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EVO - GridPP Operations team meeting

EVO - GridPP Operations team meeting

Description
- This is the biweekly ops & sites 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 115728 with code: 4880. Apologies: Pete
Minutes
    • 11:00 → 11:20
      Meetings & updates 20m
      - ROD team update - EGI ops On old sites in GOCDB: Anyone from SouthGrid able to claim/explain/disclaim UKI-SOUTHGRID-RDG? Likewise, ral-scarf? Demand for SULRM support: Survey underway. David Wallom has declared that this is a Very High Priority for us, so I guess we can skip actually asking sites. EMI WMS: expected to enter SR on 15th Dec, maybe slightly before. EMI status - https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EMI/EmiEgiGOM#Status_21_11_2011 - Nagios status - Tier-1 update - Security update -- New policy document "Service Operations Security Policy" The new document is V2 at https://documents.egi.eu/document/669 When adopted this will replace two old current security policies: Grid Site Operations Policy https://documents.egi.eu/document/75 and Site Registration Security Policy https://documents.egi.eu/document/76 - T2 issues -- GDB's: https://indico.cern.ch/categoryDisplay.py?categId=3l181 -- Rob is the December 14th rep T2 rep. --geant4 --shared resource sites question on NGS usage/provisioning -- General notes. - TEG https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGTEGOperations - Tickets Urgent!: https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=76418 Durham availiability/reliabilty statistics, needs some kind of response ASAP! Probably lost in the number of Durham tickets. General note: biomed have done a round of tickets chasing up failures (RAL, IC, Birmingham, Lancaster and Brunel) A few cvmfs tickets still open Not Red (yet) https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=76521 snoplus support on RAL WMS. Gareth passed it on to the Grid Services on Thursdayteam but no acknowledgement yet. Other Tickets: https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=76119 Biomed having trouble with Manchester SE (their disk server is in trouble). Last communication was a question from biomed. https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=75960 Biomed (again) having trouble at RALPP with the SE publishing. Chris put the ticket on hold pending a dcache upgrade - did the upgrade happen and fix things? https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=75735 Sussex being picked on (not certified yet so shouldn't have been ticketed), should be closed. https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=75729 GILDA-NESC mystery, not been updated for a while https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=75542 Edinburgh ticket about the atlas space token rejig, been onhold for a while. https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=75538 As above, but for Cambridge. Santanu said he'll get onto it on the 10th https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=75320 GLASGOW ticketed by enmr.eu - intermittant problem with lcg-tags. Might help from a mention to the group if anyone's seen it before. https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=74887 Cambridge trying to purge the biomed VO from its SE's publishing. Santanu's been working at this but is stuck, could do with being put to the group or refered to the storage group. https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=74353 No site, but describes Pheno's proxy problems in a ticket. No progress in a few weeks. https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=68865 UCL, SL4 DPM retirement ticket. On hold but suspect it could be closed. Similar ticket for Durham: https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=68859 and Glasgow: https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=68858 and the Tier 1: https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=68853 Old tickets: https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=57746 Cambridge clusters being ticketed (Condor problem), presumably can be closed when they retire their LCG CE? https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=68077 Tier 1: "WLCG InstalledOnlineCapacity not published", waiting for next castor release. On hold it? https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=64995 Tier 1: "No GlueSACapability defined for WLCG Storage Areas " - similar problem.
    • 11:20 → 11:40
      Experiment problems/issues 20m
      Review of weekly issues by experiment/VO - LHCb - CMS - ATLAS - Other - Experiment blacklisted sites - Experiment known events affecting job slot requirements - Site performance/accounting issues - Metrics review
      Atlas Report
    • 11:40 → 11:50
      Proxy renewal issues 10m
      - pheno - T2K - snoplus
    • 11:50 → 11:55
      Hardware 5m
      - Streamline - Network bids - Tier-2 hardware directions
    • 11:55 → 12:00
      Actions 5m
      - https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Operations_Team_Action_items
    • 12:00 → 12:01
      AOB 1m