Agenda-20-10-2014

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1. Middleware releases and staged rollout

1.1 News from URT

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

• dCache server v. 2.6.35
• DPM
  • DPM/LFC 1.8.9 are in EPEL-testing - Release Notes
• EMI-UI/WN
  • new update under preparation - including more DMC dependencies
• FTS3 - 3.2.26
• Globus Toolkit 6.0, MyProxy 6.0 - in EPEL-testing
  • http://toolkit.globus.org/toolkit/docs/6.0/
• STORM
  • Fixes in 1.11.5
  • Fixes in 1.11.6
• VOMS
  • VOMS Admin server v. 3.3.0
  • VOMS Clients v. 3.0.5, VOMS API Java v. 3.0.4
  • VOMS C APIs, native clients and server v. 2.0.12

1.2 UMD release

UMD 3.8.1 released on 09.10.2014 : http://repository.egi.eu/2014/10/09/release-umd-3-8-1/

1.3 Staged rollout updates

• ARC v. 4.2.0 (13.11.2)
• cream-slurm v. 1.0.2 (new)
• emi-wn v. 3.1.0 (new)

In Verification

• canl v. 2.2.3
• cream-ge v. 2.2.0
• cream-torque v. 2.1.4
• dcache v. 2.6.35
• dcache-srmclient v. 2.2.27
• cgsi-gsoap v. 1.3.6
• emi-ui v. 3.1.0
• srm-ifce v. 1.20.1
• wms v. 3.6.6
• apel v. 1.2.2

New Products

• cvmfs v. 2.1.19
• squid v. 2.7.19
• fts3 v. 3.2.27
• gfal2 v. 2.6.8
• gfal2-python v. 1.5.0
• gfalfs v. 1.5.0
• gfal2-utils v. 1.0.0
• davix v. 0.3.6

Ready to be released:

• qcg-computing-3.4.0
• qcg-notifications-3.4.0
• qcg-broker-3.4.0
• qcg-broker-client-3.4.0
• qcg-broker-egi-is-provider-3.4.0
• qcg-egi-is-conf-3.4.0
• cream-lsf v. 2.0.4
• bdii-core 1.6.0 & Glue-validator 2.0.25
• mpi v. 1.5.3

UMD 3 EA

• Some sites have the contact points for the EA adopters outdated so please check in table if all contacts and products are still correct and send me email if you need to add / remove some contacts (SSO account mandatory):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

New Products

FTS3, SQUID and CVMFS will soon be include in UMD and it is important to have some early adopters for this components. So if you anyone interested please contact me or cristina to be included in the early adopter list.

1.4 Next releases

• End of October
• Mid of Dicember

2. Operational issues

2.1 Report from DMSU

ARGUS/WMS Certificate Chain Mixups

• Affecting several sites, where WMS is unable to make SSL connection to ARGUS.
• With all probability this is a combination of using curl from the SL6 distribution, which in built with NSS SSL rather than OpenSSL and, as such, does not really support proxy certificates, and a bug in Java, hopefully fixed since Java 7 Update 60.
• Related issues:
  • https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=101486
• This issue is already being investigated at 3rd level but PTs cannot decide who is responsible ant DMSU is overseeing.

2.2 EMI-2 decommissioning

• UMD2 APEL clients - GGUS: Sites using UMD2 APEL clients - 9 NGI didn't finish the update:
  • NGI_UA, ROC_LA, ROC_Canada, NGI_CYGRID, NGI_HR, NGI_DE, ROC_Asia/Pacific, ROC_Russia, NGI_MARGI

• Following up with COD - GGUS #106354
• NGIs with UMD2/EMI2 services - AsiaPacific: - issue escaladed to EGI Operations
  • AsiaPacific
    • TW-eScience, Taiwan-LCG2 - GGUS #106427

• ALL SITES PROVIDING UMD 2/EMI 2 services MUST BE IN DOWNTIME or SUSPENDED

2.3 dCache 2.2.X decommissioning

• presented in the OMB meeting, 18.09.2014 - https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/OMB#9.2014.2F11
• Campaign started on 22.09.2014 - to be ended on 31.10.2014
• Broadcast on 2014-09-23
• dCache Retirement Calendar - More details
  • SAM probe, eu.egi.sec.dCache-2.2, raising alarms
  • SAM results:
    • NGI_DE - FZJ, DESY-ZN, GoeGrid, UNI-FREIBURG,
    • NGI_NL - BEgrid-ULB-VUB
    • ROC_Canada - CA-TRIUMF-T2K
    • ROC_Russia - JINR-T1

• Please provide timeline for update

2.4 Configuration of the new VOMS server for OPS in the infrastructure AND SAM

• GGUS: Sites need to configure the new VOMS server for ops and LHC VOs:
  • NGI_AfricaArabia, NGI_IL, NGI_RO
• NGI's SAM Nagios have to be configured also - notification with instructions will be send

2.5 Resource Centres performance

• RCs performance twiki
• Availability/Reliability Reports for Sept 2014
  • Sept Underperforming_sites_and_suspensions - to be updated with tickets opened
    • GGUS - 13 sites / 7 NGIs: NDI_DE, NGI_IBERGRID, NGI_IT, NGI_NL, ROC_Asia/Pacific, ROC_LA, ROC_Russia

2.6 SAM Nagios probes re-factoring

• changes in the enabled probes - will be done by today COB
  • removed FTS2 from ROC and ROC_Operators profiles
    • ch.cern.FTS-ChannelList
    • ch.cern.FTS-InfoSites
  • move GlueValidator to Operations profiles (ROC, ROC_Operators)
    • remove org.gstat.SanityCheck
• Documentation under improvement
• SAM Update 23 in preparation - testing istance been set-up by SAM/ARGO team

2.7 MySQL 5.0 EOL

• discussed during URT meeting, 29.09.2014
• MySQL versions available:
• SL5:
  • mysql-*5.0.95* -> MySQL 5.0
  • mysql51-*5.1.70* -> MySQl 5.1
  • mysql55-*5.5.32* -> MySQL 5.5
• SL6:
  • mysql-*5.1.71 -> MySQL 5.1

• Middleware dependancy on 'mysql-server':
  • VOMS - emi-voms-mysql - confirmed it should work with MySQL 5.1, as on SL6, but not tested
  • CREAM - emi-cream-ce - GGUS #106250
  • DPM - puppetlabs/mysql dependancy on "mysql-server",
  • STORM - storm-backend-server - confirmed it should work with MySQL 5.1, as on SL6, but not tested
  • L&B - glite-lb-server - under investigation
  • WMS - emi-wms - under investigation

• Recommendation - site-admins must be made aware to avoid using MySQL v. 5.0, where possible.

2.8 SL/SLC/CentOS 5 Support Lifetime

• Scientific Linux Homepage
• SLC5
• CentOS
• support LifeTime based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle
  • January 31, 2014 - End of Production 2 phase
    • During the Production 3 Phase, Critical impact Security Advisories (RHSAs) and selected Urgent Priority Bug Fix Advisories (RHBAs) may be released as they become available.

3. AOB

3.2 Next meetings

• Nov. 17, 2014 (OMB on Oct. 30)

4. Minutes

• Minutes previous meeting - 06.10.2014
• Minutes 20.10.2014