General information
Middleware
- UMD 4.7.0 released in July https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Agenda-2018-07-16#Middleware
- there is an issue with CREAM/SL6 related to this new UMD 4.7.0 release for canL-java and voms-api-java. A fix was released, but it seems not to handle properly everything, and CREAM team needs more time.
- to prevent this from happening in the future, the UMD team will improve the Staged-Rollout step (under discussion)
- broadcast sent in July https://operations-portal.egi.eu/broadcast/archive/2141
- reference ticket: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=136074
Preview repository
- 2018-08-06
- Preview 1.19.0 AppDB info (sl6): ARGUS 1.7.2, CGSI-gSOAP 1.3.11, CREAM 1.16.7, davix 0.6.8, dCache 3.2.27, frontier-squid 3.5.27-5.2, STORM 1.11.14, xrootd 4.8.4
- Preview 2.19.0 AppDB info (CentOS 7): CGSI-gSOAP 1.3.11, CREAM 1.16.7, davix 0.6.8, dCache 3.2.27, frontier-squid 3.5.27-5.2, xrootd 4.8.4
Operations
ARGO/SAM
FedCloud
- cASO installation campaign is over
- few sites still 1.1.1 because using appliance, to be forwarded to Enol
- http://goc-accounting.grid-support.ac.uk/cloudtest/cloudsites2.html
Feedback from Helpdesk
yearly review of the information registered into GOC-DB
2018-05-09
On a yearly basis, the information registered into GOC-DB need to be verified. NGIs and RCs have been asked to check them. In particular:
- NGI managers should review the people registered and the roles assigned to them, and in particular check the following information:
- ROD E-Mail
- Security E-Mail
NGI Managers should also review the status of the "not certified" RCs, in according to the RC Status Workflow;
- RCs administrators should review the people registered and the roles assigned to them, and in particular check the following information:
- telephone numbers
- CSIRT E-Mail
RC administrators should also review the information related to the registered service endpoints.
The process should be completed by June 6th.
To track the process, a series of tickets has been opened.
Status on Sep 7th: 26 Solved, 3 in progress, 3 not replied (NGI_BY, NGI_DE, NGI_GRNET).
Notifications from ARGO about the nagios probes failures
In the process of implementing the notification system in ARGO, it was introduced the following changes in GOC-DB:
- Notifications flag at the site level
- Notifications flag at the service endpoint level
In this way ARGO will retrieve from GOC-DB the information about the sites and services whom sending the email notification and the related recipients.
The logic of the notifications is the following:
Site | Service | Notify? |
---|---|---|
Y | Y | Y |
Y | N | N |
N | Y | N |
N | N | N |
If there isn't any email contact defined at the service endpoint level, it will be used the site contact. Please review your contacts.
You can enable the notifications.
NOTE: It is not mandatory for the sites
Monthly Availability/Reliability
- Underperformed sites in the past A/R reports with issues not yet fixed:
- NGI_IT: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=136523
- INFN-MILANO-ATLASC: recovered
- INFN-PERUGIA: downtime longer than a month, to suspend
- NGI_PL: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=135909
- CYFRONET-PROMETHEUS: UNKNOWN status returned by pl.plgrid.QCG-Computing probe, fixed a problem on ARGO, statistics improving...
- NGI_UA: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=134933 some other failures in July
- UA-BITP: SE problems solved, perfomance not completely good yet
- UA-KNU: problems with local storage and clock skew; another storage array failure due to broken air conditioner and overheating, statistics are improving;
- NGI_IT: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=136523
- Underperformed sites after 3 consecutive months, underperformed NGIs, QoS violations: (August 2018):
- AsiaPacific: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=137041
- TW-NTU-HEP
- NGI_AEGIS: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=137042
- AEGIS01-IPB-SCL
- AEGIS04-KG
- NGI_ARMGRID: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=137043
- AM-01-IIAP: CREAM-CE problems investigating into GGUS 136194
- NGI_FI: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=137044
- FI_AA
- NGI_FRANCE: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=137045 (QoS)
- NGI_GRNET: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=137046
- HG-05-FORTH
- AsiaPacific: https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=137041
suspended sites: BG05-SUGrid (Aug 1st),
Decommissioning EMI WMS
WMS servers can be decommissioned. Please follow the procedure PROC12. The plan is:
- Starting from January 2018, put the WMS servers in draining: this will block the submission of new jobs and will allow the jobs previously submitted to finish
- inform in advance your users that you are going to put in draining and then dismiss the WMS servers (as per PROC12)
- there might be several VOs enabled on your WMS servers: in case only few of them need to use the service for few weeks more, you might disable the other VOs
- On Dec 14th EGI Operations sent a new broadcast to the VOs reminding the users the forthcoming WMS decommission
- From March, the nagios probe eu.egi.sec.WMS will return a CRITICAL status for the servers still in production, and the ROD teams will open a ticket to the sites that haven't finished the decommission process yet
WMS servers in downtime on GOC-DB
9 WMS still registered on GOC-DB as production and monitored
IPv6 readiness plans
- assessment ongoing https://wiki.egi.eu/w/index.php?title=IPV6_Assessment
- still missing NGIs/ROCs
- added column in FedCloud wiki to monitor IPv6 readiness of cloud sites https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Federated_Cloud_infrastructure_status#Status_of_the_Federated_Cloud
webdav probes in OPERATORS profile
The webdav probes was included in the ARGO_MON_OPERATORS profile after the approval in the January OMB: in this way the failures will generate an alarm on the dashboard, and the ROD teams can open a ticket to the failing sites. If no particular issue occurs, and if at least 75% of webdav endpoint are passing the tests, the probes will be added in the ARGO_MON_CRITICAL profile, so the results of these probes will be taken into account for the A/R figures.
- webdav endpoints registered in GOC-DB: https://goc.egi.eu/gocdbpi/public/?method=get_service&&service_type=webdav
- link to nagios results: https://argo-mon.egi.eu/nagios/cgi-bin/status.cgi?servicegroup=SERVICE_webdav&style=detail
- 5 CRITICAL, 2 WARNING out of 33 (OK status: 78.8%)
List of sites that not have completed the configuration yet:
- NGI_HR: egee.srce.hr https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=131041 (webdav URL missing in GOC-DB...)
- NGI_HR: egee.irb.hr https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=134458 (webdav URL missing in GOC-DB...)
List of sites that disabled webdav: UNIGE-DPNC, GR-01-AUTH, HG-03-AUTH, CETA-GRID, WUT
Storage accounting deployment
During the September 2017 meeting, OMB has approved the full-scale deployment of storage accounting. The APEL team tested it with a group of early adopters sites, and the results prove that storage accounting is now production-ready.
Storage accounting is currently supported only for the DPM and dCache storage elements therefore only the resource centres deploying these kind of storage elements are requested to publish storage accounting data.
In order to properly install and configure the storage accounting scripts, please follow the instructions reported in the wiki: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/APEL/Storage
IMPORTANT: be sure to have installed the star-accounting.py script v1.0.4 (http://svnweb.cern.ch/world/wsvn/lcgdm/lcg-dm/trunk/scripts/StAR-accounting/star-accounting.py)
After setting up a daily cron job and running the accounting software, look for your data in the Accounting Portal: http://goc-accounting.grid-support.ac.uk/storagetest/storagesitesystems.html. If it does not appear within 24 hours, or there are other errors, please open a GGUS ticket to APEL who will help debug the process.
Test portal: http://accounting-devel.egi.eu/storage.php
IMPORTANT: Do not encrypt the storage records with your host certificate, please comment out the “server_cert” variable in sender.cfg
List of sites already publishing and of tickets opened is reported here.
Several sites are not publishing the storage accounting data yet. NGIs please follow-up with the sites the configuration of the script in order to speed-up the process.
- AsiaPacific: TW-NCUHEP https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=131426
- NGI_AEGIS: AEGIS04-KG https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=131431
- NGI_CH:
- NGI_DE:
- NGI_IT:
- INFN-ROMA1-CMS https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=131482 (cannot do it now, Jun 19th)
- NGI_NDGF: FI_HIP_T2 https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=131491
- NGI_NL:
- NIKHEF-ELPROD https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=131506 (in progress, problems with star-accounting scripts)
AOB
Next meeting
- October 8th, 2018 https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/4168/