2007/04/18 Minutes

Present: Alessandra, Michel, Paul, Pete G., Greig, Frederic, Miguel, Helene.
Apologies: Chris, Graeme

Updates:
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Alessandra created a new fabric-monitoring repository to keep
separated management and monitoring scripts. Submitted abstracts
about the group to HEPiX and CHEP. At HEPiX I hope to find more
volunteers to cover different areas.

Michel has submitted an abstract about quattor to CHEP.

Colin has committed two nagios scripts to monitor pbs queues and one
to monitor pbs mom hosts status to the fabric-monitoring repository.

Paul said that there is the possibility to get a summer student in
Glasgow to extend the MonAMI monitoring capability but it is not sure
yet. He also has started to cooperate with Piotr on the Data Exchange
Format in the Grid Services Monitoring group. This is to define a
standard the schema the XML files produced by SAM tests should
have. These XML files should be then used to transfer the SAM results
in whatever monioring tool sites are using.

Frederic can write how to backup the mysql databases,
depending on the services and the kind of databases used. They can be
innodb or myisam, and backup strategy is different for each. 

Miguel will look into making available the most generic scripts in the
CERN fabric repository, which is really extensive, either looking at
the possibility to making the repository public or transferring some
of the scripts to the sysadmin repositories.

Next meeting
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Next meeting will be on the 2nd of May 4pm CERN time.

Actions:
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Action: Michel add an introduction to quattor to the wiki
Action: Greig commit management dcache scripts. 
Action: Pete write about experience with MonAMI.
Action: Miguel look into how better to exploit CERN repo.
Action: Frederic write about mysql backup strategies.