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Week commencing Monday 3rd December 2018
Task Areas
General updates

Monday 3rd November

  • DPM workshop 2019 - LHEP (Bern). 13-14 June 2019.
  • Weekly WLCG ops meeting minutes.
  • CERN announcement yesterday: "After an outstanding performance, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the accelerator complex and the experiments are now stopping for two years for major improvements and upgrading."
  • Next Tuesday there is a pre-GDB of the Authorization Working Group. Agenda.
  • Wednesday is the December GDB. Agenda.
  • UMD 4.8.0 was released on November 29th November.
  • Friday's GridPP technical meeting was on Testing and Deployment of HTCondor CEs.
  • Minutes from the November EGI OMB are now available.
  • Vip asked about: Preventing a VO running on a Worker Node

Monday 26th November

  • 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.
  • Monday's ops minutes are available. Main item to note is the EGI update.
  • Simon asks: AMD worker nodes? Is there a wider discussion to be had on hardware purchasing at this time?
  • EGI Trust Anchor release 1.95-1 (see https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI_IGTF_Release for more details).

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 | Agenda.
  • Schedule for T2K LFC migration agreed at technical meeting last week.
  • WLCG ops meeting | 12th Nov | 19th Nov.
  • October was a good month for T2 A/R. Final figures now uploaded.

Monday 5th November

  • Restarting Technical Meetings on Friday. Topics to be announced at the ops meeting.
  • ISGC 2019 Submission Deadline Extended to 19 November.
  • Winnie: LCG frontier-squid server, w/DNS alias - ok?
  • WLCG weekly ops notes from Monday 5th.


WLCG Operations Coordination - AgendasWiki Page

Tuesday 4th December

Tuesday 30th October

  • The ops meeting is shifting to the 8th November.

Tuesday 16th October

  • There was an ops coordination meeting on 11th October: Agenda/slides | Minutes.
  • Next meeting is on 1st November.


Monday 8th October

  • There will be an Ops Coordination meeting this Thursday 12th: Agenda.

Monday 17th September

  • There was a WLCG ops coordination meeting last Thursday. The minutes are now available and the presentations uploaded to 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.



Tier-1 - Status Page

Tue 4th December Report for the Experiments Liaison Report (04/12/2018) is here.

  • The batch farm was drained and rebooted, to apply the security patch for CVE-2018-18955.
  • CMS SAM tests are still appearing as “missing”. We believe that CMS is aware of this problem and are manually correcting it while working on a fix.
  • While completing the weighting up of the ClusterVision 17 storage nodes, the Ceph Manager Daemons crashed and were unavailable for 30 minutes. This did not impact any production work, as despite their grand name, they simply providing monitoring information about the cluster. We believe this is a bug in the web dashboard and have disabled it for now and informed the Ceph developers.
Storage & Data Management - Agendas/Minutes

Wed 21 Nov

  • DPM sites: We are now not recommending not upgrading to DOME! unless you're using YAIM
  • More operational issues on IPv6 routed networks

Wed 14 Nov

  • Interesting operational issue switching ATLAS from SRM to xroot
  • Do we have a "data management solution" and if so, what does it look like?

Wed 07 Nov

  • More "data lake" and documentation
  • Progress with caching but need to watch access patterns

Wed 31 Oct

  • The role of EOS in the present and future GridPP

Wed 24 Oct

  • GridPP storage and data management - well placed to contribute to IRIS
  • Rucio+cache, proposed EOS evaluations, DOME testing update(s)
Tier-2 Evolution - GridPP JIRA

Monday 26th November

  • VacMon running on a larger memory VM, again with CentOS7/ES5. http://vacmon.gridpp.ac.uk/1f4:15180::/ Normal performance again.
  • 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.
  • General note: there is a GitHub repo for scripts and sample JSON files which sites want to share.

Tuesday 22rd October

  • VacMon monitoring pages running again, on CentOS7/ES5. Still slower than previous SL6/ES5 machine so may try again in a larger memory VM.


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

Tuesday 18th September 2018

  • We need to flag documents that are obsolete and update our monitoring!

Tuesday 18th September 2018

  • Changes to Approved VOs: LZ record at Imperial now showing up in the portal (had been inserted as a special case until now.)


Tuesday 11th June 2018

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...)

Tuesday 11th June 2018

Approved VOs now contains two new SKA VOMS servers (at Oxford and Imperial, as well as Manchester).

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs


Tuesday 8th May 2018

  • Updating GridPP website certificate to avoid Chrome warnings

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

Thursday 15 Nov 2018

  • Interesting discussion about UMD Product ID card
  • Information System/BDII future
    • Discussion about UK BDII plan and time line: Monitoring can be an issue

Monday 08 October 2018

  • Argo notification is working so sites can subscribe to notification by enabling notification from GOCDB

Monday 17th September

  • There was an EGI ops meeting on 10th September. The agenda page is here.

Tuesday 24 July

  • EGI OPS meeting on 16 July 2018, meeting agenda [1]
  • UMD 4.7.0 release

Recommend not to update CREAM issue with canl-java, in progress https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=136074

  • Does site requires MPI for Centos7? Is any site willing to support MPI for grid?
  • No meeting in August, next meeting on 10 Sep


Monday 2nd July

Monday 11th June

  • Meeting agenda : [2]
  • 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

  • Next meeting June 11th

Tuesday 24th April

  • The next EGI OMB is on 3rd May

Tuesday 6/3


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 14th August

  • 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


Monday 5th March

  • AM->GS. A quiet week last week.


Rollout Status WLCG Baseline

Monday 20th November



Historical References


Security - Incident Procedure Policies Rota

Tuesday 4th December

  • Current Advisories
  • SOC Workshop February 2019


Services - PerfSonar production dashboard |PerfSonar development dashboard | 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 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

Monday 3rd December 2018, 14.00 GMT
39 Open Tickets this month, going site by site:

RALPP
138588 (28/11)
A CMS ticket about SRM timeouts, Ian has marked it in progress but no update with words in it yet. In progress (29/11)

131616 (3/11/17)
RALPP's v6 ticket. After having to rollback the last attempt Chris is having another go today after a router firmware update. Good luck! In Progress (3/12)

OXFORD
131615 (3/11/17)
Just the v6 ticket at Oxford, no recent news but Duncan asked some questions last week, advertising some JISC services that could make life easier. On Hold (29/11)

BRISTOL
138402 (21/11)
An LHCB tickets for failed pilots. Initial problems seemed to be with the RAL BDII not giving the right (or any) information for Bristol, but this has been fixed and jobs seem to be failing with connection errors. Winnie and Lukasz are working on it. In Progress (1/12)

138041 (1/11)
CMS transfers failing from Bristol. Files are on disk but not in the DPM namespace - waiting on a fix to the DPM shell to proceed with this. I think I'm waiting on the same update. In progress (30/11)

131613 (3/11/17)
Bristol's v6 ticket. Has there been any recent progress here? In progress (9/10)

BIRMINGHAM
137801 (17/10)
The ticket tracking the decommissioning of the old Birmingham DPM. All proceeding as expected, switch off date is the 10th of December. In progress (26/11)

138244 (12/11)
Availability ticket, which will continue to be alarming during the decommissioning process. On Hold (12/11)

131612 (3/11/17)
Birmingham's v6 ticket. No updates since August, any news Mark? Even a confirmation of there being no news would be useful. On Hold (27/8)

GLASGOW
134689 (23/4)
Perfsonar upgrade to CentOS7 ticket. On hold whilst trying to get v6 to work. On Hold (30/10)

131611 (3/11/17)
Glasgow's v6 ticket. v6 was enabled but the v6 packets aren't flowing. Any updates on diagnosing/fixing this? In progress (22/10)

EDINBURGH
138243 (12/11)
ROD Availability ticket, caused by a late lcg-CA Package update. Metrics are on the mend, but Andy added his thoughts on the reliability of these reliability metrics. On Hold (19/11)

131610 (3/11)
The ECDF v6 ticket. Any news on your next Ipv6 rollout plans? In progress (10/9)

DURHAM
134687 (23/4)
Request to update Perfsonar to CentOS7. Adam gave a plan to do this in the site's big C7 rollout, expected at the start of next year. Luckily not long off now! In progress (6/11)

131609 (3/11/17)
Durham's v6 ticket. After painting a bleak picture of mid-2019 as the earliest they could expect a full v6 rollout at Durham Duncan has asked some questions to try to help things along. In Progress (should be On Hold?) (29/11)

SHEFFIELD
131608 (3/11/17)
Just the v6 ticket at Sheffield. A positive update from Elena at the end of October hoping to dual-stack the perfsonar boxes by mid-November. Have you managed to do this yet? Do you need a hand with anything? In progress (30/10)

MANCHESTER
137112 (11/9)
Atlas SRM space reporting broken by a dodgy drain moving data outside of tokens. A repair script has been running for a long time, and it should be just about fixed. Alessandra has asked Tim to check the atlas-eye view of the space reporting to see if this issue can be closed. Waiting for reply (29/11)

131607 (3/11/17)
Manchester's v6 ticket. Some good news here, with a new v6 range being put into production and a hope that the storage will be dual-stacked for Christmas. Nice. In progress (3/12)

LIVERPOOL
131606 (3/11/17)
Only the v6 ticket at Liverpool. No news for a long while on this ticket though. In progress (4/6)

LANCASTER
138365 (19/11)
Providing storage dumps for the t2k files at Lancaster as a precursor to the move to the DFC. It's proving more difficult then initially thought, in part due to a lot of files not having their checksum information in them. Getting DPM to calculate and store these has been more of a pain then it should have been. In progress (3/12)

137996 (30/10)
A ROD ticket for a failed webdav test. Waiting on a new patch for DPM that will fix the dodgy behaviour. No sign of it yet though. On Hold (5/11)

136635 (9/8)
Availability ROD ticket. Just a few (smooth) days away from being able to close this one. On Hold (5/11)

RHUL
131603 (3/11/17)
Just the v6 ticket for RHUL. Last word is that central IT are outsourcing v6 DNS to JANET. Any news on how this is going? We'd like to hear more on this experience. In Progress (29/10)

QMUL
138364 (19/11)
The QM ticket for the T2K DFC migration. Dan was quick to provide the dump, and has tried to migrate the data (I think mainly successfully?). Just needing to clear up some details. In progress (28/11)

134573 (17/4)
CMS request to install singularity. This is waiting on the move to CentOS7 at QM, which currently has a test setup with a pre-production queue hopefully coming before Christmas. On Hold (5/11)

IMPERIAL
138360 (19/11)
The Imperial ticket for the T2K DFC migration. On Hold after the files have been removed and the file dumps provided. On Hold (3/12)

138359 (19/11)
Master ticket for all the T2K DFC migrations. Since I started writing this Daniela added child tickets for:
Oxford: 138647
Liverpool: 138648
RALPP: 138651
Sheffield: 138649

BRUNEL
138498 (26/11)
LHCB not able to access a Brunel ARC CE. This ticket appears to have been missed. Assigned (26/11) Update - the failures were due to an Arc Update, but jobs are running fine now. Solved.

133956 (9/3)
CMS asking to update the Brunel xroot configs. Raul updated DPM last week and hoped to enable DOME (which will enable the xroot changes) later in the week. Any joy? In Progress (26/11)

100IT have a ticket: 137306

TIER 1
138361 (19/11)
The Tier 1's T2K migration to the DFC ticket. Alastair provided the file dump over the weekend. In progress (1/12)

138493 (26/11)
CMS transfers failing from RAL to T2_CH_CERN. Turned out to be one bad file originally, but now more have appeared. Reopened (3/12)

138500 (26/11)
A similar ticket, CMS transfers failing from T2_PL_Swierk to RAL. This one has been bounced to RAL, I don't if that was right or fair. In progress (28/11)

138613 (29/11)
CMS asked to check a file that was failing to stage from tape. It looks like the file isn't in Castor at all. In Progress (3/12) Update - file being globally invalidated

138584 (28/11)
CMS xroot reads timing out for SAM tests. It looked to be an intermittent problem, and might have disappeared over the weekend. In progress (30/11)

138461 (22/11)
Winnie's ticket concerning Bristol's old bdii being "stuck" in the RAL Top BDII. Any word on his from the RAL BDII admins? I admit I haven't digested the lcg-rollout thread(s). In progress (26/11)

138033 (1/11)
Atlas singularity jobs failing at RAL. It looks like some progress was made on this last week from both sides. In progress (30/11)

137897 (23/10)
enmr jobs not being accounted at RAL, but it looks to be that's because they never successfully ran. A ticket has been submitted to dirac (138414) to get to the bottom of this. In Progress (28/11)

137822 (18/10)
LHCB ticket regarding the FTS being in a "bad state". Waiting to restart the castor -> echo migration to test to see if the problems can be duplicated, as they appear to happen under heavy load on the RAL FTS. On Hold (22/11) Update - transfers seem to be working fine now, so the ticket has been closed.

Tools - MyEGI Nagios

Monday 20th November

Tuesday 18th July

  • Following our ops discussion last week, Steve will focus his tests on supporting the GridPP DIRAC area and decommission the other tests.


VOs - GridPP VOMS VO IDs Approved VO table

Monday 20th November

  • Tom Whyntie has requested (and been granted) access to the GridPP VO to get some pipelines working for large-scale processing and analysis of MRI scans associated with the UK Biobank project.
  • All VOs in the incubation page being prompted for updates by the end of November (required input for OC documents).
  • QMUL (Steve L) is following up on the biomed MoU. GridPP want to be cited in research papers for the support our resources/sites provide.


Site Updates

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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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