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Week commencing Monday 22nd October 2018
Task Areas
General updates

Tuesday 23rd October

  • Monday's WLCG ops meeting minutes.

Tuesday 16th October

  • There is a GDB this week. Agenda.
  • September WLCG T2 A/R figures circulated:
    • ALICE
      • Birmingham 52%
    • ATLAS
      • QMUL 82%
      • Lancs 87%
    • CMS
      • Bristol 88%
    • LHCb
      • QMUL 86%
  • VOMS admin requests
  • CERN accounts
  • Chris B: Modifying Firewall rules on PerfSONAR hosts?

Tuesday 8th October

  • HEPiX this week
  • The latest from WLCG operations. Monday's minutes
  • Next LHCOPN and LHCONE meeting: Fermilab, Batavia US, 30-31October 2018. Agenda.


Monday 24th September


WLCG Operations Coordination - AgendasWiki Page

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 23rd October Report for the Experiments Liaison Report (23/10/2018) is here.

  • The batch-farm is currently (23/10/18), running at reduced capacity (~20%) to facilitate critical kernel patching and/or rebooting of WN's. This should hopefully be completed by midday.
  • Advance notification of downtime for25% of our acr-ce's. We will be draining and migrating to new virtualized platform.
  • No other major issues of note to report for this week.
Storage & Data Management - Agendas/Minutes

Wed 10 Oct

  • Finally finalising GridPP fwd view?
  • How GridPP-storage-and-data-management would interface with and contribute to IRIS-TWGs

Wed 05 Sept

  • GridPP41 Hackathon report
  • GridPP41 everything else report, and archiving data

Wed 15 August

  • Updates on the forward view for GridPP6
  • Unfortunately Vidyo has been "upgraded" to VidyoConnect which has several work-hindering features.

Wed 08 August

  • Updates on the forward view for GridPP6 - storage technologies, future directions
  • Vidyo annoyances

Wed 01 August

  • IRIS
  • GridPP planning - hack day on DOME?
Tier-2 Evolution - GridPP JIRA

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.

Tuesday 16th October

  • Vacmon was working for a while but is now timing out. AM looking at ways of downgrading back to the previous version for now.


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

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 16th October


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 22nd October 2018, 14.30 BST
37 Open UK Tickets this week.

BIRMINGHAM
137801 (17/10)
For information only, the ticket charting the decommissioning of Birmingham's DPM SE. In Progress (17/10)

LANCASTER
136635 (9/8)
Lancaster is having no luck shifting this availability alarm due to SRM CertLifetime checks erroring constantly, causing 100% "Unknown" status. Has anyone seen this before? Could we blag that it's a problem with the check? On hold (8/10)

TIER 1
137195 (14/9)
Any luck fixing the Castor LDIFs to clear these ROD alarms? (I don't seem to have permission to check the links to the tests myself). In progress (10/10)

136199 (18/7)
LHCB FTS ticket. Last update was a prod from Christophe last week asking if there's any news. In progress (17/10)

IPv6 Tickets
(with reference to the IPv6 site status table)

RALPP: 131616
No update for a long while on either the ticket or the table after some promising progress. In Progress (31/1)

OXFORD: 131615
Last update on the ticket back in July describes v6 as the blocker, is this still the case? On Hold (13/7)

CAMBRIDGE: 131614
Some nice progress with the site perfsonar boxen dual-stacked. The table is also up to date. Nice. In progress (8/10)

BRISTOL: 131613
Some recent discussion with CMS and Duncan, xroot works for v6 but srm/gridftp doesn't. I think steps have been made to fix this (from an entry in the table) but I'm not sure what they were! In progress (11/10)

BIRMINGHAM: 131612
Mark's update back in August painted a familiar picture of central IT dragging their heels. As ALICE consider v6 a necessary thing Mark has been asked to keep up the pressure. No recent update on the table. On hold (27/8)

GLASGOW: 131611
Some good progress here, with some v6-ining (or dual-stacking) of the perfsonar boxes and a hope to be able to dual-stack the storage by the end of the year. Duncan spotted a few problems (that might be ip6table related), but I understand Gareth was off last week. The table entry is up to date too, sterling stuff. In progress (12/10)

EDINBURGH: 131610
Dual-stacking has caused a lot of interesting times at ECDF. Rob gave a good update on their situation last month, and the table is up to date. Interesting that v6 traffic won't go through the JANET link for the site (it must have at one point, right?). Any recent news about dual-stacking your disk nodes? In Progress (10/9)

DURHAM: 131609
Adam provided an update last week, with (again) reverse IPv6 DNS being a sticking point (despite v6 traffic otherwise flowing fine). Adam's expected timeframe for being able to do a full v6 rollout is mid-2019. Whilst it's depressing it's good to know this ahead of time. No update on the table since 2015 though, but looking at the last entry there you could just change the date. In progress (should be on hold?) (17/10)

SHEFFIELD: 131608
Things looked a bit hopeful with work in this area (re-)scheduled to start in July, but it looks like thing stalled. Any news? The table mirrors the last update. On hold (10/7)

MANCHESTER: 131607
The perfsonars are dual-stacked but IIUI v6 reverse DNS is again the sticking point that prevents dual-stacking the storage. The table entry is more up to date then the ticket. On hold (25/4)

LIVERPOOL: 131606
The Liver-admins were waiting on new routers needed to sort out the site's v6 problems back in June. Any news at all since? Bad news is better then no news in this case. In progress (On hold it?) (4/6)

UCL: 131604
An update today that Ben is hoping to reinstall and dual-stack their perfsonar this week. As they have no storage that will be them sorted if it all goes to plan. In progress (22/10)

RHUL: 131603
Perfsonars are dual-stacked, but the v6 reverse lookup is a problem again which is a problem for storage. Table and ticket are up to date, but has this work been properly handed over to Antonio and Simon? In progress (10/9)

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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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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To note

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