GridPP Technical Meeting - New information System

Friday 15 Feb 2019, 11:00 → 12:50 Europe/London

Virtual Only

Alastair Dewhurst (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)), Andrew McNab (University of Manchester), David Colling (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

Weekly meeting slot for technical topics. We will try and focus on one topic per meeting.  We will announce at the Tuesday Ops meeting if this meeting is going ahead and if so the topic to be discussed.

- WLCG Information system: Agreed to use Hierarchal structure.  Sites can have more than one .json.  Put units in variables.  
http://mirror.tier2.hep.manchester.ac.uk/tier2/UKI-NORTHGRID-MAN-HEP/UKI-NORTHGRID-MAN-HEP-hierarchical.json

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pg_5Kibc_-Z4JF4_HJyW5xL6GVYKwXxOU7DXf2QP9Ag/edit

- ARC developers are completely on board and intend to automate generation of .

- Andy hasn’t quite finished updating the VAC/Vcycle scripts (Should be before March):
https://vacjson.gridpp.ac.uk

- Computing resource has to be unique. Prefix the GOCDB site name or use FQDN of services.

Plan for roll out:
Introduce it at the Ops meeting next week. (Andy).  We want the majority of UK sites to have attempted to implement it by March 15th (HSF/WLCG/OSG meeting).
Assuming support at the Ops meeting give people a week or so to implement it and then submit GGUS tickets to push it along.

Need to get EGI buy in.
Working on a new information system:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19Yh3kNxl01DfcrDgQf12w-KQW5Zrd_QnYP2iGp9Kg2Y/edit#slide=id.g2bfb2aab65_0_1693

Julia presentation at GDB:
https://indico.cern.ch/event/739875/contributions/3305962/attachments/1795217/2926161/ISevolitionGDB.pdf

David will give a presentation next week.  There will be EGI security people in attendance.  Alastair will ask PMB for wording about hard deadline for end of BDii support.

- How will changes to the json be agreed in future?
Good question.  We should ask the information system evolution group.

11:00 → 11:45 New information system json

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pg_5Kibc_-Z4JF4_HJyW5xL6GVYKwXxOU7DXf2QP9Ag/edit

Speakers: Alastair Dewhurst (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)), Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester (GB)), Andrew McNab (University of Manchester)

11:45 → 12:00 AoB