Deployment team

Europe/Zurich
EVO - GridPP Deployment team meeting

EVO - GridPP Deployment team meeting

Jeremy Coles
Description
- This is the weekly DTEAM meeting - The intention is to run the meeting in EVO: http://evo.caltech.edu/evoGate/. Join the meeting in the GridPP Community area. - The phone bridge number is +41 22 76 71400. The phone bridge ID is 353539 with code: 4880.
Minutes
    • 11:00 11:20
      Experiment problems/issues 20m
      Review of weekly issues by experiment/VO - LHCb - CMS - ATLAS - Other - Site: -- Steve's new test results page: http://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/~lloyd/gridpp/uktest.html
    • 11:20 11:35
      ROC update 15m
      ops update *************** - Work to test and integrate the CREAM CE has begun: https://savannah.cern.ch/task/?group=sa1dep. - Recommended storage solutions to deploy: CASTOR Core * 2.1.7-10 will be released this week o Tier1s are recommended to upgrade faranno l'upgrade verso meta' Luglio * 2.1.8 will be released the first week of August o Tier0 will upgrade within the end of August o Tier1 will follow SRM * Current recommended version is 1.3-27 on SLC3 * Recommended version is 2.7-1 on SLC4 as soon as released. Support: For Castor core support is granted for 2.1.n and 2.1.[n-1] where n is the version currently installed at Tier-1s. However, as soon as Tier-1s will move to 2.1.7, then 2.1.6 will not be supported any longer. For CASTOR SRM, 2.7-n and 1.3-27 will be supported till new announcement. dCache Current version is 1.8.0-15p6 which fixes an essential bug with caching credential produced through grid-proxy-init. Patch release 7 is about to come out. It fixes a problem with checksum verification when copy a file in push mode between 2 dCache sites. 1.8.0-15p7 is the recommended version as soon as it is out (in the next days). StoRM Recommended and supported version is 1.3.20 on SLC4. DPM Recommended and supported version is 1.6.10 on SLC4. Ticket status *************** https://gus.fzk.de/download/escalationreports/roc/html/20080623_EscalationReport_ROCs.html For Footprints see attachment.
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    • 11:35 11:45
      Post-mortem workshop 10m
      - Short summary here: http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/ -- Joint review of topics & discussion of follow up areas
    • 11:45 11:55
      Topics to revisit 10m
      - COD schedule and roles will be discussed next week - gstat publishing - Wiki/web page updates (see for example http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/deployment/contact.html) - Completion of the GridPP-NGS site status information in http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Working_with_NGS - regional Nagios monitoring - Collecting site queue/fairshare information - Reminder for sites to add comments to http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/SAM_availability:_October_2007_-_May_2008. Will be mentioned on Thursday and one week later emails sent to sites. - Look at the Site Readiness Review reports - Comment on the EGEE SLDs (discussed at PMB yesterday. Tier-2 manager's to review and sign). - "We need to audit T2 sites to understand how many concurrent transfers each can cope. This requires details of how many servers are available and how the pools are allocated between the VOs." ...
    • 11:55 12:05
      Actions review 10m
      Check here: http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Deployment_Team_Action_items
    • 12:05 12:10
      AOB 5m
      - Any issues/actions from HEPSYSMAN? http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/sysman/june2008/agenda.html - UKQCD progress - Tier-2 status & issues: please send me (by Friday am) comments for UK input to LHCC review talk - Core topics for Thursday's UKI meeting - Registration now open for http://egee08.eu-egee.org/