Hi,
The decommissioning process of the 'gridpp.ac.uk' CVMFS space is about halfway, and it came to my attention the fact that sites are defining the CVMFS_REPOSITORIES variable at WN level. Whilst this variable was mandatory with cvmfs v2.0.X, this is not case with v2.1.Y.
One current use for the variable is to monitor the repositories, so if still defined, the variable has to contain existing repositories, otherwise access errors are logged at Stratum-1 level. Therefore I would ask site admins to remove the 'gridpp.ac.uk' repository names from there, except the regional UK VO repositories (londongrid, scotgrid, southgrid, northgrid)
Please let me know if you need more details.
Regards,
Catalin Condurache
RAL Tier1 CVMFS Service Manager
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From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Catalin Condurache
Sent: 16 June 2015 16:21
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Subject: please re-define VO_<voname>_SW_DIR variables
Hi,
Many of you are probably aware that currently identical CVMFS repositories are maintained within both 'gridpp.ac.uk' and 'egi.eu' domain spaces.
As the plan is to continue only with the 'egi.eu', I am planing to stop publishing most of the *.gridpp.ac.uk CVMFS repositories (notable exceptions are the {northgrid,southgrid,scotgrid,londongrid}.gridpp.ac.uk repositories), and therefore I would like to ask site admins to re-define (where is the case) the values for the VO_<voname>_SW_DIR environment variables so they will point to the 'egi.eu' CVMFS space (and not 'gridpp.ac.uk').
i.e. from old definition VO_MICE_SW_DIR=/cvmfs/mice.gridpp.ac.uk
to the new definiton VO_MICE_SW_DIR=/cvmfs/mice.egi.eu
or from VO_CERNATSCHOOL_ORG_SW_DIR=/cvmfs/cernatschool.gridpp.ac.uk to VO_CERNATSCHOOL_ORG_SW_DIR=/cvmfs/cernatschool.egi.eu
Obviously, your CVMFS configurations need support for the 'egi.eu' domain. If this is not the case (less likely), please install cvmfs-keys-1.5-1 or better upgrade to cvmfs-2.1.20.
There is no need to define new variables, but to change accordingly the existing ones (i.e. for the VOs each site is supporting) and definitely *do*not* change the existing definitions for VO_VO_NORTHGRID_AC_UK_SW_DIR, VO_VO_SOUTHGRID_AC_UK_SW_DIR, VO_VO_SCOTGRID_AC_UK_SW_DIR and VO_VO_LONDONGRID_AC_UK_SW_DIR (if any).
Also because of the UK regional VO repositories (agreed to continue as part of .gridpp.ac.uk), please do not remove any settings related to this domain from your /etc/cvmfs/* configurations.
Just to mention that I carried similar campaigns at other non-UK sites, and at that time I had been in contact with SGMs from the involved VOs, and they all agreed and were happy with the redefinition of VO_SW_DIR variables concerning their VOs.
A tentative date to stop the publishing of the old domain is 30 June 2015, so could you make sure you'll have all in place by then? I will give a reminder during next Tuesday Ops meeting.
Best regards,
Catalin Condurache
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