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=Progress of SA1 issues=  
=Progress of SA1 issues=  
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Nothing new to report.
Nothing new to report.
=Milestones/Deliverables=
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* D4.7 Operations Sustainability. Still in draft status, will be ready for review next Monday.


=SA1.1 Activity Management=  
=SA1.1 Activity Management=  
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MEETINGS
MEETINGS
* JRA1 meeting
* Evolving EGI workshop, Amsterdam
* organization and contribution to the EGI/EUDAT/PRACE workshop
* JRA1 phone conference, A/R VO view availability calculation in progress
* security meeting  
* GGUS meeting on new user authentication methods
* EUDAT meeting (Bologna)
* TCB meeting, 05-02-2013
* EGI Champion meeting
* kickoff meeting of working group responsible of assessing the new EMI 2/3 probes before integration into SAM


ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES
* contribution to the defininition of a new VO A/R calculation algorithm
* ongoing collection of QR11 reports from NGIs and task leaders
* discussion of problem of NGI A/R statistics, which are currently affected by sites that are in production just for a fraction of the calendar month
* organization of first meeting of EGI/EUDAT/PRACE pilot 4
* Follow up of a GOCDB outage
* cost assessment of all EGI operations tools to support future costing activities around the EGI global tasks
* Follow up of message broker network outage affecting all NGIs (November A/R statistics will be recomputed)
* preparation of material for f2f TCB meeting
* OPS VO management
* preparation of QR11
* Submission of two abstracts for ISGC 2013
* coordination of plan for retirement of unsupported software, and discussion of a new plan and of the related development actions needed, for decommissioning of gLite 3.2 WN, DPM, LFC and EMI 1. 1/3 of the affected services retired/upgraded in the last 2 weeks. Discussion of an action plan to check the progress of upgrade plans by end of November
* contribution of ideas for the preparation of the EGI Champion programme


=SA1.2 Security=  
=SA1.2 Security=  
<!-- D. Kelsey -->
<!-- D. Kelsey -->
* monthly CSIRT team meeting held on 22 November
* CSIRT team members participated in TF-CSIRT and FISRT meeting in Lisbon
* activities for tracking upgrading status from gLite 3.2 components
* EGI Evolution workshop participation
* Including handling potential suspension of unresponsive sites - not needed in the end - all went into downtime
* Joint EGI-WLCG meeting to discuss additional authentication mechanisms for GGUS (beyond X.509)
* SVG - handling of several new issues
* planning for security workshop and submission of 2 talks to ISGC 2013
* development work on new custom security probes for NGI SAM instance
* '''no''' sites were eventually suspended because of the lack of feedback about upgrade plans


= SA1.3 Staged rollout =
= SA1.3 Staged rollout =
*EMI1 update 21 and EMI2 update 6 have entered into the SW provisioning process
<!-- Joao Pina -->
**Some components already under verification (LB 3.2.9 from EMI1, and gridsite).
 
**UMD urgent release foreseen for some components, at least WN and DPM
* Preparation of new release UMD 2.4.0 and UM 1.10.0 to be released in February.
*SAM19 completed SW provisioning and released into production.
** Emergency release of DPM, LFC and VOMS regarding some security vulnerabilities in order to be able to release them with next UMD version.
*CA 1.51 completed SW provisioning expected to be released this week
*** DPM & LFC already in SR.
*New changes into the SW provisioning process under discussion
 
* Preparation of the EMI WN-tarball, by colecting all the interested sites to serve as Early adopters.
* Assessing the needs of a tarball version of the EMI UI.


=SA1.3 Integration=
=SA1.3 Integration=
<!-- E. Imamagic, M. Krakowian from Nov 2012 -->
<!-- M. Krakowian from Nov 2012 -->
* Participation to the envri use case meeting
* First meeting of EGI/EUDAT/PRACE pilot2. Objectives of this group are the following. A face to face meeting of pilot1/2 and 4 is scheduled in March in co-location with the EUDAT user forum.
* discussion of MAPPER helpdesk strategy and new actions
** Objective 1: demonstrate real benefit for users (user groups) who are collaborating in this working group. Technological and operational barriers shall be removed or mitigated as far as possible.
* Organization of the EGI/EUDAT/PRACE meeting, with the contribution of 6 user communities
** Objective 2: identify common data access and transfer tools and protocols which can be provided by all three e-infrastructures and which are useful for the collaborating user communities.
** Objective 3: identify technology and/or organisational gaps and suggest measures for improvements when use cases cannot be realized across the three e-infrastructures
* ENVRI face to face meeting


=SA1.4 Central tools=  
=SA1.4 Central tools=  
<!--E. Imamagic -->
<!--E. Imamagic -->


* Upgrade of AUTH and SRCE brokers finished successfully, CERN brokers will be upgraded tomorrow (https://operations-portal.egi.eu/broadcast/archive/id/817).
* Documentation of EMI-1 probes: [[MW_Nagios_tests]]
* SAM Update-19 released on November 23rd
* Documentation of OPS-MONITOR probes: [[OPS-MONITOR_profile_SAM_tests]]
* prolonged downtime of GOCDB because of power issues, the failover configuration did not prove to be ready to replace the primary instance affected by the problem. Action on EGI operations to discuss a better failover strategy for GOCDB.
* Documentation of integration of FedCloud resources into EGI: [[Fedcloud-tf:WorkGroups:Scenario5]]
* APEL downtime caused by issues of the power supply system of the hosting organization
* Participation in workshop "Evolving EGI Workshop"
* Preparation of QR11 report


=SA1.5 Accounting=  
=SA1.5 Accounting=  
'''<!--A. Packer--> Repository '''
'''<!--A. Packer--> Repository '''
- outage last Tuesday, 20th November due to problem caused by electrical work carried out on the UPS at RAL, all APEL systems restored on Wednesday, 21st November. Sites continue to raise tickets in order to republish user DNs.
* Debugging issues appearing in VO views in the accounting portal where URs are wrongly grouped by role and VO group. Issues identified in wrong Role parsing by DGAS publisher (fixed in Nov 2012). DB cleaning to remove erroneous records and avoid duplication (https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=89640)
 
* IN2P3 sites now publishing to new APEL server using SSM.  
 
'''<!--A. Packer--> Portal'''
no report


=SA1.6 Helpdesk=  
=SA1.6 Helpdesk=  
<!-- T. Antoni -->
<!-- G. Grein -->
* Shopping list meeting to prioritise requests for GGUS
* Monitoring tickets.
* Preparing the GGUS-AB phone conference next Thursday (2012-11-29), see agenda: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1259
* Attending "Evolving EGI" work shop in Amsterdam
* Preparing the next GGUS release on 2012-11-28
* xGUS release
* Preparing various documents and wikis (milestones etc.) for EGI
* Implementing changes for next GGUS release


=SA1.7 Support=
=SA1.7 Support=
<!--  trompert -->
<!--  trompert -->
* usual ticket handling and dashboard work
* ticket and dashboard handling
* handling unsupported middleware tickets
* unsupported middleware activity followup
* review of GOCdb business logic
* attending Evolving EGI workshop
* wrote plan for future COD activities
* started up the nagios probe taskforce
* published ROD newsletter


== Software Support ==
== Software Support ==
<!-- A Krenek -->
<!-- A Krenek -->
No report received
no report


== Network Support  ==
== Network Support  ==
 
<!-- Mario Reale -->
Started assessment of IPv6 compliance of FTS 3.
no report


=SA1.8 Availability and core services=
=SA1.8 Availability and core services=
<!--C. Kanellopoulos-->
<!--P. Korosoglou-->
* Revision of A/R algorithm for the computation of NGI availability/reliability statistics
* Maintenance operations on site certification infrastructure
* assessment of migration plan from VOMRS to VOMS and impact on DTEAM VO management duties. Upgrade date was postponed.
* Handling of dteam VO requests
* Implemented new probe on midmon monitoring service


== Documentation ==
== Documentation ==
<!-- M. Krakowian -->
<!-- M. Krakowian -->
* [[EGI_Operations_Start_Guide | EGI Operations Start Guide]] for newcomers was created.
no report
* [[PROC04| PROC04]] was reviewed and split into two pages [[PROC04|PROC04]] and [[Availability_and_reliability_monthly_statistics| Availability and reliability monthly statistics]]
* [[Administrator_Documentation|Documentation page for administrators]] was created


= Meetings=
= Meetings=
<!--all-->
<!--all-->
* TERENA Network Operations Task Force meeting, Poznan, 12-13 Dec 2012
* OSG all hands meeting, March 2013
* EUDAT user conference, March 2013
* ISGC 2013, March 2013

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Progress of SA1 issues

Nothing new to report.

SA1.1 Activity Management

MEETINGS

  • Evolving EGI workshop, Amsterdam
  • JRA1 phone conference, A/R VO view availability calculation in progress
  • GGUS meeting on new user authentication methods
  • EUDAT meeting (Bologna)
  • TCB meeting, 05-02-2013
  • EGI Champion meeting
  • kickoff meeting of working group responsible of assessing the new EMI 2/3 probes before integration into SAM

ACTIVITIES

  • ongoing collection of QR11 reports from NGIs and task leaders
  • organization of first meeting of EGI/EUDAT/PRACE pilot 4
  • cost assessment of all EGI operations tools to support future costing activities around the EGI global tasks
  • preparation of material for f2f TCB meeting
  • preparation of QR11

SA1.2 Security

  • CSIRT team members participated in TF-CSIRT and FISRT meeting in Lisbon
  • EGI Evolution workshop participation
  • Joint EGI-WLCG meeting to discuss additional authentication mechanisms for GGUS (beyond X.509)

SA1.3 Staged rollout

  • Preparation of new release UMD 2.4.0 and UM 1.10.0 to be released in February.
    • Emergency release of DPM, LFC and VOMS regarding some security vulnerabilities in order to be able to release them with next UMD version.
      • DPM & LFC already in SR.
  • Preparation of the EMI WN-tarball, by colecting all the interested sites to serve as Early adopters.
  • Assessing the needs of a tarball version of the EMI UI.

SA1.3 Integration

  • First meeting of EGI/EUDAT/PRACE pilot2. Objectives of this group are the following. A face to face meeting of pilot1/2 and 4 is scheduled in March in co-location with the EUDAT user forum.
    • Objective 1: demonstrate real benefit for users (user groups) who are collaborating in this working group. Technological and operational barriers shall be removed or mitigated as far as possible.
    • Objective 2: identify common data access and transfer tools and protocols which can be provided by all three e-infrastructures and which are useful for the collaborating user communities.
    • Objective 3: identify technology and/or organisational gaps and suggest measures for improvements when use cases cannot be realized across the three e-infrastructures
  • ENVRI face to face meeting

SA1.4 Central tools

SA1.5 Accounting

Repository

  • Debugging issues appearing in VO views in the accounting portal where URs are wrongly grouped by role and VO group. Issues identified in wrong Role parsing by DGAS publisher (fixed in Nov 2012). DB cleaning to remove erroneous records and avoid duplication (https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=89640)
  • IN2P3 sites now publishing to new APEL server using SSM.

Portal no report

SA1.6 Helpdesk

  • Monitoring tickets.
  • Attending "Evolving EGI" work shop in Amsterdam
  • xGUS release
  • Preparing various documents and wikis (milestones etc.) for EGI
  • Implementing changes for next GGUS release

SA1.7 Support

  • ticket and dashboard handling
  • unsupported middleware activity followup
  • attending Evolving EGI workshop
  • started up the nagios probe taskforce
  • published ROD newsletter

Software Support

no report

Network Support

no report

SA1.8 Availability and core services

  • Maintenance operations on site certification infrastructure
  • Handling of dteam VO requests
  • Implemented new probe on midmon monitoring service

Documentation

no report

Meetings

  • OSG all hands meeting, March 2013
  • EUDAT user conference, March 2013
  • ISGC 2013, March 2013
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