Week of 180305

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Best practices for scheduled downtimes

• Best practices for scheduled downtimes

Monday

Attendance:

• local: Kate(DB, chair), Julia (WLCG), Maarten (ALICE, WLCG), Remy (storage), Vincent (sec), Alberto (mon), Borja (mon), Gavin (comp), Marian (network)

• remote: Alexander (NL-T1), Dmytro (NDGF), Kyle (OSG), Marcelo (CNAF), Sang Un (KISTI), Stephan (CMS), Di Qing (TRIUMF), Darren (RAL), David (IN2P3), Pepe (PIC), Victor (JINR), Xavier (KIT), Zoltan (LHCb)

Experiments round table:

• ATLAS reports ( raw view) -

• CMS reports ( raw view) -
  • No major grid computing issue(s)
  • Running smoothly at a little over 200k cores
    • 60% production, 40% analysis
  • Tier-0 migration, OpenStack to HTCondor-CEs) in progress
    • OpenStack resources draining
  • Singularity deployment progressing well
    • large ticket for factory operations to correct entries (glexec/OS) for CEs where sites did not contact them after Singularity setup
  • tickets for all Tier-1,2 sites without Singularity and no known plan/schedule
  • CMS global cosmic run starting today
  • may not be able to attend the meeting but will read minutes, sorry!

• ALICE -
  • Lowish activity level on average
    • New productions are being prepared

• LHCb reports ( raw view) -
  • Activity
    • HLT farm fully running
    • 2017 data re-stripping ongoing
    • Stripping 29 reprocessing is ongoing
  • Site Issues
    • IN2P3: Failed pilots (GGUS:133824)
  • Tier2D
    • Users with UK certificate are having problem to access data at CBPF, Glasgow, CSCS, NCBJ (3 DPM, 1 dCache) GGUS:133667, GGUS:133617

Sites / Services round table:

• ASGC: nc
• BNL: nc
• CNAF:
  • LHCb data move from old SE to new SE in progress, should finish by middle~end of this week. Also renewal of machine certificates.
  • Shared file system works in progress, the farm should be re-opened today or tomorrow.
  • Singularity is installed in CINECA farm.

Service	VO	Status	Expected restart date	Readiness	GGUS ticket	CNAF comment	VO comment
Electric power line	-	Maint.	20.02, 21.02	One line in Production with UPS		The second redundant line is still down
Tape buffer	ALICE	OK		Production	133582	all ALICE services at CNAF are running in the final configuration.	Looks OK
Tape buffer	ATLAS	OK		Production	131742	Ok
Tape buffer	CMS	OK		Production	133515	Ok
Tape buffer	LHCb	Being Rebuilt	Production in March	Not Ready	133673
Disk	ALICE	Parity OK		Production	133582	all ALICE services at CNAF are running in the final configuration.	Looks OK
Disk	ATLAS	Parity OK		Production	131742	Ok
Disk	CMS	Degraded Parity		Production	133515	raid5 in a few LUNs, raid6 in the others	Disks to be replaced
Disk	LHCb	Parity Restored	Production in March	Not Ready	133673	raid6 in all LUNs	Started the copy of data from old system to new one, ETA middle~end of this week. Tapes should be ready to stage when when copy is done
Computing farm	-		Ready		CMS: configure singularity on only CINECA farm (DONE); ATLAS: FS mounting on farm nodes and restart LSF queues.		Now all CEs in unscheduled downtime - WIP, should be back today or tomorrow

• EGI: nc
• FNAL: nc
• IN2P3: Tomorrow morning, ALICE and LHCb production will be fully moved to CentOS7 WNs. Next tuesday March 13th, IN2P3-CC will in scheduled maintenance. CE and SE will be in downtime and back by the end of the day.
• JINR: NTR
• KISTI: NTR
• KIT: NTR
• NDGF:
  • Switch maintenance tomorrow morning (07-08 CET), might cut a chunk of ATLAS data and the squid server unavailable for a short time.
• NL-T1: NTR
• NRC-KI: nc
• OSG: NTR
• PIC: NTR
• RAL: NTR
• TRIUMF: Maintenance on site core router on March 4, there were two network connectivity outages and each lasted about 12 minutes.

• CERN computing services: NTR
• CERN storage services: EOS-CMS was slow during the week end night due to a find command that was performed, currently being investigated
• CERN databases: CMSONR DB hosts were restarted today to refresh DNS settings
• GGUS: NTR
• Monitoring:
  • Final SAM report for Jan 2018 sent to WLCG office.
• MW Officer: nc
• Networks: AGLT2 to LHCONE sites (NDGF/CERN) under investigation, narrowed down to US/ESNet segment
• Security: NTR

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