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Meetings are held monthly via teleconference on Fridaysfirst Thursdays, 1011:30 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.

Previous Years

• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005

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?

Aug 1, 2008

Now that the rush to get things ready for LEO is subsiding we should go over what things didn't get done before, and what needs to be improved, cleaned up, etc.

Jul 17, 2008

• Reprocessing discussion
  • Database tables
  • Web interface
  • Pipeline interface
• Line-mode datacat – new features
  • Line-mode download manager
• Infrastructure shifts discussion

Jun 20, 2008

• Plan for next week
• New "how to login" page from Mark
• AOB

Jun 13, 2008

• Final decisions about infrastructure shifts
• Request from Ian/Arash for oracle outage
• Updates
  • Pipeline status
  • Run Quality
  • xrootd
  • Data Access
• AOB

May 30, 2008

• Run Quality Update
• Database/Performance issues after pipeline upgrade
• AOB

May 23, 2008

• Nagios Overview/Status
• xrootd update
• Run Quality Update
  • runQuality object to be added to scriptlet environment
    • runQuality.setL1RunStatus(long run, String status)
      • One of Running, Complete, InComplete, InProgress, Running, Unset
    • runQuality.setReviewStatus(long run, String status)
      • One of Not ready, Waiting review, (Reviewed, Unset)
• Datacat versions update
• AOB

May 16, 2008

• How to Fix Status Update
• Xrootd release schedule etc
• Demo/Discussion of Run Quality Web Interface
• Shift Signup (demo/infrastructure shifts)
• 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

February 1, 2008

• Oracle
  • Meltdown recap
  • Using oracle roles
• Portal demo

 January 18, 2008

• New Releases
  • Data Catalog line mode client
  • Tomcat server monitoring
  • Cross Trending
• xrootd status/issues
• Disk space usage for Pipeline tasks
• Oracle/MySQL passwords again
  • Ian Note 1, 2
• Data Handling To Do list
• AOB

 January 11, 2008

• GPL Tools Release
• Pipeline Release Plans/Priorities (Server, Front End)
• Pipeline Disk Usage
• AOB