RAL Tier1 Grid Team Actions

This is a Wiki area for open Tier-1 Grid Services Team Actions

Upcoming service disruptions/alterations/interventions

Once we are ready to perform these interventions appropriate notification should be made as per the intervention procedure. But note them here to allow others to see what could potentially affect them.

Type corresponds to the EGEE Intervention classification A-D or n/a if the intervention should be transparent.

Services with per VO component

Service Type	Planned Intervention	Alice	Atlas	CMS	LHCb	Others	Type
CE	Migrate non-LHC vos to new CE	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	No date yet
Experiment Software Areas	Migrate VOs from common area to dedicated host	?	Done	Done	Done	?

Generic Grid Services

Service Type	Planned Interventions	Date	Type
WN	Move gLite software to AFS	?
WN	Migrate to SL5/64-bit	?

Ongoing Actions List

Obsolete. Now using footprints helpdesk.

See also RAL Tier1 Grid Team Closed Actions.

Action ID prefix	Status
G = From Grid Services Team Meeting	Open = Action has been created
T = Added by Team members or Team Leader	Progress = Action is being worked on
P = Created by other project members	Closed = Action is complete
R = Created by UKI ROC/Production Manager	Rejected = Action is rejected

Action ID	Priority	Owner	Action Title	Target date	Status	Date closed	Notes
G-89	Medium	Catalin	Coordinate off Site Replication of LFC/FTS (also disaster recovery testing)		Open		Arrange meeting and generate plan as to how we set up a second LFC/FTS out of ATLAS building.[17/10/08]Meeting held , will write up plan [21/11/08] A draft plan exists, needs some refining.[12/12/08]Need to coordinate with Database Services team[16/1/09]Catalin to send plan to Matt[30/1/09]Awaiting for input from Andrew and/or DB team[2009/03/06]DB group to circulate proposals for off-site replication to elicit feedback [2009/05/08]Meeting scheduled for Thursday to discuss options[2009/05/15]Will use old db servers for failover[2009/05/22]DB Service have setup streaming service between old db servers, wil switch to production once we are convinced it is working correctly[2009/06/19]Debugging issues[2009/06/26]Now unable to make any more progress on this for a month[2009/09/11]Meeting on 14th with DB team to discuss[2009-10-02]Request for two boxes for dataguard testing (one-node RAC master to single-server slave); RT ticket submitted.[2009/10/23]Still need hardware
G-111	Medium	Derek	Find alternative solution to backing up helpdesk db tables		Open		mysqlhotcopy can't copy table type used by helpdesk, need to find another solution[2009/07/31]Dump takes 6 minutes but locks tables, will try with different options to see if any improvement[209/08/07]Different options do not lock table, will implement a backup cron job[2009/8/14]Backup cron job implemented, need to test restore.[2009/10/23]Imported succesfully, need to check that RT is happy with it
T-115	Medium	Derek	Add VO Shares to Information System		Open		[2009/10/23]Have script to publish this, but overwrites another part of info system so not in use at the moment
T-118	Low	Derek	Check if publishing dummy clusters still required by LHCb		Open		[2009/12/11]Mailed Roberto Santinelli who forwarded me on, still awaiting response
T-119	Medium	Derek	Check ALICE requirements for jobs with lcgadmin VOMS role		Open		[2009/10/23]Moved to Derek, Need to reconfigure Cream CE, waiting for opportunity to implement[2009/12/11]Plan to rollout in January
T-120	Medium	Matt/Derek	Atlas		New		[2009/11/20]Investigate fixes for Atlas install jobs blocking Atlas SAM test