2023-08-10 Meeting Notes

 Date

Aug 10, 2023

 Participants

  • @Alexander Rogovskiy

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  • @James Walder

  • Lancaster: Gerard, Steven, Matt

  • Glasgow:

Apologies:

Jyothish, Sam

 Goals

  • List of Epics

  • New tickets

  • Consider new functionality / items

  • Detailed discussion of important topics

  • Site report activity

 

 Discussion topics

Current status of Echo Gateways / WNs testing

Recent sandbox’s for review / deployments:

 

Item

Presenter

Notes

 

Item

Presenter

Notes

 

XRootD Releases

Sam

NTR

 

Prefetch studies

Alex

Status of tests / deployment without prefetch

 

CMSD rollout

 

https://stfc.atlassian.net/browse/XRD-41

Status:

Tests being added for manager hosts

 

 

CMSD operations: observations

 

gateways appear highly ‘loaded’ recently (e.g. system load and number of connections)

 

CMSD outstanding items

 

Icinga / nags callout tests changes.

Improved load balancing / server failover triggering

better 'rolling server restart script'

Documentation; setup / configuration / operations / troubleshooting / testing

Review of Sandbox and deployment to prod.

 

Tokens testing

 

NTR

 

AAA Gateways

 

Sandbox ready for review:

http://aquilon.gridpp.rl.ac.uk/sandboxes/diff.php?sandbox=jw-xrootd-aaa-5.5.4-3

 

Floating IPs for VM test cluster

 

Does not appear to be viable (explanation?)

 

SKA Gateway box

 

https://stfc.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/UK/pages/215941180

numerous network changes needed / being done

 

on GGUS:

Site reports

 Action items

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 Decisions