Week of 190909

WLCG Operations Call details

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General Information

• The purpose of the meeting is:
  • to report significant operational issues (i.e. issues which can or did degrade experiment or site operations) which are ongoing or were resolved after the previous meeting;
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Best practices for scheduled downtimes

• Best practices for scheduled downtimes

Monday

Attendance:

• local: Miro (DB, Chair), Borja (Monitoring), Vincent (Security), Kate (WLCG), Julia (WLCG), Gavin (Compute), Frank (Atlas)
• remote: Christoph (CMS), Darren (RAL), Xavier (KIT), Marcelo (CNAF), Mike (ASGC), Onno (NL-T1), Di (TRIUMF), Christian (NDGF), Vincenzo (EGI), Xin (BNL)

Experiments round table:

• ATLAS reports ( raw view) -
  • Activities:
    • tail of ongoing reprocessing campaign (using inputs from tape) ~20K files left at KIT

• CMS reports ( raw view) -
  • Nothing major to report
  • Minor thing: Lost 10 MC files from Tape at JINR GGUS:143034 - Lost statistics already invalidated in CMS bookkeeping.

• ALICE -
  • NTR, at least until this afternoon

• LHCb reports ( raw view) -
  • Activity:
    • MC, user jobs and data restripping.
    • Massive staging at all T1
  • Issues:
    • RAL:
      • GGUS:142350; Under investigation. User jobs increased, no queue. Issue seems to continue.

Sites / Services round table:

• ASGC:
  • Some checksum issue when stage out file yesterday. The bigpanda was in maintenance this morning, and we will keep watching if this issue persists.
• BNL: NTR
• CNAF: NTR
• EGI: NTR
• FNAL: NTR
• IN2P3: NC
• JINR: NTR
• KISTI: NC
• KIT:
  • New downtime at-risk for atlassrm-kit.gridka.de tomorrow 10 a.m. CEST ( GOCDB:27713), where we will restart a couple of services in order to enable HTTP third-party-copy.
  • Reminder: Nearline storage outage from Sep 16th till Sep 27th for all VOs!
    • Outage for lhcbsrm-tape-kit.gridka.de
    • Warning for atlassrm-kit.gridka.de and cmssrm-kit.gridka.de
    • Alice has no SE services hosted by KIT in GOCDB
  • Reminder: Online storage outage on Sep 17th for all VOs ( GOCDB:27575). We will try and keep the batch farm operative, so you still may send us jobs and work with remote storage at other sites.
• NDGF:
  • During dcache headnodes update last week: dcache door disappeared when it was single point of failure. Draining was immediately stopped, but the failed headnode could not be resurrected without a restart.
  • Pool upgrades at HPC2N tomorrow. Some ATLAS data unavailable for a few minutes.
  • Broken tape found at UCPH. Leader pin had broken off. Files reported missing.
• NL-T1:
  • Next week (Sept 16), we'll be upgrading dCache from 4.2 to 5.2, to support Xrootd TPC. GOCDB
• NRC-KI: NC
• OSG: NC
• PIC: NC
• RAL: NTR
• TRIUMF: NTR

• CERN computing services:
  • OTG:0052156 : Monday 16th September (10.00 - 14.00). ce503, ce504, ce515, ce516 will be deleted (from Wigner) and recreated in Meyrin. They will be drained, but experiments are recommended to stop submitting to these asap.
• CERN storage services: NTR
• CERN databases: NTR
• GGUS: NTR
• Monitoring: NTR
• MW Officer: NTR
• Networks: NTR
• Security: NTR

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