Hello all! The nights are starting to draw in once again up here in the
grim North, with only coffee to keep us warm and the glare of our laptop
monitors to light our way. Let us look to the tickets as I ponder the
coming Winter...
..okay I might be overreacting a little to the passing of the Summer
Solstice and the unseasonable weather. But I don't like being chilly in
June!
35 Open UK Tickets this week, which is a lot.
A dozen of them are from Daniela (who painstakingly submitted them all)
concerning getting the gridpp (and other) pilot role enabled on the site
in question's CEs.
An example of one of these tickets is:
https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=114440
(Lancaster's smug solved ticket).
Ticketed sites are: Durham, Bristol, Cambridge, Glasgow, ECDF (who are
also having general gridpp VO support problems), EFDA-JET (looking
solved), Oxford, Liverpool, Sheffield, Brunel, RALPP and RHUL. Most
tickets are being worked on fine, but the Bristol and Liverpool ones
were still just in an "assigned" state at time of writing.
Core Count Publishing.
https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=114233 (10/6)
Of the sites mentioned in this ticket (Durham*, IC, Liverpool, Glasgow,
Oxford) who *hasn't* had a go at changing their core count publishing? I
know Oxford have. Daniela had a pertinent question about publishing for
VMs, which John answered. In progress (17/6)
*Durham have another ticket on this which may explain their lack of core
count publishing:
https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=114381 (16/6)
DIRAC
https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=114379 (16/6)
Sam S formed this ticket over having trouble accessing the majority of
SEs over Dirac, after some discussion around this last week. Sam
acknowledges that this could be a site problem, not a DIRAC problem, but
you gotta start somewhere (he worded that point more eloquently).
Daniela has posted her latest and greatest DIRAC setup gubbins for Sam
to try out. Another, unrelated, point to have are the names missing
from Sam's list - for example I'm pretty sure Lancaster should support
gridpp VO storage but I've forgotten to roll it out! Waiting for reply
(22/6)
LIVERPOOL
https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=114248 (10/6)
Final ticket today, and another one discussed last week in the storage
meeting. Steve's explanation of why (and how) Sno+ would need to start
to using space tokens was fantastically well worded in a way to not
spook easily startled users. David is digesting the information, but it
will likely need to wait for Matt M's return before we'll see progress.
In progress (16/6)
MANCHESTER
https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=114444 (18/6)
I told a pork pie when I said that was the last ticket - this one caught
my eye. A ticket from lhcb over files not having their checksums stored
on Manchester's DPM. A link was given to another ticket at CBPF for a
similar issue which got the DPM devs involved
(https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=111403) - although
Andrew McNab was already subscribed to the ticket. In progress (19/6)
That's all from me (honest), but feel free to point out any tickets I
missed.
Cheers,
Matt
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