Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Some notes on switching to the OPS VO for reporting.

I found that Glasgow's WNs were missing an default SE entry for the OPS VO, which caused us to be basically down for the whole week. That was easy to fix.

However, more puzzling, Glasgow and Durham's LFCs are also failing, for no good reason that I can see. Glasgow's certainly has a valid host certificate and the permissions on the catalog seem to be ok. As I'm so pressed for time with the new cluster being our most urgent priority I have just removed our LFC from the site BDII. This should stop SAM from trying to test this element of the site. The catalog is unused, of course, as ALICE are the only LCG VO who require a site local catalog, and they have a very different notion of what a T2 should provide so they never send us any jobs.

Perhaps Durham should do the same, until the problem is better understood?

One really annoying thing about the SAM tests is that as there are so many more tests there's no nice single page summary which shows the site's status. And selecting the individual tests is quite awkward in the way it's rendered in safari at any rate.

I will change my magic safari scotgrid status tab to show at least the SE and CE tests for the sites.

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