lecture UKI Monthly Operations Meeting (TB-SUPPORT)
Date/Time: Wednesday, 11 May 2005 - 10:30 (Europe/Zurich)
Location: VRVS
Chairperson: J Coles
Description:
Scheduled for the Snow Virtual Room of VRVS (http://www.vrvs.org). Please ensure that you have registered and can use this service before the meeting!

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 Wednesday, 11 May 2005
 10:30
Review of 2.4.0 upgrade (5')    
- What were the main problems
- What worked well
- Suggestions for July
 10:35
General status of operations (15')    
- Use of TB-SUPPORT and ROC vs LCG-ROLLOUT
- Experiences of the UKI helpdesk
- Responsiveness to and problems with CIC on duty
- Stability of implementations
- Current main problems & issues (inc. manpower)
 10:50
Accounting (talk through of basics) (15')   more information word file pdf file    
- Setting up R-GMA
- Review of APEL (how it works and why we need it)
- Discussion on problems being experienced
- Site plans (for sites not yet publishing data)
 11:05
Site monitoring (review of information available) (10')    
- Why monitoring is important and useful
-- Security (See R. Wartel talk from April HEPSYSMAN  http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/sysman/april2005/talks/GridSecurity.pdf)
-- LCG2 monitoring  http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/deployment/admin/monitoring/
-- Cluster management and GridPP federated Ganglia  http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/ganglia/
-- Discussion (in which areas would people like more advice/help?)
 11:15
GridPP planning (10')   transparencies powerpoint file pdf file    
- review of current status
- work being undertaken for Service Challenge 3
- SRM deployment status (what is needed for sites in general)
- How all sites will be part of Service Challenge 4!
- Latest on SL4 and SL5 (see HEPIX talks here http://iwrwww1.fzk.de/hepix/Agenda.html)
- Discussion (concerns and issues)