session/0/contribution/8/material/slides/0.pdf reviewed at GDB by Alessandra]. Capabilities recorded in [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/BSPassingParameters this table]. A [http://indico.cern.ch/event/336243/contribution/3/material/slides/0.pdf report on accounting given to MB by Alessandra]. See recommendations.
 
* SHA-2:  the old servers can be used until November 26th, 14:00 UTC. The maximum proxy lifetime for the old servers will be as low as 2 days and by then the old VOMS ports will refuse connections.
 
* IPv6: NTR
 
* Squid Mon & HTTP proxy discovery: Alistair working on updates.
 
* Network & transfer metrics: 107 instances updated to 3.4.1 following the WLCG and EGI broadcasts. Starting validation of 3.4.1 instances.
 
* Next meeting 4th December.
 
  
  
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* There was a planned reboot of the site firewall this morning (24th). (There are a pair of firewalls and it will fail over and back as each is rebooted). This is expected to be transparent.
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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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* 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/20141119-minutes.txt Wedn 19 Nov]
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20191030-minutes.txt Wed 30 Oct]'''
* Logs: chatty DPM 1.8.9, and elasticsearching logs.
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* DOME upgrade problems at Edinburgh
* Reports and other interesting things from workshops: cloud data transfer and sync, HEPiX, hepsysman.
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* Data management support/development for IRIS users
* RAID controllers for 36 bay nodes
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[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20141112-minutes.txt Wedn 12 Nov]
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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20191023-minutes.txt Wed 23 Oct]'''
* Update on CEPH with xroot.  It works...
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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?
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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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* ATLAS CernVM4 VMs (equivalent to CentOS 7.6) being tested
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'''Tuesday 11th November'''
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'''Tuesday 6th February'''
* A reminder to please update [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/HEPSPEC06 HEPSPEC06 figures] with new equipment benchmarks.
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* HEPSPEC06 on recent Intel CPUs. [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/HEPSPEC06 GridPP benchmarking page]
* Please check your [http://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/~lloyd/gridpp/metrics.html GridPP metrics] lines in Steve's tables and report any issues.
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'''Tuesday 4th November'''
 
* Sussex and Sheffield publishing issues still apparent.
 
  
'''Monday 27th October'''
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'''Tuesday 30th January'''
* Sites considering moving to HTCondor should be aware there are prototype APEL parsers in use for HTCondor so if you continue using CREAM as your CE then you can continue to use APEL accounting. The previous Condor parser for APEL was retired in EMI3 as there was no demand.
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* Please keep updating the [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/HEPSPEC06 GridPP benchmarking page].
  
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'''Tuesday 24th Oct'''
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* A talk on end-to-end validation of any site's APEL accounting was presented at the WLCG Accountuing Taskforce meeting, 19th Oct. There slides exist here: https://indico.cern.ch/event/673843/contributions/2756986/attachments/1542818/2420233/blackBoxAccTesting.pdf
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'''Monday 16th January'''
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* The discussion topic for next week will be accounting comparisons. Please note Alessandra's comments last week.
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'''Monday 14th November'''
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* Alessandra has written an [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/AccountingFAQ FAQ] to extract numbers from ATLAS and APEL avoiding the SSB.
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'''Monday 26th September'''
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* A problem with the APEL Pub and Sync tests developed last Tuesday and was resolved on Wednesday. This had a temporary impact on the accounting portal.
  
 
* [http://accounting.egi.eu/egi.php?SubRegion=1.67&query=normcpu&startYear=2014&startMonth=8&endYear=2014&endMonth=9&yRange=SITE&xRange=VO&voGroup=lhc&chart=GRBAR&scale=LIN&localJobs=onlygridjobs APEL status]: An issue at Sheffield?
 
* [http://accounting.egi.eu/egi.php?SubRegion=1.67&query=normcpu&startYear=2014&startMonth=8&endYear=2014&endMonth=9&yRange=SITE&xRange=VO&voGroup=lhc&chart=GRBAR&scale=LIN&localJobs=onlygridjobs APEL status]: An issue at Sheffield?
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See the [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/php/KeyDocs.php?sort=reviewed worst KeyDocs list] for documents needing review now and the names of the responsible people.
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* a GRIDFPT 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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Ste
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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
  
'''Tuesday 4th Nov'''
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Please check approved VOs: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs
* New section in Wiki called "Project Management Pages".
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The idea is to cluster all Self-Edited Site Tracking Tables
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in here. Sites should keep entries in [[Current Activities]]
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up to date. Once a Self-Edited Site Tracking Tables has
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or otherwise dispose of the table.
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'''Tuesday 28th October'''
 
* Two documents handed over to Jeremy in the keydocs...
 
** Do we want to complete and update [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Core_Grid_services this wiki page on core grid services]?
 
** What about [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/BDII this page on the BDII]?
 
* Are there documents missing that we should create?
 
  
'''Tuesday 7th October'''
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'''General note'''
* Keydocs were reviewed at the core-ops meeting last week. The situation with updates is improving.
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* Main GridPP website expected to use Wordpress with a plug-in to cover the gridsite aspects.
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See the [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/keydocs?sort=reviewed worst KeyDocs list] for documents needing review now and the names of the responsible people.
  
 
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* There was an [https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Agenda-20-10-2014 EGI ops meeting on Monday 20th October]. [[https://indico.egi.eu/indico/getFile.py/access?resId=1&materialId=minutes&confId=2330 Minutes] are available.
 
  
** URT: 
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''' 14 May 2019 '''
** dCache server v. 2.6.35 verified by WLCG as baseline
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* Meeting for May cancelled. Next meeting is on 10th June.
** DPM 1.8.9 in EPEL-testing
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** SR: If sites have been using/testing EMI-WN 3.1.0 please get in touch to help with verification. They seem keen for people to test this.
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''' Monday 11th March '''
  
** New VOMS servers rollout: NGI SAMs being notified for reconfiguration as of yesterday.
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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 
  
** MySQL 5.0 EOL campaign: note progress in agenda.
 
  
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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.
  
  
'''Monday 6th October'''
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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 was a meeting today - link: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Agenda-06-10-2014
 
  
* EMI-WN 3.1.0 in SR: if anyone is running this in production please get in touch to help get this past rollout
 
* MySQL 5.0 noted to be under Oracle Lifetime Sustaining Support (for some time now).
 
** See agenda for guidance on middleware consequences
 
* classads "retired" from EPEL repos
 
** See Kashif's ticket: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=108878
 
** In the short term these are in the EMI 3 third party repo
 
** long term seek to return these to EPEL
 
* SL/SLC/CentOS 5 Support Lifetime
 
** This was highlighted, though not suggested to be urgent
 
 
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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].
  
'''Tuesday 18/11
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'''Monday 13th February'''
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* 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.
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'''Tuesday 1st December'''
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* 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 16th June'''
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* F Melaccio & D Crooks decided to add a [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Monitoring_FAQs FAQs section] devoted to common monitoring issues under the monitoring page.
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* Feedback welcome.
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* Meeting last Friday, agenda: https://indico.cern.ch/event/352854/  : minutes: https://indico.cern.ch/event/352854/material/minutes/minutes.html
 
* Discussion on SAM3 in production: experiments were largely happy with how things were going.
 
* Discussion of recomputations, will be done at expo level not centrally - see minutes for details.
 
* Next meeting 5th December:
 
  
 
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* Some minor issues with ROD Dashboard - quickly fixed.
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* Birmingham decommissioning of SRM and BDII still going on so tickets are on hold.
* Two unavailability tickets still open - issues dealt with.
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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
  
'''Tuesday 28th October'''
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'''Tuesday 14th August'''
* AM reports a quiet shift. Dashboard not catching up earlier in the week but ok later on.  
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* [http://repository.egi.eu/2014/11/10/release-umd-3-9-0/ UMD v.3.9.0] was released Monday 10th November. It supports Scientific Linux 5 and 6 and also Debian 6 (Squeeze).
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* IPv6: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/IPv6_site_status (up-to-date as of November)
* As proposed during October OMB production EGI resource centres will be notified later in the month with a summary broadcast together with other communications, to reduce the number of broadcasts sent to sites.
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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)
  
  
'''References'''
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'''Historical References'''
  
 
* Staged Rollout pages (now separated into EMI1 & 2), and the page listing the deployed versions is extractable from the bdii, so they should all be reasonably up-to-date:
 
* Staged Rollout pages (now separated into EMI1 & 2), and the page listing the deployed versions is extractable from the bdii, so they should all be reasonably up-to-date:
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* CVE-2014-7236
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* Xen
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* [https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/bulletins/SB14-307 Torque]
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'''Tuesday 28th October'''
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* Note EGI-ADV-2014-10-28.
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'''Tuesday 21st October'''
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* The IGTF has an update which introduced rather unexpected changes in the trust anchors used by Comodo for the TCS. There
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* SSL3 (Poodle) follow-up!
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** [https://www.poodletest.com/ Test your browser].
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** [https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/poodle Test your webserver].
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* The EGI [https://operations-portal.egi.eu/csiDashboard security dashboard].
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* NTR
  
 
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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 25th November'''
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'''Monday 5th March'''
* Check on perfSONAR instances upgraded to 3.4...
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* Next LHCOPN and LHCONE meeting: [https://indico.cern.ch/event/772031/ Umeå, Sweden, 4-5 Jun 2019]. Registration required.  
* The next LHCOPN and LHCONE joint meeting will take place on Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th of February 2015 in Cambridge (UK), kindly hosted by Dante.
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'''Tuesday 11th November'''
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'''Monday 10th September'''
* Target date for perfSONAR 3.4 upgrades is 8th December.
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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 4th November'''
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'''Monday 2nd July'''
* perfSONAR 3.4+ install/update instructions are [https://twiki.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/InstallUpdatePS ready]. More details will be included in the WLCG broadcast to all sites planned for later today.
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* Next LHCOPN and LHCONE meeting: [https://indico.cern.ch/event/725706/ Fermilab, Batavia US, 30-31October 2018]. Registration required.  
  
'''Tuesday 28th October'''
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'''Monday 30th April'''
* Have the perfSONAR 3.4 instructions/documentation been updated yet? Last week volunteers were sought at the...
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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
* [https://indico.cern.ch/event/347735/ perfSONAR operations meeting] took place on 22nd October.
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** There is a recommendation for sites supporting IPv6 to deploy perfSONAR dual-stack.
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'''Monday 19th February'''
** Concerned about Tier-3s requesting to join Tier-2 meshes.
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** A [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/NetworkTransferMetrics network transfer metrics wiki page] is available.
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Please could sites upgrade their perfsonar hosts to CentOS7. Instructions are [https://opensciencegrid.github.io/networking/perfsonar/installation/ here]. Current OS versions [https://tinyurl.com/y9eode2b here].
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* Duncan has recreated the UK perfSONAR mesh. [http://maddash.aglt2.org/maddash-webui/index.cgi?dashboard=UK%20Config Link here]!
  
  
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22 Open UK tickets this week: 11 On Hold, 3 Waiting for Reply, 8 In Progress.
 
 
'''Ticket with No Home'''<br />
 
[https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=107880 107880](26/8)<br />
 
It's that srmcp ticket that has been assigned to QMUL after being assigned to RAL. Chris has suggested that the ticket be assigned to the srmcp devs (if there are any left...). Not a bad suggestion (although I would suggested closing this ticket and opening a fresher one for clarity, as the initial problems are solved AIUI), let's make a decision on this one in the meeting. Waiting for reply (20/11)
 
 
'''100IT'''<br />
 
[https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=108356 108356](10/9)<br />
 
Much like when I learning to drive around my hilly home town, this vmcatcher ticket seems to keep stalling. Owen has updated with some good information. In progress (13/11) ''Update - David replied to Owen, with positive news.''
 
 
'''BRUNEL'''<br />
 
[https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=110059 110059](11/11)<br />
 
This ticket (Brunel's DPM being shut down by spider attacks!) was being kept open for fear of the issue showing up again (as this is the second incarnation of the issue) - however Henry has had a chance to reyaim his DPM this time and all seems alright, so maybe it can be closed? On Hold (17/11) ''Update - Henry closed this ticket.''
 
 
'''TIER 1'''<br />
 
[https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=109712 109712](29/10)<br />
 
CMS glexec error at the tier 1. Andrew L said he'd look into this again after he's back from a well-deserved break, but that was a while ago. Any news? On Hold (10/11)
 
 
[https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=107935 107935](27/8)<br />
 
BDII/SRM storage capacity mismatch. At last word Brian had submitted a request to Castor to find out how it reports read-only volumes. Any news? On Hold (3/11)
 
 
(I realise that both these tickets are On Hold and therefore no update should be necessarily expected, but they were both seemed that they might not be held up for long).
 
 
'''MANCHESTER'''<br />
 
[https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=109272 109272](11/10)<br />
 
Atlas having transfer problems, related to a filesystem loss at Manchester. The files are *still* going through recovery (http://bourricot.cern.ch/dq2/recovery/ - thanks Wahid, I had forgotten about this page). They're very nearly done though, I was going to suggest On Holding this ticket but I doubt it will be worth it now. In progress (18/11)
 
  
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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].
  
VOMS servers for OPS based at CERN were down on Saturday 18th October for around 12 hours. Nagios tests started failing after existing proxy expired. Availibilty figures will be slightly affected but outage will be considered as unknown.
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'''Tuesday 18th July'''
 
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* 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.
Blog about VO Nagios
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'''Tuesday 16th Sep'''
 
* Multi VO nagios maintained at Oxford has been upgraded to add ARC CE tests.
 
* https://vo-nagios.physics.ox.ac.uk/nagios/
 
* It is currently monitoring gridpp, pheno, t2k.org, snoplus.snolab.ca, vo.southgrid.ac.uk
 
* Should we start monitoring it more actively and open ticket for sites failing tests ?
 
  
  
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* Proxy renewal isn't done by WMS with ARC CEs - https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=109915
 
*
 
  
'''Tuesday 11th November 2014'''
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* Status of CERN@School data
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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.
  
'''Monday 3rd November 2014'''
 
* Please update cvmfs-keys and VO_<VONAME>_SW_DIR
 
* Working with SNO+ and Mark Slater on ganga job submission rate
 
* Northgrid support on RAL WMS being checked
 
* Gfal-copy and castor issue
 
  
 
'''Thursday 23 October 2014'''
 
* CVMFS keys - new cvmfs-keys package cvmfs-keys-1.5
 
** Part of decoupling of CVMFS from CERN - support for keys from various repositories
 
** <voname>.gridpp.ac.uk -> <voname>.egi.eu
 
** Please update and change VO_<VONAME>_SW_DIR to point to new directory
 
 
* Impact
 
* Impact
 
** Citation policy (https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/acknowledging.html)
 
** Citation policy (https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/acknowledging.html)
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'''Tuesday 21st October'''
 
* High loads seen in xroot by several sites: Liverpool and RALT1... and also Bristol (see Luke's TB-S email on 16/10 for questions about changes to help).
 
 
'''Tuesday 9th September'''
 
* Intel announced the new generation of Xeon based on Haswell.
 
  
'''Tuesday 20th May'''
 
* Various sites but notably Oxford have ARGUS problems. 100s of requests seen per minute. Performance issues have been noted after initial installation at RAL, QMUL and others.
 
  
 
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* [https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Tier1_Operations_Report_2014-11-12 Operations report]
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* Some problems on Atlas Castor instance. At various times in the last couple of weeks the Atlas workload has led to differing groups of disk servers spending a lot of time in a "wait i/o" state. This is triggered by the numbers of reads using xroot and has led to some SAM test failures.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• [https://rucio-ui.cern.ch/dumps Rucio dumps available].
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• [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/viewauth/AtlasComputing/DDMDarkDataCleaning Dark data cleaning]
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• [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/viewauth/AtlasComputing/DDMLostFilesLost files declaration] .  Only  Only DDM ops can issue lost files declaration for now, cloud support needs to fill a ticket.
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• Webdav panda functional tests with Hammercloud are ongoing
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Monitoring
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• [http://adc-monitoring.cern.ch/ Main page]
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• [http://dashb-atlas-ddm-acc.cern.ch/dashboard/request.py/ddmaccounting DDM Accounting]
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• [http://atlas-agis.cern.ch/agis/ddmblacklisting/listGroup space]
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• [http://dashb-atlas-ddm.cern.ch/ddm2/  Deletion]
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ASAP
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• ASAP (ATLAS  Site Availability Performance) in place. Every 3 months the T2s sites performing BELOW 80% are [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/viewauth/AtlasComputing/ATLASSiteCategorization reported to the International Computing Board.]
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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.


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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

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• ASAP (ATLAS Site Availability Performance) in place. Every 3 months the T2s sites performing BELOW 80% are reported to the International Computing Board.


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