Tech Meeting Minutes 20131206

Mark mitchell — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:18:37 GMT

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ScotGrid Technical Meeting 12 June 2013 
 
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Sam S (minutes) 
Andy W 
Gareth R 
David C 
Ewan S 
Mark M (comfy chair) 

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ECDF 
 
Andy: nothing exciting. Only thing we can think of is that we got a ticket from Andrew McNab - re publishing security. It turned out that this was the security patch for the blah parser also resulting in mistakenly regressing another piece of config.
 
Operationally, running fairly smoothly, but still restricted to the SL5 set for ATLAS. Seems to be no momentum from ATLAS to move to SL6. 
 
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Glasgow 
 
Mark: the aircon's "fixed" for 243d (now had almost every single part of it replaced), and seems to have stuck as fixed for now.
Getting some additional test equipment in to do OpenFlow testing work for Extreme. 
Plan for delivery and upgrade of power and aircon underway. Should have a decision made on a tender supplier by the end of July. 

Dave: not much to say. Were at HEPSYSMAN. A good meeting, security training was effective and useful. Since then, tidying up monitoring, looking at some disk housekeeping with our 3ware cards. Monitor - securing, and then going to writeup notes and post them up. Feeling that using stated etc for system metrics, rather than individual ones, to prevent runaway complexity. 
Next on list is that kind of stuff, and dashboards, followed by SNMP. 

Sam: working with DDN on DPM test work, providing local access to Tier2 storage via xrootd (direct I/O). 

Gareth: this week has mostly been ticket wrangling. It does look like we finally have our IPv6 gridftp mesh test box working (thanks to public reverse DNS working for IPv6) 

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Durham 

Ewan: long term aircon issues for the last 6 weeks. Last Wed: supposed to come and fit a new controller card for an AHU - actually got done on Monday. A condenser was also replaced. Temperature now appears to be stable. 
Mike is on with SL6 UIs for our local users. Had some problems with authentication, but think they are resolved.
Starting to play with SLURM for our desktop users. 

Plans for SL6 on grid cluster - waiting on how the SL6 UIs work. 

It was asked if Durham could send an attendee to the Ops meeting on Tuesday. 

AOB 

CHEP funding was discussed. There is still a debate about the funding situation (especially regarding the fraction of funding). 

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Chat Log
 
11:03:59] Mark Mitchell joined 
[11:02:14] David Crooks Hi Ewan 
[11:02:18] Ewan Steele hi 
[11:02:21] David Crooks Just getting set up here 
[11:02:29] Ewan Steele ok 
[11:02:32] David Crooks How are things? 
[11:03:09] Ewan Steele yeah not too bad my daughter had her jabs on tuesday so she is quite mangy at the moment but other than that things are great 
[11:03:11] Ewan Steele you? 
[11:03:33] Gareth Roy CALPOL!!!!! 
[11:03:33] David Crooks Not bad, recovering from HEPSYSMAN 
[11:04:09] Ewan Steele yeah calpol is a wonderful invention... good good 
[11:04:56] Andrew Washbrook joined 
[11:05:01] Mark Mitchell Ewan can you hear me? 
[11:05:05] Ewan Steele no 
[11:05:17] Mark Mitchell now? 
[11:06:23] Mark Mitchell Ewan click the transmitter handset 
[11:06:26] Andrew Washbrook Mark has had too much calpol today 
[11:06:31] David Crooks Or not enough 
[11:06:37] Mark Mitchell more, more 
[11:07:15] Mark Mitchell Ewan going to start with ECDF and get back to you once your audio is sorted 
[11:07:28] Ewan Steele left 
[11:07:44] Ewan Steele joined 
[11:09:21] Ewan Steele i can hear you just not speak 
[11:09:43] Mark Mitchell Ewan are you transmitting? 
[11:13:23] David Crooks https://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=13&sessionId=3&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=242423 
[11:13:35] Ewan Steele thanks 
[11:16:56] Mark Mitchell Ewan is your audio bust? 
[11:17:07] Ewan Steele im gonna take that as a yes it is 2 min 
[11:17:12] Ewan Steele left 
[11:17:44] Andrew Washbrook welcome to film 2010! 
[11:17:56] Andrew Washbrook I hear top gun is quite good 
[11:18:00] David Crooks The new Star Trek with Eric Bana as the bad guy 
[11:18:48] Ewan Steele joined 
[11:21:58] David Crooks If you have a sec, the wiki that they're using to track the SL6 deployment is here https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/SL6DeploymentSites 
[11:22:03] Sam Skipsey dteam 
[11:22:07] Sam Skipsey it's highly secure 
[11:22:52] David Crooks If you don't have access, drop us an email with your plans and I can update it from here (it's only a rough guide) 
[11:23:14] Andrew Washbrook i think we should merge the GridPP technical meeting with the ops meeting 
[11:23:17] Andrew Washbrook for length 
[11:29:47] Gareth Roy left 
[11:29:47] Mark Mitchell left 
[11:29:49] Andrew Washbrook left 
[11:29:52] Ewan Steele left 
[11:29:59] David Crooks left

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Mark mitchell — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:16:25 GMT

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Mark mitchell — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:16:07 GMT

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