MarcoWR110117

Monday

• vacation

Tuesday

• Glidein-WMS installation on GC
  • gc1-ui - install missing packages
  • gi-vofe - install i86_64
  • email to Igor
• OSG Production meeting
• Campfire

Wednesday

• Writing about Sites for OSG'

  Gabriele,
  here are a couple of paragraph. I can change that if you give me some feedback:
  
  OSG and its Integration and Sites Coordination activities help improve the quality of grid software
  releases prior to deployment on the OSG and help sites deploy and operate OSG services thereby
  achieving greater success in production. More than 90% of the sites (95% as of 1/18/2011) uses OSG
  1.2, the latest production version.
  
  Novel site administrators benefit greatly from entering in an active and generous community: they
  received training and regular support that can help them starting a grid site from the ground up and
  can exchange ideas with a lot of knowledgeable colleagues. More than once new members coming to OSG
  hands-on workshops have been surprised by the many experts eager to help.
  Also experienced site administrators get advantage from workshops, meetings and being part of the OSG
  community: they can be in touch with software experts and developers and and can "compare notes".
  And networking opportunities can end up helping also in unexpected ways like in hardware procurements.
  More than one site administrator thanked OSG for its "tutoring" approach that made it possible for
  them to understand distributed computing, get started and become independent.
  
  References:
  Site Coordination and meetings minutes (include also hands-on sessions at all hands meeting and site
  administrators workshops):
  http://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/SiteCoordination/WebHome
  Integration:
  Integration activity:
  http://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Integration/WebHome
  Campfire transcripts: https://integrationcloud.campfirenow.com/files+transcripts?n=0&room_id=192189
  

• LHC Tier 3 meeting: http://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Production/Jan19Meeting
  • emails with Andy, Tim, Charles
• OSG AH - talk with experts
  • prepare AC meeting, fix twiki page, announcement for LHC Tier 3s

Thursday

• Meeting about new infrastructure for ITB
  • http://twiki.mwt2.org/bin/view/ITB/NodesAllocation
• skipped VO meeting
• OSG' site accomplishments
  • collection of thank you:

    Hi Gabriele,                                                                                              
    is is difficult to come out with the best success story.                                                  
    Preventive work (testing, improving configuration) is silent: things are                                  
    OK if you don't hear about sites and the fact that production has been                                    
    running pretty smoothly and we could focus on smaller sites and new VOs is                                
    a good sign.                                                                                              
    Campfire has a lot of little stories improving existing sites or helping                                  
    new ones. It has been rewarding to feel the enthusiasm of our friends                                     
    in South America stating thir Grid or the gratitude of colleagues with                                    
    one less problem.                                                                                         
    Here a collection of thank yous from Campfire, some are interesting and                                   
    original:                                                                                                 
    okay thanks.	
    yep - working - thanks a lot!	
    Sure thank you	
    ok, thanks	
    thanks to you too for helpign me understnd	
    Thanks!	
    thanks for all	
    Thanks a lot	
    thanks for the certificates	
    thank you for coming to campfire , I am logging off for the day	
    nice , thank you 
    I will do that . Again, thanks.	
    Thanks for all your help -- it did reveal a systemic problem in doing these tests.
    good to know.. thanks	
    Thank you for helping.	
    thanks, bye	
    thank you for the tip
    thanks for your help.	
    ok, thanks, glad to know.	
    Things are looking good now. Thanks again!
    Thanks!
    Great, thank you
    OK, thanks ... I'll do that and come back to campfire tomorrow if it doesn't work. Thanks again...
    I got it now, thanks 
    That worked for me :), thanks
    Thank you for insisting and woking out the problems
    thanks dude
    thanks for all the help
    thank you so much for all your help
    hey guys really really thanks this is the first public CE for the project in the country	
    ok, thanks
    we did it!!! thanks a lot
    

Friday

• DOC meeting
  • VOMS testing done
  • GUMS testing done: bug fixed, document updated
  • Email to Robert with navigation suggestions for documentation

TODO

• http://crt.cs.wisc.edu/Ticket/Display.html?id=8082 - requires /etc/grid-security/certificates
  • solution proposed to VDT
• https://ticket.grid.iu.edu/goc/viewer?id=9652 - secure twiki behavior

• http://crt.cs.wisc.edu/Ticket/Display.html?id=8230 - VDT update requires to turn off old before starting (before Pacman) GUMS
  • can be closed, will not be solved. Update instructions