HEPiX Fall 2013 Workshop

Session

Basic IT services

28 Oct 2013, 15:40

340 West Hall (University Of Michigan)

Conveners

Basic IT services: Basic IT services

• Helge Meinhard (CERN)

Basic IT services

• Helge Meinhard (CERN)

Basic IT services: Basic IT services

• Helge Meinhard (CERN)

65. AI monitoring update

Massimo Paladin (CERN)

28/10/2013, 15:40

Basic IT Services

17. Building a Puppet Infrastructure @ DESY

Jan Engels (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

28/10/2013, 16:00

Basic IT Services

Oral presentation

Starting in 2012, DESY has been extending it's IT systems infrastructure to make use of the Puppet configuration management system developed by Puppetlabs. The main focus of this talk is to share the experience gained in this program of work and to summarize the current status and outlook of the Puppet infrastructure at the DESY site.

9. Automatic server registration and burn-in framework

Afroditi Xafi (CERN)

28/10/2013, 16:25

Basic IT Services

Oral presentation

This talk provides an overview of CERN IT’s automatic server registration and burn-in framework. It will mainly focus on the reasons behind the development of such framework, and the implementation details. A detailed walkthrough of the process stages will be presented, along with the first results of the acceptance of about 1,500 servers. Finally, the talk will underline the benefits of the...

29. Using control system tools for operation and debugging

Mr Gabriele Carcassi (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

30/10/2013, 14:00

Basic IT Services

Oral presentation

When investigating a problem, one typically needs to gather and correlate information from disparate sources: operating system, batch system, data transfer tools, and so on. We investigate the use of Control System Studio to gather information from multiple places. When the appropriate hooks are created, this should allow the end user to create ad-hoc ways to mix and match data without the...

55. Logstash and ElasticSearch deployment scenario at GSI

Matteo Dessalvi (GSI)

30/10/2013, 14:30

Basic IT Services

Oral presentation

This talk will present some use cases for Logstash and ElasticSearch. In particular we will show how we are using these tools to collect, parse, index and analyze logs of different services: Grid Engine, SSH, Apache and Cisco Firewalls, among the others. Moreover, the introduction of the version three of Kibana, as an HTML plus Javascript interface, has improved the analytics capabilities of...

50. The migration from ELFms/Quattor to Agile Infrastructure

Vitor Emanuel Gomes Gouveia (CERN)

30/10/2013, 15:00

Basic IT Services

Oral presentation

The life cycle of the ELFSms (extremely large fabric management system) is reaching is end. This set of tools provided to manage machines in the CERN Computer Centre has reached the end-of-life and a new Configuration Management System is going to take its place. The new Configuration Management System is going to change drastically the way we manage machines in the CERN Computer Centre...

3. Puppet at Fermilab- Managing a Large Heterogeneous Environment

Edward Simmonds (Fermilab), Tyler Parsons (Fermilab)

30/10/2013, 16:00

Basic IT Services

Oral presentation

Puppet has been in use by the Fermilab Experiments Facilities department to support computing for a variety of experiments for the last several years.  This presentation will discuss our experience deploying, refining, and upgrading Puppet to scale to thousands of systems, across different experiments, servers, batch nodes, and workstations.  This presentation will describe our efforts to...

44. Puppet at USCMS-T1 and FermiLab

Timothy Michael Skirvin (F)

30/10/2013, 16:25

Basic IT Services

Oral presentation

Over the past year, the USCMS-T1 project has decided to jump head-first into Puppet as our primary configuration management tool. We would like to talk about what's worked, what hasn't worked, and how we've been able to work with the other Fermilab teams to share our experiences without necessarily sharing a code base.

15. Unified Communications, the new IP telephony @ CERN

Fernando Moreno Pascual (CERN)

30/10/2013, 16:50

End-user IT Services & Operating Systems

Oral presentation

The CERN Telephone service is moving towards unified communications. New IP Phone devices connected to Lync IP Phone Service enhance the classic telephony by adding many features like IM, presence, voice mailbox, call delegation, etc. The complete integration with Exchange allows the mailbox to be used as call log history, voice mailbox, etc. In addition, connecting the IP Phone to your...