Core-ops tasks

Thursday 12 Mar 2015, 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: ... needs to be re-created due to overwrite! Apologies:

Notes from 22nd Jan 15 Core_ops_meeting_–_22nd_January_2014.pdf

1 Documentation

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Documentation Done in Q1: - Document reviews Requested KeyDoc removals: David - Merge? Muddleware (https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Muddleware) WhosWhoOfTheGrid ( https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/WhosWhoOfTheGrid) Matt - https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Ticket_follow-up - describes role only Jeremy - Are these really useful or superseded by EGI/UMD docs? https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Core_Grid_services https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/BDII Suggested KeyDoc additions: - WN/UI tarball (Matt) - Creating new VOs (Tom/Duncan) - broken links in https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/New_VO_deployment. - VO admin's duties (Steve) Blogs: http://planet.gridpp.ac.uk Storage - 9th March 2015 (Storage accounting) NorthGrid - 24th February 2015 (Condor) Tier-1 - 22nd January 2015 (CEPH) SouthGrid - 14th October 2014 (Nagios monitoring non-LHC VOs) LondonGrid - 8th October 2014 (xrootD & ARGUS) ScotGrid - 24th March 2014 (3 coordinators)

2 Monitoring

For discussion: - Federico's focus - What does ARGO offer? Done in Q1: Focus in Q2:

3 Staged rollout

Discussion: - Contributing to m/w readiness - Machine/Job features implementation testing ** 27/28th Jan: volunteer sites needed to deploy machine/job features on their batch / cloud infrastructure. ** Raul: HTC/Slurm. ** Ewan concern lack docs: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/MachineJobFeatures ** Requested to work with sites that developed solutions. Done in Q1:

4 Wider VOs

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Wider_VO_issues - Including DIRAC dev/testing - Engagement For Q2: - Wider WebDAV usage? - Push for gfal2?

5 Security

https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Security Done Q1: - ARGUS banning tests - Response to several vulnerabilities Focus Q2: - Traceability in cloud - Integration with security officer tasks

6 Accounting

Q1: - Batch system checks and multi-core work Q2 - Cloud/VM accounting. Need someone involved with / reporting this + WLCG TF

7 The next quarter for operations...

- Core Services - Interoperation - Ticketing - Regional tools Suggestion to create Core-ops cloud/VM task - Get involved in network metrics work?

8 Actions/AOB

Open Actions: 150121-1: JC to initiate a review of the KeyDocs. 150121-2: SJ to consider document on removing VOs. JC will check with EGI on issues where VO dead but data remains. 150121-3 : DB to check EMI-UMD contributions. Blog on repo developments and our SR contributions. 150121-4: MD to attempt VO-Nagios results review in conjunction with Monday/Tuesday ticket review. 150121-5: ALL Take a look at the document written by Laurence Field: http ://cern.ch/go/ZS8G . 150121-6: JC to follow-up on CERN accounts with CERN folks. 14-7-2: David: Check monitoring wiki page links to documents - in progress 14-7-3: David: Monitoring update talk at HEPSYEMAN? 14-7-6: Matt/All: Request more information in Glue2 tickets Closed actions: 14-7-1: Jeremy: Talk to Tom about website 14-7-4: Kashif: Write wiki/blog entry on VO Nagios 14-7-5: Jeremy: Request Imperial check accounting

Laurence's document Cloud_Adoption_v1-1.pdf