UKI Monthly Operations Meeting (TB-SUPPORT)

Thursday 26 Jul 2007, 10:30 → 11:30 Europe/Zurich

VRVS - Plane virtual room

Monthly review and discussion meeting for those involved with UKI EGEE/WCG deployment and operations.

Minutes 070726_UKI_meeting.txt

10:30 → 10:45 Site status review and issues

- Accounting (http://www3.egee.cesga.es/gridsite/accounting/CESGA/egee_view.php) - IC-HEP - IC-LeSC - QMUL - UCL-HEP - LIV-HEP - MAN-HEP* - CAM-HEP - OX-HEP - RALPP - Monitoring status SL tests: http://hepwww.ph.qmul.ac.uk/~lloyd/atlas/atest.php SAM: See summary at http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/SAM_availability:_May-July_2007 Tickets: Under ROC updates Site concerns

10:45 → 10:55 Moving to SL4 and gLite R27

SL4: - Experiences from those sites that have already moved - Schedule for other sites - Upgrade approach (staged or all WNs in one go?) R27: - See http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GLite_Update_27

10:55 → 11:05 ROC matters

• ROC priorities voting: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EGEE/SA1_TCG
• UKIROC website http://www.ukiroc.eu
• current open tickets (see attached list)

document Current_Open_Tickets.doc Current_Open_Tickets.pdf

11:05 → 11:20 Batch systems

- Discussion on queue lengths (current and future) - Discussion on application of GridPP policy on stalled jobs (see http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/pmb/docs/GridPP-PMB-113-Inefficient_Jobs_v1.0.pdf)

11:20 → 11:25 NGS interoperation & new VOs

• Status update on sites affiliating with NGS
• New VOs sites should consider supporting

11:25 → 11:30 AOB

- Use of GOCDB3 - Suggestions for monitoring tutorial/workshop with HEPSYSMAN in October (London) - Summary of an analysis of a recent security incident at a non-UK site, the system: "- was not fully patched - was protected neither by a site firewall nor by a local firewall - was not connected to a remote logging service (ex: central syslog) - had password access enabled for the root account (at least) - had a weak root password" GridPP sites will be pleased to hear that we have a new security officer who will be working with sites to harden systems... in the meantime please check that your nodes do not fail in these basic areas.