Hello Peter, I had similar problems on my site (GR-07-UOI-HEPLAB) and seems like it was due to the last "yum update" I did for "Release of UPDATE 18 to gLite 3.1. Priority: Normal". What I finally did was to restart the SE. After that, things seem to be normal again. Cheers, Yannis Peter Kunszt wrote: > hi all > > we're observing random sam failures since yesterday. > for some reason some of our site bdii parameters don't make > it into the central bdii anymore. > > we've had three failures and 7 OKs during the night, when the config > was not changed for sure. > https://lcg-sam.cern.ch:8443/sam/sam.py?funct=ShowHistory&sensors=SE&vo=ops&nodename=storage01.lcg.cscs.ch > > > > the SAM test scripts complain about not > being able to find some Glue schema attribute, which is OK on the site > BDII. for instance, an excerpt from the failing "cr" test at 5am:: > > + lcg-cr -v --vo ops file:/home/samops/.same/SE/testFile.txt -l > lfn:SE-lcg-cr-storage01.lcg.cscs.ch-1207720006 -d storage01.lcg.cscs.ch > Using grid catalog type: lfc > Using grid catalog : prod-lfc-shared-central.cern.ch > Using LFN : /grid/ops/SAM/SE-lcg-cr-storage01.lcg.cscs.ch-1207720006 > sam-bdii.cern.ch:2170: No GlueSEName found for storage01.lcg.cscs.ch > > still, on the site BDII ce01:: > > [root@ce01 ~]# ldapsearch -x -H ldap://ce01.lcg.cscs.ch:2170/ -b > mds-vo-name=CSCS-LCG2,o=grid | grep GlueSEName > GlueSEName: [log in to unmask]:SRM > [root@ce01 ~]# ldapsearch -x -H ldap://storage01.lcg.cscs.ch:2170/ -b > mds-vo-name=resource,o=grid | grep GlueSEName > GlueSEName: [log in to unmask]:SRM > > > any clues? maybe just one of the many top-level sam-bdii machines at > cern is misbehaving? > btw, CMS has observed the same behavior yesterday: some of their tags > did not make it into the top-level bdii but were published correctly > in our sBDII > and then of course jobs failed because no resources were found. > > peter > -- Dr Ioannis PAPADOPOULOS HEP Laboratory (F3-303a) Physics Department University of Ioannina 45110 Ioannina, Greece tel: +30 26 51 09 86 43 fax: +30 26 51 09 86 88