Minutes 30/4/2019
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Present:
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* Alessandra Forti
* Andrew McNab
* Brian Davies
* Chris Brew
* Daniel Traynor
* Daniela Bauer
* Darren Moore
* David Crooks
* Elena Korolkova
* Emanuele Simili
* Gareth Roy
* Gordon Stewart
* Ian Loader
* John Hill
* Kashif Mohammad
* Linda Cornwall
* Matt Doidge
* Paige Lacesso
* Pete Clarke
* Pete Gronbech
* Raja Nandakumar
* Robert Frank
* Sam Skipsey
* Steve Jones
* Teng

LHCB Report
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* Problems with aborted Pilots at ECDF
* Another storage pool moved from CASTOR to ECHO at RAL, this leaves only the USER space to move

CMS
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* Brunel has data transfer problems, nothing else to report for CMS>

ATLAS
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* Brunel having problem with file deletions for ATLAS. BD says this is an issue with WebDAV being unstable.
* RHUL has an issue with Squid servers being shown as red when on of the HA servers is available


VO Incubator
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* Discussion of DUNE queues at Lancaster, jobs being submitted to old SL6 queue. MD to email AMcN to have queues moved over.
* LFC to DFC migration for T2K and Mice ongoing, progress being made by DB and SF


Meetings and Update
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General Updates
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* Discussion of GridPP42 and associated presentations.
* Consultation on GridPP43 potential dates and locations (nominally located at Ambleside 20-22nd August).
    - Problems were raised in respect to the timing being close to the end of the summer holidays.
    - PC encouraged emails to DB to raise any questions/concerns.

* Technical meeting regarding DPM and future within the UK.
    - AF comments that many sites are planning to move from DPM (whether as smaller sites or moves to different storage solutions).
    - KM comments that Oxfords plan is to update to DOME.

* HEPSYSMAN
    - Registration now appears to be open for HEPSYSMAN.
    - DC asks if anyone has security topics to cover as part of the training if the could let him know.

* TB-SUPPORT discussion about SW areas and whether or not they are needed. It appears that now all VOs are either using CMVFS or containers so it is unlikely that a SW area is needed.


Tier-1 Status
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* High CMS failures seem but this appears to have improved.


Storage
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* no report


Tier-2 Evo
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* no report


Accouting
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* no report


Documentation
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* SJ will check Fermilab VO information


Interop
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* no report


Monitoring
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* no report


On Duty
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* DB on duty, nothing to report


Security
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* Nothing ongoing that sites need to be concerned about.
* Dockerhub breach for sites that may have been using this for any reason.
* Trust anchors have been updated, sites should install as soon as they are able.


Services
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* no report


Tickets
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* 131608 - Needs an update as being escalated to VO Manager
* 139101 - no news
* 140679 - ongoing


Discussion & AOB
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* Site Round Table

Manchester     - going into downtime to upgrade DPM headnode
RALPP        - nothing to report
QMUL        - nothing to report
IC        - preparing for the move to Slough and IRIS cloud
Sheffield    - nothing to report
Glasgow        - CEPH and HTCondor-CE
Cambridge    - nothing to report
Oxford        - SL6 CE now in downtime to be retired (CentOS7 only)
Lancaster    - Robin leaving Lancaster
Bristol        - Condor and OS upgrades.
Liverpool    - Attending EGI to talk about CREAM-CE migration
Edinburgh    - working on a second CE as current is having problems


* HEPSYSMAN - registration open please register if you'd like to attend.

* GridPP6 - PC updates on current status, panel to take place next week.
* PC congratulates GridPP on it's ability to aid LSST and getting it's payloads running via GridPPs infrastructure.
* Indigo IAM vs EGI Check-In as a SSO solution, both AF and DC felt that IAM was a better solution then the EGI Check-In system.

 

Chat
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Matt Doidge: (30/04/2019 11:03)

Gareth is kindly taking minutes

Elena Korolkova: (11:06 AM)

https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=140848

https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=140890

Matt Doidge: (11:12 AM)

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

David Crooks: (11:31 AM)

https://success.docker.com/article/docker-hub-user-notification

Raja: (11:33 AM)

Apologies - got to go now

Paige Winslowe Lacesso: (11:33 AM)

apologies back soon

John Hill: (11:43 AM)

https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/PROC12

David Crooks: (11:43 AM)

I was just about to post that as well :)

Alessandra: (11:51 AM)
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