Regional Operations Meeting

Monday 9 Jun 2008, 11:00 → 13:45 Europe/Zurich

none (Virtual Meeting)

Marcin Radecki (Unknown)

The meetings brings together persons responsible for operations in CE ROC and site admins. Operational issues and plans for subtasks are being discussed. Connecting details: Title: CE Regional Operations Meeting Community: UNIVERSE From: 10.30 CEST To: 12.30 CEST Link to the meeting: http://evo.caltech.edu/evoGate/koala.jnlp?meeting=eiese9vtvlaeaMInatIi PHONE BRIDGE ID: 399720

Minutes from this meeting are here: http://www.ce-egee.org/weblog/2008/06/09/rom-minutes-and-actions-90608/

11:00 → 11:20 Operations

1. Report on execution of work in TSA 1.2.4 (15') CZ (9) - top BDII: in place - services for new and existing (voce, auger) VOs (VOMS, LFC, WMS): are you ready to accept new VO if it comes? HR (6) * Top level BDII with dynamic failover based on dynamic DNS and distributed Nagios monitoring - in place * Running regional Nagios instance - this instance will be aligned with SAM evolution, so in the future we expect it to be official regional monitoring system - in place * Running central ce-egee.org services, some effort for web site, mail, blog services, dynamic DNS for top BDII and any other service we might need in future - in place * MSG broker - we're planning to run brokers for messaging systems which will enable various monitoring instances (site, regional, central) to exchange information: what's the plans? Can others use it in case they want to play with the technology? AT - GUP (3) - PPS - release testing: status? - UIBK (3) - top BDII and/or WMS/LFC/VOMS as these services are interesting on a national level: plans? PL - CYF(2) * top BDII + DNS failover: in place * services for existing VOs (Gaussian, vo.plgrid.pl, vo.ilmc.eimm.org, * SAM monitoring services for hosted VOs + FCR (to be decided if feasible): plans? * coordination of TSA 1.2.4, web pages, commitment monitoring, mailing lists, jabber server etc. - in place - WCSS (2,65) - PPS - release testing: plans? - ICM (5) - ? plans? SK (4) - Services to support VOs from IISAS's NA4 involvement. WMS for VOCE (wms.ui.savba.sk): plans? HU - ELUB (6) - ? plans? - KFKI (3) - Hungarian top-level BDII and RB services, MyProxy & LFC services for the national community in general, and the HunGrid VO in particular. VOMS service for the HunGrid VO, UI/AFS infrastructure for HunGrid: plans? SI (6) - ? plans? 2. Operations News 2.1New alias for BDII - dynamic DNS: status of integration to prod. infrastr.(LF) * GUP-JKU *HEPHY-UIBK (hepx4.uibk.ac.at) running on bdii.ce-egee.org Q1: Shall 1st line support guys be granted access to manipulate the IP pool? Q2: Is it ready to be announced to production sites? 2.2 Communication - jabber server progress (LF) (5') 3. Reliability/Availability enforcement (5') (MR) - calculating availability by relevance-sensitive method - report web page with failure details Any functionality/service in TSA 1.2.4 missing?

Speaker: Marcin Radecki (Unknown)

11:20 → 11:35 1st line & deployment support

1. Use of BLOG for experience sharing and communication between 1st line supporters? 2. How to follow-up on middleware-related actions coming out of Operations Meetings?

Speakers: Jan Astalos (Unknown), Marcin Radecki (Unknown)

11:35 → 11:45 Monitoring

1. Plan for migration from CERN SAM submission to nagios in CE. 2. Plans about dynamic control of DNS for top level BDII by nagios? Nagios could remove a host from DNS pool if the host fails queries. 3. PSNC and monitoring - what will they do as SAMAP will disappear?

Speakers: Emir Imamagic (Unknown), Marcin Radecki (Unknown)

11:45 → 12:00 AOB

All admins: Any operational issue to be raised on ROC level?