| General updates
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Tuesday 6th May
- WLCG workshop - responses considered as part of a list. If you notified Jeremy last week, please now go ahead and submit a visit notice as usual and book early.
- WLCG A/R reports for April are now available. ALICE; ATLAS; CMS and LHCb.
- The notified outage of the RAL top-BDII last week impacted other services such as Nagios in a way that could have been prevented. We must improve our change control and impact procedures within core ops. The approach will also be invoked when other (inter)nationally facing services are going to cause wider impacts (e.g. VOMS, DIRAC, website...).
- The EGI statistics for April 2014 are also available.
Tuesday 29th April
- There is an LHCOPN/LHCONE meeting at CERN - yesterday and today.
- A reminder that there is a GOCDB service OUTAGE today 06:00 to 13:00 UTC (07:00 to 14:00 BST). After that it will be at risk. During the outage a read-only fail over service will be in use.
- Planning for the May pre-GDB on Data Access and GDB is almost done.
- Please email Jeremy if you have an interest in attending the WLCG workshop in July.
- There was an EGI OMB meeting last Thursday. See the agenda here. Topics covered were:
- Operations updates;
- EGI Competence Centres Call;
- Update on SAM migration;
- Migration of 1st and 2nd level support;
- Status of other core tasks;
- Security updates;
- New features of the accounting portal;
- CVMFS task for update;
- EMI-2 decommissioning update.
- Pete Clarke circulated the final network forward look document update.
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| WLCG Operations Coordination - Agendas
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Tuesday 6th May
- There will be a WLCG ops coordination meeting this Thursday 8th May. Pre-meeting reports can be found in the twiki.
Tuesday 22nd April
- There was a WLCG operations coordination planning meeting last Thursday. The minutes are now available. Also see the agenda.
- There was a request to add xrootd endpoints of your site in GOCDB. Alessandra provided this status summary link.
Tuesday 15th April
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| Tier-1 - Status Page
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Tuesday 6th May
- Network intervention last Tuesday completed successfully.
- New testing CVMFS client 2.1.19.
- In process of scheduling Castor 2.1.14 upgrade.
- The software server used by the small VOs will be withdrawn from service (aiming for June).
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| Storage & Data Management - Agendas/Minutes
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Tuesday 6th May
- There was a DPM collaboration meeting last Wednesday.
- The following priorities were agreed for the next year:
- YAIM->Puppet transition (YAIM support ends this year);
- I/O Monitoring; GridFTP redirection - available now for testing;
- Admin interface and improved HTTP file management;
- Nightly testing of WAN HTTP access performance, Hammercloud;
- Removal of legacy components where possible (eg RFIO);
- System logging via dmlite;
- Rebalancing utilities;
- and move of web presence and docs to an indexable Drupal site.
Tuesday 22nd April
- A DPM collaboration meeting is being planned for the coming week(s). Are there any site comments or feedback on DPM as a product (e.g. speed of new feature development) and the support it receives?
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| Accounting - UK Grid Metrics HEPSPEC06 Atlas Dashboard HS06
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Tuesday 29th April
- Glasgow looks slightly delayed with recent accounting data publishing.
Tuesday 15th April
- The APEL accounting system has been undergoing database maintenance to improve performance and reliability. Networking problems at the RAL site have delayed completion of the operation. Sites may see nagios alerts warning them that they have not published accounting data for 7 days - these will stop after the maintenance work completes.
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| Documentation - KeyDocs
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See the worst KeyDocs list for documents needing review now and the names of the responsible people.
Tuesday 6th April
- KeyDocs are going to be reviewed (in next 4 weeks) as the system is not working (or not adding anything) in some areas.
Tuesday 15th April
Tuesday 1st April
- Keydocs action needed by Jens J; Rob H/Security T; Alessandra F; Wahid B; David C and Matt D.
- We need to reassign Mark M's documents on Core Grid Services
Tuesday 18th March
- Keydocs action needed by: Mark M; Jens J; Rob H/Security T; Alessandra F; Wahid B; David C and Matt D.
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| Interoperation - EGI ops agendas
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Tuesday May 6th
- There was a meeting yesterday, the agenda is here: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Agenda-05-05-2014
- Two things to pull out:
- UMD 3 EA list:
- John Gordon was in touch with Cristina Aiftimiei and noted that in his opinion the UK sites listed as UMD-1/2 would probably still be taking part for UMD-3 (not least because UMD-1/2 are effectively no longer extant).
- In the agenda is a list of a few UK sites that haven't confirmed their contacts with Joao Pina; please have a look and get back to him - all he's looking for is a note to make sure that the contact list is up to date.
- EMI-2 decommissioning
- Also discussed was the migration of Central SAM services & reconfiguration of NGIs SAM instances
- Next meeting June 2
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| Monitoring - Links MyWLCG
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Tuesday 6th May
- Next meeting this Friday on MVC and caching:
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| On-duty - Dashboard ROD rota
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Tuesday 6th May
- One ticket expiry dealt with promptly.
- A number of the "EMI-3" tickets have now been closed - there has been good progress. However, some do remain.
- UCL ticket about low availability. The cause has been fixed. It is expected to stay open until their availability has risen to an acceptable level again.
- Very slow refresh of the Nagios test results as seen on the ROD dashboard. In some cases the dashboard still showed test result
states for the previous day. Using gridppnagios display to see the 'real' state of any given Nagios test.
Tuesday 29th April
- Ongoing problems with the dashboard. Issue escalated to EGI.
- There was an update of Dashboard last Thursday which solved a few issues. It no longer shows warning alarms which is good. There were some other improvements as well.
- EMI-2 deadline is approaching. The following need attention and are about to be escalated:
- RHUL (cream2.ppgrid1.rhul.ac.uk) ) Last update in ticket: 16/4
- Sussex (grid-cream-01.hpc.susx.ac.uk, grid-bdii.hpc.susx.ac.uk,) (Plus Sha-2 compliance for grid-cream-01.hpc.susx.ac.uk) ) Last update in ticket: 16/4
- Bristol (lcgce03.phy.bris.ac.uk, lcgce04.phy.bris.ac.uk, lcgbdii.phy.bris.ac.uk) ) Last update in ticket: 23/4
- ECDF (info2.glite.ecdf.ed.ac.uk, ce7.glite.ecdf.ed.ac.uk) Last update in ticket: 28/4
- Durham (ce1.dur.scotgrid.ac.uk, se01.dur.scotgrid.ac.uk) ) Last update in ticket: 23/4
Tuesday 22nd April
- There were ongoing problems with the dashboard last week. Several bugs, possibly including one related to the email function, have been fixed.
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| Rollout Status WLCG Baseline
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Tuesday 18th March
Tuesday 11th February
- 31st May has been set as the deadline for EMI-2 decommissioning. There may be an issue for dCache (related to 3rd party/enstore component).
References
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| Security - Incident Procedure Policies Rota
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Tuesday 29th April
- The changes to the regional dashboard make the on-duty task harder. Need to rely on Pakiti again.
Tuesday 15th April
- Update on the OpenSSL status.
- The discussion list members have been updated. Anyone missing?
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| Services - PerfSonar dashboard | GridPP VOMS
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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).
Tuesday 29th April
- It was mentioned several weeks ago that the perfsonar meshes were being sorted by host name and that sorting by site name would be available soon. This is now the case. You can see the familiar GridPP site sorting here and the large WLCG mesh here. Note the square of GridPP sites towards the bottom right. Red squares represent throughput of less than 500 Mb/s.
Tuesday 15th April
- New LiveCD and LiveUSB images are now available containing the latest openssl packages (see email of 11th April).
Tuesday 8th April
- Some discrepancies found in VOMS ports and listings between VOMSsnooper and the dashboard for ops. (15009 vs 15002.
- Also noted WLCG VOMS changes. New VOMS servers are being introduced as notified in this broadcast.
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| Tickets
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Tuesday 6th May
IOU one full ticket review - Matt.
EMI3 upgrade: Down to four EMI upgrade tickets - well done everyone. ECDF, Sussex, Bristol and UCL left to go. Things look good on the UCL and Edinburgh fronts. Bristol and UCL aren't progressing as well, but are adamant that they'll make the deadline. The ECDF ticket triggered a ticket to the ROD, but that's being sorted.
CVMFS for ILC: How are things going at Oxford and Glasgow for rolling out cvmfs for ilc (https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=101502)? IIRC Glasgow were just waiting for the changes to gently percolate, Oxford were waiting for Kashif "The Puppet Master" to return to work his magic. That just leaves Bristol unaccounted for.
QMUL: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=103028
This atlas ticket, essentially regarding atlas jobs using more resources then they said they would (and thus being killed) has seen a lot of discussion at the Thursday atlas meeting. I thought I'd mention it in case anyone outside that meeting wants to weigh in.
Afraid that's all folks!
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| Tools - MyEGI Nagios
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Monday 17th March
Tuesday 26th November
- Regional Nagios updated to release 22. It is a glite to UMD update and it required a fresh installation.
- There have been some internal changes in SAM-Nagios. Test probes are now the responsibility of product team. Some test names have been changed as a result of this reorganization. For example the org.sam.CREAMCE-DirectJobSubmit test has become emi.cream.CREAMCE-DirectJobSubmit. This does not affect the operational activities.
- Please could all site admins look at services associated to their site and please mail Kashif if anything odd is noticed. Site admins can reschedule tests for their sites and it would be helpful if most functionalities are tested.
- Also, look at myegi which can be useful with links to the Dashboard, GSTAT, Accounting Portal and GGUS.
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| VOs - GridPP VOMS VO IDs Approved VO table
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Tuesday 15th April
Monday 17 February 2014
- Proxy renewal
- All RAL WMSs now renew proxies with 1024 bits. This looks like the end of this (at last).
Tuesday 11 February 2014
- Proxy renewal
- lcgwms06 at RAL has been upgraded and works
- Both Imperial's WMSs work
- Glasgow's will still need to be upgraded (unless they have been since Friday).
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