Archived Agenda Items

DC 25/2 Moved a number of items here in an effort to keep the Agenda easy to go through.

• Some are complete and need to be marked as such in previous minutes - will work on that this week.
• Others are still ongoing and will find there way back on to the Agenda

New Items

Format: DD/MM (Who) Short Description. Copy to Ongoing if necessary so we can see when things started.

• 25/2 (Vlad) Changes to auditquery and pbs.pm for information about users running jobs (instead of requirement for delegated proxy)
• 25/2 (Daniel) All need to have EVO working - who does not? Requires TCP/80 (proxy works, except for file sharing) and UDP/46015
• 25/2 (Daniel) ARCS jabber - who is not using?
  • Youzhen, firewall - needs TCP/5222, progress?
• 21/2 (Markus) Killing jobs still a problem at SAPAC. VPAC problem fixed by changes to Grisu code.
  • 25/2 (Daniel) Will investigate soon
• 19/2 (Markus) New beta versions of Grisu, GRIX
  • 25/2 (Daniel) Please all try before next meeting
• 18/2 (Steve) All sites need to update GridFTPServers. Will follow up next meeting on progress with gridftp-CLUSTER.DOMAIN

For next data meeting:

• 18/2 (Florian) Updated SPEC files for RPMs by Florian
  • have since discussed with Steve - should we use RPM for parts like GridFTP since it can confuse what is installed by VDT. An RPM that uses a post-script to install VDT package should probably not indicate version of VDT package in it's own version!

• 11/2 (Andy) vmsplice exploit
• 12/2 (Simon Diong) SRB copy - license issues
• 12/2 (Vlad) shutdown order
• 13/2 (David) AAF attributes
• 13/2 (Markus) GRIX improvements - certificate checks
• 14/2 (Darran) Gtorque-client - third party packages ...
• 14/2 (Ashley) License issues - Grix ...
• 14/2 (Chris Samuel) Grid pulse email address (actually PBS logs)
• 18/2 (Youzhen) VDT 1.8.1i

• 5/2 (Vlad) mysql, globus startup order
• 5/2 (Markus) Commercial software Complicated Discussion
• 5/2 (David) Gateway migration strategy for Grisu
• 7/2 (Daniel) Issues with new projects.gridaus.org.au - all fixed, thanks Youzhen
• 7/2 (Vlad) PBS job tagging
• 7/2 (Gerson) myproxy issues
  • 7/2 was nscd
  • 11/2 hierarchy for tests will be useful and provide good problem solving resource for us
• 11/2 (Vlad) Delegated proxy security
• 11/2 (Daniel) Checking VDT1.8/Gridpulse on GOC: http://goc.grid.apac.edu.au/
  • Okay: AC3, UQ, iVEC, ANU, QUT, SAPAC, TPAC, VPAC
  • : ng2.hpsc.csiro.au, Canterbury, Aukland

• 21/1 (Daniel) Outstanding data group request for gridftp.cluster.site
  • 4/2 We have all agreed that gridftp-cluster should be possible
• 23/1 (Vlad) MDS information for BeSTGRID
  • 4/2 Recent updates should have fixed this
• 30/1 (Ashley) What does a new VO do - documentation requried
• 30/1 (Daniel) License discussion GPL2/Apache2, See: http://projects.gridaus.org.au/trac/systems/wiki/LicenseOptions
  • 4/2 Agreed on Apache2 as the most appropriate for ARCS projects
• 31/1 (Daniel) Release notes for ng2/gridpulse upgrades, See: http://projects.gridaus.org.au/trac/systems/wiki/ReleaseNotes/080125
• 1/2 (Andy) Jabber server arcs.org.au now online.
  • 4/2 TLS required, Mac clients will need to import CA certificate!
• 1/2 (Ashley) projects.gridaus.org.au

Ongoing

New Items (to sort out still)

• 14/1 (Darran) jobs not terminating properly using command line client (eg. sleep 1hr, terminate 1min)
• 14/1 (Daniel) do we need an ngportal anymore? NZ are using for MrBayes (with MDS support). Markus has tomcat connector issues with CentOS5 (ticket created)
• 16/1 (David) change gridpulse to use grid_pulse@gridaus.org.au (discussion Daniel/Vlad about NTP - independent wall clock)
• 15/1 (Ryan) GLUE requirements
• 16/1 (Steve) location of user data
  • 17/1 (Gerson) execution environment information
• 17/1 (Darran) Change to host based authentication
• 18/1 (Daniel) Certificate expiration message should suggest Grix if possible and/or new twiki link
• 21/1 (Daniel) Acceptable Use Policy - is it every year?
• 21/1 (Daniel) New gridpulse, status Not OK - CRL not found (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Teleinformatikdienste, Fermilab, National Center for Supercomputing Applications)

In some order of priority. Try and keep this list small, some belong in SmallProjects or RT. TODO: move some of the items from SmallProjects to this Agenda, in order with dependencies?

14/1 (David) arcs.org.au email addresses

• everyone will have an alias. Let David/Andy know where it should go - not gmail, yahoo ...

10/1 (Vlad) Missing audit info in VDT1.6 better in 1.8

• 14/1 (David) still not quite right? TPAC updated so keep an eye on their log messages?

9/1 (David) VDT 1.8.1 Audit database/upgrade process, Andy renamed VPAC gateway

• 14/1 need documented upgrade process - check PBS queue, ...

7/1 (Terry) User cert howto

• 14/1 (David) lots to work on, have moved some core docs, some belong on ARCS web site

18/12 (Darran) GRAM performance

• 14/1 haven't tested yet

3/1 (Ashley) Trac Internal Server Error

• 7/1 (Youzhen) out of resources, new system online soon with CentOS5.1
• 14/1 (Youzhen) migrating to new host
• 14/1 (Markus) Ticket problems - possibly related to ticket content

10/12 (Ashley) ACL per queue support in MDS. Generate from gums.config ...

• 17/12 Some discussion ( TODO: Summary - Daniel)
• 3/1 Email from Steve
• 7/1 Long discussion, leading to storage issues/environment ...

4/12 (Leigh) TPAC ng2 accepts local jobs only

• 11/12 Rebuilding with VDT1.8

4/12 (Markus) Help desk integration with tools like Grisu - where should the tickets go? RT or Trac

• 10/12 Discussed at length ( TODO: Summary - Daniel)

3/12 (Markus) Job references lost after container restart

• 4/12 (Vlad) has noticed they normally survive restart (some lost with errors in log)

29/11 (Markus) Automatic VO membership discussion

• 6/12 (David) Simpler VO membership - hints from Graham to limit wall time
• 14/1 Sam will be working on this now

3/12 (Gerson) Info Systems related twiki pages have been moved to the ARCS wiki, problems with VPAC information

30/11 (Sean) Firewall issues iVEC, TAFE, GGC

3/12 (Daniel) Format of OpsMeetingAgenda, Minutes and use of SmallProjects. Should RT be used for the equivalent of Action Items - specific short term things that must be resolved?

29/10 (Daniel) BackupPolicy

• 3/12 requested input from Youzhen, Andy, Darran and Will. Linked to GridAdminInstructions
• 3/12 Youzhen will attach backup script. But we still need a written summary!

26/11 (Gerson) INCA/RT ticket ownership assignment

• should we assign? who to notify?
• 26/11 auto-assign primary contact by site, add other site contacts as Cc (a better alternative to adding an alias user in RT)

26/11 (Darran) GUMS mapping

• iVec having problems with gridftp servers which still use static mapfiles.

-- DanielCox - 25 Feb 2008