Operations team & Sites

Tuesday 20 Dec 2016, 11:00 → 12:30 Europe/London

EVO - GridPP Operations team meeting

- This is the weekly GridPP ops & sites meeting - The intention is to run the meeting in Vidyo: https://vidyoportal.cern.ch/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=zXhsqAxVnaT6 -- The PIN is 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 +44 (0)161 306 6802. Phone bridge ID 1001002 -- The meeting extension is 109308582. PIN 1234 Chair: Jeremy Minutes: 20th Dec: Govind Songara Reserve: Dan Traynor Apologies:

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Andrew Washbrook
Andrew Lahiff
Chris Brew
Daniel Traynor
Daniela Bauer
David Crooks
Gareth Roy
Ian Neilson
Jeremy Coles
John Hill
John Bland
Kashif
Marcus Ebert
Matt Dodge
Robert Currie
Sam Skipsey
Steve jones
Tom Whyntie
Vip Davda

EXP
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LHCb: NTR

CMS: No issues known

Atlas: NTR

A report from the  WLCG OPS meeting was given: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGDailyMeetingsWeek161219#Monday

Other VOs:

Dune nearly finished it's workload but last batch of jobs failed to upload to Shefield, Elana will be contacted.

Some concerns that VAC sites have a hardcoded xrootd IP address.

Bulletin
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https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Operations_Bulletin_Latest

Tier 1:

http://www.gridpp.rl.ac.uk/blog/2016/12/15/ral-tier1-plans-for-christmas-new-year-holiday-201617/

Tickets:

Operations Management Board:
https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/2815/

GDB topics:
http://indico.cern.ch/event/394789/
Draft minutes at https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/GDBMeetingNotes20161214

Pre GDB on networking in JAN, Feb is benchmarking,

Down time proposal - Take note of page 5. Mostly a Tier 1 issues.

HEPix slummary - Take note summary on slide 9

Alice HPC - Note they have a new genration of software able to make better use of HPC resources.

SOC - Bro and MISP test deployments.

HEP software community - White paper roadmap for the 2020s (HL-LHC).

AOB
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Key docs need updating

next meeting 10th Jan

Chat

Daniel Peter Traynor: (20/12/2016 11:03)
I'm doing it
assuming QMUL DNS holds out
Jeremy Coles: (11:05 AM)
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGDailyMeetingsWeek161219#Monday
Matt Doidge: (11:07 AM)
Vidyo crashing has spoilt my Christmas mood!
Daniela Bauer: (11:09 AM)
I think you are not the only one
Daniel Peter Traynor: (11:09 AM)
hello?
David Crooks: (11:09 AM)
Things have gone quiet in Glasgow as well
Chris Brew: (20/12/2016 11:27)
I should be able to close the RALPP ticket soon, a condor upgrade fixed the condor issue and a hack may have solved the dCache issue
Jeremy Coles: (11:27 AM)
https://vo-nagios.physics.ox.ac.uk/nagios/cgi-bin/status.cgi?servicegroup=lsst&style=detail
https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/2815/
http://indico.cern.ch/event/394789/

 

11:00 → 11:01 Ops meeting minutes

• This is a reminder that this is an important task. The minute taker gives access to the discussions for those not present and provides a reference for others to refer back to afterwards.

• The team composition has been changing. If everybody contributes then the task comes around less often.

• Upcoming allocations:
  29th Nov: Andrew Lahiff
  6th Dec: Elena Korolkova
  13th Dec: Gordon Stewart
  20th Dec: Govind Songara
  Reserve: Dan Traynor

11:01 → 11:20 Experiment problems/issues

Review of weekly issues by experiment/VO

• LHCb

• CMS
  https://cms-site-readiness.web.cern.ch/cms-site-readiness/SiteReadiness/HTML/SiteReadinessReport.html#T2_UK_London_Brunel

• ATLAS

• Other: Updates should be recorded in https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_VO_Incubator.

• GridPP DIRAC status [Andrew McNab]
  -- https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/gridpp-dirac-sam

11:20 → 11:40 Meetings & updates

With reference to: http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Operations_Bulletin_Latest

• General updates
• WLCG ops coordination
• Tier-1 status
• Storage and data management
• Tier-2 Evolution
• Accounting
• Documentation
• Interoperation
• Monitoring
• On-duty
• Security
• Services
• Tickets
• Tools
• VOs
• Site updates

11:40 → 12:20 Discussion

• GDB topics: http://indico.cern.ch/event/394789/

12:20 → 12:25 Actions & AOB

• https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Operations_Team_Action_items