On 30 Nov 2011, at 15:11, Jeremy Coles wrote:
> On Tuesday the matter of the WLCG availability calculation no longer including LCG-CEs after December was mentioned. No site reported at the meeting that they did not have a CREAM CE. However this does not necessarily mean everyone is ready for CREAM only - many sites still show an LCG-CE in production:
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> https://gridppnagios.physics.ox.ac.uk/nagios/cgi-bin/status.cgi?servicegroup=SERVICE_CE
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> It would be useful to know if any site is critically dependent on any of these LCG-CEs.
I would suggest that sites that do not have _multiple_ CREAM CE's should probably raise a flag at this point. Two aught to be sufficient for the majority of sites - rather, I expect those site who'll need more than that will have someone who knows that already. I know Durham's on single CREAM, and I think QMUL is too, but that one spends most of it's time whipped.
It's all too easy for CREAM to get itself into knots, and without a second install that's going to adversely affect the availability calculations. The new Blah registry in EMI cream just released is supposed to help with a few of these problems (they closed off one of my long running GGUS tickets, so here's hoping), but it's too early to be certain as yet.
Anyone running just one CREAM CE, without good expectation to have a second one running by end of December?
(Several dairy-related puns deleted, at the risk of milking it.)
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