FTS Upgrade at CERN

After careful planning the the CERN FTS servers, production T0 export, tiertwo and the pilot were all upgraded today to version 2.0. It basically went okay and much to plan with completion 10 minutes before the announced intervention period end was reached. In fact two things went wrong. The quattor wrapper for yaim was never tested with the new YAIM, the new glite-FTS2 and glite-FTA2 targets had to merged in by hand. That was my mistake. The other problem still needs investigating but basically huge fragmentation to the production database appears to have (a) made the schema update a lot slower than expected and (b) an index has become corrupted. All in all it looks like although things are working some more downtime will be needed now perhaps longer than the upgrade itself to clean the database up. All in all it makes my life a lot easier, there is now a lot less left that I am managing from before my time getting to CERN.

Nagios Sensor gather_sam Now Released

At the EGEE operations meeting a presentation form the WLCGMG described their first sensor that might be useful especially to sites running or considering to run nagios. Basically a nagios sensor that will raise the SAM alarms on your local hosts in your nagios system. They are currently looking for a few volunteer sites as early adopters.

Stockholm SA1 Meetings

This week I'm visiting Stockholm for the EGEE SA1 meetings. No doubt something interesting will happen to put here.

FTS Monitoring RPMS

Have now started a concerted effort to package each of the FTS scripts that are lying around as FtsAddons. One is done now, one of Ron's scripts. Now started on Poalos scripts and by chance there was some interest in this from Taiwan's T1 so looks like I have a tester that is always good. Other than that I seem to be dashing between French and the Hospital for a dodgy thumb that I have. Took the minutes for the EMT as well. This is easily the best meeting to understand what is going in the upcoming software.

COD's Mercy

I've been CIC-on-Duty this week, lots of problems caused by poorly tested tests such as R-GMA not being on port 8443 at many sites. The good thing though it has given the procedure for new tests a wake up call and hopefully next time it will go better. This is good since the next test may well be the posix test of mine. End of the week has been difficult though, a scheduled GGUS intervention followed by an unscheduled SAM outage and now the GOCDB has fallen over. Of course these three events all happened on consecutive days.

Using GCalDeamon Now

I used to publish my Apple iCal calendars to a webdav and from there import them is ical format to gcal. I've now configured GCalDaemon to do a two way sync between ical and gcal. Previously I could not update gcal version of my calendar. This is a lot better since I need to work in gcal anyway to update Jenny's calendar. So far it looks to be working perfectly.

Ubuntu on my Mac

Installed VitualBox on my Mac today followed by Ubuntu. Looks to be much the same as Parallels but it is free to use in binary form for personal use and the underlying code is even opensource so that is good. So far it seems to be working. The reality though is I have not missed linux on my laptop since getting a mac.