Operations team & Sites

Name: Operations team & Sites
Start: 2014-12-16T11:00:00+00:00
End: 2014-12-16T14:00:00+00:00
Location: EVO - GridPP Operations team meeting

Tuesday 16 Dec 2014, 11:00 → 14:00 Europe/London

EVO - GridPP Operations team meeting

Description

- This is the weekly GridPP ops & sites meeting - The intention is to run the meeting in Vidyo: https://vidyoportal.cern.ch/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=zXhsqAxVnaT6 -- The PIN is 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 9308582. Apologies: Dan, Wahid, Andy

- 11:00 → 11:20
  
  Experiment problems/issues 20m
  
  Review of weekly issues by experiment/VO - LHCb - CMS - ATLAS -- MC status at sites. - Other -- set up londongrid.egi.eu CVMFS space. -- general position on CVMFS and regional VOs - DIRAC status -- http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/php/gridpp-dirac-sam.php?action=view. -- PMB view was to proceed with GridPP DIRAC for other VOs accepting that it is currently a prototype production service, will move to newer hardware before January, will then require stress testing etc. Slides attached. -- GridPP will formally write to DIRAC developers regarding our need for smoother upgrades and coding review. -- Given the issues it was suggested to also evaluate Big Panda.
  
  DIRAC-PMB-overview
  
  Slides
- 11:20 → 11:40
  
  Meetings & updates 20m
  
  With reference to: http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Operations_Bulletin_Latest - General updates - WLCG ops coordination - Tier-1 status - Storage and data management - Accounting - Documentation - Interoperation - Monitoring - On-duty - Rollout - Security - Services - Tickets - Tools - VOs - Site updates
- 11:40 → 11:55
  
  GDB review 15m
  
  - See under general (https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Operations_Bulletin_Latest). - GDB notes https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/GDBMeetingNotes20141210 - Condor workshop https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/GDBMeetingNotes20141208
- 11:55 → 12:00
  
  Holiday period plans 5m
  
  - Site services - CA (no signing from after lunch on Tue 23rd December and resuming again on 5th January 2015 when STFC RAL re-opens). -- Note list of sites with certificates at risk of expiring over the period from Jens: RAL; Durham; IC; Sussex and UCL.
- 12:00 → 12:01
  
  AOB 1m
  
  - As many people off next week the next meeting will be 6th or 13th January (depends on numbers back!). The bulletin and agenda pages will be updated for 23rd December (for a virtual meeting?) and possibly also on 6th January.