Hi Alessandra,
We do not really have a policy as such, but what I was intending to do was send a broadcast on Friday and announce it at the WLCG ops meeting that all UK sites will be running on a best efforts basis over the period 22nd December until 2nd/3rd January. This was the (admittedly) unexplained background as to why I asked at the ops meeting today if any site was planning to do anything different. I note that the Tier-1 has concrete plans (http://www.gridpp.rl.ac.uk/blog/2012/12/13/ral-tier1-plans-for-christmas-new-year-holiday/) and I can take such pointers to be put against the list of sites I circulate.
Does this sound like a reasonable approach? Do the experiments treat 'at risk' notifications in GOCDB differently from no notification, for example stop using the site? We could perhaps do with a free text field in the GOCDB that allows the site admin to write a 'Site status' explanation!
All - if you are planning to put your site into extended downtime over the Christmas period please could you let me know?
If I recall, we only had one issue last year and that concerned a large movement of data by T2K at Lancaster.
As explained earlier, we will be running the security and ROD activities over the holiday period but on certain days it will be best efforts too. There is a security team meeting tomorrow where we will discuss plans in the event of an incident during the period.
Many thanks,
Jeremy
On 18 Dec 2012, at 14:18, Alessandra Forti wrote:
> Hi,
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> is there a policy for how to announce that Xmas will be uncovered or on best effort?
> I'd rather not put the site at risk in GOCDB because it might be misinterpreted.
>
> cheers
> alessandra
>
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