Core-ops tasks

Thursday 2 Oct 2014, 11:00 → 13:30 Europe/London

EVO - GridPP Operations team meeting

- This a meeting for the review of the GridPP ops core tasks - The intention is to run the meeting in Vidyo. Direct link http://vidyoportal.cern.ch/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=HRHLwpRDyPg7. Pin 1234. - To join via phone see http://information-technology.web.cern.ch/services/fe/howto/users-join-vidyo-meeting-phone for dial in numbers. -- The London (UK) service is on +442030510622 -- The meeting extension is 9313701. - Link to last meeting: https://indico.cern.ch/event/333468/ Apologies:

11:00 → 11:10 Documentation

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Documentation Done in Q3: - Checked website docs. - Updated.... Review: - https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/php/KeyDocs.php Blogs: http://planet.gridpp.ac.uk - Can we break home page aggregation into GridPP and non-GridPP to stop our posts disappearing so quickly? Last updates: LondonGrid - June 2013 NorthGrid - July 2014 ScotGrid - March 2014 SouthGrid - May 2014 T1 - April 2014 Monitoring - May 2014 Data Management - March 2011 ... & the rest Notes from last meeting: - keydocs may need a rethink. Something more active & organic - Website questionnaire (http://goo.gl/forms/Hl6VqvcoiG)

11:10 → 11:20 Monitoring

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Monitoring Done in Q3: - Continued collection of UK feedback - Active representing in consolidation group To discuss: - where is this going - ECDF-Glasgow joint monitoring? - Need ARC CE modules. Post to blog on process? - Suggest monitoring session at HEPSYSMAN - advance puppet usage. For November?

11:20 → 11:30 Staged rollout

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Staged_rollout Done in Q2: - ? Notes from last meeting: - Do we get more involved in the WLCG middleware readiness work - yes or no? - There was a meeting yesterday and very few sites reps turned up: http://indico.cern.ch/event/332224/ - Should Daniela 'shadow' Andrea Manzi's role and report back on the WLCG m/w readiness changes? - What about the package reporter? ECDF and QMUL have volunteered but only for DPM and storm. - Are we still testing in UMD SR?

11:30 → 11:40 Core services

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Core_Grid_services Done in Q3 2014: - IPv6? - VOMS - https://voms.gridpp.ac.uk:8443/vomses/ -- ? Testing -- What's up? - The future of perfSONAR - The future of the WMS/LFC - Stability and hosting of DIRAC

11:40 → 11:50 Wider VOs

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Wider_VO_issues Done Q3 14: - Are the VOs ready for gfal2? - How many are migrating to DIRAC. When do we want them to move? What next? - Still wider WebDAV usage? https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/WebDAV#Federated_storage_support - The 'quick start' documentation? - Policy?

11:50 → 12:00 Regional tools

Done in Q3 14: - Increased VO Nagios - More widely engagement with DIRAC What next? - Who is using VO Nagios? Who is missing. - Do we put VO Nagios under ROD checks? - More IC people getting 'into' DIRAC Notes from last last meeting: - Wider use of VO Nagios (A: KM to write blog article on topic)

12:00 → 12:10 Interoperation

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Grid_interoperation Done Q3 14: - Continued representation at EGI ops meetings (are they useful) What next? - Technical areas/discussion rollout and coordination. Okay or not?

12:10 → 12:15 Security

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Security Done Q3 14: - ARGUS banning continues - SHA-2 readiness (though campaign based) - Feedback on dashboard problems Issues/concerns - Cloud security is fluffy - discuss! - David something to grapple with here? Notes from last last meeting: - Glue2 - confusion about what is working vs in error. Problems transient. - Include in ticket a link to why/when error was noted

12:15 → 12:20 Accounting

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Accounting Done Q3 14: - ? What next? - GridPP metrics check - Cloud/VM accounting (what's getting in?) - Multi-core - done properly now?

12:20 → 12:22 Ticket follow-up

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Ticket_follow-up Done in Q3: - Again, steady review of tickets and chasing where needed.

12:22 → 12:30 The next quarter for operations...

- Multi-core almost there? - WN tarball with glexec - Target for DIRAC usage/migration? - ARGUS banning - Get involved in network metrics work?

12:30 → 12:31 Actions/AOB

Actions: 14-7-1: Jeremy: Talk to Tom about website 14-7-2: David: Check monitoring wiki page links to documents 14-7-3: David: Monitoring update talk at HEPSYEMAN? 14-7-4: Kashif: Write wiki/blog entry on VO Nagios 14-7-5: Jeremy: Request Imperial check accounting 14-7-6: Matt/All: Request more information in Glue2 tickets