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Week commencing 21st September 2015
Task Areas
General updates

Tuesday 22nd September

  • Monday's WLCG weekly ops meeting minutes are available.
  • There is an EGI Operations Management Board this Thursday. Do we have any items to raise?
  • Several observations recently of FTS3 at RAL being overloaded.
  • Federico raised: anomalous CPU usage for DIRAC ilc jobs.
  • Looking at supporting DEEP3600 (RHUL, RAL and Sussex).


Tuesday 15th September


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


WLCG Operations Coordination - Agendas

Tuesday 22nd September

  • There was an ops coordination meeting last Thursday: Minutes.
  • Highlights:
    • All 4 experiments have now an agreed workflow with the T0 for tickets that should be handled by the experiment supporters and were accidentally assigned to the T0 service managers.
    • A new FTS3 bug fixing release 3.3.1 is now available.
    • A globus lib issue is causing problems with FTS3 for sites running IPv6.
    • The rogue Glasgow configuration management tool replacing the current configuration for VOMS with the old one was picked up and unfortunately discussed as though sites had not got the message about using the new VOMS.
    • No network problems experienced with the transatlantic link despite 3 out of 4 cables being unavailable.
    • T0 experts are investigating the slow WN performance reported by LHCb and others.
    • A group of experts at CERN and CMS investigate ARGUS authentication problems affecting CMS VOBOXes.
    • T1 & T2 sites please observe the actions requested by ATLAS and CMS (also on the WLCG Operations portal).
  • Actions for Sites; Experiments.

Tuesday 15th September


  • There was a middleware readiness meeting on 16th September.
  • The new DPM version is being tested via the ATLAS workflow by the Edinburgh Volunteer site.
  • Many new sites showed interest to participate in MW Readiness testing with CentOS7. It is useful to anticipate the MW behaviour in the event of new HW purchase. DPM validation on CentOS/SL7 is already ongoing at Glasgow.
  • ATLAS and CMS are asked to declare whether the xrootd 4 monitoring plugin is important for them or not. As it is now, it doesn't work with dCache v. 2.13.8
  • Despite the fact that FTS3 runs at very few sites we decided to test it for Readiness. In this context, ATLAS and CMS are asked to use the FTS3 pilot in their transfer test workflows
  • PIC successfully tested dCache v.2.13.8 for CMS.
  • CNAF has obtained Indigo-DataCloud effort to strengthen the ARGUS development team. The ARGUS collaboration will meet again early October. The problems faced at CERN with a CMS VOBOX are being investigated in ticket GGUS:116092.
  • The next MW Readiness WG vidyo meeting will take place on Wednesday 28 October at 4pm CET.


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 server has been under high load and has been showing performance problems. Towards the end of last week Atlas moved work across to our Test FTS3 instance. The production FTS was updated (to version 3.3.1) on Wed. morning (16th). However, that seems to have introduced a memory leak - which is being followed up with the developers.
  • 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

Thursday 17 Sep

  • Task force to start developing advice for sites to simplify their operation in line with "6.2.5 Evolution of Tier-2 sites" in the GridPP5 proposal.
  • Mailing list for Tier-2 evolution activities: gridpp-t2evo@cern.ch - anyone welcome to join
  • Also GridPP project on the CERN JIRA service for tracking actions. Can be used with a full or lightweight CERN account. You need to be added manually or on the gridpp-ops@cern.ch mailing list to browse issues.


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 22nd September

  • Steve J is going to undertake some GridPP/documentation usability testing.

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 15th September

  • Generally quiet. QMUL have some grumblyness with the CEs. However, I understand much of this is caused by the batch farm being busy. There are low-availability tickets 'on hold' for Liverpool and UCL.


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 15th September

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 15th September

  • The security team meeting this week is cancelled. The next will be on 30th.

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

Friday 18th September

Matt's on holiday until the 29th, so he's being replaced with links or any update Jeremy is kind enough to provide.

CAST YOUR GAZE UPON THE UK'S GGUS TICKETS HERE.

FEAST YOUR EYES ON THE T'OTHER VO NAGIOS STATUS HERE

"Normal" service will resume in October. I'll leave y'all anticipating that lovely review of all the tickets.

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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