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'''[http://storage.esc.rl.ac.uk/weekly/20150902-minutes.txt Wednesday 02 Sep]'''
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* Catch up with [http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/highenergyphysics/research/experiments/mice MICE]
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* How to do transfers of '''lots''' of files with FTS3 without the proxy timing out (in particularly if you need it vomsified)
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* sort of housekeeping: data cleanups, catalogue synchronisation - in particular namespace dumps for VOs
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* GridPP storage/data at future events; GridPP35 and Hepix and Cloud data events
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* Huge backlog of ATLAS data from Glasgow waiting to go to RAL, and oddly varying performance numbers - investigating
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* How physics data is like your Windows 95 games
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* Feedback on CMS's proposal for listing contents of storage
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* Simple storage on expensive raided disks vs complicated storage on el cheapo or archive drives?
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* Heard about the Indigo datacloud project, a H2020 project in which STFC is participating
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* Data transfers, theory and practice
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** Somewhat clunky tools to set up but perform well when they run
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** Will continue to work on recommendations/overview document
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** Worth having recommendations/experiences for different audiences - (potential) users, decision makers, techies
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Revision as of 11:27, 17 September 2015

Bulletin archive


Week commencing 14th September 2015
Task Areas
General updates

Tuesday 1st September

  • From October/November, the EGI ops VO monitoring will be performed using RFC proxies, as opposed to legacy proxies.
  • There will be a new filter for the critical profile for ATLAS WLCG SAM tests so that only production endpoints will be tested and taken into account for site availability metrics. This will be available from the SAM3 interface.
  • CNAF: Due to a fire causing problems with one electrical supply line that happened last Thursday, the computing centre is running at lower capacity (around 30% less of the pledged capacity).
  • Machine job features testing has hit a big according to Raul!
  • The HNSciCloud PCP pilot proposal successful submission (refer to Andrew Sansum's talk at GridPP34 if you forget what this means!). The project intends to procure commercial cloud resources for FY17 and FY18. We will contribute 75K euro towards this activity and the EU will then top up to 250K euro.
  • There was an EGI Operations Management Board last Thursday. There are no summary notes yet, but please take a look at the agenda and linked talks (may be worth skimming them at the ops meeting).
  • There was a quick request/reminder for sites to please update their IPv6 entries in the GridPP wiki.
  • RAL is closed on Monday and Tuesday of this week!


Tuesday 24th August


Tuesday 18th August

  • Root CA - Jens will provide a quick incident report of what went wrong!
  • Notes from Monday's WLCG ops meeting are available.
  • DPM tuning (raised my Matt D - 17/08)
  • Developers@CERN Forum is an initiative of a group of developers targeting all software developers at CERN.
  • Multicore inefficiencies: RAL - CMS allocated slots not used. Glasgow - the concern for us is CPU that was previously being used by ATLAS is no longer being used because of multicore size mismatches.
  • RIPE ATLAS probe experience pages.
  • Automating ATLAS consistency checking (See Alastair's email 12/08)
  • For generating docs out of markdown Steve T can recommend gitbook. This is what CERN use for the Config guide.


WLCG Operations Coordination - Agendas

Tuesday 25th August

  • Minutes from the meeting last Thursday are available.
  • Highlights:
  • Calling for volunteers to write articles on interesting topics for WLCG Operations. There is a section in the portal for this. In case you are interested, please send a mail to wlcg-ops-coord-chair people for details.
  • CERN is going to disable in few weeks write operations via RFIO v2 to Castor in the context of the RFIO access decommission.
  • A downtime for the Argus service @ CERN is expected due to the pending filer migration. No dates yet but it will affect ARGUS, all CEs and all batch worker nodes (glExec) running GridJobs. The downtime is foreseen to last 1h-2h.
  • Issues with VMs in Tier-0 infra also reported by CMS
  • LHCb is trying to integrate submission to the HTCondorCE instance @ CERN
  • A message broker pre-prod infra has been setup @ CERN to enable distribution of perfSONAR data to the experiments. OSG is enabling the data publication from the ITB collector service
  • Please observe the Action List in the minutes and on the WLCG Operations portal by clicking on the Task List relevant to: Sites: Experiments.

Tuesday 18th August


Tier-1 - Status Page

Tuesday 22nd September A reminder that there is a weekly Tier-1 experiment liaison meeting. Notes from the last meeting here

  • The production FTS was updated (to version 3.3.1) on Wed. morning (16th). The production FTS server has been under high load and has been showing performance problems.
  • The first step of the update of the Oracle databases behind Castor was made on Tuesday 15th. There are further steps to do - as announced in the GOC DB.
  • There will be an 'at risk' on the morning of Wednesday 30th Sep. as the Tier1's link into the RAL core network is upgraded to 40Gb.
Storage & Data Management - Agendas/Minutes

Wednesday 02 Sep

  • Catch up with MICE
  • How to do transfers of lots of files with FTS3 without the proxy timing out (in particularly if you need it vomsified)

Wednesday 12 Aug

  • sort of housekeeping: data cleanups, catalogue synchronisation - in particular namespace dumps for VOs
  • GridPP storage/data at future events; GridPP35 and Hepix and Cloud data events

Wednesday 08 July

  • Huge backlog of ATLAS data from Glasgow waiting to go to RAL, and oddly varying performance numbers - investigating
  • How physics data is like your Windows 95 games

Wednesday 01 July

  • Feedback on CMS's proposal for listing contents of storage
  • Simple storage on expensive raided disks vs complicated storage on el cheapo or archive drives?

Wednesday 24 June

  • Heard about the Indigo datacloud project, a H2020 project in which STFC is participating
  • Data transfers, theory and practice
    • Somewhat clunky tools to set up but perform well when they run
    • Will continue to work on recommendations/overview document
    • Worth having recommendations/experiences for different audiences - (potential) users, decision makers, techies
Tier-2 Evolution - GridPP JIRA

Wednesday 02 Sep

  • Catch up with MICE
  • How to do transfers of lots of files with FTS3 without the proxy timing out (in particularly if you need it vomsified)

Wednesday 12 Aug

  • sort of housekeeping: data cleanups, catalogue synchronisation - in particular namespace dumps for VOs
  • GridPP storage/data at future events; GridPP35 and Hepix and Cloud data events

Wednesday 08 July

  • Huge backlog of ATLAS data from Glasgow waiting to go to RAL, and oddly varying performance numbers - investigating
  • How physics data is like your Windows 95 games

Wednesday 01 July

  • Feedback on CMS's proposal for listing contents of storage
  • Simple storage on expensive raided disks vs complicated storage on el cheapo or archive drives?

Wednesday 24 June

  • Heard about the Indigo datacloud project, a H2020 project in which STFC is participating
  • Data transfers, theory and practice
    • Somewhat clunky tools to set up but perform well when they run
    • Will continue to work on recommendations/overview document
    • Worth having recommendations/experiences for different audiences - (potential) users, decision makers, techies


Accounting - UK Grid Metrics HEPSPEC06 Atlas Dashboard HS06

Monday 20th July

  • Oxford publishing 0 cores from Cream today. Maybe they forgot to switch one off. Check here.

Tuesday 14th July

  • QMUL and Sheffield appear to be lagging with publishing by a week.
  • Please check your multicore publishing status (especially those sites mentioned in June).
Documentation - KeyDocs

Tuesday 18th August

  • Lydia's document - Setup a system to do data archiving using FTS3

Tuesday 28th July

  • Ewan: /cvmfs/gridpp-vo help ... there's a lot of historical stuff on the GridPP wiki that makes it look a lot more complicated than it is now. We really should have a bit of a clear out at some point.

Tuesday 23rd June

  • Reminder that documents need reviewing!


General note

See the worst KeyDocs list for documents needing review now and the names of the responsible people.

Interoperation - EGI ops agendas

Monday 13th July

  • SR updates (small because it's summer):
      • gfal2 2.9.1
      • storm 1.11.9
      • srm-ifce 1.23.1....
      • gfal2-python 1.8.1
    • In Verification
      • gfal2-plugin-xrootd 0.3.4
  • Accounting
    • [John Gordon] "Of the WLCG sites we now have 97%+ of cpu reported with cores. I expect you all saw my recent email to GDB naming 16 sites. If one German and one Spanish site and the four Russians start publishing we will jump to 99%+"
    • New list of sites needing to update multicore accounting being prepared this evening (Monday) by Vincenzo
  • SL5 decommissioning date March 2016;
  • Next meeting 10th August

Monday 15th June

  • There was an EGI operations meeting today: agenda.
  • New Action: for the NGIs: please start tracking which sites are still using SL5 services: how many services, and for each service if still needed on SL5, if upgrades on SL5 services are expected). A wiki has been provided to record updates. Also interesting to understand who is using Debian.


Monitoring - Links MyWLCG

Tuesday 16th June

  • F Melaccio & D Crooks decided to add a FAQs section devoted to common monitoring issues under the monitoring page.
  • Feedback welcome.


Tuesday 31st March

Monday 7th December

On-duty - Dashboard ROD rota

Tuesday 1st September

  • Gordon was on shift.
  • Another very quiet week with no new tickets. We have two open ROD tickets, both of which are for A/R; one is against Cambridge, and the other is the now 53-day-old ticket at UCL.
  • Next up.... Kashif again (thanks Kashif!)

Monday 24th August

  • Kashif on shift.
  • There were quite a few alarms throughout the week and many tickets were opened. All of the tickets were fixed within time limit.
  • The certificate of the Argus server at sheffield expired but Elena got a new certificate quickly.
  • Cambridge and UCL have low availibilty tickets and not much can be done about it except waiting for availibilty to reach 90%.


Rollout Status WLCG Baseline

Tuesday 12th May

  • MW Readiness WG meeting Wed May 6th at 4pm. Attended by Raul, Matt, Sam and Jeremy.

Tuesday 17th March

  • Daniela has updated the [ https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Staged_rollout_emi3 EMI-3 testing table]. Please check it is correct for your site. We want a clear view of where we are contributing.
  • There is a middleware readiness meeting this Wednesday. Would be good if a few site representatives joined.
  • Machine job features solution testing. Fed back that we will only commence tests if more documentation made available. This stops the HTC solution until after CHEP. Is there interest in testing other batch systems? Raul mentioned SLURM. There is also SGE and Torque.

References


Security - Incident Procedure Policies Rota

Tuesday 1st September

Tuesday 24th August

Tuesday 18th August

  • CVE-2015-3245 (libuser) - EGI-CSIRT processing ~50 sites remaining. None in UK.
  • glexec for small vos - summary doc in progress by IanN. Circulated to sec. team for sanity check. More work needed.


The EGI security dashboard.


Services - PerfSonar dashboard | 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).

Tuesday 18th August

Tuesday 14th July

  • GridPP35 in September will have a part focus on networking and IPv6. This will include a review of where sites are with their deployment. Please try to firm up dates for your IPv6 availability between now and September. Please update the GridPP IPv6 status table.


Tickets

Monday 14th September, 15.00 BST

Yet another brief ticket review - its been a tad busy! Hopefully normal service will resume, err, next month. My apologies.

Only 20 Open UK tickets this week.

115805 - This RAL ticket from Sno+ looks like it can be closed, with there not actually being a problem with the site, or a feature that RAL would really want to implement.

Keeping on the Tier 1, does this ticket concerning the FTS3 certificates (115290) have anyone looking into it yet?

Are these two QMUL LHCB tickets duplicates, or related? 115959 & the more recent 116153

This Sussex ticket looks like it could do with someone taking a look - still just "assigned" since the 9th - 116136

Finally, an interesting VAC ticket for Oxford - "no space left on device" for atlas jobs - 116123. Bit of an odd one!

Tools - MyEGI Nagios

Tuesday 09 June 2015

  • ARC CEs were failing nagios test becuase of non-availability of egi repository. Nagios test compare CA version from EGI repo. It started on 5th June and one of the IP addresses behind webserver was not responding. Problem went away in approximately 3 hours. The same problem started again on 6th June. Finally it was fixed on 8th June. No reason was given in any of the ticket opened regarding this outage.

Tuesday 17th February

  • Another period where message brokers were temporarily unavailable seen yesterday. Any news on the last follow-up?

Tuesday 27th January

  • Unscheduled outage of the EGI message broker (GRNET) caused a short-lived disruption to GridPP site monitoring (jobs failed) last Thursday 22nd January. Suspect BDII caching meant no immediate failover to stomp://mq.cro-ngi.hr:6163/ from stomp://mq.afroditi.hellasgrid.gr:6163/


VOs - GridPP VOMS VO IDs Approved VO table

Tuesday 19th May

  • There is a current priority for enabling/supporting our joining communities.

Tuesday 5th May

  • We have a number of VOs to be removed. Dedicated follow-up meeting proposed.

Tuesday 28th April

  • For SNOPLUS.SNOLAB.CA, the port numbers for voms02.gridpp.ac.uk and voms03.gridpp.ac.uk have both been updated from 15003 to 15503.

Tuesday 31st March

  • LIGO are in need of additional support for debugging some tests.
  • LSST now enabled on 3 sites. No 'own' CVMFS yet.
Site Updates

Tuesday 24th February

  • Next review of status today.

Tuesday 27th January

  • Squids not in GOCDB for: UCL; ECDF; Birmingham; Durham; RHUL; IC; Sussex; Lancaster
  • Squids in GOCDB for: EFDA-JET; Manchester; Liverpool; Cambridge; Sheffield; Bristol; Brunel; QMUL; T1; Oxford; Glasgow; RALPPD.

Tuesday 2nd December

  • Multicore status. Queues available (63%)
    • YES: RAL T1; Brunel; Imperial; QMUL; Lancaster; Liverpool; Manchester; Glasgow; Cambridge; Oxford; RALPP; Sussex (12)
    • NO: RHUL (testing); UCL; Sheffield (testing); Durham; ECDF (testing); Birmingham; Bristol (7)
  • According to our table for cloud/VMs (26%)
    • YES: RAL T1; Brunel; Imperial; Manchester; Oxford (5)
    • NO: QMUL; RHUL; UCL; Lancaster; Liverpool; Sheffield; Durham; ECDF; Glasgow; Birmingham; Bristol; Cambridge; RALPP; Sussex (14)
  • GridPP DIRAC jobs successful (58%)
    • YES: Bristol; Glasgow; Lancaster; Liverpool; Manchester; Oxford; Sheffield; Brunel; IC; QMUL; RHUL (11)
    • NO: Cambridge; Durham; RALPP; RAL T1 (4) + ECDF; Sussex; UCL; Birmingham (4)
  • IPv6 status
    • Allocation - 42%
    • YES: RAL T1; Brunel; IC; QMUL; Manchester; Sheffield; Cambridge; Oxford (8)
    • NO: RHUL; UCL; Lancaster; Liverpool; Durham; ECDF; Glasgow; Birmingham; Bristol; RALPP; Sussex
  • Dual stack nodes - 21%
    • YES: Brunel; IC; QMUL; Oxford (4)
    • NO: RHUL; UCL; Lancaster; Glasgow; Liverpool; Manchester; Sheffield; Durham; ECDF; Birmingham; Bristol; Cambridge; RALPP; Sussex, RAL T1 (15)


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.



Meeting Summaries
Project Management Board - MembersMinutes Quarterly Reports

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GridPP ops meeting - Agendas Actions Core Tasks

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RAL Tier-1 Experiment Liaison Meeting (Wednesday 13:30) Agenda Meeting takes place on Vidyo.

Highlights from this meeting are now included in the Tier1 report farther up this page.

WLCG Grid Deployment Board - Agendas MB agendas

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NGI UK - Homepage CA

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Events
UK ATLAS - Shifter view News & Links

Atlas S&C week 2-6 Feb 2015

Production

• Prodsys-2 in production since Dec 1st

• Deployment has not been transparent , many issued has been solved, the grid is filled again

• MC15 is expected to start soon, waiting for physics validations, evgen testing is underway and close to finalised.. Simulation expected to be broadly similar to MC14, no blockers expected.

Rucio

• Rucio in production since Dec 1st and is ready for LHC RUN-2. Some fields need improvements, including transfer and deletion agents, documentation and monitoring.

Rucio dumps available.

Dark data cleaning

files declaration . Only Only DDM ops can issue lost files declaration for now, cloud support needs to fill a ticket.

• Webdav panda functional tests with Hammercloud are ongoing

Monitoring

Main page

DDM Accounting

space

Deletion

ASAP

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


UK CMS

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UK LHCb

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UK OTHER
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