Activity of the month

Thursday 31 Aug 2006, 08:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

08:00 → 08:20 Pedro Andrade

*WP12* - monitoring of the development infrastructure availability - technical support to FhG, UNIBAS, USG (gLite installation, PPS usage, GridFTP) - preparation of the watermarking demo for EGEE review *WP17* - monitoring of the testing infrastructure availability *WP18* - ETICS CLI client installation and testing - ETICS WebApp testing - configuration of the DILIGENT deployment testing system in ETICS - execution the DILIGENT deployment testing system in ETICS - check workpacke status (build plan porposal) *WP31* - monitoring of the DILIGENT PreProd infrastructure availability - support in the certification of the DILIGENT sites in EGEE PSS infrastructure - feedback to Cal on EGEE-DILIGENT MoU - EGEE-DILIGENT MoU review *Other* - supervision of Mihai's work - RP monthly meeting - TCom phone meetings - Watermaking demo phone meetings *Holidays* 01 - full day 02 - full day 03 - full day 04 - full day

08:20 → 08:40 Alexandre Duarte

Alexandre Duarte 01-31 August 2006 Major work for EELA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Concluded the deployment of SAM for the EELA sites Preparation of the presentations for the EELA Tutorial in Santiago/Chile Preparation of the presentations for the EELA Conference in Santiago/Chile Studied the gLite Computing Element to elaborate a proposal of interoperability betwen gLite and OurGrid Preparation of the presentations for the EELA/OurGrid Workshop in Campina Grande/Brazil Started to use SAM to monitor EELA Sites and to submit tickets based in the detected problems Major work for GD-OPS & GD-ITR; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- Concluded the SAM Server+Client Installation Manual Helped other Project Associates to deploy SAM to their projects Major issues arising -------------------- Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- OurGrid/EELA Workshop (31/08 to 01/09) http://indico.eu-eela.org/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=56 Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- EELA Conference in Santiago(04/09 to 05/09) http://indico.eu-eela.org/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=32 EELA Tutorial in Santiago (06/09 to 07/09) http://indico.eu-eela.org/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=52 EEGE Conference in Geneva (27/09) http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=1504 Holidays during the period ------------------------------------------------------------ 0 day

08:40 → 09:00 Florida Estrella

EUChina A34 Survey ongoing with JL (NA5) Logistics EUChina conference & meeting Rome 16-19 Sept SEEGRID2 D31a support docs for Valentin, review drafts D21 support docs for Valentin re MoUs within ROCs Hiring of Valentin's PJAS replacement 1QR submitted EUMed Contribute to D22 Tech Roadmap deliverable Logistics EUMed conference & meeting Rome 14-15 Sept Health-e-Child Quetionnaire review - needs rewrite - action KS Training @ CERN, logistics, etc Review D14 Project presentation EELA Review slides for gLite-OurGrid workshop BalticGrid July TS sent to PO EGEE Review of NGI questionnaire EGEE06: RP track coordination with JL & Panos (NA5)

09:00 → 09:20 Roberta Faggian Marque

DILIGENT WP3.1 - draft MoU finalised and sent to Cal for revision, internal revision, confcall - discussions with FhG and Gilda for video conversion demonstration WP1.8 - ETICS usage overview WP4.2 - brochure revision and comments - contributions to D4.2.3 - D4.3.2 revision agreement on review plan Others - Pedro's contract renewal - several revisions of DILIGENT IMR11 - update on activity after holidays - watermarking confcall - Tcom confcall EGEE - PO meeting - set up of EGEE RP liason office mailing list - RP registration page testing, template layout for list of registered projects - RP invitation for registration - set up of registration procedure with Flo and Jo - updates of EGEE-RP pages with registered projects EGE-RP - update meeting with Bob on RP activity - update of budget status for July - update meeting with Bob - budget discussions with Bob , Anna, Dita on FI support to RP - RP status update meeting with Florida - monthly section meeting - twiki updates - follow up on OMII hiring Others - work with Yari on EGEE-CAFÉ installation instructions - Yari applications overview: RP registration (FrontPage), Trip notification (PHP), EGEE CAFÉ (Java, jsp, Eclipse, Tomcat) - discussion with JY about Grid and DL and possible collaborations - data submission to CRÈME (DILIGENT, ICEAGE) - Holidays !!!

09:20 → 09:40 Lanxin Ma

Lanxin Ma 1-15, 08, 2006 Major work for EUChinaGrid and The activities of the EUChinaGrid Project ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Install SAME server part -- Web service -- SAM portal -- get sites information from BDII Appliying a production machine for EUChinaGrid secind VOMS server and do some installing preparation work. However, CERN cannot host the second server for EUChinaGrid. The project willl now try to find another site to host it. Major work for GD-OPS & GD-ITR; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- Manage VOMS: change the DB port in message script because the port is hardcode in the script due to a new port is using from 1st Aug. VOMRS technical support and trobleshooting open a ticket as Oracle database bug#2508682, VOMRS DB got corruption Stress test VOMRS pached rpm with 6 VOs with full qualified name and apppying workaround Major issues arising -------------------- Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- Holidays during the periond ------------------------------------------------------------ 0 day Lanxin Ma 15-31, 08, 2006 Major work for EUChinaGrid and The activities of the EUChinaGrid Project ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Install SAME client part --SAM client start running --The tests for LFC, SE, SRM, CE and gCE are runnning every 3h. The results are visible immediately or after 3h (for CE and gCE). --found a SAM FTS bug and report to developers EUChina VOMS get proxy certificate problem Register EUChinaGrid 1st conference Major work for GD-OPS & GD-ITR; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- test VOMRS-1.2-3-pached(2) which using full qualified name querying Oracle DB and has new features. write test plan and test report and upload it to edms VOMRS has been updted to 1.2-3-pached(2) in LCG production VOMS server and update vomrs update history kwikipage https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/VomrsUpdateLog VOMRS technical support and troubleshooting process user tickets Major issues arising -------------------- Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- VOMRS-1.2-3-pached(2) test plan and test report in EDMS https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Main/VOMSTesting Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- EUChinaGrid Projetc meeting in 18th Sep. and 1st project conferencein 19th Sep. in Rome http://www.euchinagrid.org/Conf-Roma06/ Holidays during the periond ------------------------------------------------------------ 0 day

09:40 → 10:00 Rolandas Naujikas

1-30, 08, 2006 Major work for BalticGrid and The activities of the BalticGrid Project ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SFT maintenance. SAM installation and configuration. Consultations for BG site admins. VU-MIF-LCG2 site reconfiguration after major resource reallocation. Major work for GD-OPS & GD-ITR; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- GMOD for week 1-4 August. CERN-PPS updates after gLite 3.0.2 and security update. top level BDII testing in SLC4 with openldap >= 2.2 (problems reporting). Major issues arising -------------------- Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- Vilnius meeting for BalticGrid/LitGrid clusters administrators and users (8-9 August). Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- Holidays during the periond ------------------------------------------------------------ 7 days

10:00 → 10:20 Marc Ozonne

August 1st - August 25th *WP3* - Prepare the Grid Computing tutorial for CSC06 (Cern School of Computing 2006) - re-write the exercises - test the Information Service on Gilda Testbed - test the Workload Management on Gilda Testbed - test the Data Management on Gilda Testbed - Discussions with the Gilda Tested administrator to fix some problems of configuration - Write down examples and solutions for the exercices August 27th - September 1st Grid Computing tutorial at the Cern School of Computing in Helsinki. - gLite tutorial on Gilda Testbed - Globus tutorial - Projects: gLite and Grid services

10:20 → 10:40 Konstantin Skaburskas

1-15 August 2006 == Major work for Health-e-Child -- Upgrading HeC test bed. -- 9th August, CERN, start of generic "gLite administrator and services Xenification" tutorial for Jordi Parraire, Maat (WP14) (10 days) == Major work for GD-OPS -- Taking care of PPS services: - installation/configuration of additional WMS for PPS -- Solving two Remedy tickets for production FTS == Major work for GD-ITR - == Major issues arising - == Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) -- 4th August, WP7 synchronization meeting Maat (CERN) == Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) - == Holidays during the periond 0 days -------------------------------------------------------------- 16-31 August 2006 == Major work for Health-e-Child -- configuration of firewall for hec-maat-server[1-7] servers -- till 18th August, CERN, continuation of generic "gLite administrator and services Xenification" tutorial for Jordi Parraire, Maat (WP14) (10 days) == Major work for GD-OPS -- Taking care of PPS services: - Certs updates on hosts responsible for -- Found and sovled the problem with 9618 tcp/udp port on WMS for Condor Negotiator. This port was added to official LCG port table. == Major work for GD-ITR - == Major issues arising - == Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) - == Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) - == Holidays during the periond 2 days

10:40 → 11:00 Domenico Vicinanza

Domenico Vicinanza 1-31 August 2006 Major work for EUMEDGRID WP2 ---------------------------------------------------------------- The major effort for the EUMEDGRID WP2 has been carried out by finishing writing, editing and revising the Deliverable 2.2. The final draft has been submitted for review at the end of August. Completed: Chapter 5 (Conclusions) Chapter 2, sections 1 and 2 Missing: 2 NGIs factsheets for Chapter 4, which have to be provided by Israel and Tunisia. Major work for EUMEDGRID WP3 and Testing ---------------------------------------------------------------- Started the SAM (System Availability Monitoring) installation and testing after the tutorial, given at CERN/IT by Piotr Nyczyk on July 18th. - The SAM server has been installed on a Linux CERN machine lxb6114.cern.ch and successfully tested - The SAM client has been installed on a Linux UI in Catania (glite-tutor.ct.infn.it) During the installation some concerns happened mainly due to the very young age of installation scripts (someones are still missing) and the missing documentation for some of the procedures. The as-of-today status is a working server,reachable at: https://lxb6114.cern.ch/sam/sam.py and a client able to launch tests (even if they fails) and upload results in the database. Still missing or to-do: - completing client configuration (the list of critical test has be inserted manually. Judit Novak is going to prepare a script by the first days of September) - sometime there are some interaction problems between the client and server sides which mysteriously happens (maybe due to an Oracle bug) Alexandre Duarte set up a TWiki page on SAM installation available at: http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gocwiki/Installation_Manual and I am working on the written documentation (to be syncronized with the online one) Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Attended the EGEE All Activities Tutorial held at CERN on August 24th and 25th. Attending since August 22 the IT/OPS weekly section meetings Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- - Participation to the EELA conference (where I am invited to give a talk about a sonification package I developed when I was working at the Univ. of Salerno, Italy and which has been officially taken as one of the regional applications for the EELA project) and Tutorial (where I am going to participate as tutor, giving six tutorial lectures), to be held in Santiago (Chile) from September 4th to 7th. - Participation to the EUMEDGRID Project Meeting (September 14th) and Conference (September 15th), to be held in Rome, University of Roma3. Holidays during the periond ------------------------------------------------------------ 10 days

11:00 → 11:20 Valentin Vidic

Valentin Vidic 1-15 08 2006 Major work for SEE-GRID; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- * D3.1a * tickets for RTM support Major work for GD-OPS; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- * starting to work on WN SAME sensor * watching over RBs with Yvan * one week on duty for CERN ROC * one week of CIC on Duty * one week Gmod Major issues arising -------------------- Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- Holidays during the periond ------------------------------------------------------------ 0 days Valentin Vidic 15-30 08 2006 Major work for SEE-GRID; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- * finalized and sent D3.1a * writing voms proxy renewal daemon for LCG RB Major work for GD-OPS; major changes in workplan ---------------------------------------------------------------- * one week ROC CERN * helping suspended CERN sites * continuing work on WN SAM sensor Major issues arising -------------------- Major events attended (include links to event/presentation) --------------------- Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others) ------------------------------------------------------------- Holidays during the periond ------------------------------------------------------------ 0 days

11:20 → 11:40 Mihai Liviu Ciubancan

ACTIVITY REPORT The objective that I had was to participate in the WP WP1.8, more precisely in the integration testing task T1.8.4 So during the time that I spent here I was involved in DILIGENT Project. So at the beginning I had to study the DILGENT Project and understood how the DILIGENT services, and their dependencies are implemented and the DILIGENT infrastructures. After this phase I have starting the development of integration testing scripts for the HNM and Registration Service. This mean that first I had to install in the local machine Java(jdk-1.5.0_07), the Java WS-Core, Globus component(used as a service container capable to host and support both classical Web services) and Ant-Apache which is a Java-baised build tool. After this I started writing the python scripts for the two services. After having the first scripts we (Pedro and I) decided that, because the name and specially the path of the libraries are chancing all the time, we need to have not only the python scripts, but also a configure file which it should contains the name and the path of the libraries, and which can be modify without modify the scripts sources. When I finished the scripts I started testing them in the local machine but also in the “engs” machines, and it has deploy, undeploy and start the container on the “engs” machines and in the local machine for both services, HNM and Registration Service, in proper way. Also we tested the script from the 4DSoft but specially for HNM service, local and on the “engs” machines. Another task was to test the scripts in the ETICS. So for this I installed a CVS server for exporting the scripts to the ETICS server. And also, I installed the ETICS client to can access the ETICS server, and to be able for remote execution of “diligent-deployer” script using the ETICS CERN installation.