Cloud pre GDB meeting, March 12, 2013 (KIT) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId 223689 Attendees Michel Jouvin, Tony Cass, Ulrich Schwickerath...
Summary of pre GDB meeting on Cloud Issues, July 9, 2013 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId 253858 Experiment Reports about Cloud Usage...
Summary of pre GDB meeting on Cloud Issues, January 14, 2014 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId 272783 Accounting Introduction J...
Summary of pre GDB meeting on Cloud Issues, September 14, 2014 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/272791/ Cloud Status in WLCG L. Field At the first glance...
Summary of pre GDB on Cloud Traceability, February 2015 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/319818/ Introduction I. Collier In Grid, well established policies...
pre GDB about Cloud Issues, NIKHEF, March 10, 2015 Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/319819/ Introduction M. Jouvin Working group goals: explore possibility...
AAI on the worker nodes MUPJ before the WN: Suggestion: Job Credential Propagation and Job Credential Delegation need to be thought of as one issue to solve as a...
Introduction So far, no security incident in our grid had an attacker exploiting a grid proxy. However, as part of some incidents, many hundreds of proxies have...
LCG Grid Deployment gLite Pre Production Services Pre Production Coordination PPS Current Programs Access to production batch system List of sites allowing...
Accounting data validation In order to check trustworthiness of the provided accounting data , it should be compared with data in the experiment specific accounting...
Accounting Frequently Asked Questions Naming conventions Is there a mapping between naming schemes? New APEL Names Old APEL Names Rebus ATLAS Units processors...
How to enable accounting for jobs submitted with BOINC It should be straightforward to create APEL accounting records from BOINC accounting information (maybe...
JuliaAndreeva 2016 03 10 WLCG Accounting Review motivation The goal of the WLCG accounting review is to understand the needs of all WLCG stakeholders (VOs, sites...
WLCG Accounting Task Force Motivation The WLCG Accounting Task Force is set up following the outcome of the Accounting Review at the (pre )GDB in April 2016....
Availability Computation Engine (ACE) The main thrust in building the Availability Computation Engine (ACE) is providing flexibility at various levels and allowing...
JamieShiers 19 Jul 2006 Moved from PreviousActions (will close actions once a month carrying over any that are still open) JamieShiers 10 Jul 2006 ATLAS...
JamieShiers 28 Sep 2006 SC4 Combined Action List Actions preparing for Q3/Q4 (CMS CSA06 etc.) General actions Site monitoring of local services to be discussed...
LCG Grid Deployment gLite Pre Production Services PPS CERN Admin Procedures Installation of AFS clients Find notes for use of apt at CERN in http://linux.web...
LCG Grid Deployment gLite Pre Production Services PPS CERN Admin Procedures The INSTALL ROOT path of the AFS UI is under /afs/cern.ch/project/gd/egee/glite...
About the CERN AFS UI Service The CERN AFS UI Service in provided in order to allow CERN GRID users to have acces to the GRID without using a specific UI. (More information...
Back to CERN AFS UI LCG Production Services General instructions TAR UI installation (not AFS) Specific instructions to update the AFS UI List of currently...
Closure of LCG AFS UI and AFS CA certificates Please note that closure of LCG AFS UI and AFS CA certificates took place on the 2nd of February 2015. Please read the...
Worklog for the AFS production UI July 2007 2007 07 16: Installed new CAs, version 1.15. (Diana). June 2007 2007 06 08: Wrote and implemented logrotate...
Daily CCRC`08 Call details To join the call, at 15.00 CE(S)T Monday to Friday inclusive in CERN 513 R 068, do one of the following: 1. Dial 41227676000 (Main)...
Commissioning the CERN IT Agile Infrastructure with experiment workloads In order to ease the management of their infrastructure, most of the WLCG sites are adopting...
LCG Grid Deployment gLite Pre Production Services PPS CERN Admin Procedures How to use aliases for the CE and get job submission running. If you want to use...
HarryRenshall 06 Mar 2006 Last Updated 1.11.2007: Clarify site resource offers as real percentage of requirements and when normalised to 100% of ALICE requirements...
HarryRenshall 25 Jun 2007 ALICE Distribution of activities over 2006 Month ALICE Requirements March 2006 Set up 500 node proof cluster at CERN April Generate...
JamieShiers 23 Oct 2006 Debugging of ALICE Transfers Diary From November 23, 2006 Scheduled downtime to update Alice Software to alien2.12 This operation...
Creating a simplified global unique file catalogue The AliEn File Catalogue is a global and unique namespace that provides the mapping between logical file names...
Title AliEn Extreme Brokering Abstract The AliEn workload management system is based on a central job queue wich holds all tasks that have to be executed. The job...
Title AliEn: ALICE Environment on the GRID Abstract AliEn is the GRID middleware used by the ALICE collaboration. It provides all the components that are needed to...
Configuration variables for AMGA IMPORTANT NOTE!! : Updated documentation for the configuration of AMGA is now under https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/Site...
Configuration variables for AMGA with the Oracle Database Backend These are all the necessary variables to configure the AMGA service with the Oracle Database as the...
AMGA oracle installation notes Prepare the Oracle ODBC drivers Before installing the glite AMGA oracle component you have to ensure that the unixODBC,Oracle instant...
Configuration variables for AMGA with the Postgres Database Backend These are all the necessary variables to configure the AMGA service. There are two example files...
Apollo Testing This page documents how the Xrootd monitoring is integrated to Apollo Motivation Currently all the monitoring messages are sent to Active MQ. In the...
JamieShiers 22 Mar 2006 Achieved Rates Daily Averages for Disk Disk Transfers Rates achieved as per Gridview see SC4blog for more information on events,...
JamieShiers 19 Apr 2006 SC4 Disk Tape Transfer Targets Link to SC4 blog and disk disk status page The disk tape Tier0 Tier1 transfer targets for the...
LCG Grid Deployment gLite Pre Production Services PPS CERN Admin Procedures APT repository How to set up an apt repository (you need to be root and have tomcat...
This is a link to the Liverpool ARC/HTCondor `example build` which might be useful as prelimianry reading: https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Example Build of an ARC/Condor...
ARC CE token configuration tips ARC CE version Although REST and also basic token support is available for quite some time (since 6.9 / 6.6) it is recommended to...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Bootstrap CMS info into CRIC prototype CMS Site CMS Site vs GocDB /OIM site investigation Sites in sitedb (under lcg tag) but not on OIM/GocDB...
INSTALLATION: 1. Make a copy of this directory in your local area: /afs/cern.ch/sw/arda/install/CMS/prototype/asap 2005 08 24/cms/ASAP 2. Modify in the setup scripts...
CMS Collectors review Contents: Basic understanding of the 3 CMS collectors running on the dashboard07 host. General point to understand and/or to solve Actual...
CMS Job Monitoring Collectors Troubleshooting MonAlisa log file collector and feeder are running on dashboard12, dashb ai 581 and dashb ai 584. In case of...
ARGUS collaboration This twiki summarises the existing ARGUS components and their level of support. In order to cover the areas taken care of by SWITCH, a discussion...
HarryRenshall 01 Nov 2007 Information given by Gang Qin at the weekly ATLAS Computing Operations meeting of 16 October 2007: ASGC will have 50 storage servers (net...
Assessing YAIM Random remarks Not atomic: lots errors or warnings may be produced when running configure node, but still the end result may be: `Configuration...
ATLAS Computing and Data Model Evolution We describe the evolution of ATLAS Computing and Data Placement Model. The original model was proposed in early 2000 and...
Evolving ATLAS computing for today`s networks. The ATLAS computing infrastructure was designed many years ago based on the assumption of rather limited network connectivity...
ATLAS Distributed Computing Monitoring tools after full 2 years of LHC data taking This talk details variety of Monitoring tools used within the ATLAS Distributed...
ATLAS Distributed Computing Operations: Experience and improvements after 2 full years of data taking This paper will summarize operational experience and improvements...
Common accounting system for monitoring the ATLAS Distributed Computing resources The ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has been collecting data for three...
ATLAS DQ2 Deletion Service The ATLAS Distributed Data Management project DQ2 is responsible for the replication, access and bookkeeping of ATLAS data across more than...
#65279;Title: gLExec integration with the ATLAS PanDA workload management system Author list: Edward Karavakis, Fernando Barreiro Megino, Simone Campana, Kaushik De...
Title: ATLAS job monitoring in the Dashboard Framework Monitoring of the large scale data processing of the ATLAS experiment includes monitoring of production and...
The ATLAS LFC merge This talk describes the peculiarities of the big initiative that led the ATLAS experiment to merge together its worldwide instances of LFC into...
HarryRenshall 06 Mar 2006 ATLAS Tier 1 Resource Requirements Timetable for 2006/2007/2008 Last Updated 1.11.2007: Start to add 2008 plans and clarify site offers...
ATLAS R D Towards Next Generation Distributed Computing The ATLAS Distributed Computing (ADC) project delivers production quality tools and services for ATLAS offline...
ATLAS tests for SAM framework To be filled... Link to an useful https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId 286355 ADC Meeting of 2 December 2013 SalvatoreAlessandroTup...
Model of shared ATLAS Tier2 and Tier3 facilities in EGI/gLite Grid flavour The ATLAS computing and data models have moved/are moving away from the strict MONARC model...
Automating ATLAS Computing Operations using the Site Status Board The automation of operations is essential to reduce manpower costs and improve the reliability of...
Off Grid sites (Tier 3) monitoring. From local fabric monitoring to global overview of the VO computing activities. The ATLAS Distributed Computing activities have...
LCG Grid Deployment gLite Pre Production Services Pre Production Coordination PPS Current Programs PPS Support for Atlas Tests (Job Priority) ATLAS is currently...
HarryRenshall 25 Jun 2007 ATLAS Distribution of activities over 2007 Month Atlas Requirements April 2006 Internal Tier 0 tests (may now include external components...
ATP: AGGREGATED TOPOLOGY PROVIDER THIS PAGE IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED. ATP DOCUMENTATION IS NOW AVAILABLE HERE. INTRODUCTION In the area of tools for grid operations...
Automation of Data Validation Introduction To assist with the validation of the accounting data, a script has been written to download the data from the two sources...
WLCG Operations Coordination twiki page for internal work on action 2015 12 17 (about mem. lim. config. for batch systems). What is this twiki? This is a WLCG Operations...
Top level BDII configuration file generator service The tool is available as an RPM in the SAM repository and downloadable from CVS as well. Software Insatllation...
The BDII host sc3 bdii.cern.ch contains the information about thh LFC catalogs at CERN and the T0 and T1 Storage Elements. The configuration is based on FakeInformationProviders...
Configuration variables for BDII IMPORTANT NOTE!! : Updated documentation for the configuration of BDII is now under https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/Site...
BDII High Availability Approach The BDII is running on a LDAP server. Each BDII performs its own queries of the data and is independent of the other. Proposal The...
root@lxb1386 root # cat /opt/lcg/libexec/lcg info wrapper #!/bin/sh #/opt/lcg/libexec/lcg info generic /opt/lcg/var/gip/lcg info generic.conf /opt/lcg/libexec/lcg...
On 26th of October 2006 it was decided (by Harry Renshall and his team) to move all nodes from the prod bdii exp alias (which is an alias for exp bdii) to lcg bdii...
BDII Notes Introduction The Berkeley Database Information Index (BDII) consists of two or more standard LDAP databases that are populated by an update process. Port...
Configuration variables for LFC These are the variables necessary to set for the configuration of LFC service. Example file coming in /opt/glite/yaim/examples/siteinfo...
SC4 BDII Home Page This page defines the installation, configuration and the procedures related to the CERN SC4 BDII service. This page documents the current situation...
Best practices for scheduled downtimes Tier 1 downtimes Experiments may experience problems when two or more of their Tier 1 sites are inaccessible at the same time...
ATLAS beyond the Monarc model: from clouds to Grid. The ATLAS Computing Model has been designed around the network topology described by Monarc more than 10 years...
HarryRenshall 31 Oct 2007 NBL Brookhaven Site Capacity Growth Plans 2007/2008 Last Updated 31.10.2007: with email of 19 October from Michael Ernst Please find the...
HarryRenshall 25 Jun 2007 Tier 1 BNL Brookhaven. To provide 23% of Atlas resources Month Atlas Requirements Tier 0 Requirements April 2006 Provide 234 KSi2K...
Bug Report for lcg util This page is a collection of bugs found in lcg util (test release, 1.6) and gfal (test release 1.10), by L. Abadie, A. Cameron Smith, F. Donno...
BulkDataTransfers Introduction DOMA Bulk Data Transfers (BDT) working group evolved from DOMA Third Party Copy that successfully completed and fulfilled its...
Here`s what the Encyclopaedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also...
SAM and WLCG statistics for C5 SAM and WLCG statistics are included every week in the IT GT C5 report. This twiki explains in detail the meaning of the information...
Cacti Vulnerability in perfSONAR PS Toolkit Details. There has been a vulnerability in the Cacti component of the perfSONAR PS Toolkit identified which...
Castor at CERN Mon Oct 8 2007 Analysis of run castor cern.test5 from Mon Oct 8 10:11 to Mon Oct 8 14:23 2007 Num of parallel proc.: 200 each with 100 requests...
Castor at CNAF Fri Oct 5 2007 After the upgrade of last wednesday, no apparent improvement noticed. Repeat the test to confirm the result of run castor cnaf.test...
HarryRenshall 16 Jan 2008 Week of 080114 Open Actions from last week: Monday: see the weekly phone conference in Indico Tuesday: EIS on Duty report: ALICE...
HarryRenshall 16 Jan 2008 Week of 080114 Open Actions from last week: Monday: see the phone conference in Indico Tuesday: Experiment reports: ALICE (PM) met...
HarryRenshall 16 Jan 2008 Week of 080121 Open Actions from last week: Announce the supported middleware versions for the Feb run at the Monday weekly operations...
HarryRenshall 25 Jan 2008 Week of 080128 Open Actions from last week: Castor operations to check if write access to the CERN ATLAS CAF disk pool is now restricted...
JamieShiers 07 Feb 2008 Week of 080204 Open Actions from last week: Monday: See the joint operations meeting Tuesday: No meeting due to CCRC`08 face to face meeting...
HarryRenshall 08 Feb 2008 Week of 080211 Open Actions from last week: Understand why afs31 failure stopped cms LSF staging jobs Monday: See the joint operations...
HarryRenshall 19 Feb 2008 Week of 080218 Open Actions from last week: Monday: See the joint operations meeting Tuesday: elog review: Two new problems so far this...
HarryRenshall 26 Feb 2008 Week of 080225 Open Actions from last week: Monday: See the joint operations meeting minutes Additional material: ATLAS: are surveying...
HarryRenshall 29 Feb 2008 Week of 080303 Open Actions from last week: Monday: See the joint operations meeting minutes Additional Material: Tuesday: elog review...
HarryRenshall 07 Mar 2008 Week of 080310 Open Actions from last week: Respond to RAL what are the LHC experiment requirements for local RB and WMS at RAL. Monday...
HarryRenshall 16 Jan 2008 Week of 080317 Open Actions from last week: Respond to RAL what are the LHC experiment requirements for local RB and WMS at RAL. Monday...
JamieShiers 25 Mar 2008 Week of 080324 Open Actions from last week: Daily CCRC`08 Call details To join the call, at 15.00 CET Tuesday to Friday inclusive (usually...
HarryRenshall 28 Mar 2008 Week of 080331 Open Actions from last week: Daily CCRC`08 Call details To join the call, at 15.00 CET Tuesday to Friday inclusive (usually...
HarryRenshall 04 Apr 2008 Week of 080407 Open Actions from last week: Daily CCRC`08 Call details To join the call, at 15.00 CET Tuesday to Friday inclusive (usually...
HarryRenshall 15 Apr 2008 Week of 080414 Open Actions from last week: Daily CCRC`08 Call details To join the call, at 15.00 CET Tuesday to Friday inclusive (usually...
JamieShiers 28 Apr 2008 Week of 080428 Open Actions from last week: Daily CCRC`08 Call details To join the call, at 15.00 CET Tuesday to Friday inclusive (usually...
HarryRenshall 30 Apr 2008 Week of 080505 Open Actions from last week: Daily CCRC`08 Call details To join the call, at 15.00 CET Tuesday to Friday inclusive (usually...
Week of 080512 Open Actions from last week: Daily CCRC`08 Call details To join the call, at 15.00 CET Tuesday to Friday inclusive (usually in CERN bat 28 R 006)...
Week of 080519 Open Actions from last week: Daily CCRC`08 Call details To join the call, at 15.00 CET Tuesday to Friday inclusive (usually in CERN bat 28 R 006)...
Week of 080526 Open Actions from last week: Daily CCRC`08 Call details To join the call, at 15.00 CET Tuesday to Friday inclusive (usually in CERN bat 28 R 006)...
Week of 080602 Open Actions from last week: Daily CCRC`08 Call details To join the call, at 15.00 CET Tuesday to Friday inclusive (usually in CERN bat 28 R 006)...
HarryRenshall 06 Jun 2008 Week of 080609 Open Actions from last week: Daily CCRC`08 Call details To join the call, at 15.00 CET Tuesday to Friday inclusive (usually...
Week of 08mmdd Open Actions from last week: Daily CCRC`08 Call details To join the call, at 15.00 CET Tuesday to Friday inclusive (usually in CERN bat 28 R 006)...
HarryRenshall 16 Jan 2008 Week of 08mmdd Open Actions from last week: Monday see the weekly phone conference in Indico Tuesday: EIS on Duty report: SMOD report...
Known storage outstanding issues 1. dCache: Random failures (observed at Lyon) in accessing files via gsidcap. The error is as follows: 06/09 14:39:46 Cell(DCap...
JamieShiers 23 Jan 2008 Tentative Service Interventions During CCRC`08 February Tier0 Oracle CPU (rolling upgrade) on CERN RACs Linux kernel upgrade...
CASTOR dumps at CERN by Ignacio Reguero Dear Flavia and all, As just discussed, I temporarily put a couple of the scripts that we use at CERN in http://castor...
Questions to the SRM client developers: 1 Should the clients expose the DesiredTotalRequestTime and RemainingRequestTime to users ? This would allow for a...
Dynamic Megatable Preliminary conclusions General The goal is to publish information in the information system that could be useful for providing the management...
Dynamic Megatable Further agreements Summary of meeting on June 23rd, 2008 General GlueSALocalID does not have any imposed format. The only restriction is that...
In case the SRM server is busy, how to estimate how long it will take to fulfill the request? Some comments by Arie Shoshani and Alex Sim. The issue of of SRM busy...
Questions to the SRM server developers: 1 Should the storage servers allow clients to specify the DesiredTotalRequestTime and return the RemainingRequestTime ?...
Pre meeting on `busy` storage services (11/02/2009) Participants J.P. Baud, F. Donno, A. Frohner, E. Lanciotti, G. Lo Presti, R. Mollon, A. Sciab , D. Smith, P. Tedesco...
First meeting on `busy` storage services (12/02/2009) Participants J.P. Baud, G. Behrman, B. Bockelman, Shaun De Witt, F. Donno, A. Frohner, E. Lanciotti, G. Lo Presti...
Second meeting on `busy` storage services (26/02/2009) Participants J.P. Baud, G. Behrman, B. Bockelman, F. Donno, A. Frohner, E. Lanciotti, G. Lo Presti, L. Magnoni...
StoRM dumps instructions Administrator (or user having an account on the machine hosting the diskpool): The dump can be easily produced by using the `find` Unix command...
Storage Services Status 19 23 January 2009 19 January 2009 dCache version 1.9.2 1 is officially available 19 January 2009 CASTOR SRM 2.7 14 is officially...
dCache Information Providers Some details by Ron Trompert The information providers provide: GlueSAStateAvailableSpace GlueSAStateUsedSpace GlueSAStateAvailableSpace...
CCRC`08 Service Map Overview The ServiceMap is a tool for displaying different aspects of the service readiness of the WLCG Computing Infrastructure. the list...
CE Monitoring The following should be monitored on a CE LDAP Server for Glue Data ldapsearch H `ldap://lxgate13:2135` x LLL b `Mds vo name local,o Grid` `objectClass...
CE Notes Introduction The Computing Element (CE) is the service representing a computing resource. Its main functionality is job management (job submission, job...
LCG Applications Dependency Metapackage for el7 (HEP OSlibs) This twiki is no longer maintained. HEP OSlibs has moved! See https://gitlab.cern.ch/linuxsupport...
Back The Central Services at CERN CERN Computing Rules The use of CERN`s computers, networks and related services, such as e mail, are governed by detailed CERN...
How to start up a new ROC For an overview of the `things to do` refer to the for ROC creation The general recommended operational way to start up a new ROC consists...
Managing Cern Computer Centre nodes Before you start... The first thing that you have to decide is if your machine(s) will be in an independent cluster, or if you...
CERN Firewall Closure Introduction `In order to better protect devices connected to the CERN network from the regular attacks initiated from off site, direct connections...
Armoring (Grid) Linux systems This page is intended to system administrators willing to improve the security of their Linux systems in a Grid environment. It contains...
Installation of CERN Intrusion Detection by GD Group CERN IDS runs on a machine filtering and digesting information from syslog. The standard information is supplemented...
WLCG home operations Changing the ACL on a tree of directories What you need You need three things from the user: DIR The top directory to change the...
Troubleshooting page for the CERN LFCs These troubleshooting pages are specific to the CERN LFC setup: Modify the DB Connection String What to log when...
LCG Grid Deployment CERN ROC Creating a new ROC Infrastructure needed If relevant, the registration of a new DNS domain name The name of the new ROC...
ROC Start up Template Note this block will only appear when viewing the template and not when generating a page from it. This is the template for the new ROC project...
LCG Grid Deployment OCC@Cern OCC Work Log 2008 01 07(2): Task: Enhancement request Details: ticket GGUS:103230 created to request more flexibility in solution...
HarryRenshall 06 Mar 2006 CERN (Tier 0) Overall Resource Requirements Timetable for 2006 See the attached word document of B.Panzer at: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki...
Ceph Block Store incident and associated service incidents Description As noted on OTG:0054944, on Thursday 20th February 2020, around 10am, some parts of the Ceph...
Meeting held on April 29 Present:Antonio, Steve, John, Nick, Diana, Farida. Conclusions/Actions By default, unless someone volunteers, the ROC manager takes...
A quick guide to digital signatures This quick guide has been written in the context of SLD signing. Digital signature with Adobe Acrobat Professional 8 (on Windows...
What you should do as a member of the CERN ROC team 1. (R) : Follow up and correctly dispatch GGUS tickets addressed to the ROC CERN 1. (P) : Periodically...
I have sent an e mail to the site administrators of the sites listed below. I am waiting for their confirmation before I start adding phone numbers to this list....
LCG Grid Deployment CERN ROC Handling GGUS tickets OSG, FNAL, BNL and other amenities ... BNL: John Hover (3 Jul 2007) Remedy is now configured to send...
The CERN ROC Incubator This page describes the technicalities for the creation of new ROCs, focusing especially on the project management aspects Procedures...
NCG Framework Monitoring the CERN ROC THIS IS NOW ALL OUT OF DATE Status Nagios is installed on lxb1931.cern.ch with a view to implementing the GridMonitoringNcg...
LCG Grid Deployment CERN ROC CERN ROC Remedy Tips and Tricks Remedy vs. GGUS Good reasons to use Remedy instead of GGUS to handle tickets to Cern ROC Searches...
LCG Grid Deployment CERN ROC Service Availability Monitoring for the ROC Overview The submission of SAM tests to Certified and Uncertified sites of production...
EGEE emergency procedure for the CERN site in case of an Important but not Major Incident. An important incident that is not a major incident is typically an incident...
Introduction We collect here the information to evaluate the support needs of the activities of the CERN Theory unit. This is a working document, not a report. Please...
gLite Certification LCG Grid Deployment Certification Procedures Installation and Configuration `Step by Step` A self contained guide to the installation...
PPS CERN Admin Procedures gLite Pre Production Services LCG Grid Deployment Certification Tests Stupid Tests The first things you can try as soon as you...
CE token support campaign On June 1st, 2022, a campaign was launched to all EGI sites supporting at least one of the ALICE, ATLAS and LHCb experiments, thus excluding...
SC4 CE Home Page This page defines the installation, configuration and the procedures related to the CERN SC4 CE service. This page documents the current situation...
Error You check the results of a failing SAM test and see something like the following: lcg cr v vo ops file:/home/samops/.same/SE/testFile.txt l lfn:SE lcg cr...
DPM machine name change In case the FQDN of the SRM server or Disk Server changes, some entries need to be modified in the DPNS and DPM databases. This is taken care...
Storage Element (SE) name change In case the FQDN of a SE changes, some entries need to be modified in the LFC databases. Oracle LFC In this section you describe...
DPM Consistency Check Tool What does it do ? The DPM consistency check tool is an admin tool which can be used for the following purposes behaviour by default...
Checking services on MASTER node How to check if MASTER ( lcg sft publish.cern.ch , by default lxb2001 ) works correctly? 1. Check if the report is available at...
Chekcing services on the Slave Node How to check if MASTER ( lcg sft.cern.ch , by default lxb2089 ) works correctly? Check if the report is available at:...
Main.dimou 16 Aug 2005 Automate checking that nodes have a root password set. Download a script which can be used to check that machines are are not accidentally...
Automate checking that nodes have a root password set. Download a script which can be used to check that machines are are not accidentally left configured without...
Title: Exploiting Virtualization and Cloud Computing in ATLAS The ATLAS Computing Model was designed around the concepts of grid computing; since the start of data...
Main entry twiki for CHEP`15. Links will be added below. CHEP`15 Program Committee (public page) CHEP`15 Program Committee (internal use only) restricted...
CHEP`15 Program Committee: papers review FAQ This page is intended to collect answers to FAQs by the track coordinators (and reviewers) on the proceedings review...
CHEP`15 Program Committee This page is intended to be public to the PC as a collaborative page. News 150522 CHEP`15 PC meeting ( Daniele`s slides https...
Making Connections Networking the distributed computing system with LHCONE for CMS The LHCONE project aims to provide effective entry points into a network infrastructure...
Monitoring techniques and alarm procedures for CMS services and sites in WLCG The CMS offline computing system is composed of more than 50 sites and a number of central...
Performance studies and improvements of CMS Distributed Data Transfers CMS computing needs reliable, stable and fast connections among multi tiered computing infrastructures...
Title Collaborative development. Case study of the development of flexible monitoring applications Abstract Collaborative development proved to be a key of the success...
Monitoring in CORAL The CORAL software is widely used by the LHC experiments for storing and accessing data using relational database technologies. CORAL provides...
Handling of network and database instabilities in CORAL The CORAL software is widely used by the LHC experiments for storing and accessing data using relational database...
Title Experiment Dashboard a generic, scalable solution for monitoring of the LHC computing activities, distributed sites and services Abstract During the commissioning...
Title Designing and developing portable large scale JavaScript web applications within the Experiment Dashboard framework Abstract Improvements in web browser performance...
LCG Persistency Framework (POOL, CORAL, COOL) Status and Outlook The LCG Persistency Framework consists of three software packages (POOL, CORAL and COOL) that address...
From toolkit to framework the past and future evolution of PhEDEx PhEDEx is the data movement solution for CMS at the LHC. Created in 2004, it is now one of the...
No file left behind monitoring transfer latencies in PhEDEx The CMS experiment has to move Petabytes of data among dozens of computing centres with low latency in...
The PhEDEx next gen website PhEDEx is the data transfer management solution written by CMS. It consists of agents running at each site, a website for presentation...
Data storage accounting and verification in LHC experiments All major experiments at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) need to measure real storage usage at the Grid sites...
Title Providing WLCG Global Transfer monitoring Abstract The WLCG Transfer Dashboard is a monitoring system which aims to provide a global view of the WLCG data transfers...
JamieShiers 16 Nov 2005 Plans for Christmas 2006 Compilation of Responses from LHC Experiments ALICE We would like to continue running. Regards, Federico Carminati...
Introduction This is a list of class 2 and class 3 services, run on behalf of wLCG VOs at sites. A reminder of the terminology: A class 1 service does not require...
Going from a Classic SE to the DPM Turning your Classic SE into a DPM is easy : it doesn #8217;t require to move the data in any way. You only need to make the DPM...
Cloud ATLAS The computing model of the ATLAS experiment was designed around the concept of grid computing and, since the start of data taking, this model has proven...
Title Building a Grid of Clouds, Or: How One HEP Experiment Is Evaluating Strategies to Incorporate `The Cloud` into the Existing Grid Infrastructures Overview (for...
Cloud Discussions This page contains materials related to discussions started in January 2013 about the possibility in the future to use (private) clouds as an alternative...
Integration of public cloud storage and CDNs into WLCG The following advice results from a discussion on these matters in March 2020 between the IGTF chair, the WLCG...
Integrating Cloud Computing resources into the WLCG experiment frameworks This page aims to collect the activities driven by the IT ES group in order to integrate...
Integrating Cloud Computing resources into the CMS framework This page aims to collect the activities driven by the IT ES group in order to integrate Cloud resources...
gLite CLUSTER Introduction glite CLUSTER is a node type that can publish information about clusters and subclusters in a site, referenced by any number of compute...
Implementing data placement strategies for the CMS experiment based on a popularity mode During the first two years of data taking, the CMS experiment has collected...
We assert that we have a working system, do not need a new system, but the current system (cost and complexity) exceeds what is needed. Would the experiment agree...
HarryRenshall 06 Mar 2006 Last Updated 1.11.2007: Start to add 2008 plans and clarify experiment site resource requirements compared to offers. Updated 25.06....
Present interface (simple API, up to the CMSSW 1 6 5) Now is accomplished for (CMSSW code): src/GeneratorInterface/ComphepInterface example: src/GeneratorInterface...
CMS WebDAV protocol: Installation and Testing Installation (for admins) WebDAV is ssuported by different storage systems. Please follow links to get instructions...
HarryRenshall 25 Jun 2007 Tier 1 CNAF Bologna. To provide 9% of ALICE Resources To provide 10% of ATLAS resources To provide 16% of CMS resources To provide 11%...
MariaALANDESPRADILLO 30 Oct 2007 Configuration variables for CONDOR IMPORTANT NOTE!! : Updated documentation for the configuration of CONDOR is now under https:...
JamieShiers 12 Feb 2006 Daily CERN Operations Meetings Weekdays at 09:00 To join the call, do one of the following: a. Dial 41227676000 (Main) and enter...
MariaALANDESPRADILLO 21 Jun 2007 Configuration Information in the CIC portal Introduction YAIM has provided for a long time site info.def files which contain configuration...
How to build a client for renewing user`s proxy Be sure that the host certificate DN is in the list of trusted hosts in the myproxy server. Not all Grid Services...
Back Configuring Your Computer Security Recommendations Before connecting your computer to CERN you should read carefully the Security Recommendation and the...
Error This error appears in the LFC/DPM log file. 07/28 10:08:22 18550,0 Cns serv: Could not establish security context: Csec recv token: Connection dropped by remote...
Storage elements dumps and consistency checks versus file catalogues This page aims to coordinate the request of SEs dumps to sites in a common way for all the...
CHEP2012 ABSTRACT: Title: Consistency between Grid Storage Elements and File Catalogs for the LHCb experiment`s data In the distributed computing model of WLCG Grid...
1 The COOL twiki has moved! Visit the new common twiki for all Persistency Framework projects (CORAL, COOL, POOL) on https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Persistency...
CORAL Monitoring abstract for EGI CF 2012 Title Monitoring in CORAL Overview The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world`s largest and highest energy particle accelerator...
CORAL Network glitch abstract for EGI CF 2012 Title Handling of network and database instabilities in CORAL Overview The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world...
Error You get this error on the LFC/DPM client side : $ lfc ls /grid /grid: Could not establish context or this in the LFC/DPNS server log file : 12/04 10:57:...
send2nsd: NS002 send error : No valid credential found When we get an error like this one in the WNs: send2nsd: NS002 send error : No valid credential found /grid...
Impact of COVID 19 on WLCG operations Impact on Tier0 CERN Tier0 has over the last days largely migrated to service operation via teleworking and we see no major...
CRAB3 abstract for EGI CF 2012 Title CRAB: a user friendly application for distributed data processing for the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the LHC Overview...
MariaALANDESPRADILLO 31 Oct 2007 Configuration variables for creamCE IMPORTANT NOTE!! : Updated documentation for the configuration of cream CE is now under https...
TBD For those sites still using it. End of support Dec 2020. https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGOpsMinutes181206#Middleware News SteveJones 2018 12...
CREAM Migration Task Force Mandate The support of the CREAM CE will come to its end by the end of 2020. By this time WLCG sites which are currently running CREAM...
Instructions for validation monthly accounting data via CRIC UI In order to improve the data quality of the accounting data , site support teams are requested to check...
Authentication authorization Go to cric server You should be able to list all CRIC entities (sites (GocDB /OIM and experiment specific ones), federations...
CRIC server testing Old AGIS script and Collectd plugins One can find the old AGIS script at site https://gitlab.cern.ch/cric/core cric/blob/master/lib/cric/tools...
CVMFS Deployment Task Force of the WLCG Operations Coordination Team Introduction The aim of this task force is to help in the full deployment of CVMFS for software...
DailyMeetingProcedures Purpose To run the daily meeting in a standard way, and create a standard log of events, actions, and discussions. Roles These steps are carried...
Intro For each question in the INFRA 2012 3.2 I have put a bullet list of ideas below. International cooperation with the USA on common e Infrastructure for scientific...
Intro For each sentence/phrase in INFRA 2012 3.2 I have put a bullet list of key points I identified and my ideas below. Title: International cooperation with the...
Dashboard Task Monitoring abstract for EGI CF 2012 Title User centric monitoring of the analysis and production activities within the ATLAS and CMS Virtual Organisations...
Dashboard Task Monitoring abstract for EGI CF 2012 Title User centric monitoring of the analysis and production activities within the ATLAS and CMS Virtual Organisations...
Accounting data from from the primary information source to the accounting portal For EGI sites APEL clients can run an APEL parser to extract data from a batch...
Data Management This is the working area for the data management team at CERN. Program of Work The Data Management Program of Work for 2010 and beyond, covering DPM...
Replication and Mysql backup Plans Overview LHC Experiments have requested both the LFC and DPM components to be deployed in production during 2005. While the software...
Objectives: Your LFC/DPM MySQL DB is growing fast and the performance of your DB is decreasing. One solution is to migrate to Oracle. An C application has been written...
Data Management issues This page tracks current open technical issues in data managemen. These should be discussed in our DataManagementMeetings. Procedure to be...
Data Management meetings Minutes / Notes .. should really go here. Next meeting Next meeting will be on Tuesday 11th September. Date Topic 11 September...
LFC / DPM 1.6.3 In addition to several bug fixes, this release provides: SRMv2.2 support for the DPM bulk queries based on GUIDs for the LFC Important:...
This material is currently under review! Be aware that some of the documentation might be outdated. lcg util / GFAL, DPM and LFC lcg util / gfal CLIs and...
Data Management presentations This page should contain useful documents... Do not put several times almost the same presentation (even if you are proud of it!...
This document will soon be removed please refer to the 2010 Program of Work LFC and DPM Work Plan Here is the Data Management Work Plan until the end of the year...
In this section we need to describe all transformation which happens to the accounting data at all levels. How CMS and ATLAS Dashboard convert raw wallclock into...
JuliaAndreeva 2022 06 13 Privacy notice published by WLCG sites Tier 1 sites Site Privacy notice is published following local regulation Site published...
dCache at Bari endpoint Mon Oct 1 2007 Same test than thursday, with same result: 2 processes out of 10 cannot terminate successfully. Origin of the problem...
A third party transfer is where data is transferred directly between two storage systems, without relaying the data through some intermediate service, such as FTS...
Dear dCache admins,With a great help of TRIUMF(ATLAS), KIT(ATLAS/CMS), PIC(ATLAS/CMS) and DESY HH(ATLAS/CMS)we are please to inform you that with the latest series...
dCache upgrade task force Introduction The third party copy sub group of the DOMA working group is dedicated to improving bulk transfers between WLCG sites. All WLCG...
Back to LCG Workbook Debugging Your Applications Introduction Compile your code in debug mode and use the debugger to trace problems in a program at the source...
This page gives you all links available to the dedicated cgi bin appications that have been set up for several purposes in a production environment context grid...
ALICE demos Title: General demo title: Distributed computing system of ALICE 1 ALICE solar system 1 ALICE Event displays (videos) 1 Native Monitoring system...
Deployment Review This document is the output of the Deployment working group: Mike, Pablo and Paloma. As requested in the monitoring consolidation meeting 18 July...
WLCG Multicore Deployment Task Force Mandate and goals In the scope of WLCG Operations Coordination, the Multicore Deployment Task Force pursued these objectives...
gLite 3.0.2 PPS Update 31 to PPS (Wed, 30 May 2007) Full Report glite CE Site Name: PPS IFIC Site Admin: Alvaro Fernandez Reconfigured gliteCE node....
Developers` Documentation Where to find the code The LFC and DPM code is located in the gLite CVS repository. It consists of two modules : LCG DM DPM...
LCG Developers Guide This guide is for anyone developing or modifying code for LCG. The main objective is to define the procedures used by LCG for software development...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Discussions about CMS Specific CRIC plugin This page is intended to summarize minutes and further iterations with CMS representative concerning...
Display Screen information At CERN there are a number of Displays running SCALA. This is managed by the IT Audiovisual service see their sharepoint pages Batiment...
The distributed certification testbed The certification testbed is a testbed with a RB, a BDII, a Proxy and a MON box at cern and some CEs with various configuration...
Weekly meetings The Data Management teams meets every tuesday at 14:30. Presentations HPDC report.ppt: Report from the HPDC conference SophieLemaitre...
From LXPLUS run $ /afs/cern.ch/project/gd/SC3/lfc dns change/dns update zone both \ alias iplist \ config /afs/cern.ch/project/gd/SC3/lfc dns change/dns...
Decumentation Review This document is the output of the Documentation working group: Ivan As requested in the monitoring consolidation meeting 18 July 2013, we attempt...
Back Documentation Templates There are several templates useful for writing documentation for your software applications. Some are for general use other are for...
DOMA Project Introduction The WLCG DOMA project consists of several activities in the area of Data Organization, Management and Access, with a focus on the medium...
DOMA Rucio Instance The DOMA Rucio instance is intended to perform automatic tests (eventually, scale tests) of various third party copy implementations. It is operated...
Introduction The main purpose of this document is to make easier the installation of a DPM on a 64 bit machine. For the moment, there is no official way to install...
LCG Disk Pool Manager (DPM) administrator`s guide We have moved all the DPM documentation to our page. DpmAdminGuideOld still keeps the old documentation, but you...
LCG Disk Pool Manager (DPM) administrator`s guide We have moved all the DPM documentation to our page. Note: this documentation is currently out of date, in particular...
Here is a recipe from James Casey (James.Casey #64;cernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch) on how to make srmcopy work with the DPM : Using srmcp to download from castor2...
DPM API / CLI We have moved all the DPM documentation to our page. DpmApiOld still keeps the old documentation, but you should never need to access it.
All the DPM man pages can be found here : CLI and API. Below is a description of each DPM command / method. DPNS Client Timeouts From version 1.5.8 onwards, timeouts...
Baseline version Version: DPM should be upgraded to the latest version available from EPEL (1.10.4) and the DOME component must be activated in order to support...
Configuration variables for DPM IMPORTANT NOTE!! : Updated documentation for the configuration of DPM is now under https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/Site info...
DPM Flushing Old Requests utility Introduction This page describes how to flush old requests (put, get, copy and bring online requests) of the DPM DB. Tables affected...
The DPM file system project Introduction and foreword The DPM file system project is my simple attempt to mount DPM servers, not the product of the Data Management...
DPM General Description We have moved all the DPM documentation to our page. DpmGeneralDescriptionOld still keeps the old documentation, but you should never need...
DPM General Description Description The DPM (Disk Pool Manager) is a lightweight solution for managing disk storage. The DPM is secure : it supports GSI security...
Error globus url copy file:/etc/group gsiftp://DPM POOL NODE/dpm/cern.ch/home/dteam/tests.sophie.shift.conf2 error: the server sent an error response: 553 553...
DPM Service Help This page will collect all the necessary information and advice on how to : deploy the DPM in the context of the Service Challenges install...
How to migrate a DPM on SL3 to SL4 It is mandatory to read the whole page before performing any operations. You will have TO SCHEDULE A DOWNTIME. ALL THE SERVICES...
Introduction This document describes the different problems which may occur during the upgrade. What #8217;s new in MySQL 5.0 ? The main new features are listed as...
DPM upgrade to 1.6.4 Below, all the steps needed to upgrade the DPM from version 1.6.4. If you use YAIM to upgrade, everything is done automatically, and you...
Procedure in case of problems with the DPM Important : Remember to call the operators (75011) before rebooting any machine, so that they (temporarily) ignore the...
DPM upgrade to 1.6.0 Below, all the steps needed to upgrade the DPM from version 1.6.0. Stop all daemons In the following order, on the appropriate machines...
DPM upgrade task force (Second circle) Introduction WLCG Operations is starting the second upgrade circle of the DPM sites. The goal of this circle is to upgrade...
Overview There is a known problem when configuring DPM 1.7.0 6 (in glite release update 46) using YAIM with a configuration that sets DPNS BASEDIR to a value different...
DPM schema upgrade to 1.7.0 Below are the steps needed to upgrade the DPM database schema from that used between versions 1.6.4 and 1.6.11 to versions 1.7....
DPM 1.5.4 The DPM version 1.5.4 supports : virtual uids and gids VOMS It means that whenever and whereever you access the DPM Name Server, you will always...
For information about the DPM xrootd version 2.1.x (for DPM 1.7.0) please see: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/DpmXrootAccess21 The information on the...
Configuring data access via the xroot protocol on DPM for ALICE This wiki describes version 2.1.3 1, which can be used with DPM v1.7.0 and replaces the previous...
Configuring data access via the xroot protocol on DPM for ALICE This wiki describes version 2.2.0 1, which can be used with DPM v1.7.0 and replaces the previous...
LCG Grid Deployment Dteam Vo Administration dteam Vo Admin Procedures renewing personal certificate Complete workflow and procedure on twiki for VOMRS...
LCG Grid Deployment Dteam VO Admin Dteam VO Admin Work Log 2006 08 07(3): Task: User Support. Details: A couple of users with changed DN helped . Status: Done...
Request a virtual machine through the CERN Virtual Machine Manager at https://vmm.cern.ch/vmm/ . You need to login with your CERN SSO credentials. Once you get notification...
Configuration variables for E2EMONIT IMPORTANT NOTE!! : Updated documentation for the configuration of E2EMONIT is now under https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view...
Back Editing and Running the First Program at CERN The goal of this workbook section is to show which are the tools and platforms available to edit, compile and...
Review of the EGEE/WLCG Critical Probes used for Availability Metrics Calculations Critical probes defined in SAM for `OPS` VO GridView calculates the status of a...
Page for collecting draft IT ES abstracts for the EGI CF 2012 Introduction The CFP is now open deadline is December 2 2011 http://cf2012.egi.eu/call for participation...
This page is obsolete! For up to dated information about EGI CSIRT please check EGI CSIRT wiki page at: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI CSIRT:Main Page The EGI Computer...
EL7 User Interface Description A first version of the the User Interaface metapackage for EL7 ( ui package) is available on the EGI UMD4 repo http://repository.egi...
EL7 Worker Node Description A first version of the the worker node metapackage for EL7 ( wn package) is available on the EGI UMD4 repo http://repository.egi.eu...
Known issues for EMI WMS: http://www.eu emi.eu/kebnekaise products/ /asset publisher/4BKc/content/wms Issues and workarounds Pending issues no workaround yet WMS...
Details on how to configure EOS with support for XRootD TPC with X509 delegated credentials and HTTP TPC with token support can be found here: http://eos docs.web...
Error You get this error: CGSI gSOAP: Error reading token data: Success This means that the SRM server has dropped the connection. Solution Try to restart the srm...
Submitting edg tests via NMI (by Matvey Sapunov): 1) Set X509 USER PROXY i.e. `export X509 USER PROXY path to file with your proxy`. 2) Download and install user space...
Summary of the evaluation of KSM for sharing memory in a multiprocess environment KSMatAAmarch09.pdf: Slides on the evaluation of KSM presented at the LCG Application...
Experiment Lemon Metrics Existing metrics and exceptions The following table contains the existing metrics (and exceptions) used on experiment VO boxes. It only contains...
Go to LCG Planning Wiki Experiments and Task Forces Information Simplified Computing Models Simplified computing models of the LHC experiments: \ ALICE...
Introduction NEET ( N agios E xternal E xperiment T ests), is a tool to send experiment tests via `MSG` (Message BUS) to a specific QUEUE. Nagios reads from...
Experiment Computing related Services The following table contains an overview of the experiments main computing services. This table aims at helping the SCOD team...
Indico Page Slowly, but surely, we`re moving information from this page and into indico: https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId 165687. This page is a...
root@lxb1386 root # cat /opt/lcg/libexec/lcg info provider srm #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; sub usage() { die `Usage : $0 hostname VO:path\n`; } my $host...
Frequently asked questions Please check also the official Grid Fest Media Pack. Why Grid for LHC ? (answer provided by Ian) Computing funding locally...
LCG Grid Deployment CERN ROC Remedy / GGUS interface : FAQ This FAQ page is mainly addressed to Service managers who, within the GD and FIO groups, use to receive...
FCR Server Quattor installation NOTE: This description is not including the creation of necessary DB tables, but only the installation of the server node See also...
Feedback on SAM3 This page will contain the feedback on the usage of SAM3, and any issues found that might affect the transition from SAM2 to SAM3. Please, answer...
Error You get this error : lfc rm /grid/atlas/tests/file1 /grid/atlas/tests/file1: File exists or this dpns rm /dpm/in2p3.fr/home/auvergrid/tests/file1 /dpm/in2p...
GD group Firewall requests The standard procedure to request one or more ports to be accessible from the outside or from the LAN is the following. It only applies...
Prototype status This page will follow up the status of the prototype of the WLCG Monitoring Consolidation, and the feedback from the experiments. The prototype can...
LCG Grid Deployment CERN ROC CERN ROC Procedures CERN ROC templates dealing with the signature of the SLA with a site In the following text you should look...
DPM upgrade task force Introduction WLCG is currently lacking a complete description of the storage services required for any kind of the LHC computing activities...
First phase activities Call to volunteer sites to take part in the first phase: Hi all, the recent DOMA initiative contains an activity dealing with Storage...
Will your site be willing to participate in the joint tape test? For multi VO site , for which VOs then? Yes, single VO CMS What is the maximum available...
Follow up on sites which apparently do not correctly report to APEL Using accounting validation view in APEL we need to address sites which have problems publishing...
Support to policy development and programme implementation The aim is to reinforce cooperation with the USA in jointly addressing global scientific challenges through...
LCG Grid Deployment CERN ROC CERN ROC Procedures CERN ROC template for e mailing a user that his/her GGUS ticket is being set to unsolved Dear User, we are...
Configuration variables for FTM IMPORTANT NOTE!! : Updated documentation for the configuration of FTM is now under https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/Site info...
Current issues on CERN PROD FTS 2.0 service There has been some issues noticed on the new FTS 2.0 service. These are tracked below. Bad error message for dead transfers...
FTS 2.2 Documentation A review of the FTS documentation. Release status Changes from previous version Check the document describing changes from FTS version...
Sites Feedbacks The algorithm could look at TOTAL bandwidth between SE1 and SE2 to make the decision of lowering or raising the NTransfers. That sounds even...
FTS3 Integration and Deployment Mandate and goals Assist the experiments in the integration of FTS3 with their frameworks First in `FTS2 like` mode,...
FTS Adminstration Toolpack The FTS toolpack consists of a variety of scripts and database procedures to do useful things upon the FTS either the daemons or the backend...
FTS Adminstration Toolpack for FTS 2.0 The FTS toolpack consists of a variety of scripts and database procedures to do useful things upon the FTS either the daemons...
FTS Administration Toolpack for FTS 2.1 The FTS toolpack consists of a variety of scripts and database procedures to do useful things upon the FTS either the daemons...
FTS Administration Pack: loading packages This describes how to load PL/SQL packages into the database using the SQL/Plus tool. You should ask your DBA if you have...
FTS Administration Pack: loading packages for FTS Release 2.0 This describes how to load PL/SQL packages into the database using the SQL/Plus tool. You should ask...
FTS versioning Until recently, the FTS version number has followed from the associated gLite release number. As we move to a more component by component model of releasing...
FTS BDII Publishing (gLite 1.3) Overview This document describes how to publish from a FTS server into the LCG BDII the information on the endpoints it provides....
FTS CCRC 08 report This is where reports from the FTS service should go for CCRC 08 May. Scope Currently we are only looking at the T0 export service. Raw data The...
FTA change channel type procedure for Release 2.0. What is it? This is the procedure to change the type of an existing channel from URLCOPY to SRMCOPY or viceversa...
FTS Changes from 1.4 to 1.5 This page describes the changes from FTS version 1.4 to 1.5. It complements the 1.5 Release Notes available on the gLite home page. Functional...
FTS Changes from FTS 1.5 to FTS 2.0 A list of known differences between FtsRelease15 and FtsRelease20 Deployment Changes YAIM Parameters VOAgents with Yaim The...
Changes from FTS version 2.0 and 2.1 List of differences between FtsRelease20 and FtsRelease21 . Deployment changes Many initialization and configuration parameters...
FTS Channel Administration 1.5 This page describes the basic administration and monitoring of channels upon the service. Underlying details of the server (starting...
FTS Channel Administration 2.0 This page describes the basic administration and monitoring of channels upon the service. Underlying details of the server (starting...
FTS Channel Resolution This page describes how the FTS assigns channels to a job. Notation A : site A (source) B : site B (destination) A : group containing...
FTS client / server compatability The following table describes the supported client and server compatibility for different versions of the client and server....
FTS Client installation 2.0 Please install the client as part of the gLite 3.0 or 3.1 UI. See: install guide 3.1 install guide 3.0 Changes and additions See FtsChangesFrom15To...
FTS Client installation 2.1 Please install the client as part of the gLite 3.1 UI. See: install guide 3.1 Changes and additions There are no new features since FTS...
Configuration variables for FTS and FTA services IMPORTANT NOTE!! : Updated documentation for the configuration of FTS/FTA is now under https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki...
FTS Daily Procedure This procedure should be followed every day to check the general health of the ongoing transfers and try to find problems. It is also the procedure...
Current FTS Dashboard APIs transfer matrix: http://dashb fts transfers.cern.ch/ui/#p.grouping server url: http://dashb fts transfers.cern.ch/dashboard...
FTS Database Code Guidelines This describes the guidelines for writing and deploying database (PL/SQL) modules for use by the FTS schema. Code types The FTS database...
FTS diagnosis scripts This page contains diagnosis scripts for the FTS. DB schema information script This script runs on the database schema and collects what schema...
The File Transfer Monitor A new node type glite FTM for SL4 has been created. The File Transfer Monitor node queries the FTS database currently performs a number of...
FTS version 2.0 Known Issues This is where current known issues are tracked for the FTS release 2.0. Could NOT load client credentials Bug tracked at BUG:...
FTS version 2.1 Known Issues This is where current known issues are tracked for the FTS release 2.1. See also DMFtsPatchStatus for the status of patches! Could NOT...
FTS clean and restart procedure Occassionally, the FTS service scripts can get in strange state. This sometimes happens after a software upgrade where the daemons...
FTS Notes Introduction The File Transfer service provides a controlled channel for reliable delivery of files from one SE to another. It maximises utilisation of...
Useful FTS database queries. It is often required to access and run some special custom query on the database to obtain particular information not available via the...
Procedure for dropping the DB locks froma given machine What is it? This is the procedure for removing the database locks from a given machine. It is CERN specific...
FTA agent software rolling upgrade procedure What is it? This is the procedure for performing a rolling upgrade to the FTA agent nodes. It assumes a non invasive...
FTS channel pause What is it? This is the procedure for stopping (or pausing) channels when there is an known intervention on one of the underlying services. When...
FTS web service maintenance failover What is it? This is the procedure for taking down an FTS web service node for maintenance. It assumes you have more than one...
FTS web service software rolling upgrade procedure What is it? This is the procedure for performing a rolling upgrade to the FTS web service nodes. The rolling upgrade...
Moving the FTA agents to another box What is it? Assuming you want to shut down a box for maintenance. It is also the manual failover procedure. This is the manual...
Useful FTS database queries for FTS release 2.0. It is sometimes required to access and run some special custom query on the database to obtain particular information...
Procedure for dropping the DB locks from given machine What is it? This is the procedure for removing the database locks from a given machine. It is CERN specific...
FTA agent software rolling upgrade procedure for Release 2.0. What is it? This is the procedure for performing a rolling upgrade to the FTA agent nodes. It assumes...
FTS channel pause for FTS release 2.0 What is it? This is the procedure for stopping (or pausing) channels when there is an known intervention on one of the underlying...
FTS web service software rolling upgrade procedure for Release 2.0 What is it? This is the procedure for performing a rolling upgrade to the FTS web service nodes...
Moving the FTA agents to another box for Release 2.0 What is it? Assuming you want to shut down a box for maintenance. It is also the manual failover procedure. This...
FTS procedures for 1.5 This page describes the FTS operating procedures for release 1.5 of FTS. Problem Diagnosis Here is what to do in case of a problem with the...
FTS procedures for 2.0 This page describes specific FTS operations procedures for the SLC3 release 2.0 of FTS (FtsRelease20), and for SLC4 release 2.1 of FTS (FtsRelease...
Make core files from failed transfer processes visible ( ) What is it? Occasionally transfer processes die badly. The most common occurrence of this is when the Globus...
Sitename Change Procedure for FTS 2. What is it? This is the procedure for changing the name of a site (BDII sitename) in the channel definition table. It is a transparent...
Tomcat clean and restart procedure What is it? Occassionally, Tomcat can get in strange state. This often happens after a software upgrade, but has been noted in...
Tomcat clean and restart procedure for FTS release 2.0. What is it? Occasionally, Tomcat can get in strange state. This often happens after a software upgrade, but...
FTS version 1.5 information This page collects all the necessary information and advice on how to install, configure and operate release 1.5 of FTS. Release 1.5 of...
FTS version 2.0 Release Information CERN PROD operational status The operational status of the CERN PROD FTS service is available here: TransferOperations. Release...
FTS version 2.0 Oracle XE status Oracle XE Support FTS has been tested upon Oracle XE 10.2.0.1. The current version of Oracle XE is available for installation...
Release notes: patch 1216 of FTS 2.0 This page describes any extra steps that need to be taken when installing FTS 2.0 THIS ISSUE IS NOW FIXED IN PATCH 1232 See...
Release notes: patch 1232 of FTS 2.0 This page describes any extra steps that need to be taken when installing FTS 2.0 YAIM hack Scope: All nodes of FTS 2.0, if...
FTS 2.0 client / server compatibility for space tokens The compatibility of FTS client / server versions is fine for the normal operations, as described in FtsChangesFrom15To...
FTS table fragmentation on FTS 1.5 and FTS 2.0 Scope: This has been noted on FTS versions 1.5 and 2.0 when running that FTS `history` cleanup tool described in FtsAdminTools...
FTS table defragmentation CERN specific procedure Other site, please look at FtsRelease20TableFragmentation. This is the CERN specific procedure. Impact The...
FTS version 2.1 Release Information CERN PROD operational status See TransferOperations Release Status Version 2.1 of FTS is available from www.glite.org. http:...
Regional Operation Centre instructions and procedures not yet complete Who is this page for This page is for Regional Operation Centres (ROCs) who support the...
Writer account preparation This step is for the CERN Oracle RAC databases. See your DBA about your site`s DB account setup. Load the package into the schema owner...
Writer account preparation This step is for the CERN Oracle RAC databases and is only relevant for CERN`s writer account setup. See your DBA about your site`s DB account...
FTS Server administration version 1.5 This page describes the basic usage and adminstration of the FTS for version 1.5 and the format, location and contents of the...
FTS Server administration version 2.x This page describes the basic usage and adminstration of the FTS for version 2.0, FtsRelease20, and the format, location and...
FTS channels for an example Tier 1 site This page shows which channels to setup for an example Tier 1. It follows the advice given in: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki...
FTS Server Installation Guide 1.5 This is the installation guide for FTS server 1.5. It covers both the agent servers (FTA) and the web service (FTS) components. It...
FTS Server Installation Guide: YAIM example The following gives a exmaple of the YAIM varibales that need to be set to configure a few FTA agents and a single FTS...
FTS Server Installation Guide 2.0 This is the installation guide for FTS server 2.0. FtsRelease20. It covers both the agent servers (FTA) and the web service (FTS...
FTS Server Installation Guide 2.1 This is the installation guide for FTS server 2.1 FtsRelease21. It covers both the agent servers (FTA) and the web service (FTS)...
Information cache file See also FtsTier0Procedures15ServiceXml for a CERN specific routine. The FTS requires certain static information from the EGEE.BDII: The...
Problems with the script This covers problems with the make service.xh script for versions prior to 26 May 2006. It is suggested to take the latest version from...
This procedure is obsolete. You should use the glite sd2cache tool now see FtsServicesXmlGliteSd2Cache. Obsoleted by Gavin McCance, March 2008. Information cache...
FTS Server Upgrade 1.4 to 1.5 for LCG service This assumes you are running the latest 1.4 FTS version and describes how to upgrade the service to FTS 1.5. It is not...
FTS Server Upgrade 1.5 to 2.0 for LCG service This assumes you are running the latest 1.5 FTS version FtsRelease15 and describes how to upgrade the service to FTS...
FTS service dependencies This describes the service dependencies of FTS upon other WLCG services. It tries to describe the impact upon the FTS service of any problems...
FTS service deployment This document describes the impact of outages of service components on the overall service quality, and suggests possible deployment scenarios...
FTS service procedures: new node install These are internal FTS procedures for the FIO managed CERN PROD FTS services (FTS T0 EXPORT and FTS T2 SERVICE). What is...
FTS service review A review of the FTS describing how to deploy the service to obtain maximum load balancing and availability. The service impact of interventions...
FTS service review for CERN PROD A review of the FTS describing how to deploy the service to obtain maximum load balancing and availability. The service impact of...
FTS procedures for 2.0: services XML cache tool To build the services.xml cache file, you should use the glite sd2cache tool. The current released version of this...
FTS Smoke Test The following describes the procedure for checking the FTS nodes. It should be followed mostly in sequence. The code examples below are designed, as...
Procedure in case of problems with FTS Important : Remember to call the operators (75011) before rebooting any machine, so that they (temporarily) ignore the alarms...
FTS support lines There are two main FTS support emails: ftscern.support@cern.ch This is to report operational issues related to the CERN PROD FTS service, both...
FTS Third Level procedure The following describes the 3rd level procedure for checking the FTS nodes. It contains more detailed procedures for checking and fixing...
FTS 3rd Level support list Shift list for the current period for FTS 3rd level support. Old list moved to FtsThirdLevelOldShiftList. October : 3 9 Ricardo...
CDB Configuration for the CERN FTS. All four FTS components are contained within a single CDB Template which is pro type gridfts slc3.tpl with all the operating independent...
CDB Configuration for the SLC3 FTS services This descirbes the CDB configuration for two of the following services, FTS T0 EXPORT and FTS T0 EXPORT , the ones currently...
CDB Configuration for the SLC4 FTS services This descirbes the CDB configuration for two of the following services, FTS T0 EXPORT 21 and FTS T0 EXPORT 21 , the...
CERN FTS Services Production There are three FTS service instances running at CERN in production, all based on the FTS 2.1 SLC4 service. PLUS one FTS 2.2 instance...
FTS services.xml cache file What is it? This is the procedure for creating or updating the services.xml information service cache file on the CERN FTS instance...
This procedure is obsolete. You should use the glite sd2cache tool now see FtsServicesXmlGliteSd2Cache. Obsoleted by Gavin McCance, March 2008. FTS services...
This page is obsolete, please go to FtsInterventions. Completed FTS interventions at CERN. For a list of upcoming or ongoing interventions: FtsTier0ServerInterventions...
Objective To install #1232 to the prod and tiertwo service. Reboot for long overdue kernel upgrade. Status Completed Thursday August 23rd 2007. Broadcast Date...
FTS community tools This page is a duplicate of DMFtsAddOns. This page should index tools either internally produced by the FTS team or externally produced by T...
FTS tutorial page General tutorials The FTS tutorial is divided into several parts an introduction, service admin, service installation and confiuration and tier...
Useful Commands for an FTS Administrator A list of channel configurations. glite transfer channel list xargs glite transfer channel list x Number of active transfers...
FTS VO Administration version 1.5 This page describes the basic VO adminstration functions of FTS version 1.5. Priviliges To determine what roles you have upon the...
FTS VO Administration version 2.0 This page describes the basic VO adminstration functions of FTS version 2.0. FtsRelease20. Priviliges To determine what roles you...
Use of VOMS Roles within the WLCG FTS Deployment Currently the administration of FTS channels between sites is maintained as a list of DNs that each site manager running...
WLCG FTS Service Description This page describe briefly the WLCG FTS service. Example FTS Deployment Current deployment of FTS on CERN PROD: FtsTier0Deployment...
YAIM Values for FTS Version 2.1 and 2.2. Prefixes and general stuff Much of what is written in FtsYaimValues20 is still valid, but... Deprecated parameters This...
HarryRenshall 31 Oct 2007 FZK Karlsruhe Site Capacity Growth Plans 2007/2008 Last Updated 7 November 2007 with email from Holger Marten: Harry, I heard that in the...
HarryRenshall 25 Jun 2007 Tier 1 FZK Karlsruhe. To provide 20% of ALICE Resources To provide 10% of ATLAS resources To provide 12% of CMS resources To provide...
Title Key developments of the Ganga task management framework. Abstract Ganga is an easy to use frontend for the definition and management of analysis jobs, providing...
WLCG GDB Action List This page lists actions currently monitored by GDB and topics that will require actions in the future. Note that most actions related to operations...
Notes of GDB meeting, June 13th 2012 Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId 155069 Welcome, Michel Default is to have them on 2nd Wednesday...
Summary of GDB meeting, September 12, 2012 Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId 155072 Introduction October pre GDB and GDB will take place...
Summary of GDB meeting, November 14, 2012 Agenda http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceOtherViews.py?view standard confId 155074 Attendance Local Adrien Devresse...
Summary of GDB meeting, December 12, 2012 Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId 155075 Welcome M. Jouvin 2013 GDBs January: moved to 3rd...
Summary of GDB meeting, February 13, 2013 Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId 197800 Welcome M. Jouvin Note takers: more needed Currently...
Summary of GDB meeting, March 13, 2013 (KIT) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceOtherViews.py?view standard confId 197801 Welcome M. Jouvin See slides....
Summary of GDB meeting, May 8, 2013 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId 197803 Welcome M. Jouvin Upcoming meetings: in June we need...
Summary of GDB meeting, July 10, 2013 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId 197806 Welcome M. Jouvin Michel insists on getting more...
Summary of GDB meeting, September 11, 2013 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId 251189 Welcome M. Jouvin GDBs scheduled for second...
Summary of GDB meeting, October 9, 2013 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId 251190 Welcome M. Jouvin September summary only available...
Summary of GDB meeting, December 11, 2013 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId 251192 Welcome M. Jouvin Next meetings March planned...
Summary of GDB meeting, January 15, 2014 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId 272795 Welcome M. Jouvin See slides for future (pre...
Summary of GDB meeting, February 12, 2014 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/272618/ Welcome M. Jouvin HEP SW Collaboration I. Bird Kickoff meeting...
Summary of pre GDB meeting on Batch Systems, March 11, 2014 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/272785/ Introduction M. Jouvin Batch system landscape in...
Summary of GDB meeting, March 12, 2014 (CNAF) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/272619/other view?view standard Introduction M. Jouvin WLCG dates settled: July...
Summary of GDB meeting, April 9, 2014 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/272620/ Introduction M. Jouvin See slides. Discussion OpenSSL vulnerability...
Summary of pre GDB meeting on Data Access, May 13, 2014 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/272787/ Introduction Focus of today`s meeting is data access...
Summary of GDB meeting, May 14, 2014 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/272621/ Introduction M. Jouvin Next GDBs July meeting replaced by WLCG workshop...
Summary of pre GDB on IPv6, June 11, 2014 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/313194 IPv6 1010 E. Martelli See slides, in particular for address formats...
Summary of GDB meeting, June 14, 2014 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/272622/ Introduction M. Jouvin Still looking for more volunteers to take notes...
WLCG Workshop, Barcelona, July 7 9, 2014 Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/305362/other view?view standard WLCG Status WLCG Operations Report A. Sciab See...
Summary of GDB meeting, September 10, 2014 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/272777/ Introduction M. Jouvin As usual, looking for volunteers to take notes...
Summary of GDB meeting, October 8, 2014 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/272778/ Introduction M. Jouvin Dates and rooms booked for GDB until end of...
pre GDB on Volunteer Computing, CERN, November 11, 2014 Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/272793/ BOINC N H imyr Reason to use volunteer computing in HEP...
Summary of GDB meeting, November 12, 2014 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/272779/ Introduction M. Jouvin Future GDBs March: need to decide asap...
HTCondor Workshop, CERN, December 8 9, 2014 Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/272794/ Introduction to High Throughput Computing G. Thain HTC: maximize sum of...
Summary of GDB meeting, December 10, 2014 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/272780/ Introduction M. Jouvin Future GDB exceptions The March meeting...
Summary of ARGUS Future Workshop, December 11, 2014 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/348018/ Introduction D. Groep Open meeting, semi structured agenda...
MichelJouvin 2015 01 13 !! pre GDB on Data Access Protocols, CERN, January 13, 2015 Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/319817/ Taming the Protocol Zoo W. Bhimji...
Summary of GDB meeting, January 14, 2015 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/319743/ Introduction M. Jouvin Thanks to C. Biscarat for taking notes today...
pre GDB Collaboration with Other Sciences, NIKHEF, March 10, 2015 Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/319819/ Introduction J. Templon Co organized with Netherlands...
Summary of GDB meeting, February 14, 2015 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/319744/ Introduction M. Jouvin 2014 2015 Meetings March meeting is in...
Summary of GDB meeting, March 11, 2015 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/319745/other view?view standard Introduction M. Jouvin Planning for 2015 in Indico...
WLCG Workshop, Okinawa, April 11 12, 2015 Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/345619/other view?view standard WLCG Status Tokyo T2 Site Report T. Nakamura ICEPP...
Summary of GDB meeting, May 13, 2015 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/319747/ Introduction M. Jouvin WLG workshop Volunteers for hosting the next...
Summary of GDB meeting, July 8, 2015 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/319749/ Introduction Next pre GDB/GDBs September meeting: many topics almost...
Summary of GDB meeting, September 9, 2015 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/319751/ Introduction October GDB in BNL as part of HEPiX (Wednesday 14)...
Summary of GDB meeting, November 4, 2015 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/319753/ Introduction M. Jouvin Next GDBs: see Indico Subject to modificatons...
MichelJouvin 2015 12 17 !! Summary of GDB meeting, November 4, 2015 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/319754/ Introduction M. Jouvin Next GDB and preGDB...
January 2016 GDB notes Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/394776/ Morning: Local attendance (19): Ian Bird, Andrew McNab, Simone Campana, Romain Wartel, Maarten...
April 2016 GDB notes DRAFT Agenda http://indico.cern.ch/event/394781/ Startup with microphone muted. Reboot of room helped. Introduction. No comments. Data...
Summary of GDB meeting, May 11, 2016 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/394782/ Introduction I. Collier Future pre GDBs and GDBs JunePre GDB: IPv...
Summary of GDB meeting, June 8, 2016 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/394783/ Introduction D4RI Digital Infrastructures for Research conference...
Summary of GDB meeting, September, 2016 (CERN) (Thanks to Brian Davies and Michel Jouvin) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/394786/ Introduction I. Collier Discussion...
Summary of April GDB, April 12, 2017 (CERN) DRAFT Notes compiled by C. Biscarat M. Jouvin ; any and all mistakes are ours. Agenda Agenda Introduction I....
May 2017 GDB notes Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/578986/ Introduction (Ian Collier) Slides Latchezar: if the March GDB will again be at ISGC, we need...
July 2017 GDB notes Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/578988/ Introduction (Ian Collier) presentation Upcoming GDBs no GDB in August. September pre GDB on Storage...
Sep 2017 GDB notes Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/578990/ Introduction (Ian Collier) presentation Next meetings No pre GDB in october November: Authz...
Summary of October GDB, October 11, 2017 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/578991 Introduction I. Collier presentation See slides, in particular for next...
Summary of October GDB, November 8, 2017 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/578992/ Introduction I. Collier presentation Notes February pre GDB following...
Summary of October GDB, December 13, 2017 (CERN) Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/578992/ Introduction I. Collier presenation Some scheduling updates for...
Summary of March GDB, March 21, 2018 (ISGC) DRAFT Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/651351/ Introduction I. Collier presentation Notes Main topics Upcoming...
Summary of March GDB, April 11, 2018 Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/651352/ Introduction I. Collier presentation Mattias: the NorduGrid workshop mentioned...
Summary of May GDB, May 9, 2018 Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/651353/ Introduction I. Collier presentation Nordugrid meeting is focused on dev direction...
Summary of June GDB, June 13, 2018 Agenda https://indico.cern.ch/event/651354/ Introduction I. Collier presentation Main topics July GDB is delayed by...
Summary of July GDB, July 18, 2018 Agenda Agenda Introduction I. Collier presentation Main topics Brief discussion of next WLCG HSF Workshop early next...
Summary of September GDB, September 12, 2018 Agenda Agenda Introduction I. Collier presentation GDB in March 2019 will be at CERN GDB in April 2019 will be colocated...
Summary of November GDB, November 14th, 2018 (CERN) Agenda Agenda Introduction Next GDBs March 2019 at CERN, usual week: not moving, book early April...
Summary of January GDB, January 16th, 2019 (CERN) DRAFT Agenda Agenda Introduction Ian Collier slides The GDB started with a quick overview of the agenda and...
Summary of May GDB, May 8th, 2019 (@ EGI Conference, Amsterdam) Agenda Agenda Introduction Ian Collier slides When the room was asked about FNAL Dune hosted...
Summary of June GDB, June 12th, 2019 Agenda For all slides etc. see: Agenda Introduction Ian Collier Speaker: Ian Collier (Science and Technology Facilities Council...
Summary of July 2019 GDB, July 10th, 2019 Agenda For all slides etc. see: Agenda Introduction Ian Collier Speaker: Ian Collier (Science and Technology Facilities...
Summary of September 2019 GDB, September 11th, 2019 DRAFT Agenda For all slides etc. see: Agenda Introduction Speaker: Ian Collier (Science and Technology Facilities...
Summary of October 2019 GDB, October 9th, 2019 DRAFT Agenda For all slides etc. see: Agenda Introduction Speaker: Ian Collier (Science and Technology Facilities...
Summary of November 2019 GDB, November 20th, 2019 DRAFT Agenda For all slides etc. see: Agenda Introduction Speaker: Ian Collier (Science and Technology Facilities...
Summary of December 2019 GDB, December 11th, 2019 Agenda For all slides etc. see: Agenda Introduction Speaker: Ian Collier (Science and Technology Facilities Council...
Summary of January 2020 GDB, January 15th, 2020 DRAFT Agenda For all slides etc. see: Agenda Introduction Speaker: Josep Flix (CIEMAT (ES)) slides March GDB...
Official GD UI on lxb7962 with incoming connectivity A UI dedicated to our group has been put in production. If you would like to use this node to test specific...
LCG Grid Deployment LCG Production Services Request new Host Certificates This procedure allows you to request host certificates for Cern nodes without need...
LFC and DPM RPMs Where to find the code The LFC and DPM code is located in the JRa1 Middleware CVS repository. It consists of two modules : LCG DM DPM FTP...
Generic Installation and Configuration Guide for gLite 3.0 Important note: gLite 3.1 should be now used. Please, update your nodes and check the Generic Installation...
Generic Installation and Configuration Guide for gLite 3.1 Note that gLite 3.1 is being phased out. Check which services are still supported in 3.1 under the web...
Generic Installation and Configuration Guide for gLite 3.2 This document is addressed to Site Administrators responsible for middleware installation and configuration...
Introduction This wiki page presents some results on bulk lfc methods to get replicas. Bulk methods which have been tested There are two methods. Test 2 :...
Introduction This wiki page presents some results on bulk lfc methods to get replicas against an LFC which support encryption. Bulk methods which have been tested...
Back How to get started in the LCG projects Welcome to the LCG Application Area projects ! If you need general information about CERN, how to register...
LCG Util and GFAL developer notes Test and development environment To run test, you must set up some environment variables. I list the minimum, with examples that...
GFAL and LCG Util testing Background information deployment test for DM testing Regression tests According to DMTestingStrategy, we maintain a list of...
Results of dCache srmcp transfers between SRM v1.1 and SRM v2.2 endpoints Here I report the results of the tests executed using the dCache srmcp client tool while...
GGUS alarm to IT DB workflow problem Description GGUS alarm to IT DB workflow did not work properly on the night of 11th October Impact IT DB team did not get...
GGUS Information Escalation reports for WLCG (Produced on Monday`s for WLCG Service Report to MB) (Search : select `VO` this will give all tickets, including...
WLCG GGUS Operations Every day Scan through the GGUS notifications in your inbox. They may concern GGUS tickets for: ROC CERN, i.e. Grid Services. There it is...
GGUS Information Escalation reports (Produced on Monday`s for WLCG Service Report to MB) (Search : select `VO` this will give all tickets, including team...
GGUS use by WLCG abstract for EGI CF 2012 Title The role of GGUS in delivering highly reliable WLCG operations Overview The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) strategy...
Deployment of gLExec on the Worker Node Applicability The information on this page is relevant for WLCG sites with CREAM or OSG CE services (the ARC CE presently...
Notes on the gLite 3.0 beta release to pre production. The gLite 3.0 PPS release is now available. It is based on LCG 2 7 0 with the addition of gLite WMS/LB gLite...
Notes on the gLite 3.0 RC2 release to pre production. The gLite 3.0 PPS release is now available. It is based on LCG 2 7 0 with the addition of gLite WMS/LB gLite...
gLite 3.0 Release Notes These notes provide a short introduction to the gLite 3.0 release and list currently known issues and limitations The gLite 3.0 PPS release...
Outstanding issues for 3.0 gLite 3.0 released 26/05/2006: This issue tracking page is no longer updated, please see the Home Page for details. Problems found in...
The patches that are currently in certification can be seen in Savannah: in certification. The `Assigned To` column shows who is taking care of a patch. If `Assigned...
gLite CE Test Work Log Changes: 2007 02 07: Two machines (CE and WMS) on certification testbed upgraded to condor 6.8.4 rpm Uvh nodeps condor 6.8.4 linux...
Here is Jean Philippe`s explanation : All physical files on disk belong to a special user `dpmmgr` and are only accessible by this user. RFIOD and gsiFTP which are...
LCG Grid Deployment gLite Pre Production Services CERN PPS site CERN PPS Work Log CERN PPS (C5 Report on 2 April 09) CERN GRID Pre Production Site (CERN PPS...
gLite Web Pages Introduction The new version of the gLite webpages is dynamic and provides a solution to the problems of the previous static pages. It`s written in...
CDB Hierarchy for gridwms cluster Here is presented the current hierarchy used in CDB for the machines belonging to the cluster gridwms: profile wms101...
This wiki page is based on the slides made by Di for the WLCG Collaboration Workshop (January 2007). Thanks to Di : ) Important places and files ${INSTALL...
Globus retirement considerations in WLCG Introduction In the WLCG Management Board meeting of March 17, 2020, there was a discussion about a possible retirement timeline...
Given attributes for a node or cluster more information can be found. The following table shows how given one value you can obtain another value. For example take...
LCG Grid Deployment LCG Production Services GMOD Page All GMoDs please check page http://cern.ch/it servicestatus/ for necessary announcements via the CIC...
LCG Grid Deployment LCG Production Services Definition of GMOD The GMOD is a service manager from the GD group, changing on a weekly Rota basis. S/he has a...
Monday 18/09 meeting Rolandas reported on temporary fix for RB /tmp filling up. Scripts are reporting very verbose mode and are hardwired. James noted...
Monday 08 Jan 2007 Nothing to report. Tuesday 09 Jan 2007 High load on rb101, under investigation. Today the old VOMS cert expires. SPMA should have...
bdiiconf gen.pl Introduction Top level BDII server republishes information from site BDIIs. In order to do this, top level BDII server uses a list of URIs pointing...
LCG Grid Deployment CERN ROC CERN ROC Procedures CERN ROC templates regarding starting of operation of a site in production In the following text you should...
LCG Grid Deployment CERN ROC CERN ROC Procedures CERN ROC templates regarding the delivery of a site in production In the following text you should look for...
WLCG GDB: Integration of GPUs in WLCG This twiki is made to collect information about the integration of GPUs in the WLCG computing infrastructure. This topic has...
This document is: (). Fabric Procedures for Grid at CERN These procedures define the activities of the service managers and system administrators when looking...
LCG Grid Deployment Board Wiki Modified on: This wiki page and the pages it refers to are obsolete. It contains information and links about the activity of the...
Overview The GridFTP Monitoring system takes entries from the GridFTP log files and inserts them into the Oracle database at CERN via R GMA. This information...
is the German Tier 1, located at http://www.kit.edu/ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), formerly known as Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK). It supports all...
Testing of Master Slave Configurations Logbook. SAN Master Slave Logbook Using http://activemq.apache.org/amq message store.html SAN configuration for lxb6118/...
Testing of Persistence Configurations Logbook. Using ActiveMQ Store and MSG publisher/MSG consumer python scripts. http://activemq.apache.org/amq message store.html...
Grid middleware LCG Distributions Portings to different OS/hardware: EGEE liveCD based on LCG 2 (w00t!): here: `Job Management System (JMS) is a system responsible...
Grid Monitoring Data Exchange Standard (Draft) General concepts Data types In order to avoid compatibility problems when calling web services written in different...
Grid Services Monitoring Working Group Displaying Aggregated Service Metrics in Ganglia NOTE: The publisher script distributed with the Nagios prototype has changed...
WARNING ! This page is now deprecated please see GridMonitoringNcgYaim NCG Overview The following pages describe the use of the WLCG Grid Services Monitoring Working...
Grid Monitoring Probes Specification Versioning This document defines version 0.91 of the specification, produced 4/6/2007. Overview Many site fabric monitoring...
Monitoring Tools Interface Specification (draft) This is only a draft. Please don`t assume that any of the URLs presented below are the final ones! SAM data exports...
Topology `Database` Many tools (e.g. GridView, reporting tools) need a view of how sites are interconnected. This is multi dimensional view since each entity (infrastructure...
RPM Installation Repositories YUM/APT A repository supporting YUM and APT clients is available For YUM clients use the following commands to create a configuration...
Grid Publisher Development Introduction The goal of this wiki page is to plan but also track the work on Grid Publisher foreseen by the Monitoring Working Group....
Grid Publisher Specification Introduction The purpose of this document is to describe the specification of the monitoring information publishing layer that uses JMS...
GridView message Formats and implementation Introduction This page describes how to use the Messaging System for the Grid in order to publish records into GridView...
Grid Service Monitoring Descriptions The table below links to grid service monitoring descriptions gathered from developers using the GridSiteMonitoringQuestionnaire...
Grid Service Monitoring Working Group Most of the information you might be looking for should be here but you can also look at current activity on the Sharepoint project...
Grid Service Monitoring Working Group This page describes our understanding of the relationship of this group to some others in EGEE and the expectations, if any,...
Grid Service Monitoring Tool Summary This document contains links and summary information on a wide range of monitoring tools Tool Categories We split the tools into...
Grid Monitoring Working Group Mandate The overall goal of this group is to help improve the reliability of the grid infrastructure, and to provide stakeholders with...
WLCG Grid Services Monitoring WG Membership The group is made up of a core group , who have wide experience over many areas of monitoring system for Grid Services...
Grid Site Monitoring Questionnaire In December 2006, with the purpose of consolidating the mandate and understanding the existing deployment of monitoring tools within...
This is the main Twiki page for the Gridview project. The URL for accessing the Gridview`s production page is as follows: http://gridview.cern.ch/ This is the contact...
Gridview Administration Guide This document describes the steps involved in installing, configuring and administration of the Gridview service. Contents Gridview...
Gridview Service at CERN This page documents the deployment of the Gridview service at CERN. Contents Gridview Components The following diagram shows all the...
Data Transfer 1. How to install web service client on a GridFTP server to publish gridftp data ? 2. How to configure web service client on a GridFTP server...
Gridview Monthly Availability Calculations and Reports This page lists out the remarks associated with each month`s availability calculations and reports. 2010...
Gridview NCM Component ncm gridview This module is required on all gridview server instances. Version 1.0.7 Added support for new AJAX based gridview frontend...
Gridview Production Instances (gridview105 and gridview106) URL: http://gridview.cern.ch/ Module Description Module name Version Number Installation...
Installation and Configuration of Gridview Publisher Service (gridview publisher) Gridview Is a visualisation and monitoring tool for grid. It visualises statistics...
Quattor installation of Gridview Contents Gridview can be installed and configured on production systems using Quattor. For this the following are available:...
Gridview Common Module gridview common This module is required on all gridview server instances. Version 2.1.1 Release notes: Issue Type Description...
Gridview Frontend Module gridview frontend This is the web interface of the Gridview application. Version 6.0.4 Release notes: Issue Type Description...
Gridview XML Interface Accessing GridFTP transfer data Gridview uses data transfer logs of GridFTP servers to calculate the transfer rates between the sites. These...
This page is under construction How to install GSI Security as in LCG 2 GSI Security as in LCG 2 is required on all the LFC and DPM servers and disk nodes. Here is...
Storage Requirements for CCRC08 for ALICE. Further details can be found here, here, and here. In order for ALICE to perform tests during the CCRC08 exercise in February...
Storage Classes requirements for ATLAS Input provided by Miguel Branco , Dietrich Liko , Dario Barberis , Kors Boss 1. Storage Classes needed at various sites...
Storage Requirements for CCRC08 for ATLAS More details can be found in the agenda page of the meeting. This is the link to the ATLAS document describing the plans...
ATLAS SRM v2.2 test details from ATLAS DM meeting 13/7/2007 The tests of SRM 2.2 from ATLAS will consist of: 1. Throughput exercise: data are created and written...
PPS configuration for ATLAS In order for ATLAS to perform first tests with the SRM v2.2 test endpoints the following requirements should be satisfied: 1. Provide...
BNL configuration notes and deployment of dCache 1.8 patch level 13 The BNL`s dCache 1.8 second instance dcsrmv2.usatlas.bnl.gov is upgraded to Patch 13. The following...
CASTOR failures during file transfers Problem reported by CMS (Daniele Bonacorsi, Giuseppe Lore) while transferring files from Pisa with dCache to CNAF with CASTOR...
THIS PAGE IS OBSOLETE. Please refer to Baseline Versions :no: Base versions of services and client tools for WLCG operations :no: The following list is intended...
Storage Requirements for CCRC08 for CMS. Further details can be found here. In order for CMS to perform tests during the CCRC08 exercise in February 2008 the following...
globus url copy from dcache to non dcache balanced sites Problem reported and workaround provided by Vincenzo Vagnoni (CNAF/INFN) In the past we noticed problems in...
How to Publish Space Tokens with dCache Here is the space token information provider for dCache for those who are interested. It needs psycopg2 which is a python wrapper...
Upgrading dCache 1.7 to dCache 1.8 Greig Cowan The procedure for upgrading is basically the same as for any other dCache upgrade. Just upgrade the rpms from the dCache...
How to Publish Space Tokens with DPM A GIP provider is available to publish all space tokens defined in a DPM installation into BDII. Only space tokens corresponding...
List of available SRM v2.2 endpoints This is the list of available SRM v2.2 full endpoints for the dteam VO. CASTOR SITE VERSION ENDPOINT VO SpaceToken...
List of experiment requests for high level tools In this page we list the requests coming from the experiments on high level tools to be able to fully use the capabilities...
This is an example for atlas , dteam , lhcb and ops . Adapt the VOs, paths, space token tags, hostname and site name as needed. Note that the spaces for dteam...
Authors: Maarten Litmaath, Flavia Donno, Stephen Burke This is a proposal illustrating what attributes should be published for an SRM v2.2 SE, keeping things simple...
Storage Requirements for CCRC08 for LHCb. This page complements the generic GSSD LHCb page that can be found at this page. Further details can be found resId 0 materialId...
How to set up FZK for LHCb (v0.1) Evaluation by Maarten Litmaath (CERN) References from LHCb Amount of disk to be provided 182TB Inter site I/O rates...
LHCb SRM v2.2 test details In the planning LHCb envisages a data transfer test at the end of July/early August 2007. It now seems natural to do this in the context...
PPS configuration for LHCb LHCb will perform data transfer and access exercises against the test SRM v2.2 endpoints. SRM v2 endpoints should be available at all LHCb...
GSSD Mailing list At the moment we are reusing the old Storage Classes mailing list: storage classes wg #64;cernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch FlaviaDonno 31 Jan 2007
Mandate of the GSSD Working Group The Storage Systems Deployment group discusses how the storage classes as defined in SRM v2.2 can be implemented at sites of all...
GSSD Meetings pre GDB, Minutes, Tuesday 06 February 2007 from 13:00 to 16:00 at CERN, IT Auditorium. Summary presentation on first GSSD meeting given at...
Setting up a namespace for SRM v2 On sites where the SRM v1 and v2 endpoints are front ends for the same name service, data written by v1 remain accessible by v2 and...
VO overview plots of published SRM2.2 space token desciptions GreigCowan is parsing the information system looking for GLUE 1.3 GlueVOInfoTag objects for each VO,...
SRM v2.2 deployment monitoring status Overview This page presents the up to date status of deployed SRM v2.2 endpoints as advertised in the WLCG information system...
Currently proposed GSSD Sub Groups Glue Schema 2.0 for Storage Services The goal of this sub group is to come up with a data model for Storage Service for the Glue...
Title: Testing as a Service with HammerCloud Authors from IT SDC: Ramon Medrano Llamas, A. Sciab Type: Talk Track: Facilities, Production Infrastructures, Networking...
Title: Grid Site Testing for ATLAS with HammerCloud Authors: Johannes Elmsheuser, Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet Muenchen Federica Legger, Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet...
HammerCloud abstract for EGI CF 2012 Title `Experience in Grid Site Testing for High Energy Physics with HammerCloud` Overview HammerCloud is a grid site testing...
Introduction Hammer Cloud is a stress testing service which is used by central operations teams, regional coordinators, and local site admins to submit arbitrary number...
HammerCloud Architecture In this twiki we introduce the HammerCloud system starting from a very generic introduction which aims to provide basic information about...
Server Node and Submit Node have a shared area (NFS) for keeping things like for example proxies. Would be good to show it on the schema There is no hard limit on...
HA Test Bed Setup Proposal The HA test bed provides the FIO and ADC groups a test environment for evaluating High Availability software and hardware. It can also...
OS level stuff watch the scsi disk order!! (system disks vs. FC disks). See how the itrac cluster is set up. allow SPMA to install user packages (for the...
Title hBrowse Generic framework for hierarchical data visualization Overview The hBrowse framework is a new kind of generic, open source, monitoring application....
Title hBrowse Generic framework for hierarchical data visualization Abstract The hBrowse framework is a generic monitoring tool designed to meet the needs of various...
For more details, see details Summary of current status Single git repo for HC and cutomizations (core, apps, inputfile templates) size: 1 GB Including...
Helix Nebula and CERN: A Symbiotic Approach to Exploiting Commercial Clouds The recent paradigm shift toward cloud computing in IT, and general interest in `Big Data...
DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT This is a merger between Flavia`s list of issues that the experiments have supported and Cal`s list of requirements. There are fields in the table...
HEP SSC Preparation Wiki News Dear Participant, The call FP7 INFRASTRUCTURES 2010 2 is now closed. You have submitted a proposal to the Electronic Proposal Submission...
Back to Management Board Wiki WLCG High Level and Areas Milestones LCG Milestones File Level 1 Milestones WLCG High Level Phase2 Plan.pdf Deployment...
LCG Production Services LCG Grid Deployment How to request a new host certificate See the following wiki page. How to check the certificate in `clear` text...
Problem The LFC or DPM server host certificate will expire soon. Solution Replace the old host certificate and key : $ ll /etc/grid security/ grep host rw r r...
Error When using any of the lfc commands, you get this error: $ lfc ls /grid send2nsd: NS009 fatal configuration error: Host unknown: UNUSED /grid: Host not...
How to describe a subcluster`s software installation There are various pages describing how to advertise the characteristics of a subcluster`s software installation...
How to (Publish and) Find SC Resources Overview With the start of the service phase of Service Challenge 3, there should no longer such a split between service challenge...
gLite 3.0: How to install a production VO (by lorentey #64;elteNOSPAMPLEASE.hu) This procedure may be used to set up a new VOMS server host, and also to install a...
LCG Grid Deployment CERN ROC CERN ROC Procedures In the following text you should look for occurrences of the strings REQUESTER NAME, YOUR NAME and substitute...
A HTCondor batch system can be deployed with various CEs; known examples are ARC, CREAM and HTCondor CE (a CE based on HTCondor itself.) There are various options...
HTCondor CE Accounting via APEL client software Introduction The Liverpool T2 is using a HTCondor CE in front of some of its HTCondor worker nodes. There was no standard...
Introduction This shows the design of some changes to the APEL client software to accomodate HTCondor CE. This solution stems from work done at the T1 at PIC. PIC...
Manual install of HTCondor CE accounting data extraction scripts From htcondor ce 3.3.0 1, the data extraction scripts are shipped as an RPM in the standard htcondor...
Workaround for apelclient 1.8.0 1 or earlier This only applies for apelclient 1.8.0 1 or earlier, If you use apelclient 1.8.1 0, this is not necessary. Special...
HTCondor CE client configuration tips There are some caveats to take into account for an HTCondor CE client to make successful use of SciTokens (a.k.a. WLCG tokens...
HTCondor CE token configuration tips OSG sites should follow their own HTCondor CE documentation and related upgrade notes for 3.5 upcoming or 3.6 release. Versions...
Access monitoring Overview The infrastructure monitoring team proposed two different ways in which storage providers could implement support for access monitoring...
HTTP Deployment Task Force Mandate The mandate is the following: Define the minimum set of useful functions which must work for a site to `support HTTP for...
Notes from 24 April 2013 meeting of the Http Proxy Discovery Task Force Present: Jakob Blomer, Brian Bockelman, Dan Bradley, Dave Dykstra, Ian Gable Parts in green...
This is Dave`s proposed standards for Http Proxy Discovery in the WLCG. See SquidMonitoringTFInfoSystem as background; from the information system`s viewpoint...
WLCG Http Proxy Discovery Task Force Contents of this page: Mandate Define the WLCG wide standards for grid jobs to find out what HTTP proxy or proxies to use...
HTTP Storage Requirements This page tracks the required and desired functionality requested from HTTP storage, as defined by the HTTP Deployment Task Force. We can...
Process for contacting sites Objective The objective is to get all the endpoints green. `Read only` endpoints with the appropriate standard file are shown as green...
HTTP Deployment TF Information for sites Introduction The HTTP Deployment Task Force is overseeing and encouraging the deployment of HTTP/WebDAV as a new protocol...
HTTP TF Recommendations Document Status First rough draft based on notes from the 3rd Jun meeting. Basic Methods Storage should support PUT, GET, DELETE and HEAD...
Summary of the HTTP Deployment TF`s Activities The HTTP Deployment TF`s activities fell into two areas, as described below. Policy and advice on HTTP for WLCG The...
Summary 20th Jan Host Configuration space token issue Writing via HTTP does not specify a ST. In some cases, this means the write fails, either because there is...
HttpTpc Introduction The WebDAV extensions to HTTP provide a mechanism for invoking a copy between two resources. We utilize implementations of the HTTP COPY...
HTTP / WebDAV Third Party Copy Technical Details The HTTP TPC mechanism relies on utilizing the existing WebDAV COPY verb (see 4918) and interoperable implementations...
HTTP TPC (COPY) protocol updates Original HTTP COPY specification that was initially implemented may not meet all our future requirements and this document should...
Error You get this error NS003 illegal function 80 Or this error: $ tail f /var/log/lfc/log ... 11/23 09:37:13 12001,0 sendrep: NS003 illegal function 12 .....
Dcache APT/Yum repository The D Cache apt and yum repositories are browsable and are available at and http://www.dcache.org/yum/ yum. To use these apt repositories...
Implementation of MPI This wikipage was used by Richard de Jong and Matthijs Koot for their `Research Project 2` activities at CERN. Documents, final versions...
Will your site be willing to participate in the joint tape test? CC IN2P3 agree to participate in the tape test. All WLCG VO are welcome What is the maximum...
HarryRenshall 31 Oct 2007 IN2P3 Lyon Site Capacity Growth Plans 2007/2008 Last Updated 31.10.2007: email of 19 September from Fabio Hernandez please find attached...
HarryRenshall 25 Jun 2007 Tier 1 IN2P3 Lyon. To provide 9% of ALICE Resources To provide 13% of ATLAS resources To provide 10% of CMS resources To provide 27% of...
Infrastructure Setup Tasks for SC4 These tasks have to be completed before SC4 start up and are a pre requisite for the service challenge. Like other deliverables...
LCG Production Services LCG Grid Deployment Installation of a gLite WMS or LCG RB node Request of a new host certificate The general procedure can be found...
SFT SERVER INSTALLATION (MONBOX): 1. Install latest LCG MONBOX (using YAIM) 1. Create /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sft.list file with the following line: rpm...
LCG Grid Deployment gLite Pre Production Services PPS CERN Admin Procedures Installation and Configuration `Step by Step` Tag the node with your name in the...
Removing CERN BDII usage in SSM CERN is planning to stop running top level BDII instance. In order to disable dependency of the site accounting on the CERN BDII instance...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Complete instructions to create a CRIC vm using puppet Instructions to install cric on a vm. 1 Check your permissions ( http://configtraining...
LCG Grid Deployment gLite Pre Production Services Pre Production Coordination PPS Current Programs Interactive access to PPS nodes Note : interactive access...
WLCG Operations Coordination Team Internal Planning Please use the wlcg ops coord chairpeople list for internal communication. Operations Coordination Meetings...
2005 09 1 18:00:00 AM CEST delgadop Several authentication problems were caused by a expired proxy in /tmp that was used by default (insted of the one stored in...
Error An lcg util command returns the Invalid Argument error. Solution It usually means that there is a problem with the information published by the Information...
Issue: MySQL Services for SC4 Within IT at CERN, the database of choice is Oracle. This is a supported service which is staffed by an experienced team of database...
Issue: Resource Broker Disk Space requirements Problem Statement The resource broker stores sandboxes for the user`s jobs (input and output). A review of LHC capacity...
This page is meant to contain useful links for the members of the IT Experiment Support group at Cern Managing Cern Computer Centre hosted machines Storage...
ITUM: IT Technical Users Meeting DRAFT Version 0.3 25 Jan 2010 (Please send feedback to: itum wg #64;cernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch) Scope Topics : This meeting will...
Job Priorities Roll Out for Atlas Initial Plan 1. Oliver and Simone verify that all the necessary configuration information for an ATLAS T1 site is available in...
JamieShiers 30 Mar 2006 Dear colleagues, The second Joint OSG and EGEE Operations Workshop will be held at CERN on 19th and 20th of June. The idea of the workshop...
Cross scripting Vulnerability in JOWPING (perf of perfSONAR PS Toolkit) Details. OWPING, a java client for the OWAMP measurement tool, has been found to be vulnerable...
Will your site be willing to participate in the joint tape test? For multi VO site , for which VOs then? Probably no. We support now only ALICE VO and currently...
KIT Configuration Monitoring monitoring of running mcore jobs: http://web kit.gridka.de/monitoring/mcore.php efficiency plots show the CPU time over...
Kubernetes Introduction Kubernetes (`k8s`) is not part of official WLCG infrastructure, yet, but interest is growing and several people are working on it...
Configuration variables for LB IMPORTANT NOTE!! : Updated documentation for the configuration of LB is now under https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/Site info...
Release notes for the gLite 3.1 LB Checkpointing release (patch #1251) These notes describe the LB checkpoint release 1251 with VDT 1.2.x for SL3 APT configuration...
LCG 2 6 0 Post Mortem The tests of the ROCs have been very valuable as the first tests of the users. This has to be part of the release from now on. The 3ROCs needed...
Release Planning We are now planning a timetable for LCG 2 7 0, expected before Christmas. Would those involved in any of the components below please send a status...
Release Planning 31/01/06 : LCG 2 7 0 released. The list can be sorted by clicking on the appropriate table header. Timetable Mon 9th Jan tag and begin local...
LCG Applications Area Workbook Getting Started Takes the user through getting an account, desktop setup and account setup. Getting started at CERN Getting...
VO related operations on AFS UI Adding a new VO with yaim Note : this currently is not possible, as each VO normally has more than one RB, and different per VO,...
AFS UI Known bugs This page is for AFS UI Administrators. These are the bugs coming from middleware/Yaim which we try to fix at the time of configuration manually...
CERN AFS UI Cleanup procedure Within a re organization of the space our AFS volumes, we should remove the old gLite UI installations. Production AFS UI (GLITE...
AFS UI Installation/Configuration scripts In order to make the steps listed above faster, there are scipts available to help the upgrade to a new CERN AFSUI version...
Synchronise the read only copy You need afs admin rights to perform the replica synchronization. afs admin vos release p.gd.lcgshare JuditNovak 04 Oct...
Preliminary steps To use the grid resources you need a certificate and to join a virtual organisation (VO). The certificate guarantees your identity, the association...
Configuration variables for lcg CE IMPORTANT NOTE!! : Updated documentation for the configuration of lcg CE is now under https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG...
SL4 LCG CE test notes This page describes all the tests have been done on SL4 LCG CE test setup CE: 2GB memory, dual 2.8GHz Xeon, lxb6139 Torque server...
Status of criteria to be met before transition can start Note: This table deals with the criteria for starting the transitioning from the LCG CE to the CREAM...
Error You get this when targetting a DPM Storage Element : $ lcg cr v vo dteam d se.polgrid.pl l lfn:/grid/dteam/apadee/test file polgrid.pl.1 file:///etc/group...
Experiment Integration Support (EIS) The mandate of the Experiment Integration Support team (EIS) was to help the experiments in integrating their software with the...
LCG Firewall System Introduction In order to enhance the protection of the Grid from external attacks, a firewall service for the Grid components is desired. This...
WLCG FTM Endpoints NOTE: These endpoints have been collected manually and the list was last updated 9th Februaru 2009. ASGC: http://w ftm01.grid.sinica.edu...
Centralized Firewall configuration for Linux systems Background Every network service is a potential entry point for an attacker. It is highly recommended to disable...
GD BBQ. $ When: 13th July from 18:00 $ Where: BBQ area of CERN at the Prevession site Food and Drink Everyone should being something and we will all share...
AndreasUnterkircher 04 Apr 2006 A suggestion for a new presentation of the test results is here. Needs identified so far: Have the possibility to go down from...
A list of existing tests as of June 2006. This list is no longer being updated. edg tests (Gilbert testsuite) Release TSTG 1.0.1 available since 03/22/06. It introduces...
Needed tests This list was used during EGEE 2 and is out of date now. The new list is here This is an evolving list of tests we need for gLite certification. Test...
A suggestion for a presentation layout of LCG/gLite tests can be found here. Needs identified so far: Have the possibility to go down from a high level view to...
Test writing guidelines Test types Testing in certification is concerned with blackbox tests of installed and configured node types. We are not doing component tests...
ABSTRACT Creation of a central database of Monte Carlo events is motivated by simulation needs which are specific to the high energy physics domain. In general, the...
WLCG Monitoring Working Groups presentation by Ian Bird Meetings Meetings on Indico System Management One of the problems observed (by EGEE and LCG) in providing...
Apache configuration for Virtual Server with certificate based authentication for https://lcg nodes status.cern.ch:8282/ Status of 2007 07 04 In order to free lxb...
LCG Planning pages Here you can find some rollout plans for WLCG. SL4toSL5wnMigration SL5DependencyRPM Complete Configuration information of the CIC...
Main.dimou 13 Jun 2006 Starting countdown for services run on lxb2051.cern.ch (LcgRegistrar, LcgNodesStatus, LCGVomsConFiles) Calendar of events (most recent first...
Planning gLite 3.0 planning Status of the relase LCG 2 7 0 LCG 2 6 0 Postmortem Table with HEP and NA4 Priorities Certificat NodeInstallationProcedure...
LCG Service Co ordination Meeting Link Description WlcgScDash Current status of the Production LCG Services Preparation LcgScmStatus Status Reports to the...
Data management service workplan The current work required to move the data management grid services to full production at CERN for SC4 is listed below. Currently...
LCG Service Co ordination Meeting Status Indico Agenda: http://indico.cern.ch/categoryDisplay.py?categId 654 This Page: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin...
Auth and Auth Reports for LCG SCM from 2007 and earlier. December 12th 2007 Upgrade to new version of glite VOMS oracle and migration to SLC4 have been done...
LCGSCM Database Services Status November 4, 2009 LCGR database successfully migrated to new hw (RAC 7) on Wednesday 21.10 Oracle has released the Critical...
January 16, 2007 Oracle January security patch was released yesterday. It does not seem critical but we are still analyzing it. More news in the next days....
LCGSCM Deployment Status Certification You can consult at any time our wiki pages about the work in progress in the integration and the modules development on :...
LCGSCM Data Management Status 2005/2006 Older reports are moved here. Please look at LcgScmStatusDms for the current reports. December 13th 2006 Transfer service...
JamieShiers 30 Jun 2006 23 May 2007 LHCb Slowness in submitting jobs to central WMS at CERN (rb112 and rb117): the single job submission takes one roughly...
LCGSCM Information and Monitoring Systems Status December 13th 2006 SAM team reorganization our team got new people and was split into: production service...
Minutes from the WLCG SCM Status Meeting Instructions for the minutes taker. Update this page with minutes encapsulating them START/ENDLCGSCM tags like below...
JamieShiers 12 Jan 2007 Miscellaneous Infrastructure Services November 26th 2008 Submitted by SteveTraylen Not a service but the index page for this meeting, LcgScmStatus...
LCGSCM Monitoring, Logging Reporting Status SAM UnAvailabilities : SAMProdServUnavail 29 April 2009 Ongoing work to get latest MoU pledges into a DB for...
23 Jan 2007 Gridview frontend will move to new hardware next wednesday. Fully Quattor managed. Other parts of service will move over the next 2 weeks. 16 Jan...
LCGSCM Pre Production Service Status 17 Jan 2007 Status gLite 3.0 Update 16 deployed in PPS (16 Jan 07) (VOMS Admin Update, downgrade of CondorG on lcg RB...
LCGSCM Workload Management Status Oct 21 2009 Status 4 LCG CEs are in production pointing to the SLC5 resources (2 running the latest version of the software...
December 12 2007 Status The NFS server which is used for fail over of the LSF master nodes has been replaced by new hardware, running 64bit SLC4 now Work in...
Security Service Challenge (SSC) This WIKI contains instructions, recommendations and suggestions that are relevant for the LCG/EGEE Security Service Challenge (SSC...
LCG Service Challenges Archive Operations Twiki (please refer to that page instead) Various of the links below are no longer used for operations. wiki...
lcg util All the lcg util man pages can be found here : CLI and API. See also the notes. gfal All the gfal man pages can be found here : API. See also the notes...
Lemon for the CMS SAM client Abnormal situations to be trapped Test submission has stopped (i.e. the cron scripts do not run) Detection At least one of the SAM...
Please put the node in maintenance (see procedure here) when you have to make some intervention on the middleware services, otherwise it will trigger some alarms....
Please put the node in maintenance (see procedure here) when you have to make some intervention on the middleware services, otherwise it will trigger some alarms....
LCG File Catalog (LFC) administrators` guide Authors: Jean Philippe Baud, James Casey, Sophie Lemaitre, Caitriana Nicholson Main Developers: Software: Jean...
Question How do ACLs work in the LFC or DPM Name Server ? Answer ACLs are standard POSIX ACLs. For details, see man lfc setacl or man dpns setacl . If a same file...
Installing LFC and DPM on the same machine ? Is is a good idea ? In a production environment , it is not recommended to install both LFC and DPM on the same machine...
Error When using Mysql 4.1 with either the LFC or the DPM, you get the following error (here in /var/log/dpns/log ) : 09/23 12:19:41 26938 Cns opendb: CONNECT error...
LFC API / CLI All the LFC man pages can be found here : CLI and API. Below is a description of each LFC command / method. LFC Client Timeouts From version 1....
Performance improvment with the usage of LFC Bulk methods In this page we present some results of the bulk methods implemented to improve the performance. Delete...
WLCG home operations Sourcing the ORACLE environment to get a list of available oracle versions at CERN, use the l option $ source /afs/cern.ch/project/oracle...
LFC Concept, Deployment and Usage Best practices 1) LFC Concept From the start, the LFC middleware was NOT designed to be a file system with distributed...
Configuration variables for LFC IMPORTANT NOTE!! : Updated documentation for the configuration of LFC is now under https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/Site info...
Error The LFC daemon crashes regularly with Oracle 10gR2 database backend. What can I do ? Solution You have to use the 10gR2 Oracle Instant Client, instead of the...
Introduction This wiki page presents some results on bulk lfc methods against a LFC which supports encryption. Bulk methods which have been tested There are four...
How to remove an entry in the LFC specifying a GUID First, obtaining the LFN from the GUID using the command: lcg la vo voname my guid Then, using the LFN...
LFC and DPM Build from Sources LFC or DPM can be built from the sources of the LCG DM module http://glite.cvs.cern.ch:8180/cgi bin/glite.cgi/LCG DM/ Build from source...
LFC and DPM Deployment Status LFCs in Production In May 2007, in the EGEE/LCG project, there was: 37 central LFCs, and 73 local LFCs deployed. DPMs in...
Error When installing an LFC or DPM instance, and trying to create /grid for instance, you get the `System error` message. Solution It usually means that the...
LFC General Description Description The LFC (LCG File Catalog) is a catalog containing logical to physical file mappings. Depending on the VO deployment model, the...
LFC Service Help This page will collect all the necessary information and advice on how to : deploy the LFC in the context of the Service Challenges install...
When to run this procedure You should run this procedure when there is an intervention that requires the LFC daemons to be stopped. Usually you will: 1. stop the...
What to log when there is a problem with the service Whenever is a problem in the LFCs that has to be understood, you should log some data. The first thing to do is...
Modify the DB Connection String of an LFC Host Pre requisites First you need these five things: Intervention Schedule an intervention in advance. Contact...
LFC Notes Introduction The LFC provides the file catalog for mapping between logical file names and the physical data location on storage elements. The LFC participates...
Page moved to https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/FIOgroup/ScGridLfcprocList . Please do NOT make changes here. LFC Operations Guide Validating the LFC after...
Introduction This wiki page presents some results on bulk lfc methods. Bulk methods which have been tested There are four methods. Test 3 : int lfc delfilesbyguid...
LFC performance tests with Python API Time series of RTT and LFC response time for LFC host and CE host in the same country lfc.triumf.ca https://twiki.cern...
LFC performance tests with Python API LFC sessions The time needed to establish a LFC session is long, particularly with very distant LFC hosts. The cause...
WLCG home operations How to renew host certificates It should be described at https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/FIOgroup/Certproc But as a summary, what has...
LFC Smoke Test 1) Log into any LCG UI (version 2 4 0). You can also log into lxplus and source the file /afs/cern.ch/project/gd/LCG share/2.4.0/sl3/etc/profile...
Procedure in case of problems with LFC Important : Remember to call the operators (75011) before rebooting any machine, so that they (temporarily) ignore the alarms...
Introduction Here some more results from LFC bulk method rests will be presented Module description delfilesbyguid gets two parameters: list of GUIDs and...
LFC Sessions and Transactions Definitions For more details, refer directly to the lfc starttrans and lfc startsess man pages. Sessions : The connection...
LFC Validation When to run this procedure Lfc validation has to be done every time there is an ORACLE change. This procedure will be triggered by the PSS group (Miguel...
LFC 1.4.5 The LFC version 1.4.5 supports : virtual uids and gids VOMS It means that whenever and whereever you access the LFC, you will always be mapped...
CERN LFC Home Page THIS PAGE NEEDS TO BE REVIEWED This page defines the installation, configuration and the procedures related to the CERN LFC service. This page...
How to split a database backend. Purpose This procedure describes how to take a backend database with multiple VOs in it, and remove a single VO from it. putting...
Title: Consistency between grid storage elements and file catalogue for the LHCb experiment Overview: DIRAC is a framework developed to provide a complete solution...
Major changes to the LHCb Grid computing model in year 2 of LHC data The increase of luminosity in the LHC during its second year of operation (2011) was achieved...
Read only LFC replica check list This page is aimed to help you setting up a read only LFC replica server for LHCb. Check list Site Oracle DB Enable Streams...
LHCb Operational Procedures and Maintainance Summary: We use Lemon to monitor critical services and machine states which proved to be point of failure in the past...
LHCb as seen from EIS. This page collects all LHCb related pages/links, all accounting and monitoring services, all information and short description about mechanisms...
HarryRenshall 06 Mar 2006 LHCb Tier 1 Resource Requirements Timetable for 2006/2007/2008 Last Updated 1.11.2007: Start to add 2008 plans and clarify experiment required...
HarryRenshall 25 Jun 2007 LHCb Distribution of activities over 2006 Month LHCB Requirements March 2006 April May Provide 690 KSi2K of Tier 1 cpu for MC...
DOMA Contribution to the LHCC Computing Review 2021 The 2021 review is over and this twiki space is now closed. The DOMA report has been published and can be found...
Lightweight sites Introduction The GDB`s Lightweight Sites Working Group was created in May 2018 to support sites deploying lightweight site models. The mailing list...
Lightweight sites to end of 2016 This is an archived page, reflecting the status at the end of 2016. Introduction One of the goals of WLCG Operations Coordination...
Lightweight Sites Profile Introduction In transitioning to simpler sites which are easier to install and maintain than a traditional WLCG grid site (`lightweight...
Question How can I know all the replicas stored on a given Storage Element ? Answer The `lfc listreplicax` method allows to do this : it lists all the replica entries...
This page is OBSOLETE, the Dirac components can be retrieved with the Administration application of the new DIRAC web portal gLite WMS wms216.cern.ch (Dedicated...
Back Getting an Account and Logging In Getting an account The interactive logon service to Linux for all CERN users is called LXPLUS. The file service provides...
Grid Log Retention Guidelines Introduction The current minimal Retention policy states that log information must be kept for at least 90 days. This page intends to...
Log analysis and tracing tools Introduction Enquiring what a user is doing or have done using the Grid services deployed both at site and project level is a crucial...
Systen Engineer in the GD Certification and Testing Team My role is to maintain and coordinate the Certification testbed. Track the apt repository contents for the...
LCG Grid Deployment gLite Pre Production Services PPS CERN Admin Procedures If a CE has to use LSF as batch system some particular extra configuration is needed...
Configuration variables for LSF IMPORTANT NOTE!! : Updated documentation for the configuration of LSF is now under https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/Site info...
1 LxCloud testing for CMS jobs This page aims to collect the steps of the work done in order to test CMS private montecarlo and analysis jobs in lxcloud. Contextualization...
LCG Grid Deployment gLite Pre Production Services PPS CERN Admin Procedures UI with AFS access installed as root Basic installation, configuration and creation...
Machine / Job Features Task Force MJF introduction Machine/Job features are a means to provide information from a resource provider (batch system, IaaS) to the payload...
Machine / Job Features Implementations Introduction We aim to have implementations of the Machine/Job Features specification HSF TN 2016 02 for all significant platforms...
Machine / Job Features Rollout Introduction This page summarises the rollout of MachineJobFeatures across sites, with per experiment tables of priority sites and...
Machine / Job Features Specification Introduction In 2015/2016, the MachineJobFeatures WLCG task force produced a revised specification which has been published as...
Machine / Job Features tests and monitoring A SAM/ETF probe for testing the Machine/Job Features functionality from within jobs exists as the Python script WN mjf...
Deployment and Testing of MaDDash and OMD for WLCG perfSONAR PS Monitoring This page documents testing and deploying MaDDash and OMD (Open Monitoring...
LCG Management Board Wiki Modified on: These Wiki pages contain information and links for the members of the Management Board. MB Mandate and Members...
HEPIX October 2019 Amsterdam http://XXX (speaker XXX) CHEP November 2019 Adelaide Quality of Service for cost effective storage and improved performance...
Matthijs` thoughts In MPI, how do the semantics of MPI compare to the semantics of grid computing? Is it, at all, sensible to span a single MPI job over multiple...
1) How can I register as a author in MCDB? 2) What sort of information can I upload to MCDB? 3) How can use my LCG GRID certificate in MCDB? 4) How can I take my article...
Papers 1. P.Bartalini et al., `LCG Monte Carlo data base: (LCG generator services subproject)`, LCG Note, hep ph/0404241 Talks 1. L. Dudko, `Status report on...
How to regester in MCDB as a new author How to upload a new event sample How to create a new generator model Possible ways of using of Kinematic cuts in MCDB
INTEL Workshop on `in core` performance Code examples SMatrix standaloneMinimal.zip: Several of the original performance test programs for Smatrix and SVector...
Meeting 2011 02 16 Participants: Alessandro, Amol, Andrea, Julia, Lola, Maarten, Nicol , Pablo, Stefan, Wojciech Minutes (Andrea) Julia raises the need to be able...
perfSONAR Mesh Leaders Information A critical role for the WLCG Network and Transfer Metrics working group is monitoring and maintaining the world wide...
The following list shows the `mesh` URLs that need to be setup in the agent configuration.conf file. NOTE : Each URL below needs to be added in its own mesh...
Mesh Region/Cloud Contact Information The WLCG perfSONAR PS infrastructure relies upon centrally defined `mesh` configurations to specify which sites, tests and test...
WLCG Messaging System for Grids (MSG) Overview This page contains an overview of the WLCG MSG Messaging System from Grids. This is a solution based around ActiveMQ...
WLCG Middleware Package Reporter Author/Developer: Lionel Cons CERN/IT SDC Introduction As discussed during our meeting, sites must publish the packages they have...
Middleware Readiness WG Mandate To help ensure that operations won`t suffer when a site upgrades to version X of Middleware (MW) package Y, i.e. that versions...
Middleware Readiness WG Archive Note: this is the archive of the first years. A more recent state of affairs is described at MiddlewareReadiness. Mandate...
Milestones Plans Modified on: WLCG : Level Milestones (15.03.06) Areas Milestones : Area Plan (06.03.06) , Area Plan (19.12.05), Fabrics Area (see CERN...
How to set up an HTCondor CE service on a single host The host should at least have 4 GB of RAM and 10 GB of disk space for simple tests, whereas more memory and/or...
Updated March 3, 2023 How to set up a minimal, functional example HTCondor CE cluster First set up a mini HTCondor cluster following the Admin Quick Start Guide...
Slides presented by Alessandra and Antonio, task force coordinators, to start the meeting, which is the followed by discussion among participants (see https://indico...
Minutes for the second Multicore TF meeting. Attendance: Alessandra and Antonio plus Thomas Hartmann, Carles Acosta, Sam Skipsey, Stefano Dal Pra, Jeff Templon, Rod...
T. Hartmann, A. Forti, G. Roy, J. Belleman, D. Traynor, Carles, A. McCrea, A. Perez Calero Yzquierdo A. Filipcic, A. Lahiff, D. Crooks, A. Sedov, Andrea, Stefan Roiser...
recording Unfortunately started after the first talk. Will do better next time. Participants: Alessandra Forti, Alexey Sedov, Alison McCrea, Andrej Filipcic, Andrew...
WLCG Multicore Deployment task force meeting, April 1st. Attendance: A. Filipcic, A. Lahiff, A. McNab, C. Acosta, C. Wissing, D. Crooks, J. Templon, J. Belleman...
WLCG Multicore Deployment task force meeting on April 8th. Attendance: A. Sedov, A. Lahiff, A. McNab, D. Traynor, J. Templon, J. Belleman, J. Hernandez, M. Alef, T...
WLCG Multicore Deployment task force meeting on July 1st. Attendance: A. Sedov, A. McCrea, A.Filipcic, A. Lahiff, A. M. Levin, C. Acosta, C. Wissing, C. Grandi, D...
WLCG Multicore Deployment task force meeting on September 9th. Attendance: A. Chierici, A. Lahiff, C. Acosta, J. Templon, J. Belleman, J. Hernandez Calama, M. Alef...
Presenti: Vincenzo, Giacinto,Roberto, Elisa, Luca M., Riccardo. Luca Dell`Agnello si scusa (assente per GDB). Fatto lo stato di tutte le varie istanze disponibili...
Partecipanti: Vincenzo V. (dirige le danze), Luca D., Luca M., Riccardo, Vincenzo S.,Giacinto,Elisa,Roberto Vincenzo (in discussione con Elisa e Roberto indipendente...
A Machine/Job Features Key/Value Store based on CouchDb This twiki provides information on the setup and administration of a machine/job features key/value store based...
Proposal machine / job features data structure and an interface to retrieve it This page contains a description of a data structure to be proposed to the VOs for retrieving...
Configuration variables for MON IMPORTANT NOTE!! : Updated documentation for the configuration of MON is now under https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/Site info...
MONIT feedback ALICE How much your experiment relies on MONIT infrastructure? EOS dashboards IT services health checks in case of suspected problems...
WLCG Monitoring Task Force Motivation The WLCG Monitoring Task Force is set up following the outcome of the Data Challenge activity. The highest priority task for...
Processing of the WLCG monitoring data using Hadoop. The Worldwide LCG Computing Grid (WLCG) today includes more than 170 computing centres where more than 2 million...
StephenChilds 08 Nov 2007 Configuration variables for MPI IMPORTANT NOTE!! : Updated documentation for the configuration of MPI is now under https://twiki.cern.ch...
MRS PI: METRIC RESULTS STORE PROGRAMMATIC INTERFACE INTRODUCTION programmatic interface provides several queries for retrieving information in various format( JSON...
CERN The data for the MSS metrics is now available online in under the http://sls.cern.ch/sls/service.php?id CASTORTapeInfrastructure Castor Tape Service links...
WARNING Statistical data relative to writing operations are affected by errors in the log files of tape servers (bug in CASTOR rtcpd daemon?) IT INFN CNAF / ALICE...
Multi Core R D BLOGS Reports of R D activities in form activity logs Contributions by developers are welcome as well as comments to existing entries. Vincenzo...
Multi Core R D Project Optimize LHC physics software applications to run on multi core cpus This project is part of the CERN group in the PH DIvision and conducted...
Important : YAIM takes care of this migration automatilly. To upgrade to the DPM version 1.4.1, you need to do two things : run a migration script, so that...
MW OS support details Introduction From the Dec 2021 GDB summary presentation: RHEL, CentOS Stream and 100% Enterprise Linux Clones (ELCs) should be treated...
Myproxy Configuration and Issues in SC3 Overview This document tries to cover the problems seen so far in SC3 with myproxy usage. It describes the long term solution...
MyProxy High Availability Approach MyProxy service is rated as critical. Based on the service criteria, this therefore requires a high availability automatic switch...
MySQL Replication and Backup Introduction To increase reliability of mission critical databases that are using MySQL DBMS there are two simple solutions that can...
Introduction This page documents the tools we use for configuring Nagios headnodes. There are two specific usecases Configuring Nagios for a single VO (ie those...
Nagios ActiveMQ binding Table of Contents Practical information This page explains the new bridging between Nagios and ActiveMQ, that is what was modified and how...
Structure of the NCM components tree /hardware cards nic raid contract cpus disks harddisks headnode rac ram /software components access control afsclt...
Review of the NDGF Critical Probes used for Availability Metrics Calculations NDGF Probes Computing Element ( ArcCE ): All these tests run under OPS VO credentials...
Will your site be willing to participate in the joint tape test? Yes, for both ATLAS and ALICE What is the maximum available tape throughput of the site...
HarryRenshall 25 Jun 2007 Tier 1 NDGF 3 Sites. To provide 9% of ALICE Resources (from 2007) To provide 4.5% of ATLAS resources Month ALICE Requirements ATLAS...
WLCG Network Throughput WG Mandate Ensure sites and experiments can better understand and fix networking issues Objectives Oversight of the perfSONAR network...
The new portal is available for testing and validation https://accounting next.egi.eu/ The views we are mostly interested in are `WLCG` view and `Reports` Portal...
JamieShiers 16 Jun 2006 Monitoring GridView file transfer monitoring SAM Service Availability Monitoring more monitoring pages Support and Operations...
LCG Grid Deployment gLite Pre Production Services PPS Admin Procedures Disclaimer Before a new VO is started in PPS an agreement must be done among all the...
Are you a happy user or admin of the LFC and the DPM ? Your LFC or DPM has been running smoothly, and you could relax instead of banging your head against your computer...
HarryRenshall 25 Jun 2007 Tier 1 NIKHEF Amsterdam. To provide 10% of ALICE July resources To provide 12.5% of ATLAS resources To provide 23% of LHCB resources...
Will your site be willing to participate in the joint tape test? Yes For multi VO site , for which VOs then? ALICE, ATLAS, LHCb What is the maximum available...
How to install a node for the certification Testbed. First Step Install Using the install.sh script in the /afs/cern.ch/project/gd/yaim server/ and use the cluster...
Error You get this: $ globus url copy file:/etc/group gsiftp://my dpm.my.domain/tmp/test.1 error: the server sent an error response: 530 530 No local mapping for Globus...
JamieShiers 23 Jan 2006 The following table gives the data rates in MB/s that must be sustained to each site (to tape) during pp data taking at CERN. Sites must be...
Security Service Challenge (SSC3 9.02) Evaluation Form The Scores are based on the following formula \ $ Score Min\left( 100, DONE \times 100 \times \frac{Target...
Error You get this with srmcp : $ srmcp debug true file://localhost//tmp/hello srm://dpm01.pic.es:8443/dpm/pic.es/home/dteam/testdir2/test srmcp Exception in thread...
HBase Open source BigTable implementation on top of HDFS or other distributed FS in the Hadoop ecosystem. Column based NOSQL database. A stored value is addressed...
Error For instance, you get this : $ lcg cp srm://grid05.lal.in2p3.fr:8443/dpm/lal.in2p3.fr/home/atlas/dq2/file.11 /tmp/test vo dteam the server sent an error response...
Error You get this error : Could not get virtual id: No user mapping ! Solution Check this : permissions/ownership on /etc/grid security/gridmapdir ?...
Will your site be willing to participate in the joint tape test? For multi VO site , for which VOs then? What is the maximum available tape throughput...
OBSOLETE Production AFS grid UI at CERN Contact In case of problems with the CERN AFS UI, please either open a GGUS ticket, or contact the support. To contact the...
DO NOT EDIT THIS PAGE ANY MORE Demos at the LHC Grid Fest @ CERN on Oct 3rd 2008 Nota Bene! This page concerns only the Ground floor of the CERN Globe...
Older Status Reports LCGSCM Workload Management Status Jan. 31 2007 Status lxplus alias changed as scheduled on Monday to SLC4 64 ce110 which has been...
Tier0 Services Required for Service Challenge 4 and Initial LHC Service The following table gives a high level overview of the services required for SC4 and the Initial...
Restrict a pool to one or several VOs/groups By default, a pool is generic : users from all VOs/groups will be able to write in it. But it is possible to restrict...
Use Only for Alarms These addresses are only for alarm purposes and only by a few designed DNs in the Experiments can send emails to them. For daily contact among...
Sites Operations Alarms WLCG decided GGUS ALARM tickets should be used to communicate problems to the Tier 0 and Tier 1 sites. VOMS is used by GGUS as the information...
Release news for EGEE Operations Meeting Agenda Last update of PPSCoordinationWorkLog Now in Production Now in Staged Roll Out Release to production in preparation...
Reports on Pilot Services for EGEE Operations Meeting Agenda Last update of PPSCoordinationWorkLog News and Info Vacancies History Previous posts for EGEE Operations...
PPS status for WLCG/EGEE Operations Meeting Agenda WARNING: This page is obsolete. Please refer to OpsMeetingPilots Last update of PPSCoordinationWorkLog Issues...
Oracle Deployment Note: only Oracle instances with a direct impact on offline computing activities of LHC experiments are tracked here Note: an explicit...
The RPM Oracle distributes doesn`t publish the Oracle Instant Client libraries. Thus no other RPM can explicitly depend on it. We explain here how to build your own...
Operational Security Coordination Team The main OSCT website is located at http://cern.ch/osct/ . This wiki is aimed at enabling all ROCs to collaborate on different...
Summary notes and actions from OSCT 1, CERN, June 21st 2006 All presentations are available on the agenda page No meeting minute taker was found so the following...
Pending Actions (deadline: 19/06/2007) Below is a list of actions on the ROC Security Contacts from the OSCT 2 meeting, which are expected to be completed before the...
ROC Main progress/issues CERN Presented poster regarding EGEE and grid security at CHEP 09. Progress on the incident response procedure following feedback...
ROC Main progress/issues CERN Established some contacts with the NREN (action from EGEE08), received invitation to speak at the next TF CSIRT and TNC09Follow...
EGEE III Activities for the OSCT (TSA 1.4.1, 181 PM) Monthly ROC status update: November 2008 (status of October 2008 activity) December 2008 (status of...
ROC Main progress/issues CERN Working on defining a more strict collaboration between EGEE ROCs and NRENs. A first basic collaboration agreement was defined...
ROC Main progress/issues CERN Has been busy with cross grid coordination of incidents, (preparation of) training and dissemination. Ongoing work on establishment...
Operational Security Coordination Team DRAFT work in progress. This topic contains guidance and notes for the OSCT on handling security advisories and incidents...
OSCT Advisory Template The exact content of an advisory will vary depending on the nature of the vulnerability but the following can be used as a template for construction...
Roadmap for transition towards EGI Throughout its operation the OSCT has developed or identified a whole range of operational tools that are crucial for the OSCT...
Review of the OSG Critical Probes used for Availability Metrics Calculations OSG Services The only authoritative source of information for SAM in terms of OSG services...
Our experiments We shall deploy an experimental grid on these machines, the CE is called `mpitestbed`: lxb1401.cern.ch (137.138.154.136) lxb1405.cern.ch...
Package submission procedure for 2.7.0 (obsolete for next releases) Here is describe the procedure to submit package for the certification. 1. Usually the package...
Pending Actions (deadline is the next meeting) Below is a list of actions on the ROC Security Contacts from the last meeting, which are expected to be completed before...
This page is deprecated as of October 29, 2014. Please update your bookmarks to instead use: https://opensciencegrid.org/networking/perfsonar/deployment models...
Deployment of a WLCG network monitoring infrastructure based on the perfSONAR PS technology The WLCG infrastructure moved from a very rigid network topology, based...
This section describes how to register the perfSONAR service in GOCDB. In order to register you perfSONAR services in GOCDB, you should access the proper section of...
Error You get this : $globus url copy file:///tmp/hello gsiftp:///dpm//home/dteam/testdir2/test error: the server sent an error response: 553 553 /dpm//home/dteam...
Discussions on Busy Storage Services from Thu, 12 Feb 09 15:30 0100 (CET) Starting Time: Feb 12, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Europe/Zurich Duration: 2:00 To join both the web...
Conference details: Starting Time: Feb 26, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Europe/Zurich Duration: 2:00 To join both the web and audio conference (recommended), click here: https...
Intoduction WLCG Tier 1 and Tier 2 VO require to run multicore jobs (SMP) in all the sites. Maui handles mcore scheduling using Backfilling. There are several backfilling...
Will your site be willing to participate in the joint tape test? Yes (maybe) We are performing a massive data migration from the old ORACLE library to the new IBM...
HarryRenshall 31 Oct 2007 PIC Barcelona Site Capacity Growth Plans 2007/2008 Last Updated 31.10.2007: email of 29 October from Gonzalo Merino CPU: We have currently...
Analysis of incident with the SRM service at PIC on 31 Oct 1 Nov: (added by Olof on behalf of Gonzalo) Problem and impact On friday 31st October, at around 16:...
HarryRenshall 26 Jun 2007 Tier 1 PIC Barcelona. To provide 4.5% of ATLAS resources To provide 6% of CMS resources To provide 6% of LHCB resources Month ATLAS...
Go to Planning Wiki LCG Planning Check Lists Grid Sites Use this check list to complete the Tier 1 and Tier 2 sites plans. $ CPU procurement : decisions...
CMS Popularity and Victor Abstract for EGI CF 2012 Title Optimizing the usage of multi Petabyte storage resources for LHC experiments Overview In the last two...
The problem was related to the execution of a query requested by ATLAS operations to re initialize the default group information for some locations (mcdisk, datadisk...
PPS Pilot Follow up Meeting Minutes Thu 30 Apr 2009 Date: Thu 30 Apr 2009 Agenda: na Description: CREAM mini check point (restricted to CMS activity...
PPS Pilot Follow up Meeting Minutes Fri 26 Jun 2009 Date: Fri 26 Jun 2009 Agenda: na Description: Pilot of glexec/SCAS: mini check point (restricted...
PPS Pilot Follow up Meeting Minutes Mon 06 Jul 2009 Date: Mon 06 Jul 2009 Agenda: na Description: Pilot of glexec/SCAS: technical session about deployment...
Pilot Service follow up meeting minutes template Note this block will only appear when viewing the template and not when generating a page from it. This is the template...
Minutes of PPS meetings related to pilots Pilot follow up To create a minutes page for a particular date edit the box below and submit. Create new follow up...
PP Island kick off Minutes Template Note this block will only appear when viewing the template and not when generating a page from it. This is the template for the...
LCG Grid Deployment gLite Pre Production Services Pre Production Coordination PPS Coordination Procedures To start a new VO What you need to do to handle...
LCG Grid Deployment gLite Pre Production Services Pre Production Coordination PPS brainstorming sessions In this page we track meetings where general decisions...
LCG Grid Deployment gLite Pre Production Services Pre Production Coordination PPS Current Programs Deployment test for CA rpms CERN PPS takes part to the process...
LCG Grid Deployment gLite Pre Production Services CERN PPS site PPS CERN Administration Procedures Publish Accounting data Configuration steps to publish...
LCG Grid Deployment gLite Pre Production Services CERN PPS site PPS Contact List PPS Coordination e mail contact: pps support #64;cernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch...
LCG Grid Deployment gLite Pre Production Services Pre Production Coordination Excerpts of this report are automatically published in OpsMeetingGliteReleases,...
LCG Grid Deployment gLite Pre Production Services Pre Production Coordination Current programs of work in the various PPS service areas. User Area Interactive...
Release Cases The mission of the Middleware Preview Services is, in general, to offer previews of new middleware functionalities to interested users. More particularly...
HEP dependency meta package Pilot Home Page Start Date: 18 Jun 2009 End Date (tentative): 20 Aug 2009 Description: Pilot Service of dependency meta package...
The PPS Middleware Pilot Services This page is obsolete, please refer to https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EGEE/PilotServices The new PPS access model is based...
SCAS Pilot Service: Home Page Start Date: 5 Feb 2009 End Date: 15 Jul 2009 Description: Pilot Service of glexec/SCAS @ FZK, IN2P3, Nikhef Coordinator...
SLC5 Pilot Service: Description and Status. Start Date: 1 Nov 2008 End Date: 15 Mar 2009 Description: Pilot Service of gLite SLC5 @ CERN PROD Coordinator...
PPS Pilot Home Page Template Note this block will only appear when viewing the template and not when generating a page from it. This is the template for the meeting...
WMS 3.1 Pilot Home Page Start Date: Fri 13 Feb 2009 End Date: Thu 26 Feb 2009 Description: Pilot Service of gLite WMS 3.1 @ CERN, SCAI CNAF Coordinator...
PPS Pre deployment Test Reports LCG Grid Deployment gLite Pre Production Services Pre Production Coordination Reports for PPS Update 31 From release 31 on...
LCG Grid Deployment gLite Pre Production Services Pre Production Coordination PPS Current Programs Pre deployment Testing in PPS The PPS helps by mandate to...
Pre deployment test of lcg CE General Info Service: lcg CE Version: 1.2.3 2 Baseline: gLite3.0 PPSUpdate: 23 Tester: Mario David Site: PPS LIP OS: SL3 Platform...
Summary of pre deployment test of lcg CE General Info Service: lcg CE Version: Baseline: gLite3.0 PPSUpdate: 23 Tester: Mario David Site: PPS LIP OS: SL3 Platform...
Pre deployment test of glite UI General Info Service: glite UI Version: 1.2.3 3 Baseline: gLite3.1 PPSUpdate: 23 Tester: Mario David Site: RU Moscow KIAM PPS OS...
Pre deployment test of glite UI General Info Service: glite UI Version: Baseline: gLite3.0 PPSUpdate: Tester: Mario David Site: PPS LIP OS: SL3 Platform:...
Pre deployment test of lcg CE General Info Service: lcg CE Version: 3.1.7 2 Baseline: gLite3.1 PPSUpdate: 21 Tester: Mario David Site: PPS LIP OS: SL4 Platform...