<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668</id><updated>2011-10-09T11:24:06.524Z</updated><category term='RealTimeMonitor'/><category term='Network'/><category term='Xen'/><category term='evo'/><category term='certificates'/><category term='voms'/><category term='RB'/><category term='security'/><category term='vulnerability'/><category term='CA'/><category term='SL5'/><category term='Transfer Tests FTS'/><category term='SAM'/><category term='Gridmon'/><category term='osX'/><category term='grids'/><category term='Oracle'/><category term='Middleware'/><category term='cfengine'/><category term='iperf'/><category term='Virtualisation'/><category term='Support'/><category term='PKI'/><category term='IGTF'/><category term='schools'/><category term='GGUS'/><category term='GFAL'/><category term='cancelling'/><category term='dissemination'/><category term='Ubuntu'/><category term='Storage'/><category term='testing'/><category term='Databases'/><category term='UKI-SOUTHGRID-BHAM-HEP'/><category term='Monitoring'/><category term='blogs'/><category term='CCRC08'/><category term='Transfer Tests'/><title type='text'>Gridpp Operations</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Alessandra Forti</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nB3QAxoLs5o/SUfJ_bcRvXI/AAAAAAAAARk/nlOg9eaXhaY/S220/patyten_seaOttersSwim.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>50</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-625003968546428863</id><published>2009-01-07T21:03:00.002Z</published><updated>2009-01-07T21:06:21.762Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PKI'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vulnerability'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='security'/><title type='text'>OpenSSL vulnerability</title><summary type='text'>There is a new vulnerability in OpenSSL in all versions prior to 0.9.8j, discovered by Google's security team.  You will be happy to learn that the Grid PKI is not affected by the vulnerability since it uses RSA signatures throughout - only DSA signatures and ECDSA (DSA but with Elliptic Curves) are affected.  (Of course you should still upgrade!)</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/625003968546428863/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=625003968546428863' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/625003968546428863'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/625003968546428863'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2009/01/openssl-vulnerability.html' title='OpenSSL vulnerability'/><author><name>Jens Jensen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-1385679502494392863</id><published>2009-01-05T10:52:00.002Z</published><updated>2009-01-05T11:12:53.855Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='security'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='certificates'/><title type='text'>New MD5 vulnerability announced</title><summary type='text'>In 2006 two different MD5-signed certificates were created.  A new stronger attack, announced last Wednesday (yes 30 Dec), allows the attacker to change more parts of the certificate, also the subject name.  To use this "for fun and profit" one gets an MD5 end entity certificate from a CA (ideally one in the browser's keystore), and hacks it to create an intermediate CA which can then issue </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/1385679502494392863/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=1385679502494392863' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/1385679502494392863'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/1385679502494392863'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-md5-vulnerability-announced.html' title='New MD5 vulnerability announced'/><author><name>Jens Jensen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-6123385614499220914</id><published>2008-12-18T11:00:00.002Z</published><updated>2008-12-18T11:04:25.178Z</updated><title type='text'>IGTF release 1.26 annotated</title><summary type='text'>Folks, you probably saw the announcement, the new distribution came out of IGTF Sunday.Overall the release is not urgent.  I meant to send out an evaluation earlier but ran out of time.--jensAnnotated changes:* Added accredited classic Indian Grid CA (IGCA) (hash da75f6a8) (IN)Good for those folks over in Cambridge working on EUIndiaGrid.  INFNno longer has to be the catch all.* Updated IUCC root</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/6123385614499220914/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=6123385614499220914' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/6123385614499220914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/6123385614499220914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2008/12/igtf-release-126-annotated.html' title='IGTF release 1.26 annotated'/><author><name>Jens Jensen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-4615871300475827951</id><published>2008-12-10T13:51:00.005Z</published><updated>2008-12-10T14:23:02.128Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grids'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dissemination'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='schools'/><title type='text'>Winning hearts and minds?</title><summary type='text'>(Not really operations but this is my least-inappropriate gridpp blog for this...)I was invited by Lambeth City Learning Centre (www.lambethclc.org.uk) to give a talk about "computing and science" to schoolchildren.  They were 14 year olds, it's the first time I've given talks to children.My first main point was that increases in computing performance enables researchers in every single field of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/4615871300475827951/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=4615871300475827951' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/4615871300475827951'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/4615871300475827951'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2008/12/winning-hearts-and-minds.html' title='Winning hearts and minds?'/><author><name>Jens Jensen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-4199177031641819854</id><published>2008-10-09T12:32:00.002Z</published><updated>2008-10-09T12:35:37.349Z</updated><title type='text'>September CPU efficiencies</title><summary type='text'>APEL data provides a view of CPU efficiencies (CPU time/Wall time) across UKI sites. The table here shows the results for September.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/4199177031641819854/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=4199177031641819854' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/4199177031641819854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/4199177031641819854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2008/10/september-cpu-efficiencies.html' title='September CPU efficiencies'/><author><name>Jeremy Coles</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BO5bCLILo9c/SO36TaFbMJI/AAAAAAAAABU/lXIa69LfHns/s72-c/Sept08-eff.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-4425029826618640085</id><published>2008-09-29T08:41:00.003Z</published><updated>2008-09-29T08:56:43.987Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IGTF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='certificates'/><title type='text'>New IGTF distribution 1.25</title><summary type='text'>What's new?  NCHC is back in (Taiwan), new keys not vulnerable to Debian incident. A number of metadata files were updated.There is a new group, the IGTF RAT, Risk Assessment Team, which covers the whole world, timezone-wise (or close enough). The idea is when a vulnerability is announced via the IGTF, the RAT assesses the risk and alerts the CAs concerned. The idea, of course, comes from the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/4425029826618640085/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=4425029826618640085' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/4425029826618640085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/4425029826618640085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2008/09/new-igtf-distribution-125.html' title='New IGTF distribution 1.25'/><author><name>Jens Jensen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-5586474341449193588</id><published>2008-09-09T19:23:00.005Z</published><updated>2008-09-09T19:51:07.063Z</updated><title type='text'>All green</title><summary type='text'>GridMap revealed a brief period of all green on 8th September for GridPP sites. This reflects the hard work many sysadmins have put into getting their sites ready for the LHC first beam on 10th September.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/5586474341449193588/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=5586474341449193588' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/5586474341449193588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/5586474341449193588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2008/09/all-green.html' title='All green'/><author><name>Jeremy Coles</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BO5bCLILo9c/SMbTSIQvgbI/AAAAAAAAABM/iAuIZK-lcQ0/s72-c/all+green+run+8th.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-1038251033210104940</id><published>2008-08-21T15:49:00.002Z</published><updated>2008-08-21T15:58:28.767Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Monitoring'/><title type='text'>Play it again SAM</title><summary type='text'>LHCb have recently made a change to their software install SAM tests - as noted at todays WLCG Daily meeting:Some LHCB specific SAM CE tests were systematically failing everywhere because of a bug in one of the modules for installing software. These tests have been temporary set "not critical" until a fix will be in place and fully tested. However for once Glasgow knew about these failures at 23:</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/1038251033210104940/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=1038251033210104940' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/1038251033210104940'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/1038251033210104940'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2008/08/play-it-again-sam.html' title='Play it again SAM'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-5613134761615881997</id><published>2008-07-02T11:08:00.007Z</published><updated>2008-07-02T12:20:30.630Z</updated><title type='text'>A view on Steve's new network tests</title><summary type='text'>Earlier today Steve released results from his new network tests (see his blog entry). As a first step to looking at the data the plot above shows the scatter of from site b SE - to site a CE results. For this view rates are capped at about 100 Mb/s (which impacts the UCLH-UCLC 164.5; RH1-RH1 764.9 and RH2-RH2 243.1 Mb/s results). As Steve mentions it is too early to draw conclusions but there are</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/5613134761615881997/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=5613134761615881997' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/5613134761615881997'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/5613134761615881997'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2008/07/view-on-steves-new-network-tests.html' title='A view on Steve&apos;s new network tests'/><author><name>Jeremy Coles</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_BO5bCLILo9c/SGtjrYbNHsI/AAAAAAAAAAc/2kXYTlYV9gg/s72-c/network1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-7040533768846433689</id><published>2008-06-20T10:35:00.002Z</published><updated>2008-06-20T10:49:34.082Z</updated><title type='text'>CCRC post-mortem workshop - talk summaries</title><summary type='text'>WLCG CCRC post-mortem workshop – summaryAgenda: http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=23563First part of workshop was on storage. Generally observed that there was insufficient time for middleware testing.CASTOR: Saw SRM ‘lock-ups’ – CASTOR network related. The move to SL4 is becoming urgent. There needs to be more pre-release testing. They want to prioritise tape recalls. [UK: RAL </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/7040533768846433689/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=7040533768846433689' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/7040533768846433689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/7040533768846433689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2008/06/ccrc-post-mortem-workshop-talk.html' title='CCRC post-mortem workshop - talk summaries'/><author><name>Jeremy Coles</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-3626015888136672829</id><published>2008-06-12T11:37:00.005Z</published><updated>2008-06-12T15:36:32.241Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CCRC08'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Monitoring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Support'/><title type='text'>CCRC Post Mortem workshop (day1 - PM)</title><summary type='text'>MonitoringTalk about how everything feeds to gridview, but conveniently skips the lack of detail you normally find in gridview. Mentioned ongoing effort for sites to get an integrated view of VO activity ath their site. Too many pages to look at.Once again 'nice' names for sites were discussed - we want the 'real' name that a site is known as. Network monitoring tools were discussed (well, lack </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/3626015888136672829/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=3626015888136672829' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/3626015888136672829'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/3626015888136672829'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2008/06/ccrc-post-mortem-workshop-day1-pm_12.html' title='CCRC Post Mortem workshop (day1 - PM)'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-5292437665038587383</id><published>2008-06-12T10:17:00.004Z</published><updated>2008-06-12T10:43:16.482Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SL5'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CCRC08'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middleware'/><title type='text'>CCRC Post Mortem workshop (day1 - PM)</title><summary type='text'>More from the CCRC post mortem meetingMiddleware1) No change from normal release procedures. FTM didn't seem to be picked up as a requirement by Tier-1s (however RAL had their own already in place). Problem was that there wasn't a definirive software list, just the changes needed. CREAM is coming (slowly) and SL5 WN perhaps by Sept 08SL5 plans - ATLAS would like to get software ready for winter </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/5292437665038587383/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=5292437665038587383' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/5292437665038587383'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/5292437665038587383'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2008/06/ccrc-post-mortem-workshop-day1-pm.html' title='CCRC Post Mortem workshop (day1 - PM)'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-2929192696938815954</id><published>2008-06-12T07:41:00.007Z</published><updated>2008-06-12T10:16:46.670Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Storage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CCRC08'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Databases'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oracle'/><title type='text'>CCRC Post Mortem workshop (day1 - AM)</title><summary type='text'>Some crib notes from the CCRC postmortem workshop - These should be read together with the Agenda. Where I've commented its parts that I consider particularly useful.Storage1) Castor / StormGPFS vs GridFTP block sizes - GPFS 1MB, SL3 GridFTP 64K, SL4 GridFTP 256KReduced gridftp timeouts from 3600s to 3000sCMS had problems with GPFS s/w area - latency issue [same as ECDF?] - partly due to switch </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/2929192696938815954/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=2929192696938815954' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/2929192696938815954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/2929192696938815954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2008/06/ccrc-post-mortem-workshop-day1-am.html' title='CCRC Post Mortem workshop (day1 - AM)'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-7220267710724412085</id><published>2008-05-07T16:32:00.002Z</published><updated>2008-05-07T16:35:55.188Z</updated><title type='text'>Oracle sick at RAL - GOCDB affected</title><summary type='text'>As has been broadcast several times, RAL suffered a power glitch which has had a bad effect on some services. One of those still outstanding is the GOCDB. See https://cic.gridops.org/index.php?section=rc&amp;page=broadcastretrieval&amp;step=2&amp;typeb=C&amp;idbroadcast=32223 for details.Posted here to raise awareness as people may use the RSS feed..</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/7220267710724412085/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=7220267710724412085' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/7220267710724412085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/7220267710724412085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2008/05/oracle-sick-at-ral-gocdb-affected.html' title='Oracle sick at RAL - GOCDB affected'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-6615548032050169228</id><published>2008-04-28T11:05:00.004Z</published><updated>2008-04-29T08:28:26.217Z</updated><title type='text'>Impact of a SPOF</title><summary type='text'>Last week connectivity to the RAL Tier-1 was affected for many hours due to a large number of firewall connections being left open. The ops SAM tests quickly showed how the Tier-1 can act as a Single Point of Failure with the current setup. The evidence is in this gridpp grid status snapshot in the 24hrs column. Note that Dublin and ScotGrid sites were unaffected as they now run their own RB/WMS </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/6615548032050169228/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=6615548032050169228' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/6615548032050169228'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/6615548032050169228'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2008/04/impact-of-spof.html' title='Impact of a SPOF'/><author><name>Jeremy Coles</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BO5bCLILo9c/SBWxFeqo1nI/AAAAAAAAAAM/6i7xx6Y1Z9A/s72-c/SPOF.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-4065295737044972745</id><published>2008-02-14T11:49:00.002Z</published><updated>2008-02-14T11:54:58.052Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogs'/><title type='text'>Tier1 Joins the Blogosphere</title><summary type='text'>Nice to see the RAL Tier-1 site has a blog over at http://www.gridpp.rl.ac.uk/blog/. I've Duly added it to the GridPP Planet site and picked up this rather useful snippet about the Areca RAID Cards.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/4065295737044972745/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=4065295737044972745' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/4065295737044972745'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/4065295737044972745'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2008/02/tier1-joins-blogosphere.html' title='Tier1 Joins the Blogosphere'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-2843813733679459650</id><published>2008-02-08T11:21:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-02-08T11:36:46.123Z</updated><title type='text'>CERN VOMS woes</title><summary type='text'>People's v-p-inits stopped working - from the CERN VOMS. Turns out the UK CA certs had been taken out, in the mistaken belief they had been revoked... Without consulting me, of course. Apart from a flurry of email, I called Remi this morning asking him to put them back and he said he'd do that today.It was the root cert that was "suspected compromised" (but not "compromised", which is why we're </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/2843813733679459650/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=2843813733679459650' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/2843813733679459650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/2843813733679459650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2008/02/cern-voms-woes.html' title='CERN VOMS woes'/><author><name>Jens Jensen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-8258961374405831085</id><published>2008-02-06T11:41:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-02-06T11:50:30.030Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='osX'/><title type='text'>evo on osX</title><summary type='text'>GridPP uses the evo software for most of its videoconference meetings. It normally works pretty well (espcially when compared to VRVS / Access Grid) and the audio on my mac laptop is suprisingly good without the need of a headset. However, todays java web start did an upgrade to 1.0.8 and broke the video client - it just refused to start.Problem is caused by an incorrect shell script test in ~/.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/8258961374405831085/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=8258961374405831085' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/8258961374405831085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/8258961374405831085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2008/02/evo-on-osx.html' title='evo on osX'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-4741368337815238017</id><published>2008-02-04T17:00:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-02-04T17:49:59.556Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CA'/><title type='text'>Out in the big world</title><summary type='text'>Thought I'd start blogging some CA stuff because a lot of things happen which you may not otherwise hear about (or indeed care about, but at least you have the option). CAs are kind of operational so I thought it fits OK here. It ain't storage, that I know (except see below).Starting in the big world, we now have Ukraine and Morocco on board. I was a reviewer for both. Much of my review work (</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/4741368337815238017/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=4741368337815238017' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/4741368337815238017'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/4741368337815238017'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2008/02/out-in-big-world.html' title='Out in the big world'/><author><name>Jens Jensen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-8765396272795306753</id><published>2007-12-22T15:19:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-12-22T15:26:14.661Z</updated><title type='text'>Running Reliable Grid Services?</title><summary type='text'>Well, Since it was Friday Night, just before Xmas, I thought I'd do what ervery sad geek would do, and fire off a batch of grid jobs to last over the shutdown. However, the voms servers at CERN had other plans:Contacting  lcg-voms.cern.ch:15004 [/DC=ch/DC=cern/OU=computers/CN=lcg-voms.cern.ch] "dteam" FailedError: dteam: User unknown to this VO.Trying next server for dteam.Creating temporary </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/8765396272795306753/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=8765396272795306753' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/8765396272795306753'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/8765396272795306753'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/12/running-reliable-grid-services.html' title='Running Reliable Grid Services?'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-8283339729970434915</id><published>2007-11-28T23:29:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-11-28T23:37:49.430Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Transfer Tests FTS'/><title type='text'>-x</title><summary type='text'>Been debugging apparently slow transfers using FTS (now a 2.0 application....) and discovered a slight change in the UK setup.Previously I just set the total no if files per channel, but I noticed that even with that set high, my dteam transfers were still only popping one file at a time off the list.Turns out that the VO shares now have hard coded limits in which are only visible with the -x </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/8283339729970434915/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=8283339729970434915' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/8283339729970434915'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/8283339729970434915'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/11/x.html' title='-x'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-1115223045121171489</id><published>2007-11-07T10:54:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-11-07T11:01:46.411Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Xen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ubuntu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Virtualisation'/><title type='text'>Virtualisation hassles</title><summary type='text'>Got a shiny new Dell Optiplex 740 (AMD 64 X2 goodness) that I wanted to run request-tracker in a VM on. Installed ubuntu gutsy fine, Installed Xen fine, just wouldn't correctly boot any domU's to completion. I even tried out KVM seeing as it's new hardware that has the 'svm' flags in /proc/cpuinfo. That failed miserably at the modprobe kvm_amd stage with kvm: disabled by bios. Most odd as there </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/1115223045121171489/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=1115223045121171489' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/1115223045121171489'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/1115223045121171489'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/11/virtualisation-hassles.html' title='Virtualisation hassles'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-1452827208218776512</id><published>2007-10-22T20:24:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-10-22T20:32:16.312Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cfengine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ubuntu'/><title type='text'>cfengine gotcha</title><summary type='text'>Not strictly gridpp, but posting this here may save an administrator some sanity...I've just spent the day battling against ubuntu on a lab cluster. The server had successfully upgraded from Feisty (7.04) to Gutsy (7.10) and cfengine refused to work. At all. It was only a minor upgrade in cfengine too - 2.1.20 to 2.1.22.cfagent -qv -d2 hung - even with debugging on cfservd nothing obvious. </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/1452827208218776512/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=1452827208218776512' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/1452827208218776512'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/1452827208218776512'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/10/cfengine-gotcha.html' title='cfengine gotcha'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-5004296004763513893</id><published>2007-10-09T19:37:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-10-09T19:43:17.139Z</updated><title type='text'>Feed Me!</title><summary type='text'>At todays  dteam meeting, there was a discussion about informing the PMB of any significant changes to the infrastructure. As the standard SOP is to use the EGEE Broadcast tool on the CIC portal, it'd be nice if there was say an RSS feed that we could parse and extract UKI significant info into say the planet feed. Anyone care to add comments?</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/5004296004763513893/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=5004296004763513893' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/5004296004763513893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/5004296004763513893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/10/feed-me.html' title='Feed Me!'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-3712592895438187565</id><published>2007-09-30T07:28:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-09-30T07:38:55.082Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Network'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gridmon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Transfer Tests'/><title type='text'>RAL Network performance</title><summary type='text'>Prior to running any transfer tests, I normally check the Gridmon plots for that site, the relevant T2 and RAL T1. Using the (non-default) options of 'Metric data on same graph" and "New graph on new test dest" (and "new test src"), you generally get a good feel for the sites capacity, and any 'slow' links associated with it. Sadly recently the Tier1 seems to be performing dreadfully WRT the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/3712592895438187565/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=3712592895438187565' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/3712592895438187565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/3712592895438187565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/09/ral-network-performance.html' title='RAL Network performance'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e1O4bTZDUPk/Rv9SKmt4dnI/AAAAAAAAACY/dzbE78uMVYs/s72-c/showgraph.php.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-1574649644778956238</id><published>2007-07-11T10:12:00.001Z</published><updated>2007-07-11T10:29:39.152Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Transfer Tests'/><title type='text'>Q3 Transfer Tests</title><summary type='text'>OK, new quarter and time to get down to some testing as I'm well overdue. First up - Lancaster. Apart from some user error at this end (typo in script) it went pretty smoothly and can cope with 25 files in flight happily:ganglia plot from Glasgow end:showing 10,15,20,25 file setting in transfer channelI've also started the Oxford tests, but it seems to be much less happy - When transferring from </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/1574649644778956238/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=1574649644778956238' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/1574649644778956238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/1574649644778956238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/07/q3-transfer-tests.html' title='Q3 Transfer Tests'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e1O4bTZDUPk/RpSuypqQxcI/AAAAAAAAABw/FLuHSqAycjw/s72-c/gla-ganglia-network.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-1405679655729536656</id><published>2007-07-04T13:57:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-07-04T14:07:35.915Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogs'/><title type='text'>Corporate Makeover</title><summary type='text'>Thanks to Neasan O'Neill, the Planet GridPP page now has a shiny new stylesheet to match the main GridPP site.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/1405679655729536656/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=1405679655729536656' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/1405679655729536656'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/1405679655729536656'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/07/corporate-makeover.html' title='Corporate Makeover'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-8299922026484057523</id><published>2007-06-06T11:01:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-06-06T11:05:48.630Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogs'/><title type='text'>planet.gridpp.ac.uk</title><summary type='text'>I'd been trialling planet, the RSS aggregator for a few months now, and I'm fairly pleased with it. So much so that it's now official :-)http://planet.gridpp.ac.uk should now show you, in a single place all the various Tier-2, operations and storage blogs. If there are any others that people want adding, drop me a note.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/8299922026484057523/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=8299922026484057523' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/8299922026484057523'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/8299922026484057523'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/06/planetgridppacuk.html' title='planet.gridpp.ac.uk'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-4248492684949757321</id><published>2007-06-01T20:51:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-06-01T21:11:02.290Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Transfer Tests'/><title type='text'>srm-advisory-delete</title><summary type='text'>OK, I'll admit I occasionally rant about some things I consider "bad", but I'm afraid deleting files from grid storage is just Painful. to delete 490 (I nuked the first ten within the inner $i loop as a test of xargs) files I ended up with this nasty nasty hack:for j in `seq -w 2 49 ` ; do for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ; do echo -n "srm://$DPM_HOST:8443/dpm/gla.scotgrid.ac.uk/home/dteam/rt2-gla-5-</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/4248492684949757321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=4248492684949757321' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/4248492684949757321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/4248492684949757321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/06/srm-advisory-delete.html' title='srm-advisory-delete'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_e1O4bTZDUPk/RmCLR-3p4uI/AAAAAAAAABQ/2Ps5vRx-lTQ/s72-c/dteam_used.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-7307450093192424107</id><published>2007-05-30T20:12:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-05-30T20:19:58.142Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Transfer Tests'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iperf'/><title type='text'>iperf between Gla-Bristol</title><summary type='text'>In preparation for some serious testing of Bristol's StoRM implementation, Jon and I worked together to run some iperf tests so we know what our target is for FTS tests. Plot below - looks like we've got a 500Mb/s maximum. </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/7307450093192424107/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=7307450093192424107' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/7307450093192424107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/7307450093192424107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/05/iperf-between-gla-bristol.html' title='iperf between Gla-Bristol'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e1O4bTZDUPk/Rl3cRiMawnI/AAAAAAAAABI/F7mGhtxF52I/s72-c/iperf_bris-gla.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-521929063080837453</id><published>2007-05-16T23:13:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-05-16T23:18:31.982Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='RealTimeMonitor'/><title type='text'>Wouldn't it be cool if....</title><summary type='text'>Someone could hack something like flickrvision into the realtime monitor. hmmmm.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/521929063080837453/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=521929063080837453' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/521929063080837453'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/521929063080837453'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/05/wouldnt-it-be-cool-if.html' title='Wouldn&apos;t it be cool if....'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-3579348927730947420</id><published>2007-05-14T22:14:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-05-14T22:21:11.493Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Transfer Tests'/><title type='text'>Transfer Channel wiredness</title><summary type='text'>As I still haven't completed this quarters round of transfer tests I decided to set up all the scripts and prereqs for doing each T2. Ran my little perl script to get the current (pre-tuned) values for the transfer channels and noticed that they were all set to 5. Nope, my script hadn't broken (more than originally designed anyway) - it looks like someone changed 'em. Why?Site           From RAL</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/3579348927730947420/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=3579348927730947420' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/3579348927730947420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/3579348927730947420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/05/transfer-channel-wiredness.html' title='Transfer Channel wiredness'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-6799465902271031717</id><published>2007-04-30T15:11:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-04-30T15:44:21.006Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Network'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Transfer Tests'/><title type='text'>You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!</title><summary type='text'>Apart from the Spring HEPiX 2007 meeting last week (which was excellent BTW - I'll do a proper writeup soon) I have been pushing on with Transfer tests. Rather than risk stressing the RAL CASTOR service too much while we work on improving the individual T2 sites, Chris Brew (RAL T2) was v helpful and we've been using their dCache pool (lots of beefy disk servers and some spare capacity) to push </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/6799465902271031717/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=6799465902271031717' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/6799465902271031717'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/6799465902271031717'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/04/youre-only-supposed-to-blow-bloody.html' title='You&apos;re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-8543731639360382093</id><published>2007-03-28T09:59:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-03-28T11:12:42.875Z</updated><title type='text'>IGTF release 1.13</title><summary type='text'>As you may have seen, there is a new IGTF release.  In case they are still hiding the changelog from you, here is my annotated version:* Added BG.ACAD CA accredited under the classic profile (BG)This is Bulgaria.  They are new - welcome on board.* Added SWITCHaai SLCS and (classic) Root CA (CH)  NOTE: the SWITCHaai SLCS CA is included in the ca_policy_igtf-slcs bundleAh.  This one is a biggie.  </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/8543731639360382093/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=8543731639360382093' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/8543731639360382093'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/8543731639360382093'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/03/igtf-release-113.html' title='IGTF release 1.13'/><author><name>Jens Jensen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-4670572187261930240</id><published>2007-03-23T11:01:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-03-23T11:08:10.609Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Network'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Transfer Tests'/><title type='text'>Transfer Slowdown</title><summary type='text'>This week (apart from the GridPP 18 meeting) I have been trying to complete the transfer tests, but am getting terrible rates out of RAL. The CERN Network Stats To RAL Don't look too excessive:But the iperf stats out of RAL have plummeted - The RAL-Lanc (who even have a private lightpath) one below is typical.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/4670572187261930240/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=4670572187261930240' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/4670572187261930240'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/4670572187261930240'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/03/transfer-slowdown.html' title='Transfer Slowdown'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_e1O4bTZDUPk/RgO0bF9clnI/AAAAAAAAAAg/dJLf52g2CeI/s72-c/Gen_IF_Port_l513-c-rftec-1_67960891_l513-c-rftec-1_67960891_Traffic_Flow__end+-+1w.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-3316057572366839196</id><published>2007-03-13T10:35:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-03-13T10:43:43.037Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UKI-SOUTHGRID-BHAM-HEP'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Transfer Tests'/><title type='text'>Sponsored by "No space left on device"</title><summary type='text'>Dear root@Birmingham,I broke your systemWell, I blame the filetransfer script - It uses your (long lifetime) myproxy for the transfers and the shorter voms-proxy for the delete. Result: one filled up disk when my voms proxy expired. Seems to have recovered OK.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/3316057572366839196/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=3316057572366839196' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/3316057572366839196'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/3316057572366839196'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/03/sponsored-by-no-space-left-on-device.html' title='Sponsored by &quot;No space left on device&quot;'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_e1O4bTZDUPk/RfZ_o5t_1BI/AAAAAAAAAAY/E-9VhpRHRgo/s72-c/brum_diskfree.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-8896668165331325350</id><published>2007-03-09T07:31:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-03-09T07:45:37.163Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Transfer Tests'/><title type='text'>Prettification</title><summary type='text'>With a hat-tip to xkcd I decided to knock up an ugly script to convert this:aelwell@ppepc62:~$ ls tra*06T*.logtransfer-2007-03-06T09-52-38.log  transfer-2007-03-06T14-38-59.log  transfer-2007-03-06T19-06-22.logconsisting of blocks like Transfer: srm://ralsrma.rl.ac.uk:8443//castor/ads.rl.ac.uk/prod/grid/hep/disk1tape1/dteam/j/jkf/castorTest/1GBcanned000 to srm://svr018.gla.scotgrid.ac.uk:8443/dpm</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/8896668165331325350/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=8896668165331325350' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/8896668165331325350'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/8896668165331325350'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/03/prettification.html' title='Prettification'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-1172235398887343690</id><published>2007-03-08T10:41:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-03-08T10:45:39.507Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='voms'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Transfer Tests'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GGUS'/><title type='text'>voms proxy issues</title><summary type='text'>Another day, another pile of transfer tests. Or not. Problem renewing my voms-proxy.voms.cern.ch bombed out with:Error: Could not establish authenticated connection with the server.GSS Major Status: Unexpected Gatekeeper or Service NameGSS Minor Status Error Chain: an unknown error occurredso I raised GGUS Ticket (19457)</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/1172235398887343690/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=1172235398887343690' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/1172235398887343690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/1172235398887343690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/03/voms-proxy-issues.html' title='voms proxy issues'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-102774854446003051</id><published>2007-03-08T09:11:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-03-08T09:14:15.219Z</updated><title type='text'>Old Logs Available</title><summary type='text'>There is a new link on my ATLAS tests page "All Logs" which allows one to look at old log and output files. These can be filtered by institute. It's a bit flaky because the webserver isn't really up to it. Logs before February 8 have been lost.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/102774854446003051/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=102774854446003051' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/102774854446003051'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/102774854446003051'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/03/old-logs-available.html' title='Old Logs Available'/><author><name>Steve Lloyd</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://www.ph.qmul.ac.uk/view_image.php?id=19'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-1801827320015226030</id><published>2007-03-05T13:33:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-03-05T13:36:52.481Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Transfer Tests'/><title type='text'>Transfer Tests Milestones</title><summary type='text'>Started to work on the Q1 transfer tests (hey, I know I only have a month to go) - Stub on the Wiki at http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/2007-Q1_Transfer_TestsNext step this afternoon is to try and get the experiment dress rehersal timetable and ensure we're not clashing</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/1801827320015226030/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=1801827320015226030' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/1801827320015226030'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/1801827320015226030'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/03/transfer-tests-milestones.html' title='Transfer Tests Milestones'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-1081860848696961382</id><published>2007-03-01T10:16:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-03-01T15:33:31.004Z</updated><title type='text'>{{wikify}}</title><summary type='text'>Following Jeremy's posting to the gridpp-dteam gently reminding us all that the wiki was in need of a tidy, I decided to take a look at some stats:There are currently 92 Uncategorized pages and there are 52 Categories. I guess I'll start by categorising the uncategorised pages, then creating stubs for those that are presently the most requested (ie, we've created a hanging link) - see List of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/1081860848696961382/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=1081860848696961382' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/1081860848696961382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/1081860848696961382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/03/wikify.html' title='{{wikify}}'/><author><name>Elwell</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~aelwell/mugshot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-6992428437590405659</id><published>2007-02-23T10:13:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-02-23T10:16:02.312Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SAM'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='testing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GFAL'/><title type='text'>SE-posix test</title><summary type='text'>Here is a summary of a set of grid jobs that I ran yesterday to test posix access to site SEs. The job will eventually become the SAM test for this type of storage access. In summary it lcg-cr's a small test file to the SE, then reads it back again using a GFAL client, checks for consistency and then deletes the file using lcg-del.srm.epcc.ed.ac.uk                       Passedsvr018.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/6992428437590405659/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=6992428437590405659' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/6992428437590405659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/6992428437590405659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/02/se-posix-test.html' title='SE-posix test'/><author><name>Greig A Cowan</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-6341224644429857605</id><published>2007-02-19T14:48:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-02-19T15:23:28.129Z</updated><title type='text'>ATLAS Tests Status</title><summary type='text'>Replicas: Finally managed to make a replica at Durham (strange bug discovered). Only Sheffield now outstanding (not the same bug). My analysis jobs now run at Durham (most of the time).There was a screw up on Friday when my proxy expired and this stopped everything till I sorted it out in the evening. I think I've deleted all the jobs from the record so they don't enter the statistics.Current </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/6341224644429857605/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=6341224644429857605' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/6341224644429857605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/6341224644429857605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/02/atlas-tests-status_19.html' title='ATLAS Tests Status'/><author><name>Steve Lloyd</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://www.ph.qmul.ac.uk/view_image.php?id=19'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-167227698305048997</id><published>2007-02-13T17:39:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-02-13T14:07:56.799Z</updated><title type='text'>camont not yet enabled on CEs</title><summary type='text'>Thanks to Mona the Imperial RBs are now set up to accept camont jobs (both production RB (gfe01) and testzone RB(gm02)). Unfortunately no CEs yet seem able to take the jobs:"edg-job-list-match hostname.jdlSelected Virtual Organisation name (from JDL): camont.gridpp.ac.uk Connecting to host gfe01.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk, port 7772   ===================== edg-job-list-match failure ======================  </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/167227698305048997/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=167227698305048997' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/167227698305048997'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/167227698305048997'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/02/camont-not-yet-enabled-on-ces.html' title='camont not yet enabled on CEs'/><author><name>Jeremy Coles</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-3894439322997054679</id><published>2007-02-13T14:06:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-02-13T10:10:44.737Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SAM'/><title type='text'>Querying SAM</title><summary type='text'>You can query the SAM results by installing lcg-sam-client from the CERN  repository on a UI. Once installed and you have a proxy, it is possible  to run commands like this:$ /opt/lcg/same/client/bin/same-query nodename voname servicestatus  sitename=ScotGrid-Edinburgh serviceabbr=SEyou will also have to set the SAM_SERVER_HOST to lcg-sam.cern.ch. There  is a config file in /opt/lcg/same/client/</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/3894439322997054679/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=3894439322997054679' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/3894439322997054679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/3894439322997054679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/02/querying-sam.html' title='Querying SAM'/><author><name>Greig A Cowan</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-8657212050268600769</id><published>2007-02-13T09:36:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-02-13T09:43:54.016Z</updated><title type='text'>ATLAS Tests Status</title><summary type='text'>I still haven't managed to make replicas at Durham and Sheffield. The one at Liverpool was deleted by persons unknown but is now back.There were serious problems with the IC RB on Thursday/Friday last week which caused the whole system to collapse. Now using RAL RB again.Overall success is currently 74%. All sites are working pretty well except Bristol, Edinburgh, UCL Central and QMUL. QMUL was </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/8657212050268600769/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=8657212050268600769' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/8657212050268600769'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/8657212050268600769'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/02/atlas-tests-status.html' title='ATLAS Tests Status'/><author><name>Steve Lloyd</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://www.ph.qmul.ac.uk/view_image.php?id=19'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-3729989198784015328</id><published>2007-02-12T14:03:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-02-12T14:01:59.961Z</updated><title type='text'>Replica disappeared</title><summary type='text'>My replica at Liverpool has disappeared for no apparent reason. I tried to recreate it but get obscure errors:java.rmi.RemoteException: SRM Authorization failed;...</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/3729989198784015328/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=3729989198784015328' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/3729989198784015328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/3729989198784015328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/02/replica-disappeared.html' title='Replica disappeared'/><author><name>Steve Lloyd</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://www.ph.qmul.ac.uk/view_image.php?id=19'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-2002356527347877665</id><published>2007-02-12T13:52:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-02-12T13:49:48.769Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cancelling'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='RB'/><title type='text'>RB Problems</title><summary type='text'>Since last Thursday (8/2) all my jobs were reported  as "running - unavailable" and by the weekend my whole system was screwed up. I cleaned everything up and switched from the IC RB to the (2nd) RAL one. Everything seems to be OK again now. In case it has something to do with it, if I now cancel a job I mark it as cancelled in my log and don't wait to see if the status is "Cancelled" the next </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/2002356527347877665/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=2002356527347877665' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/2002356527347877665'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/2002356527347877665'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/02/rb-problems.html' title='RB Problems'/><author><name>Steve Lloyd</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://www.ph.qmul.ac.uk/view_image.php?id=19'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-2405975954343667807</id><published>2007-02-09T10:28:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-02-09T09:27:34.173Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CA'/><title type='text'>EU PMA Version 1.12 out</title><summary type='text'>Version 1.12 of the EU PMA certificates are available.  Since LCG in their infinite wisdom sometimes don't tell you the content, here's what's new, with my annotations: * Extended life time of root certificate for SlovakGrid (SK)* Extended life time of root certificate for PolishGrid (PL)These will cause headaches for people with NSS-based browsers, like Moz and FF, but only for people with certs</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/2405975954343667807/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=2405975954343667807' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/2405975954343667807'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/2405975954343667807'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/02/eu-pma-version-112-out.html' title='EU PMA Version 1.12 out'/><author><name>Jens Jensen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-477896081364595668.post-3999809393613827736</id><published>2007-02-08T14:32:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-02-08T14:31:26.934Z</updated><title type='text'>SE issues</title><summary type='text'>We now have SE issues being discovered and reported in a number of ways. It would be useful to list the main ones and any resolutions that have been found so far.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/feeds/3999809393613827736/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=477896081364595668&amp;postID=3999809393613827736' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/3999809393613827736'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/477896081364595668/posts/default/3999809393613827736'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gridpp-ops.blogspot.com/2007/02/se-issues.html' title='SE issues'/><author><name>Jeremy Coles</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
