LCG Service Coordination Meeting

Name: LCG Service Coordination Meeting
Start: 2006-11-01T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2006-11-01T11:30:00+01:00
Location: CERN

Wednesday 1 Nov 2006, 10:00 → 11:30 Europe/Zurich

513/R-070 - Openlab Space (CERN)

513/R-070 - Openlab Space

CERN

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Jamie Shiers

Description

LCGSCM

Internal meeting for host laboratory LCG service providers.

Attendees:
Service responsibles from IT-FIO, IT-PSS, IT-GD
EIS team

Standing agenda, plus topical items.

Mailing list: lcg-service-coordination-meeting@cern.ch

- 1
  Introduction & Topical Items
  - a) Schedule for reinstallation of service nodes
  - b) Renumbering Machines in the Vault - First 2 Batches (9th Nov)
    
    Speaker: Thorsten
  - c) Testing of LFC 1.5.10 on PPS and deployment on production system (incl. outside sites)
  - d) Hand-over of Services from GD to FIO cont.
    
    This will be coordinated by Steve Traylen, with the goal of getting the dash green prior to hand-over.
  - e) CMS servers / services: status
    
    See CMS task force of Sep 20
    To be followed up with Michael Ernst and IT Physics Groups leaders. (The agreement is apparently 'in principle', but the details still to be worked out).
  - f) Christmas shutdown
    
    Dear All, As end of 2006 is approaching, we have to define IT services availability during the CERN annual closure. I propose that groups send me before the end of the month the availability plans of your services, based on requests from users. 1) which services are to be kept running and what coverage 2) which services will be left unattended 3) which services will be switched off As far as compensation is concerned, we have now provided our input to HR in the view of a possible amendment to the SRR, but no feedback so far. However for planning purposes, a safe working assumption would be to assume that the same rules as previous years will be applied. I will also need from you a detailed plan of people availability during the annual closure. But I'll send a reminder for this. Please find attached the coverage message which was sent last year. Frédéric.
    
    Speaker: Nick
  - g) Oracle quarterly patch
    
    News from installation on integration RAC
    Testing schedule of relevant services
    Scheduling of installation on production RAC(s)
    Oracle has released yesterday the October security patch for their software. This is a rolling patch, so no service interruption is expected. We need to install it as soon as possible on the integration/validation database INT3R and request that you test your applications against this patch. About one week after, if agreed on WLCG-SCM and if no problems reported by the application owners, we will do the same on the production server.
    Schedule:
    
    23/Oct (Monday) - deployment of Oracle October CPU on INT3R
    
    Services affected: egee_sam, egee_sam_pilot, int3r, int3r_gridview, int3r_nolb, lcg_fts_pilot, lcg_fts_stresstest
    
    1/Nov (Wednesday) - deployment of Oracle October CPU on LCGR (only if fully tested by application owners and no issues found)
    
    Services affected: lcg_fcr, lcg_fts, lcg_fts_w, lcg_gridview, lcg_lfc, lcg_same, lcg_shiva, lcg_voms, voms_pilot
    
    As the patch is rolling, no service interruption is expected for these deployments.
  - h) LFC for LHCb - status of tomorrow's intervention
- 2
  Regular Status Review
  
  Status Reports, Dash Status.
  - a) Deployment
    
    Speaker: Louis Poncet
  - b) Workload Management
    
    Speaker: Thorsten Kleinwort
  - c) Data Management
    
    Speaker: Gavin McCance
  - d) Information and Monitoring
    
    Speaker: Piotr Nyczyk
  - e) Authentication and Authorisation
    
    Speaker: Maria Dimou
  - f) Experiment Issues requiring escalation or follow-up
    
    Speaker: EIS Team
- 3
  
  Any Other Business