Regional Operations Meeting - additional before EGEE'08

Monday 8 Sept 2008, 11:00 → 12:00 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 Password:ce Community: UNIVERSE From: 10.30 CEST To: 12.30 CEST Meeting Access Information: - Meeting URL http://evo.caltech.edu/evoGate/koala.jnlp?meeting=eBele2vBv9anaMIuauIB - Phone Bridge ID: 502579 Password: 3376 --------------- EVO Phone Bridge Telephone Numbers: - USA (Caltech, Pasadena, CA) +1 626 395 2112 - Switzerland (CERN, Geneva) +41 22 76 71400 - Slovakia (UPJS, Kosice) +421 55 234 2420 - Italy (INFN, several cities) http://server10.infn.it/video/index.php?page=telephone_numbers Enter '4000' to access the EVO bridge - Germany (DESY, Hamburg) +49 40 8998 1340 - USA (BNL, Upton, NY) +1 631 344 6100

11:00 → 11:20 Operations

1. Report on execution of work in TSA 1.2.4 (20') 1.1 Organization of PPS sites. Status info from GUP, SiGNET, WCSS. 1.2 ICM, CESNET - could EUHIT VO be supported on CESNET's services? People from ICM invited to the meeting... 1.3. New top level BDII instances. Any news from? - UIBK - KFKI + ELUB 1.4 Status of production BDII pool in CE region. - issue with WN software being not compatible with gLite 3.0 top BDII - CE region marked OK! https://straylen.web.cern.ch/straylen/topbdiis/topbdiis-prod.html - web page reporting all glite 3.1 BDIIs - status of CESNET's instance, is it ready to be put into the pool? (Tomas) - BDII log files analysis - first results: number of connections to BDIIs not symmetric, Polish instance more loaded, unknown connections from DE and FR. (Lukasz) 2. Improvements to operation of VOCE VO: Status: any response from users by now? (Tomas) 3. WN distribution mechanism discussion - Outcome from OM, next steps - CE ROC position - rather negative as it looks like centralization breaking the idea of Grid, problems with independence of NGIs etc. 4. Jabber server configuration (LF) - proposal to deactivate the account and remove it from the contact list if the user didn't connected for longer than 6 weeks - integration of CE weblog with jabber's LDAP - status 5. Before EGEE'08 5.1 Commitment monitoring -> http://egee.grid.cyfronet.pl/grid-operations/commitment-monitoring Make sure your site is passing the commitment thresholds. 5.2 SLA, reliability/availability reports 5.3 Anything else? Actions: 1. All people involved in operations in CE federation: register for “EGEE jabber account”. Info will be propagated once again. Goal: to have at least one person from each institute. List of institutes which have no representative registered. AMU (POLAND), ICM (POLAND), BME (HU), ELTE (HU), NIIF (HU), OEAW(AT).

Speaker: Marcin Radecki

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

1. Proposal on security improvements. New group: /dteam/ce/rocstaff for people needing access to all sites in our region. Any topic to be raised?

Speakers: Jan Astalos, Marcin Radecki

11:35 → 11:45 Monitoring

Distribution of work on monitoring in CE? (SRCE, PCSS) Any topic to be raised?

Speakers: Emir Imamagic, Marcin Radecki

11:45 → 12:00 AOB

All admins: Any operational issue to be raised on ROC level? 1. Next regional meeting will be NEXT week i.e. 15.09.2008 11AM CEST. 2. New meeting date (requested by Martin) - to be investigated in October when more people will know their obligation according to lectures, classes in new academic year etc.