Glue Validation: specific actionsInformation System meeting with users

19th February 2013

Information System meeting with users - 19th February 2013

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GlueHostOperatingSystemName

Current status• Nagios Validation available

– gstat-validation-sanity-check– Part of ROC_OPERATORS profile– Alarms generated in the operations dashboard

• Existing recommendation to sites:https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/HOWTO05_How_to_publish_the_OS_name– Use lsb_release --id

• In /usr/bin. • It should be present on all Linux flavours http://

refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_3.1.1/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/lsbrelease.html

What it is published– 669 OS Names published– 42 wrong OS Names (most of them OS sites)

Actions– Confirm the current list of valid OS Names

Information System meeting with users - 19th February 2013

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GlueCEPolicyMaxCPUTime

Current Status• Several GGUS tickets opened:

https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EGEE/ISproviders#Computing– Bug in the information provider

• Originally reported for GlueCEPolicyMaxSlotsPerJob but also observed in GlueCEPolicyMaxWallClockTime and MaxCPUTime

– Problem for fixed for PBS and LSF in next CREAM release (EMI 2 and EMI 3)– No plans for SGE

What it is published– 3871 MaxCPUTime published– ~500 attributes with 9* values, 0 or negative– Similar values for MaxWallClockTime (less default values published)

Actions– Clarify if default values being published is also a bug in info provider– Clarify which values are expected for MaxCPUTime and MaxWallClockTime.– Add a specific check in the new glue-validator if necessary

Information System meeting with users - 19th February 2013

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GlueSA* attributesCurrent Status• Several GGUS tickets opened:

https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EGEE/ISproviders#Storage

– 1 bug in DPM information provider– In general, misconfigurations in sites

What it is published– 2668 GlueSA objects– 199 objects with GlueSATotalOnlineSize: 0– 920 objects with GlueSAUsedOnlineSize: 0– 1015 objects with GlueSAReservedOnlineSize: 0

Actions– Clarify whether more clear instructions are needed for sites– Clarify which are incoherent values for these attributes– Add a specific check in the new glue-validator if necessary

Information System meeting with users - 19th February 2013

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GlueCEPolicyAssignedJobSlotsGlueHostBenchmarkSI00

Current status– Attributes important for LHCb to calculate queue length– Used to contain default values– LHCb opened GGUS tickers against sites

What it is published– AssignedJobSlots seems to be in good shape. No default

value published– 670 SI00, only 20 publishing 0

Actions– Add this test in glue-validator