WLCG-OSG-EGEE Ops' Minutes Wed 16 Sep 2009

• Date: Wed 16 Sep 2009
• Agenda: 68261
• Chair: DianaBosio
• Minutes: MaiteBarroso
• Minutes from previous meetings: WlcgOsgEgeeOpsMeetingMinutes
• Distribution: grid-operations-meeting@cernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch

Summary

Call to encourage sites to move to the most recent version of WMS available in gLite 3.1, which corresponds to glite-WMS 3.1.21-0 in the gLite repository (known with the nick name of WMS 3.2)
Last month several alerts were sent to all sites about critical security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel (CVE-2009-2692 and CVE-2009-2698). A number of sites in the academic community have subsequently reported root compromised hosts via these vulnerabilities. Yet, it appears a significant number of EGEE sites have still not applied the security patches - it is essential to actively and urgently ensure all the sites in your region have applied these security patches.

Attendance

No record of attendance because most of the attendees were phone numbers, difficult to match with names/ROCs/sites.

We'll try to find a solution to this for next meeting.

Feedback on Last Week's Minutes

None was given.

EGEE Items

Grid Operator Hand Over on Duty

	c-COD Team
From	ROC France
To	ROC CE

• A production site in Vietnam has been asked to change its name, since the name contains 'PPS' and Pre-production in the GOCDB description

Sites Considered For Suspension

None this week

PPS Reports and Issues

• Please find Issues from EGEE ROCs and general info in: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/OpsMeetingPps

• Announce to the sites working in PPS deployment test and SA1 release testing: Moving from deployment tests to staged rollout for next updates; overlap of tasks from both roles. Similar tasks, only different link to different repositories. We will start in next weeks.
• New yaim core, affects all services, plus torque server
• New version of VOBox, verified by Alice, being verified in PPS to check that it does not break the UI

gLite Release News

• Please find gLite release news in: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/OpsMeetingGliteReleases

• New version of gfal, lcg-infosites

EGEE Items From ROC Reports

• None

Grid Service Interventions

• Consult links on the agenda page
• FZK: Planed Intervention AT RISK: 17th September 6:00 - 8:00 UTC, (note change of date) A necessary update of the router firmware can lead to some very short network interruptions in this time causing services to be unavailable.
• 3 days scheduled downtime at in2p3, power intervention, 22-25 September

OSG Items

The discussion on the OSG items has been moved to the Monday WLCG meeting.

Newly Created Action Items

None

Review of Open Action Items

Open Action Items

Id	Submitter	Description	Creation	Due	Assigned To

Actions Closed in Last 20 Days

Id	Submitter	Description	Creation	Due	Assigned To	Closed

AOB

REMINDER: Security vulnerabilities

Last month several alerts were sent to all sites about critical security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel (CVE-2009-2692 and CVE-2009-2698). A number of sites in the academic community have subsequently reported root compromised hosts via these vulnerabilities. Yet, it appears a significant number of EGEE sites have still not applied the security patches - it is essential to actively and urgently ensure all the sites in your region have applied these security patches.

IMPORTANT: call to upgrade WMSs to version 3.1.21-0 in the gLite repository

Call to encourage sites to move to the most recent version of WMS available in gLite 3.1, which corresponds to glite-WMS 3.1.21-0 in the gLite repository (known with the nick name of WMS 3.2) This update contains a new release of the WMS which is a complete redesign of the service. For a summary of the changes introduced in this version, please check these web pages: https://twiki.cnaf.infn.it/cgi-bin/twiki/view/EgeeJra1It/ReleaseNotes2597
http://web.infn.it/gLiteWMS/index.php/information/38-software/59-320relnotes
NOTE that at last week's GDB, WLCG asked sites to move to this version of WMS by the end of October. This would be a request to EGEE as well as a change to the WLCG Base Level Version. At that time all CREAM CEs would be flagged as production in the BDII. When this happens, anyone using a previous version of WMS risks their jobs matching with a CREAM CE and thus failing. Before then people need to direct work at CREAM CEs explicitly (even through WMS).

problems with APEL accounting when deploying a cream ce

Question from Pierre Girard, IN2P3 (France) about problems with APEL accounting when deploying a cream ce in production. There is a known problem for which the produced accounting logs (used by APEL and DGAS) was not properly filled if the CREAM CE is not the Torque server. A patch solving this is in the release chain (CREAM CE 1.5. PATCH:2666)

Next Meeting

Due to EGEE'09, THERE WILL BE NO MEETING NEXT WEEK
The next meeting will be Monday, 28 Sept 2009 14:00 UTC (16:00 Swiss local time).

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• The meeting will start promptly at 14:00 UTC (16:00 Swiss local time).
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