WLCG MW Readiness WG 14th meeting Minutes - December 2nd 2015

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• MiddlewareReadiness

Agenda

• https://indico.cern.ch/e/MW-Readiness_14

Summary

• ...
• Suggested date for the next one is Wednesday 20th January 2016 at 4pm CET. Objections with alternative dates should be sent to wlcg-ops-coord-wg-middleware@cernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch

Attendance

• Local: Maria Dimou (chair & notes), Alberto Peon (T0), Maarten Litmaath (ALICE & notes), Andrea Manzi (MW Officer), Andrea Sciaba (CMS), Vincent Brillault (security), David Cameron (ATLAS), Lionel Cons (MW Package Reporter developer), Alberto Aimar (CERN IT mgnt). **** EDIT THIS *****
• Remote: Raul Lopes (Brunel Univ.), Antonio Maria Perez-Calero Yzquierdo (PIC), Vincenzo Spinoso (EGI Ops Officer). Raja Nandakumar (LHCb). **** EDIT THIS *****
• Apologies:

Minutes of previous meeting

The minutes of the last (13th) meeting HERE were approved(????)

MW Officer report

ATLAS workflow Readiness Verification Status:

MARIA D. TO EDIT THESE TABLES TO REFLECT CURRENT STATUS

MW Product	version	Volunteer Site(s)	pakiti client installation status	Comment on testing on CentOS7	Other comments
HT-Condor (condor-g)	8.3.2	CERN	OK up-to-date	n/a	new HTCondor version released today 8.4.1.to ask for upgrade
FTS3	3.3.3	CERN	OK up-to-date	n/a	new version 3.4.0 to be tested soon
DPM	1.8.10	Edinburgh	OK up-to-date	test machine setup at Glasgow for this, waiting to complete the Atlas specific configuration	upgraded , waiting for reconfiguration as per https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/MWREADY-82
other?
StoRM	1.11.9	QMUL & CNAF	OK up-to-date	n/a	problems running panda jobs https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/MWREADY-61 @CNAF
dCache	2.10.42 & 2.13.8	Triumf (2.10.42) & NDGF (2.13.8)	not yet installed at NDGF	n/a	Triumf all OK. The NDGF verification cannot progress due to a blocking issue with IPv6. A.O.B. Can someone help to make progress with the DESY offer to test dCache on Prometheus as per https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/MWREADY-36?

CMS workflow Readiness Verification Status:

MW Product	version	Volunteer Site	pakiti client installation status	Comment for testing on CentOS7	Other comments
DPM	1.8.10	GRIF	OK up-to-date	GRIF plans to run tests on CentOS7 in Q4 2015 as per https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/MWREADY-71. What exactly can be done now?	problems showed-up with DPM-DSI 1.9.5-8 and gridftp redirection as per https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/MWREADY-89
dCache	2.13.9	PIC	OK up-to-date	n/a	PIC please comment on status in https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/MWREADY-91
EOS	0.3.129-aquamarine	CERN	OK up-to-date	n/a	Issue with PIC -> CERN PhEDEX transfers as per https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/MWREADY-81
FTS3	3.3.3	CERN	OK up-to-date	n/a	new version 3.4.0 to be tested soon
ARC-CE	5.0.3	Brunel	OK up-to-date	n/a	Issues in the glidein factory as per https://its.cern.ch/jira/browse/MWREADY-84

WLCG MW Readiness Software Status

• MW readiness App v.0.3 deployed in prod. Volunteer sites managers can now access information about the packages installed at their sites and published via pakiti:
  • https://wlcg-mw-readiness.cern.ch/sites/ ( certificate is needed )
  • the app tries to map the information on the packages with the Products present in his KB.
  • Feedback is welcome
• Pakiti packaging for Debian is ongoing

Sites' feedback

• PIC report:

• CNAF
• Napoli
• Edinburgh
• QMUL
• BruneL
• CERN
• ... other sites

Report from the ARGUS meeting

• main points for MW Readiness:

Actions

Action items Done from past meetings can be found HERE.

• 20150506-03: NDGF to install the pakiti client. Updated instructions here. Done the day after last meeting, i.e. 29/10. As NDGF run on ubuntu, Lionel offered to make a version for that OS and put instructions in the manual on where to find it.
• 20150318-02: Ben to set-up the ARGUS testbed at the T0. The testbed is there, the load testing is in the list but Postponed
• 20141119-03: Andrea M. to contact the GRIF site to proceed with WN testing via the CMS workflow POSTPONED

Next meeting

• Suggested date is JANUARY 20TH 2016 AT 16HRS CET

AOB

-- MariaDimou - 2015-11-24