NDPF TODO List

Upgrade Torque

New version (2.0) of Torque is out. This one includes TMPDIR patch IIRC. Time to upgrade. Misschien moeten we JT de Torque server laten vernietigen.

Check pool accounts

Apparently things can go wrong if we have e.g.

dteamsm01

and

dteam001

as pool accounts for 'dteamsm' and 'dteam' ... because 'dteamsm01' is a valid pool account for .dteam. Check and repair.

Fix to VOBOX

See the following email from Simone Campana:

Dear sites. 
 
A major bug has been found in the VOBOX implementation of the proxy-renewal service. A new RPM has been 
produced and you can find it in the following AFS location. 

/afs/cern.ch/project/gd/RpmDir_i386-sl3/external/lcg-vobox-1.0.1-3.noarch.rpm

Could the sites who already installed a VOBOX please upgrade? 

If you currently have installed version lcg-vobox-1.0.1-2.noarch.rpm, you will just need to upgrade the RPM and restart 
the VOBOX proxyrenewal services, i.e. <voname>-proxyrenewal. 

If you currently have installed a lower version, you also need to reconfigure the VOBOX. With yaim you can do:

/opt/lcg/yaim/scripts/run_function /opt/lcg/yaim/examples/site-info.def config_vobox

Fixes needed for information published to BDII

There are a number of new attributes in the GlueVOView blocks that are not yet being published, like the software dir and data dir. This is going to require some serious quattor work and is not a task to be taken lightly.

Also there is a warning in the GIIS monitor that our publishing of teras.sara.nl as a close SE is failing some sanity checks. This last one may be a fault in the test, someone needs to looks carefully at this.

Update of Resource Broker

See message on LCG-ROLLOUT

R-GMA GIN Update

See message on LCG-ROLLOUT

LFC and DPM Updates

After we get a DPM, we need to install these updates

FTS client

Once we get a DPM we can start doing service challenge stuff. For this we will need an FTS client. Here is some info from Gavin McCance:

Clients:

Either manually: [ https://uimon.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/FtsClientInstall13 Link]

or with whatever comes with LCG-2.6.0 (yaim?)

The difficulty is the FTS server URL (i.e. "where does my client commandline
tool point to"). Currently, we have not finished our integration with the
BDII (or indeed any information system) so we use a file in the local
filesystem. An XML file as well.

[ https://uimon.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/FtsClientInstall13 Link]

describes the format of this services.xml file - but it really only suitable
to point to client commandline tool to *one* FTS server. It is possible to
point it to multiple servers and use the "-s" option of the commandlinme
tool to select between them, but it's a hack that will have to go away once
we do it properly with the BDII, so I wouldn't rely on it.

Clients at NIKHEF: point to the SARA server.

Clients at SARA: point to either CERN T0 server or the local SARA server. If
the same client on a given machine needs to point to both servers (the CERN
one to manage the T0-T1 and the SARA on to manage the T1-T2) then use the
"-s" option with two entries in the service.xml file.

hope this helps,
cheers,
gav

Cleanpool Script

The bad version of the cleanpool script is in /export/perm/adm/bin. It needs to have the apostrophes removed, be put back into test mode. This means to replace the "rm -fr" and "rmdir" stuff with "ls -l" and see what it thinks it will do. If this all looks OK, it needs to be tested with the "rm" commands put back, but in a sandboxed environment, say copy a pool directory somewhere and try there.