lecture Deployment team
Date/Time: Tuesday, 25 January 2011 - 11:00 (Europe/London)
Location: EVO - GridPP Deployment team meeting
Description: 
- This is the biweekly DTEAM meeting
- The intention is to run the meeting in EVO: http://evo.caltech.edu/evoGate/. Join the meeting in the GridPP Community area.

-  The phone bridge number is  +44 (0)161 306 6802 (CERN number +41 22 76 71400). The phone bridge ID is 78425 with code: 4880.

Apologies: Raja, Derek, Duncan, Brian, Richard (& possibly Gareth), David (& Stuart)
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 Tuesday, 25 January 2011
 11:00
Experiment problems/issues (20')     
Review of weekly issues by experiment/VO

- LHCb
http://tinyurl.com/6ldj7nn

- CMS

- ATLAS

Input from Brian
"1 - ATLAS have now migrated most of the data that they intend from MCDISK to DATADISK; and have deleted the majority of the files from MCDISK as well. If sites could again reduce the size of the ATLASMCDISK space token so that there is no more than 5TB of free space in the token; and to move the freed space into ATLASDATADISK.

2 - ATLAS (uk) intend to go through and do another consistency check of all SEs.
- Cedric Serfon posted a link to a script for SToRM sites to create the syncat xml file format required by atlas.
- New dpm-toolkit 2.6.7 at http://www.sysadmin.hep.ac.uk/rpms/fabric-management/RPMS.storage/
- Can sites please install ( new program which is helpful in cleaning up ATLAS[PROD.SCRATCH]DISK files older than a month is included in this version.)

Frontier squid changes.

- Other

- Experiment blacklisted sites

- Experiment known events affecting job slot requirements

- Site performance/accounting issues

- Metrics review
 11:20
Meetings & updates (20')     
- ROD team update

- Nagios status (hardware update and plans)

- Tier-1 update

- Security update

-- T2 issues

CERN dteam VOMS was due to be switched off yesterday

-- General notes.


- Escalated tickets https://gus.fzk.de/download/escalationreports/roc/html/20110124_EscalationReport_ROCs.html

58733 - Biomed at RALPP (dcache issue)
64995 - RAL T1 No GlueSACapability defined for WLCG Storage Areas 
65055 - Bristol Preparation work to enable ATLAS jobs at Bristol 

- Return of the GridPP Technical Roadmap.
-- Still open for topics to be covered in addition to the usual: multi-core; GPUs and clouds.
 11:40
gstat2 - publishing shares (10')     
Input from Brian

"Tests at Glasgow show that much of the inconsistency in gstat is caused by space token setup. If for a dpm site , the site admin does not use SI short cuts (M,G,T,P etc ) then the space is matches to a better consistency.
IE, if allocating  12TB  using the update-space command ; then this should be written as “12000000000000” and not “12T”"

- The correct shares to use are in Steve Lloyd's spreadsheet version GridPP3_T2_Allocations_2009 8.xls
 11:50
Baseline versions and upgrades (5')     
- Looking into upgrading (approx 5) DPMs which are below current WLCG BSWG recommendation of 1.7.4 to 1.8.0 ( glite3.2 version for SL5/64bit in current gLite release; Sam S. is preparing Glasgow svr018 for this upgrade. Wahid is testing the SL4/gLite3.1 version.)

- Next accounting period starts in April so this is likely the point by which sites will want to be stable. The only feedback from the PMB yesterday was to consider doing the upgrades before data taking restarts.
 11:55
Actions (5')     
- http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Deployment_Team_Action_items
 12:00
AOB (1')   Survey doc word file pdf file     
- EGI would like to launch the first SA1 survey covering the following 
capabilities: Logging and Bookkeeping, Service Management and and 
Auditing and gLite-CLUSTER. Please take a look at the attached document and send comments to John/Jeremy. 

- Ireland has initiated the formal NGI validation process with the UKI ROC acting as the Integration Process Coordinator. The UK will make a request in the next 3-4 weeks.