Critical services - Requirements

• The agenda for this day is already pretty full.

WLCG Operations - What is Required to support LHC experiments?

• Cross-site problem resolution

• Handling of VO-boxes and other experiment services

• FTS service debugging tools

• Review of (main) Tier1 services (experiment critical services view) against 'Victoria checklist' (to be discussed at October GDB - need to include also issues like: is this service monitored? (basic levels: no contact, high load, (fan count wrong), ..))

• Any DB-related issues to be covered in the morning

Monitoring - What is Required to run Reliable Services?

• Any DB-related issues to be covered in the morning

Robust Services - Middleware Developers' Techniques & Tips

• Any DB-related issues to be covered in the morning

• LFC experience

• FTS experience

• Automatic configuration with minimum manual input for "standard installations".

• Site validation unit and functional tests as part of the middleware standard distribution (this forces the developers to think about installation and configuration issues).

• Real, certified service info providers

DB Applications - Performance and Reliability by Design

• Tom Kyte can't come but has been asked to suggest someone else who can