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EGI-InSPIRE:Sa1 2012-12-11

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Progress of SA1 issues

Nothing new to report.

Milestones/Deliverables

  • D4.7 Operations Sustainability being finalized

SA1.1 Activity Management

MEETINGS

  • Fedclouds weekly call
  • SPG phone call (Excellence science coordination)
  • GGUS report generator phone call
  • organization of the weekly middleware upgrade meeting
  • fedSM f2f meeting
  • resource allocation procedure meeting
  • participation to VT on NGI int usage publication


ACTIVITIES

  • Reviewed the strategy metrics document
  • Updated document describing the VO availability requirement
  • Follow up of an issue about suspended sites reported in the EGI league tables
  • followup of GOCDB business logic revision
  • monitoring of progress of mw upgrade campaign, coordination of development of new probes and extension of the operations dashboard, handling of probes with the upgrade
  • followup of upgrade of DTEAM VOMRS service
  • support about accounting policies, followup of user DN publishing (number of sites not published reduced to about 50 instances)
  • editing of D4.7
  • review of proposals for EGICF 2013
  • preparation of contribution to TF-NOC meeting

SA1.2 Security

  • work on the middleware upgrade campaign
  • establishment of a dedicated Nagios box to monitor MW components
  • planning for operational implications of supporting central banning
  • 2 new vulnerabilities have been reported and are being handled
  • SVG reminder was sent out to UMD/ EMI on checking file permissions for vulnerability prevention
  • planning for security training at ISGC 2013 and elsewhere

SA1.3 Staged rollout

  • Finalizing the release candidate of UMD 2.3.1 to be released Monday 17 December, containing:
    • ige gridftp 5.2.2
    • dpm and lfc 1.8.5
    • dcache 2.2.5 (contains only the dcap library)
    • gridsite 1.7.24
  • Start preparing the next UMD 2.4.0 in advance, taking into account what is left now from IGE 3.0 and the several EMI updates, as well as what should be out in the next emi2 updates of December 2012 and January 2013 updates.

SA1.3 Integration

SA1.4 Central tools

  • Added documentation of new MW probes (https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/MW_Nagios_tests)
  • Fixed the problem with MW monitoring SAM instance (https://midmon.egi.eu/nagios)
  • GOCDB performed UPS testing on December 11th between 09:30 and 12:00 (UTC)
  • Electric maintenance was scheduled for the Operations portal between December 10th 07:00 and December 12th 11:00 (UTC) and short outages might occur.

SA1.5 Accounting

Repository

  • UserDN republishing ongoing; this continues to be a significant extra load on the service and staff and data processing has been delayed because of the considerable increase in records, some from sites who had not raised tickets to arrange a suitable timetable for their republishing.
  • Waiting for Message Broker network to add IN2P3 DN to the authorized list so that France can publish to the new system using SSM.

Portal

  • preparation of new release
  • deployment in the testing instance of views to support NGI international usage reports

SA1.6 Helpdesk

SA1.7 Support

  • usual ticket handling and dashboard work
  • handling unsupported middleware issue
  • review of GOCdb business logic. Plan put into RT ticket. Waiting for comments from COO.

Software Support

We participated at the DPM workshop last week. In particular, the issues of integrating DPM with Globus Online were discussed, detailed report will be provided to TCB.


DMSU tickets flow Dec 2-9
assigned 8
back to tpm 0
reassigned to 3rd level 8
solved 1
open DMSU tickets status
assigned 0
in progress 3
waiting for reply 2
on hold 8

Network Support

no report received

SA1.8 Availability and core services

  • Initial publication of A/R results for November 2012
    • Handling of several A/R re-computation requests in accordance to PROC10
  • Internal discussions on how A/R reports are currently being delivered
    • No change of how this is handled is foreseen for the time being
  • Ongoing discussions on Dteam VO migration from VOMRS to VOMS
    • Investigation (ongoing) of whether it will be possible to retain VOMRS interface but upgrade VOMS backend to UMD2 for Dteam VO
  • Received new final A/R reports for September and October
    • September and October A/R reports updated on DocDB
  • Registered and updated VO services group in EGI Intranet
    • Handling of VO support requests on GGUS


Documentation

  • ongoing work on EGI user start guide
  • ongoing work on the operations wiki space
  • final work on EGI OLA

Meetings

  • TF-NOC meeting, Poznan 12-13 Dec 2012