Hello
Just to reply, yes I will in the meeting today and can talk briefly about the TEG but people can also connect to the pre-GDB next Tue which is all about TEGs.
And, yes, we should cover operational items some of which were brought up in ops meeting yesterday.
See you in 10.
Wahid
On 31 Jan 2012, at 17:00, Jens Jensen wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I am currently (and will be also tomorrow) visiting HP. I did bring my headset and time permitting may be able to connect back to the storage meeting - I also tested EVO and it seems to be not firewalled off - but in case I am not able to connect, don't wait for me...
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> The main thing for tomorrow is to provide feedback from the Storage (and Data Management) TEGs - if Wahid is there?
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> Also, it may be worth picking up on the recent discussions from the list, such as the space tokens for non-small non-LHC VOs and checksumming scripts.
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> If there is time (and this is related to the TEG) it would also be worth discussing plans for testing WebDAV. In fact, Jeff gave me a WebDAV document from NIKHEF, the abstract of which I include here:
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> ----begin abstract-----
> A new grid data access model has been developed at Nikhef, based on a caching mechanism and WebDAV access. This grid proxy cache can be added independently "in front of" existing Logical File Catalogue (LFC) and Storage Resource Manager (SRM) implementations, without having to make any modifications to the LFC or SRM servers. It provides a caching mechanism to speed up access to frequently requested files, as well as a transparent platform-independent access protocol. A secure WebDAV interface is offered, so that no grid-specific client software is needed to access the grid proxy cache. The WebDAV interface is accessible using username and passwords from Windows XP/Vista/7 and Mac OS X clients, and using grid certificates or proxies from Linux worker nodes. The grid proxy cache also includes load balancing and redundancy mechanisms
> -----end abstract-----
> where I guess we will be mostly interested in how this was used as a front end (if I read it right) and if we can use it with our own storage systems as WebDAV servers. Of course, WebDAV is not new and has been suggested many a time before for use with HEP.
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