EGI-InSPIRE:Sa1 2012-10-24
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Progress of SA1 issues
(SA1) integration of Albania: the site administrators participated to TF12 training and promised progress in the set up of a grid site (SA1) PQ8 Grid software maintenance and support. Waiting for TCB discussions
Milestones/Deliverables
- D4.6 Operations Architecture: external review completed
- D4.7 Operations sustainability: no progress last week
SA1.1 Activity Management
- meetings:
- GDB for discussion of suspension policy related to the deployment of unsupported glite 3.1/3.2 services
- ISGC PC phone call
- fedSM weekly call
- COD meeting
- PRACE/EUDAT/EGI workshop organization meeting
- EGI Operations meeting, chaired and agenda preparation
- Fedclouds task force
- COD/CSIRT meeting to evaluate the status of unsupported middleware monitoring process
- COD meeting to evaluate status of current activities, and promote new ones: revision of current and future probes, support to emerging NGIs and new site administrators, technical revision of automated certification procedure (in progress)
Main activity of the last 7 days was the coordination of activities around the decommissioning of unsupported software, followup of missing/incomplete probes, procedures for ticketing of sites and related escalation
- Follow-up of suspension cases for low availability
- Revision of operations service portfolio following gSLM guidelines (preparatory work for D4.7 deliverable on service sustainability)
- ops VO membership management
- DTEAM VO membership management
- operations ticket handling, handling of various A/R esclations
- Produced assessment on the VO usage of deployed gLite services
- Follow up of sites/NGIs with missing security contacts
- Preparation of OMB agenda
SA1.2 Security
- Continued to provide the infrastructure to monitor obsolete gLite middleware and participated in several discussions with operations and COD people
- Chasing sites/tickets related to obsolete gLite middleware
- Still chasing few sites that have not yet upgraded WMS to address vulnerability #4073
- TI accreditation process completed, with draft version of RFC 2350 (Expectations for Computer Security Incident Response) submitted. Now awaiting response.
- Start planning for a security training workshop at ISGC2013
- Ongoing discussions about IRTF staffing/funding
- Presentation of HEP federated identity management pilot project at HEPiX meeting
- Presentation on Grid Security Policies, Procedures and activities at Shonan meeting
SA1.3 Staged rollout
- UMD 1.9.0 release freeze, includes: IGE SAGA, IGE Gridway, BDII Core, CREAM, GFAL/lcg_utils, WMS, ARC
- Continuation of SW provisioning towards UMD 2.3.0
- Grid Operations meeting: 22 October
SA1.3 Integration
- collection of feedback from GLOBUS TF about site certification procedure
- planning of workshop on use cases for data management across peer infrastructures
SA1.4 Central tools
- By the end of Tuesday 26 NGIs have deployed SAM Update-17, assessment of status of deployment in order to allow CUSTOM services in GOCDB
- Help with MW monitoring instance setup
- Meeting between EMI Messaging PT and broker administrators scheduled for Wednesday
- Solved: problem of nagios binary and SL6 WNs (https://tomtools.cern.ch/jira/browse/SAM-2999)
- Solved: problem with false alarms raised in Dashboard by SAM-Nagios instance in Beijing (https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=87276)
- Messaging: A new version the message broker service is ready to be deployed in the PROD network. This will be an update from: ActiveMQ 5.5.1-fuse-05-01 To: ActiveMQ 5.5.1-fuse-08-15. A complete changelog can be found at: http://fusesource.com/wiki/display/ProdInfo/FUSE+Message+Broker+v5.5.1-fuse+Release+Notes
SA1.5 Accounting
Worked with a number of sites to publish UserDNs.
NDGF now publishing from SGAS via SSM in production.
Final testing of DGAS with SSM.
SA1.6 Helpdesk
- revision of ticket escalation procedures in case of tickets without activity
- finalize the next GGUS release 2012-10-24
- preparing the first meeting of the GGUS advisory board
SA1.7 Support
- published newsletter
- usual tickethandling and dashboard work
- cod meeting
- prepare cod f2f
Software Support
Working smoothly, no specific issues to report.
DMSU tickets flow Oct 14 -- Oct 20 | |
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assigned | 16 |
back to tpm | 0 |
reassigned to 3rd level | 12 |
solved | 3 |
open DMSU tickets status | |
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assigned | 0 |
in progress | 1 |
waiting for reply | 4 |
on hold | 2 |
Network Support
- Installed new LFC catalogue machine on gridsrv6-net.dir.garr.it for IPv6 testing
- Resumed CREAM CE testing and reporting
SA1.8 Availability and core services
- revision of EGI.eu OLA (Malgorzata) according to structure of operations service catalog. Organization of meetings with technical providers to agree/discuss about suggested service targets
- DTEAM VOMRS migration in progress
- DTEAM VO management duties
- installed new VOMS instance (from UMD2 release) to test VOMRS migration procedure
- published final A/R reports for September
- follow up on A/R recomputation requests
- discussion of recomputations of A/R statistics fro September for all sites affected by problem:
https://tomtools.cern.ch/jira/browse/SAM-2999
Documentation
- ongoing work on the operations wiki space
- ongoing work on EGI OLA
Meetings
- PRACE/EGI/community meeting on data management (October/beginning of November)