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http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=46745 CERN: Steven, Oliver, Francesco, John, Maite. Telephone: Jeff, (who else?) Vangelis, Jeroen. SN: Minutes of last meeting... minor revisions from Christoph Witzig... Anything else? (no) Action list: 8954: Will distribute new version. Oliver: will he add the URL to the task? 8953: Action still with Christoph. Jeff: It's in the document. WMS use case. Oliver: does AuthZ understand different policies to different servers? 8164: General proxy store. Updated. Short term OK. Long term needed 8060: JSPG. We change the logic of the SAM tests to avoid the site being "bad". Should close this now. ACTION. 7932: Later... 7841: 6901: Vangelis: Had a meeting with Tiziana Ferrari from INFN who is responsible for the small team of INFN that is part of the NA4 Direct User Support team. Adding a note to the task that they (INFN) produce a set of Data Management Use Cases that will be put on-line together with the rest of the other UIG use cases produced in the past (and whose revision is also responsibility of DUS). Close 7841 Put a note in 6901... leave with Vangelis but note for INFN to do something. 7675: We have a doc. Close this? JT: How about a standard interface? OK: There is a new WG in OGF... CREAM/ARC/UNICORE. JT: LCG-CE at least supports GRAM. Close 7675. Nick Thackray to provide a link to the doc Close 7106 6901: Done. Already discussed above. 6652: Characterizing a subcluster? Is there a proposal? OK: Should be. Should be done properly in GLUE 1.3. SN: Should this go into GLUE-2? 6649: OK: This could be useful for MPI. NA4 should make sure GLUE-2 supports this use-case. Parked until GLUE-2 is out (Long explanation from JT.) SN: Is there a spec document? FG: Twiki page but no document. End of Action List ------------------ MPI WG: ------ Jeroen: (General info... recent history of the group, who joined etc) (This list can be sent to me afterwards... 7 people) (Also contacted Vincenzo Innocente @ CERN. No go) SN: Goals, Milestones? Jeroen: 23rd Feb Phone conference to divide work (what's the work?) SN: Fusion has the biggest reqs for MPI. If they cannot provide anyone to help... should be followed up. SN: Please set up your goals and milstones. Jeroen: Will do. Also a set up a FtF. Tried to use UF in Catania. FG: Anyone from the MW community? JT: Dennis van Dok is good guy for this. SN/FG: Could try someone from WMS and also CREAM. The INFN people should have replied to you when contacted. Jeroen: Will do. AuthZ Deployment Doc -------------------- CW: There are slides sent out. These are attached to the agenda: http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=46745 (Refer to the slides) JT: How mature are these policy engines? SN: We don't have to own the engine... we can use a mature product from another project with no problems.Several under evaluation. JT: Is there a tag on the PEP-client that gives the address? Configured in client on WMS and also the AuthZ service on the central service? Could I do the same on my laptop and get the same info? CW: Yes. SN: Is the AuthZ service deployed at a site? CW: Yes. (Any other questions?) CW: Slide 4. Global banning policy. See the slide 5. SN: How close to doing a glexec and back test of the system? CW/JW: Very close. Next two weeks. SN: Any objections to the TMB endorsing this plan? Are there any problems being seen Any PPS sites foreseen for AuthZ system? JT: How about code re-use from SCAS to EES? CW: We don't know but the plugin system will allow much re-use of "SCAS". Errors in gLite --------------- SN: Francesco G. has indicated this is a "null" activity. FG: Indeed. OK: All our testing is based on replication of real-life situations. JT: This type of thing was discussed in the MB recently. Developers fixed a problem that was not really a problem. This is due to not really having specification docs on APIs etc. SN: This is true for UMB etc. The MU of EGI will have this problem. Need a preparation of documents of all public interfaces before the end of EGEE-III. (list of bugs that Steven has... these bugs are probably not going to advance) FG: This will not be easy to fit into our work plan now. People are all booked up. AOB --- SVN question: Developers would like to be able to use repositories other than the standard CERN CVS. Other systems are reputed to have better behaviours for developer-specific tasks. SN (TMB in general): TMB will not restrict use of svn. Any software repository should be institutionally supported. ie. No bizarre systems hosted on laptops!
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    • 1
      Minutes of last meeting and action list
    • 2
      Review of MPI WG
      Review goals, milestones and activity to date.
      Speaker: Jeroen Engelberts
    • 3
      Review of Authz certification and deployment
      See if any revision is needed from the initial presentation from the previous meeting. see https://edms.cern.ch/document/984088/1 it's the doc called wms_use_case
      Speaker: Christoph Witzig (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich/ETH (ETH))
      Slides
    • 4
      Errors in gLite
      Review what we are doing about error codes on the command line, standard error messages, and the bugs relating to error messages. (8326, 6712, 6711)
      Speaker: Francesco Giacomini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))
    • 5
      AOB