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Trigger Menu-aware Monitoring for the ATLAS experiment

11 Oct 2016, 14:15
15m
Sierra C (San Francisco Mariott Marquis)

Sierra C

San Francisco Mariott Marquis

Oral Track 7: Middleware, Monitoring and Accounting Track 7: Middleware, Monitoring and Accounting

Speaker

Xanthe Hoad (University of Edinburgh (GB))

Description

Changes in the trigger menu, the online algorithmic event-selection of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in response to luminosity and detector changes are followed by adjustments in their monitoring system. This is done to ensure that the collected data is useful, and can be properly reconstructed at Tier-0, the first level of the computing grid. During Run 1, ATLAS deployed monitoring updates with the installation of new software releases at Tier-0. This created unnecessary overhead for developers and operators, and unavoidably led to different releases for the data-taking and the monitoring setup.

We present a "trigger menu-aware" monitoring system designed for the ATLAS Run 2 data-taking. The new monitoring system aims to simplify the ATLAS operational workflows, and allows for easy and flexible monitoring configuration changes at the Tier-0 site via an Oracle DB interface. We present the design and the implementation of the menu-aware monitoring, along with lessons from the operational experience of the new system with the 2016 collision data.

Primary Keyword (Mandatory) Monitoring
Secondary Keyword (Optional) Trigger
Tertiary Keyword (Optional) Data processing workflows and frameworks/pipelines

Primary author

Catrin Bernius (New York University (US))

Co-author

Xanthe Hoad (University of Edinburgh (GB))

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