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Meetings are held monthly via teleconference on Fridaysfirst Thursdays, 1011:00 Pacific time using the CalTech in the Ballam Conference Room at SLAC. The meetings will also be broadcasted via EVO system. We do not use video.
Please avoid an open mike, which may cause echoes. See the evo help. For further information be sure to have a look at the VRVS Etiquette page.

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July 19 2012

Announcements
- Please add computing outages to the List of upcoming outages

Astroserver and run quality
- Criteria to load data into the astroserver: how do we handle bad data?
- Discrepancies from P120 and P130

Review outstanding FDH JIRAs

Hardware changes (Tom)
- Update on NFS disk space upgrade
- Update on glastlnx server replacement

Support for DQM
- Timeout for DQM application
- Is it possible to have more meaningful messages from the log watcher?
- Missing log watcher messages from tkrTrendAlarm and verifyComplete
- Status of the Bad Time Intervals interface (unified timing convention, etc...).

June 14 2012

Announcements
- Please add computing outages to the List of upcoming outages
- New JIRA project for Fermi Data Handling
- Leap second June 30 -- do we need to do anything?

Astroserver and run quality
- Criteria to load data into the astroserver: how do we handle bad data?
- Discrepancies from P120 and P130
- Possible improvements to the run quality pages.

Pass8 Dual Tuples (Alex)

Hardware changes (Tom)
- Update on NFS disk space upgrade
- Update on glastlnx server replacement

Support for DQM
- Timeout for reports application
- Is it possible to have more meaningful messages from the log watcher?
- Missing log watcher messages from tkrTrendAlarm and verifyComplete
- Status of automatic shift reminders.
- Status of the Bad Time Intervals interface (unified timing convention, etc...).

May 10 2012

Hardware
- The plan to replace the sulkys.
  - Existing NFS server allocation
  - Strawman proposal for new allocation (version 0)
- Ideas for replacing the glastlnx machines.
  - Summary of machine characteristics
  - Existing compute server allocation
  - Whether and how to consolidate?
    - A snapshot of usage
    - Some issues to consider
- How should we organize ourselves for planned computing outages?

Astroserver and run quality
- Criteria to load data into the astroserver.
- Possible improvements to the run quality pages(pic1, pic2).

Support for DQM
- Is it possible to have more meaningful messages (pic) from the log watcher (pic)?
- Missing log watcher messages from tkrTrendAlarm and verifyComplete
- Status of automatic shift reminders.
- Status of the Bad Time Intervals (pic) interface (unified timing convention, fix plot axis, use normalized transient rate plot...).

Miscellanea
- Can we improve communication for pipeline work?
- New JIRA project for Fermi Data Handling
- Problems with the data catalog (see jira)
- Any idea what happened with robots.txt? do we need to password-protect the pipeline web interface?

May 16, 2008

How to Fix Status Update
Xrootd release schedule etc
Demo/Discussion of Run Quality Web Interface
AOB

May 9, 2008

Data Catalog line-mode client update
Xrootd Update (New fileserver, new xrootd release, glastlnx22, etc)
AOB

May 2, 2008

Stress test update
Pipeline II progress, release plans
Xrootd Update (New fileserver, new xrootd release, etc)
AOB

April 18, 2008

Launch update
Stress test issues
Run Catalog Discussion
- Questions
  - Who registers the run?
  - What is the relationship to Bryson's downlink tables
  - How do we know if run is complete?
    - Are runs assigned a status before the run is complete?
  - Is rerunning a top level stream a "reprocessing"
  - Can original run status change as a result of reprocessing
    - If so do we need a history?
  - What should the web interface look like
- Initial Schema proposal
xrootd status

April 11, 2008

Oracle switchover plans
xrootd tape achiving status
AOB

April 4, 2008

Oracle Database Update
- Status
- Failover
Pipeline II release
Infrastructure "How-to-fix" documentation
Expert Shifts
AOB

March 28, 2008

Oracle Database Update
- Schedule
- Stress Testing Results
Pipeline Update
Upcoming CCB action requests
Infrastructure "Expert Shifts"

March 21, 2008

Tomcat servers update
- Automount problems
Oracle
- Oracle server/stress testing update
  - KABOOM
- Oracle wallet/roles/materialized views discussion
Data catalog
- Line mode client
- File versioning
Recent CCB action requests
Upcoming CCB action requests
- Pipeline client rollback fix (1.0.2)
- Pipeline front-end fixes (message viewer etc) (2.5.1)
- Group manager fix to import data from campus MySQL (1.7) and export list of users for xrootd
- Put oracle wallet into production for Pipeline Server (1.0.1), Pipeline Client (1.0.3?), Datacat client (1.1.1)

February 29, 2008

Fallout from yesterday's outage
Pipeline deadlock update
xrootd update
Preparation for opssim2
Plans for Change Control Board (CCB)
- Preliminary project list
Oracle passwords
ASP web display update

February 22, 2008

Stress testing progress/problems
Data cleanup progress
ASP web display plans

February 15, 2008

Shift Database/Web app
Using AFS tokens to log in to glast account (postponed to later)
New Crawler
OpsSim2 readiness issues
- xroot and old file versions
Schedule for OS/IP upgrade on glastlnx*
Effects of elimination of services

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