PASTE meeting

Tuesday 5 Oct 2010, 09:30 → 13:15 Europe/Zurich

2-R-014 (CERN)

Andrei Tsaregorodtsev

CERN, bat 2 R-014 To join the telephone conference, click here: https://audioconf.cern.ch/call/0165202 To dial in to the conference: a. Dial +41 22 7676000 b. Enter access code 0165202

Production and PASTE Meeting, 5th October 2010, CERN

Chair:  A.Tsaregorodtsev
Minutes:  F.Stagni

CERN: Z.Mathe, Md Manamur Rashid, R.Santinelli, F.Stagni, P.Charpentier, S.Paterson, J.Closier

Phone: A.Zhelezov, R.Graciani


0. Ongoing Action List

Updated in Savannah task list.

1. Production Issues

There are "abandoned" files is the storage elements, due to a bug that appears when a user leaves the VO. Renato will take over this task, which is technically easy but operationally difficult.

2. DIRAC Release Update

A number of certification pre-release have been tested, and are still in test. A number of bugs, from many system, have been identified. Hopefully the last pre-release will be made today. A new certification test has been setup by Stuart and is used.

A newer release will be probably made the next week to include Production and RSS developments.

3. DIRAC Tasks

- Bookkeeping status
Update to the Oracle schema. Should be ok already.
- WMS status
Direct submission against CREAM CEs could be started to be tried.
Some paradigm might change, should not be a big issue.
- DMS status
Operational problems will be taken over by Renato. Probably also Elisa will be asked to be involved in these tasks. A number of tools, from Andrew's toolbox will be passed to Renato.
- Web portal
Fixes in the presenter. Should be seen if it works on older browser.
- Documentation
The tool is ready, still mostly a placeholder, has to be populated.

5. AOB

CHEP presentations have to be write up. The Andrew's presentation will be probably scrapped.

Bookkeeping: Philippe mentioned that possibilities of changes in the bookkeeping, affecting the productions, might be requested. The question is: would it be possible to specify a single production to reconstruct, for example, both MagUp and MagDown, and to have the "right" output stored in the bookkeeping? The answer is that it is possibile to do such production, but then it will require developments to correctly specify the output. At the moment, this has to be considered as a feature request.

09:30 → 10:00 Ongoing actions

The task list is available via the Savannah DIRAC group ( Task List ). If you are not already registered please do so at the Savannah page. In order to streamline the time spent during PASTE on the actions list only tasks in the status 'ToBeDiscussed' will be discussed there. In case some actions fall by the wayside they will automatically be updated to this status. Therefore the action assignees should take care to update this. For ongoing actions it is advantageous to report any progress in the Savannah tasks each week.

10:00 → 10:30 Production issues

- Orphan user files - ORACLE access

10:30 → 10:50 DIRAC Release Update

- LHCbDIRAC v5r10 release status - Next release

10:50 → 11:20 DIRAC tasks

- Infrastructure monitoring (SAM,SLS,Dashboard) - ResourceStatus System status - Framework status - Bookkeeping status - WMS status - DMS status - Production Management status - VO-boxes - Web Portal - Services deployment ( hardware, configuration ) - Documentation

11:20 → 11:30 AOB

CHEP