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
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
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?
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
other?

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