Minutes Grid Operations Meeting 25 October 2010

Attendance 32 people

- Information: Mario
    - patches in staged rollout
    - glite 3.1 deprecation plan to be approved tomorrow at the OMB.
MD: The plan put in place by gLie team and approved by the WLCG coll. has been approved

- Operational tools deployment: Emir

accounting.egi.eu - accounting portal
metrics.egi.eu - metrics portal

 From SAM/Nagios side, new CA probe development started as you've seen:
  https://tomtools.cern.ch/jira/browse/SAM-877

The CA release version should be obtained authomatically by the nagios probe
Emir waiting for Mario and Kostas to give him the format of the CAs

ARC probes integration started:
  https://tomtools.cern.ch/jira/browse/SAM-751

New release of SAM/Nagios will go to SR next week around Tuesday/Wednesday.

The old ENOC Downcollector will be switched off November 1st
  https://tomtools.cern.ch/jira/browse/SAM-848

New GOCDB is out.

Helene Cordier asked about the current procedure to aprove new tests as critical.
Emir: no clear procedure, using the old one from EGEE
Malgorzata: worked is ongoing for the draft of a new procedure

- ARC-CE problem in the A/R reports and gridview: info received from Emir

I investigated a bit the problem with ARC-CE in Switzerland and found 
out that this problem is being actively solved:
https://gus.fzk.de/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=62074 (this is actualy closed now)
Mattias Ellerl (NDGF) who is in charge or ARC CE monitoring replied 
yesterday with details.

Regarding the ARC CE monitoring it is done by using the old SAM style 
tests. Tests are executed from the machine in Sweden managed by Mattias. 
These tests use the old SAM PI to report the results to the SAM DB. 
GridView then uses the results to calculate availability. For problems 
communication channel is GGUS and it should be assigned to the NGI_NDGF.
In the future ARC CEs will be monitored with the SAM/Nagios infrastructure:
  https://rt.egi.eu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=201
  https://tomtools.cern.ch/jira/browse/SAM-751
Currently we're working on solution how to have both ARC Client and 
gLite UI installed on the same machine.

Regarding the GridView future. The plan is to have ACE 
(https://tomtools.cern.ch/confluence/display/SAM/ACE) component released 
by the end of this year. In the initial phase ACE will provide data to 
GridView which will be used as presentation layer. The next phase is to 
have component in the MyEGI portal which will show the data from ACE. 
There is no exact timeline on this last phase, my guess is the next year.

- COD Issues: Malgorzata

MD: Nest Grid Operations Meeting on the 08 November 14h00 (Amsterdam time)