Agenda-05-05-2014

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1. Middleware releases and staged rollout

1.1 News from URT

Recent, or future planned, releases from the product teams:

• ARC - 13.11u1 version 4.1.0 planned to be released early April
  • Adding support for Rucio
• dCache - UMD-3 dcache-server 2.6.23
  • Fixed WebDAV and HTTP support for libneon clients
• BDII core - new glue-validator
• DPM/LFC - v. 1.8.8
  • Several stability fixes
  • New DB connection pooling in dmlite-adapter and mysql
  • Workarounds if sysadmin accidentally called some mountpoints /dpm
  • DMLITE, DAV and LCGDM support explicit file placement request (pool/fs)
  • Improved the Glue reporting in dpm-listspaces
• GFAL/lcg_utils - v. 2.5.5
  • Backported fix for segfault on the srm plugin
• FTS3 - v. 3.1.74
  • Optimisations and bugfixes based on production testing in WLCG
• GridSite - v. 2.2.3
  • fixing improperly initiated time constants in signature verification code
• CANL - v. 2.1.4
  • fixes long-discussed certificate chain validation errors
• WMS v. 3.6.4
  • fix for - job submission fails when job ID starts with a dash!

1.2 UMD release

• On 2nd of April it was released an updated of the EGI Trust Anchor release 1.56-1.

Released UMD 3.6.0:

• Updates:
  • wms v. 3.6.3
  • cream_torque v. 2.1.3
  • dpm-yaim v. 1.8.7
  • gridsite v. 2.2.2
  • glexec-wn v. 1.2.2

• New in UMD:
  • gfal2 v. 2.4.8
  • slurm-wn v. 1.0.0
  • cream-slurm v. 1.0.1
  • gridsafe v. 1.3.1

1.3 Staged rollout updates

New in SR:

• wms v. 3.6.4

old stuff:

• globus-default-security v. 5.2.4 ( 9 months)
• security-integration v. 3.0.0 (7 months)
• emi-cluster v. 2.0.1 ( 7 months)
• globus-rls v. 5.2.5 (3 months)
• mpi v. 1.5.3 ( 4 weeks )

UMD 3 Campaign

• Contacting Sites (full site list) in order to update the products list now for the UMD-3 products. Some sites have the contact points for the EA adopters outdated so please check in table if all contacts are still correct and send me email if you need to add / remove some contacts (SSO account mandatory)

• Sites who didn't replied and still tagged as EA for UMD1 / UMD2 products 20 of the total 80 teams (updated Friday morning):
  • NGI_BG, BG01-IPP
  • NGI_CZ, prague_cesnet_lcg2
  • NGI_DE, FZK-LCG2
  • NGI-DK, UNICPH-NBI
  • NGI_FRANCE, GRIF
  • NGI_FRANCE, IN2P3-CC
  • NGI_HR, egee.srce.hr
  • NGI_IBERGRID, UPV-GRyCAP
  • NGI_MARGI, MK-01-UKIM_II
  • NGI_NL, SARA
  • NGI_SE, HPC2N
  • NGI_UA, UA-KNU
  • NGI_UK, UKI-LT2-RHUL
  • NGI_UK, UKI-NORTHGRID-LANCS-HEP
  • NGI_HR, egee.srce.hr
  • NGI_UK, UKI-NORTHGRID-MAN-HEP
  • NGI_UK, UKI-SCOTGRID-ECDF
  • NGI_UK, UKI-SOUTHGRID-CAM-HEP
  • NGI_UK, UKI-SOUTHGRID-OX-HEP
  • ROC_canada, CA-McGill-CLUMEQ-T2

• • Mixed cases:
  • NGI_UK, RAL-LCG2 (already participating in many UMD-3 products. Only some components need to be update: MyPROXY, APEL FTS)

1.4 Next releases

• Middle May
• End of June
• October

2. Operational issues

2.1 Report from DMSU

Nothing to report.

2.2 Migration of Central SAM services & reconfiguration of NGIs SAM instances

• ...

2.1 EMI-2 decommissioning

• Probes are running in midmon: Documentation.
  • All products but dCache are being retired as previously announced. dCache extended the support for the 2.2.x versions until July 2014.
• List of services failing EMI-2 test:
  • as of Mach 7th - Download XLS file
  • as of March 3rd - EMI2_endpoints_NGI_07042014
  • as of April 24 - EMI2_endpoints_NGI_24042014
• Status - presentation: PPTX, PPT, PDF
• Please report any errors ASAP

2.3 Probes raising alarms since April

• none

3. AOB

3.1 Next meeting

... May 2014 (we may skip one because of EGI CF)

4. Minutes

Minutes 07.04.2014