Core-ops tasks

Friday 16 Mar 2012, 11:00 → 12:40 Europe/London

EVO - GridPP Operations team meeting

- This is the start of a biweekly meeting to review ops core tasks - 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 127563 with code: 4880. Apologies:

1 Documentation

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Documentation F2F - States & updates - Create schematic of our document life-cycle - Checks for broken links (on web pages) - automate? - Apply 80:20 rule. What documentation is useful? Standards/survey - Highlight duplication - Open dialogue with EGI documentation group - Assign review task areas to members of core-ops group - Tagging pages - Templates 17th Feb - schematic - VOMS data key document - Content not in twiki but will be - Basic operations absent - Workflow of job & how info system works - Cheat sheet 13th March: - Update mediawiki / link to relevant documentation for current version

Speaker: Andrew/Steve

2 Monitoring

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Monitoring F2F - Review monitoring tools (what is needed and what is useful) - Provide feedback on WLCG dashboards - Recommendations for internal monitoring (local nagios vs Ganglia) and pull together best practices - Better define monitoring and regional tools - Devise plans on and advise sites on perfsonar (LHCONE) - GridMon resurrection and best use - Sites dashboards (ala Glasgow example) Comments: 1) What is the state of GridMon? 2) Do most people understand LHCONE aims? 3) DRI purchases will need tuning 4) What feedback has been given on dashboards? 5) We need more guidance to sites on areas like http://dashb-siteview.cern.ch/templates/siteview/index.html. 17th Feb - scope how best to do things (input from TEGs) - Put up pages for local tools - (internal monitoring wiki) - Observation - too many pages in this area - Place most useful information behind site status dashboard - Issue with contradictory results (provide examples) - Current monitoring often little information about what is wrong if site failing - Is there a document listing the tests sites are expected to pass

Speaker: David

3 Accounting

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Accounting F2F: - Tracking APEL issues - Rules of publishing - Recommendations on gLite cluster and configuration - Cross-checking site publishing - SL metrics vs HS06 APEL - Keeping a record of accounting issues .. see also the wiki page Comments: 1) Storage accounting is hot topic in EGI 17th Feb - GridPP metrics need revision - Capture reasons in wiki for others (simulation under fast/full labelled with same tag etc. but has large impact on simulation weights) - SL6 tests & benchmarking March - Storage accounting for all VOs. Snapshot.

Speaker: Alessandra/Rob

4 Security

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Security - Next SSC end March (pending pilot and tools test) - Self audit and best practice - glexec directions - Policies review - Contribution to security TEG - Default s/w configurations (are they secure mySQL for example needs further locking down) - UIs best practice - Review of open ports required - Support incident follow-up 15th March - plan to hold UK NGI security team meeting

5 Staged rollout

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Staged_rollout 24th February: - Automated page (query BDII?) for releases at sites - Additional column in current table March - Additional sites involved (SL6?) UK stauts update - http://www.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/~dbauer/grid/staged_rollout.html

6 Ticket follow-up

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Ticket_follow-up

7 Core services

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Core_Grid_services - Overlap with VO submission tests framework - Proxy renewal follow-up? DR - https://perfsonar.usatlas.bnl.gov:8443/exda/?page=25&cloudName=UK

8 Wider VOs

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Wider_VO_issues - Setting up new VO - VO requirements (efficiencies of jobs)

9 Regional tools

- Resolve ops membership - Document backup strategy - Catch-all VO tests - DIRAC for 'others'

10 Interoperation

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Grid_interoperation Surveys. 6th March: - Mapper - SARONGS

11 AOB

- Next group review Friday 30th March at 11am.