Domenico Vicinanza

November, 2007

Major work for EUMEDGRID; major changes in workplan
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- Preparing for the EUMEDGRID project conclusion (reports and statistics, documents)

- SAM Server maintainance:
-- Oracle XE database maintainance: database cleanup, updated structure, table reconstruction. 
-- Test Criticality Level: Restored production-like tests criticality level

- Updated SAM CA test on the SAM client, to be compatible to the latest CA release. 

- Started procedure to certify and put in production the Malta EUMEDGRID node 

- WP3 (Infrastructure and support) activities:
      o Continuing following up troubleshooting with 4 CEs failing job submission tests
      o Working together with WP3 people and site admins (INFN Bari, INFN Pisa e SNS-Italy) to remove from the BDII some sites wrongly registered as part of the EUMEDGRID VO 

- WP4 (Applications) activities:
      o Software updates (ASTRA libraries and main program)

-  Support to site administrators


Major work for GD-OPS; GD-ITR; major changes in workplan
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- SAM Test Documentation:
-- First release of the VO-specific tests documentation completed and published. The document "SAM VO-Specific Tests Documentation" manual is available here: http://sam-docs.web.cern.ch/sam-docs/docs/htmldocs/MANVOTestsDoc/ (HTML), http://sam-docs.web.cern.ch/sam-docs/docs/MANVOTestsDoc.pdf (PDF) 
-- CERN ROC website maintenance (documentation added, updates to ROC procedures): http://egee-roc-cern.web.cern.ch/egee-roc-cern/
-- Prepared a SAM Manual for CERN ROC users: http://sam-docs.web.cern.ch/sam-docs/docs/htmldocs/MANROCUserManual/ (HTML) and http://sam-docs.web.cern.ch/sam-docs/docs/MANROCUserManual.pdf (PDF)
 
- SAM Integration of new tests:
-- Continuing following up the integration of Nikhef PoC tests (PoC is a software distribution of scientific oriented software, built for a bunch of dutch VOs in various science fields under the 'Virtual Lab for e-Science' umbrella)
Tests results currently publishing result on the validation database: https://lxn1181.cern.ch:8443/sam-val/sam.py) and in the Nikhef SAM Server. Support to local admins to install and configure the server

- SAM Support (GGUS)

- CERN ROC On duty (GGUS and Remedy support)

Major events attended (include links to event/presentation)
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- SAM Team and IT-GD-OPS weekly meetings
- CERN ROC Meetings 

Plans to attend/organize major events (intra-EGEE and others)
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Holidays during the period
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7.5 day 


TimeSheet for the month
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WP3/A3.2 and 3.3 80%
WP4/A4.2 and 4.3 20%


Infrastructure status 
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# of sites in project: 14 (11 Countries, 8 Mediterranean Countries)
# of sites contributing to the EGEE production infrastructure: 5
# of CPUs: 1856 (total number, free 335 on Nov. 27th)  
total SE: 11
total CE: 11 
total gCE: 0 (it has been deprecated)
total RB: 6
total gRB: 2
total FTS: 0
total LFC: 1
total Local LFC: 0
Storage available: 59 TByte 
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