EGEE-WLCG-OSG operations meeting

08 January 2007

Agenda

The agenda can be found here: http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=7671

Attendance:

OSG grid operations:........ Rob Quick

EGEE

Asia Pacific ROC:............. Min Tsai

Central Europe ROC:........ Marcin

OCC / CERN ROC:........... Nick Thackray, Maite Barroso, Steve Traylen, John Shade

French ROC:.................... Pierr, Helene

German/Swiss ROC:......... Sven Hermann

Italian ROC:...................... Alessandro Cavalli

Northern Europe ROC:...... Jules Wolfrat

Russian ROC:................... Lev

South West Europe ROC:. Kai

South East Europe ROC:.. Kostas

UK/Ireland ROC:............... Matt

US-ATLAS:....................... Dantong

US-CMS:.......................... Joe Kaiser, Ian Fisk

GGUS:............................. Torsten

OSCT:.............................. Ian Neilson

WLCG Tier 1 Sites

ASGC:............................. Min

BNL:................................ Dantong

CERN site:....................... Thorsten K

FNAL:.............................. Jo Kaiser

FZK:................................ Sven

IN2P3:.............................. Pierre

INFN:............................... Alessandro

NDGF:............................. Michael

PIC:................................. Gonzalo

RAL:................................ Derek Ross

Sara/NIKHEF:................... Ron Trompert

TRIUMF:........................... Absent (no apologies received)

VOs

Alice:............................... Absent (no apologies received)

ATLAS:............................ Absent (no apologies received)

BioMed:........................... Absent (no apologies received)

CMS:............................... Ian Fisk

LHCb:.............................. Absent (no apologies received)

Reports were not received from:

Ø WLCG T1 sites:

Ø EGEE ROCs:

Ø VOs:

Feedback on last meeting's minutes

No comments during the meeeting

EGEE Items

Grid-Operator-on-Duty handover

From ROC Italy (backup: ROC UKI) to ROC CERN (backup: ROC France)

Tickets:
New tickets: 19
1st email: 11
2nd email: 11
'Case transfered to political instances': 2
Qurantine: 16
Site OK: 18

Notes:

It was noted that not all comments appearing in GGUS tickets appear in the CIC

dashboard so it is easy for the CIC on duty to miss a relavent comment.

 Sites up for suspension:

   TAU-LCG2 site is looking at the problems and are makeing progress in the

   last few days. The UI has been split of to a different host and a maui

   problem corrected.

   Site will most definetly not be suspended and will also enter scheduled

   downtime. TAU-LCG2 attended this meeting which was much appreciated.

   Cluster_UL site: Raised to the ROC manager of SouthWest, no information at

                    present. Will be raised at next weeks meeting for a final

                    time.

                    The minute taker noted that they have entered themselves in

                    a downtime for an aircon update.

                    http://egee017.cnaf.infn.it/gstat/ClusterUL/

VOMS configuration update effective Jan 9th 2007 due to new hostcert of voms.cern.ch 

Detailed info at: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/VOConfigForSites2007

Operational issues raised by VOs

None

Ian Fisk (US-CMS): CMS commented that they had a productive break.

EGEE issues coming from ROC reports

1. VOMS and VO membership expiration date: A french dteam user was unable to generate a VOMS proxy from DTEAM VOMS. The error message was not clear: "Error: dteam: User unknown to this VO".
After some deeper investigation, it appeared that his VO membership was expired within the VOMS Database. Indeed, it seems that a VO expiration delay is set to 1 year by default. The involved user didn't receive any notification concerning this expiration. Moreover, as the CERN was closed, no Dteam administrator was able to change the expiration date. Such a case could become very tricky with a VOMS entry used for production purposes as the related user could not generate any proxy to submit his/her production jobs. In order to avoid to manage several expiration dates, could we change the VO membership expiration policy to use the user certificate expiration date as the VO membership expiration date by default ?
We also suggest that a mail must be systematically sent to the user when his/her VO membership is about to expire. (France ROC)

A possible way of making users aware of this would be a user diagnosis FAQ, or any other type of documentation. ACTION.

OSG Items

Leigh resigned her position, please use generic emails for contacting OSG: goc@opensciencegrid.org

WLCG Items

WLCG Service Report

Summary of multi-VO tests: Alice and CMS well exceeded target. Atlas did not, maybe because of the others, being analyzed.

Next Atlas T0-T1 tests are delayed by several weeks. They will repeat the tests done in June and August at full scale.

WLCG Service Commissioning report and upcoming activities

See new and updated information at https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/SC4ExperimentPlans

WLCG related Issues coming from experiment VOs and Tier-1/Tier-2 reports

none

Review of action items

The updated list action items can be found attached to the agenda (along with these minutes).

Next Meeting

Monday, 15 January 2007 14:00 UTC (16:00 Swiss local time). 

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