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CERN, bat 2 R-030
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Production and PASTE Meeting, 1st September 2008, CERN
Chair: A.Tsaregorodtsev
Minutes: N. Brook
CERN: P.Charpentier, J.Closier, N.Brook, S.Paterson, V.Romanovsky,
R.Santinelli, Z. Mathe
Phone: A.Tsaregorodtsev
Apologies: A.C.Smith
0. Ongoing Action List
(07) - 27/11/07 - Zoltan, Elisa - Prototype bookkeeping system, roadmap for production
(09) - 04/12/07 - Roberto, Marcos - Develop a general service monitoring framework leading to a virtual control room
(57) - 24/06/08 - Vladimir - Automatic publishing of BDII information in the CS using GOCDB site names
(63) - 22/07/08 - Roberto,Joel - Develop DIRAC3 script for adding new users to the VO + CS + LFC registration
(65) - 05/08/08 - Roberto - Define our SAM tests in the dashboard
(70) - 12/08/08 - Joel - DIRAC3 installation in the LHCb release area at CERN
(71) - 19/08/08 - Andrei,Joel - Add comment field to mask operations and formulate procedure
(72) - 19/08/08 - Roberto,Vladimir - Check BDII / GOCDB inconsistencies in site published informations
(73) - 19/08/08 - Andrei - Resolve BK catalogue status problems in the Replica Manager
(76) - 26/08/08 - Hubert - Modifications to install_project to support SGM pool accounts
(77) - 26/08/08 - Philippe - Prepare summary of SGM pool account saga for MB
(78) - 26/08/08 - Zoltan - Update BK twiki page with current machines, services & setups
(79) - 26/08/08 - Andrei, Vladimir - Update CS to use new host aliases
(80) - 26/08/08 - Stuart - Update DIRAC2 Stager for SRMv1->v2 migration
Completed Actions:
Done - (81) - 26/08/08 - Roberto - Obtain interactive analysis on a PPS WN for glexec testing
1. Action Updates
- Action(07) - Prototype Bookkeeping
- Action(09) and Action(65) - Virtual Control Room
Need to add a test on ConditionsDB. Waiting for feedback from graphical interface page for freedom info. Received info from Elisa with regards setting up VO T1 activity database displayed through Gridmap. Agreement reached across VO - LHCb info should be extracted from accounting ACTION: Adri/Ricardo should provide the info. SAM dashboard work with student
- Action(57) - Automatic publishing of BDII information in the CS
Some scripts are being prepared to check BDII <-> CS information, this is ongoing.
- Action(63) - DIRAC3 scripts for adding new users to the VO + CS + LFC registration
Final script from Lana provides nickname checks now - minimises inconsistency between LFC & VOMS. Some further testing needed to check all functionality is there.
- Action(70) - DIRAC3 installation in the LHCb release area at CERN
Re-written Env scripts - need DIRACROOT set. Need to instrument to use release area
- Action(71) - Add comment field to mask operations & formulate procedure
done but extract/log history info is needed still
- Action(72) - GOCDB / BDII Inconsistencies
Vladimir conveyed that the available information is inconsistent for some sites across different BDII - CERN BDII is taken in this case. Site & central BDII should be notified via GGUS. Need to full understand how to deal with inconsistent
- Action(73) - BK catalogue status problem in Replica Manager
Replica flag sent only if certain conditions necessary. Only sent after moved from FAILOVER to actual destination. DONE
- Action(76) - Modifications to install_project to support SGM pool account
Discussion on Friday pm. Seems to be OK now but still improvements but authorisations are now set correctly. Set permissons in /tmp area & then move still to be done as suggested in mailing thread. Local tests from Vladimir failed - iterating with Hubert.
- Action(77) - Prepare summary of SGM pool account saga for MB
Generated discussion in MB. ATLAS have a service to deal with this (running under a single credential.) The suggestion of /tmp directory came from this thread. DONE
- Action(7) & (78) - Update BK twiki page with current machines, services & setups
New implementation underway & will give Joel script. Working on the GUI
- Action(79) - Update CS to use new host aliases
still to be done
- Action(80) - Update DIRAC2 Stager for SRMv1->v2 migration
ongoing. This is on critical path.
- Action(81) - Obtain interactive analysis on a PPS WN for glexec testing
DONE. Information passed to Stuart and Stuart has logged on. Tested that glexec is there. ACTION: Stuart will look at tests next week
2. Production Issues
- Report from the Production meeting
DC06 simulation requests are complete & BK-keeping is OK. Problems with latest Brunel being compatible with DC06 - gone back to v32r5. The inconsistency between LFC & BK-keeping seen in recons resolved - requires a re-build of the DIRAC distribution. There's a need high level delete production DIRAC command (currently has to be done manually.
- v0r4p4 release
DIRAC installation needs to be updated on production machine. Andrei will check. Stuart prepared workflows. Test on development system are OK. Known problems with DaVinci for stripping - will live with it. Desirable to have test flags not sending production BK-keeping & LFN construction not to pollute production namespace - discussion taken offline & added to next week's DIRAC3 jamboree
- DIRAC3 VO-box installation
Forwarding agent for BK-keeping request from PIC VO box seems not to be functioning ACTION Raja to check
- Bookkeeping consistency
already discuss in production context
- Software installation
already discussed
AOB - we need to clean data from production tests. Can be postponed until new INFN fellow in place.
3. DIRAC3 Tasks
-DIRAC versioning
In production no patches. v3r0 should be next version - this is a re-tag of the latest patch. This will be the convention for the future. If changes in the interfaces the major tag is incremented, otherwise release version increment is OK. GANGA will continue to work with the development version but will test against production version before release.
4. AOB
Meeting with GANGA developers start on Friday afternoons at 15:00 CET. This will be an EVO meeting.
Should be a discussion of the presentation to the plenary on DIRAC status.
Discussion of tools needed for users eg allow users to download data to their desktop.
5. New actions
Action(82) - Ricardo/Adri - to provide information from accounting to allow GridMap for LHCb Vo T1 activity
Action(83) - Stuart to perform glexec tests
Action(84) - Raja to check PIC VO box for problem with re-sending BK-keeping info
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