NT1 bi-weekly meeting

Wednesday 3 Mar 2021, 13:00 → 14:05 Europe/Copenhagen

Meeting slot for discussions, report on some cool technologies, coming changes , follow-up on activities, etc.

 Zoom link

Operator on duty log

Proposal accepted: Each interventions/importants events will be reported on the operator on duty log. 

Several comments and actions:

• Have a separate repo for this file https://source.coderefinery.org/NT1/Operations/-/tree/master
• Action on Ville to create the file with Markdown format
• Publish the content of this file to the friday wiki (who can do that?)

Prometheus

Decision to replace ganglia by prometheus+grafana

Strategy:

• Populate gradually  prometheus+grafana with the same content that ganglia
  • NDGF nodes
  • dCache pools
  • ARC-CEs
• Transition should be followed up by issue/ticket in gitlab
• Participants: Petter, Jens, Maiken

13:00 → 13:05 News

Speaker: Vincent Garonne (University of Oslo (NO))

News:

• NT1 evaluation started and will finish beginning of May
• FitSM Foundation Training: Remote - 25-26 March
  • Please register at https://indico.egi.eu/event/5436/registrations/680/
  • We should have 5/6 places to offer, suggestions: Gianfranco,  Znikke, Donald ?
• ARC-Galaxy-Ex-PAri NeIC proposal on tracks
• dCache Workshop proposal with tentative agenda
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ITi3I2AhuBYZf88BsKNm-QaRwR4lCJwwuIYo3LxQkkA/
  • Internal deadline: Tomorrow Morning
  • Submission Deadline: 10 March 2021 at 13:00 CET.
• Staff news:
  • Leaving: Michaela

Internals:

• New https://rocket.neic.no/channel/dcache channel to discuss deployment, validation, dev, with Krishnaveni, Jens and myself. If interested, join us!

Highlights:

• First and only dCache site green for the ALICE xrootd 3rd party copy test!
  • http://alimonitor.cern.ch/stats?page=SE
  • Kudos to Krishnaveni
• ATLAS asked us to have webdav/https fully enabled by the 31st of May
  • dCache@ndgf good
  • ARC-CEs not good: 
    • It needs https://bugzilla.nordugrid.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3979
    • It is part of 6.10.1 and the deployment should be followed up

Next meeting:

• 17/03: Ansible tower demo (Darren)

 

13:05 → 13:25 Operator on Duty log

Speaker: Ville Salmela (csc.fi)

13:25 → 13:45 Prometheus demo and discussion as ganglia replacement

Speaker: Petter A. Urkedal (NeIC & NBI)