Operations team & Sites

Tuesday 17 Jan 2012, 11:00 → 12:16 Europe/London

EVO - GridPP Operations team meeting

- 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: Mingchao, Santanu

Minutes Ops_Meeting_170112web.docx Ops_Meeting_170112web.pdf

11:00 → 11:15 Hardware purchasing

- Updates on prices and kit (Martin) - Status of grants (Pete) - Discussion

11:15 → 11:30 Experiment problems/issues

Review of weekly issues by experiment/VO - LHCb - CMS - ATLAS - Other - T2K

11:30 → 11:40 Meetings & updates

- ROD team update - EGI ops Q: UMD/EMI tarball release for the workernode? - Nagios status - Tier-1 update There was a networking issue that affected some transfers for Tier2 sites over lunchtime Monday between 12:15 - 14:00 local time (=UTC). This week there are scheduled updates to the SRMs that have been announced in the GOC DB. The Atlas SRM update scheduled for today (Monday 16th January) has been delayed until tomorrow. The delay is to better coincide with the planned downtime of Atlas central services. All other SRM updates will be on the schedule announced via the GOC DB. - Security update -- T2 issues -- General notes. All those who informed Pete (/Jeremy) about a reason/intention to attend CHEP/WLCG workshop should now have heard if they will be funded (usually 50%). If you have not heard please email us urgently! GDB last Wednesday: https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=155064 Summary notes thanks to Andrew Sansum:https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GDB_11th_January_2012 - Tickets A few tickets from Brian requesting syncat dumps for atlas in case you haven't done one yet. Still a couple of cvmfs and SL4 DPM retirement tickets. UCL https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=78258 Atlas copying problems over the weekend. No reply as of 16:00 Monday. RALPP https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=78251 An Atlas shifter saw a problem and set RalPP offline, but didn't include a link to the failed jobs. RALPP were set offline for the weekend without any chance to debug, Chris has a right to be grumpy about this. BIRMINGHAM https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=78205 BDII problems, Mark requested more information. https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=78010 More BDII woes, biomed not seeing the dynamic information for some queues. DURHAM https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=76487 Shared area atlas sw reinstallation. Stalled atlas side?

11:40 → 11:55 Operations TEG input

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=161833 The area overview for operations: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGTEGOperations The TEG meeting agendas: https://indico.cern.ch/categoryDisplay.py?categId=3753

11:55 → 12:10 Application Software Management and Middleware Configuration, Deployment and Distribution

- Again TEG input required for the strategy document/discussion Data management: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGTEGDataManagement Workload management: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WorkloadManagementTechnicalEvolution Databases: https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=158091 Security: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGSecurityTEG

12:10 → 12:11 AOB