Subject:
GD Group Report for C5-15-Aug
From:
Laurence Field <Laurence.Field@cern.ch>
Date:
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:52:47 +0200
To:
<c5-members@cern.ch>


LCG deployment
==============

- Total number of Sites : 261

- Status -> Num. Sites :
 ok       -> 204
 degraded ->  14
 down     ->  43

- Software -> Num. Sites :
 gLite-3_1_0  -> 222
 gLite-3_0_2  ->  25
 gLite-3_0_0  ->   1

- Average of concurrently running jobs during this week : 31.0k


CERN ROC Report
============                                                                                                

* Site SDU-LCG2, previously suspended has been re-integrated in production.

* Certification of CBPF is in final phase.


SAM REPORT
==========

Production Service
==================

  - SAM server (lcg-sam) alias now points to a cluster of 2 machines
      (monb004, monb005) load-balanced
  - lcg-sam-server-ws-0.12.0-1 installed in production with necessary
      configuration put into CDB (quattor)
      See SAM Release wiki pages for lcg-sam-server-ws
      (https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/SamReleaseWs)
      for more details
  - XDK quattor component put into production

Unvavailabilities:
------------------

  From:   13-08-2008 (Wed) 11:10    To:     13-08-2008 (Wed) 12:40       Description:    Job Submission problem. Some sites got WARN for CE-sft-job       Details:        Typo in a config file.
  Impact:     minor
  Affect:     This DIDN'T affect sites' availabilities 
 From:   13-08-2008 (Wed) 00:00 UTC
 To      14-08-2008 (Turs) 09:00 UTC
 Description:    LCF-writefile test switched as critical
 Impact:     minor
 Affect:     site availability affected temporarily
 (will be fixed by Gridview Team)
 Details:    still being investigated


CERN GRID Pre-Production Site (CERN_PPS):
================================

* Pre-deployment test for PPS-update 35
  - FTS  and  AMGA server : DONE

* PPS AFS UI upgraded to gLite3.1.0 Update 34
An issue  was found in YAIM configuration. Bug  was opened.
https://savannah.cern.ch/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=39910


EGEE Pre-Production Service Coordination:
=============================

2008-08-12: *gLite3.1 PPS Update35* was released to PPS
and it is now undergoing pre-deployment test. This updates a hot bugfix for the FTS production release. Apart from this the latest globus VDT packages (v.1.6.1-7) are updated which affect many node types. The included GFAL update fixes several bugs.

2008-08-12: after pre-deployment testing PPS sites are now upgrading to
*gLite3.1 PPS Update34*. This update contains

  * Removes about 40MB of not needed dependency.
  * Major changes in YAIM minor bug fixes in dcache plus the inclusion
    of Chimera in dCache, and can be configured via YAIM.
  * A new version of the dcache YAIM module has been compiled by Maria.
  * Update on LFC and DPM
  * Updated version of CREAM_ce, leaned of unnecessary packages which
    were delivered with PPS update 33 (PPS-glite-CREAM_ce-3.1.1-0).

Testing Report 14/08/08
=================
* Certification

Patches certified;

patch #2048: R3.1/SLC4/x86_64: FTS SL4 bug fixes for gridftp transfers

Issues found with proxy-renewal (patch #1947) and LB (patch #1803) updates.

Still awaiting voms-core updates to deal with current production issues.

* Testing

Preparation of the certification testbed for SL5 nodes.

Generalisation of VOBOX tests (based on the existing Alice-specific code).