Hi Catalin,
should we discuss this at the ops meeting?
One one hand, we have Steve Traylen saying use of
CVMFS_REPOSITORIES is deprecated, and on the other we
are told to use it in this set up procedure for CVMFS,
https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/w/index.php?title=UK_CVMFS_Deployment#Install_cvmfs_configuration_files
The question is: which should prevail?
Cheers,
Steve
On 07/16/2015 02:37 PM, Catalin Condurache wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Catalin Condurache
> Sent: 16 June 2015 16:21
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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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