MSU Hardware Catalog This page lists hardware at MSU. Subpages provide more details and link to hardware documentation. Rack View * WesternSciRack2005 The ra...
Installing DQ2 References * https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Atlas/PandaDataService Procedure Shawn created a host cert from doegrids.org for umfs02.grid...
Setting up Two OSG Gatekeepers for a Single Condor Cluster We need to load balance access to our Condor cluster because of a possible time out issue we are seeing...
Dear Atlas US grid participant: REMINDER The next USATLAS Facilities and Operations phone meeting will occur Wed 1200 1330 CDT This is a reminder about a c...
Setup of GRAM Auditing for AGLT2 (OSG 0.8.1) The current OSG installation (0.8.1) has Globus 4.0.5 which supports a new "auditing" feature. You can request that ...
Dell Poweredge x950 Hardware Notes Information about the Dell 1950 and 2950 nodes. Dell Docs BIOS The Fall '07 order arrived with BIOS v1.5.1. This was release...
In ROCKS5 whole new scheme for user customization of partitioning. The annoyances with getting custom partitioning done in ROCKS4 seem to be gone we no longer ne...
Merging Existing Space Tokens When we setup space tokens for AGLT2 we assumed we needed a space token for each VO/Role that needed to be able to write to a space ...
ROCKS FAQs Introduction FAQs are divided into groups... Database management using ROCKS command Add an appliance This will add new entries in the membership an...
ROCKS Graphs Default graph in ROCKS52 Initial new AGL graph structure in ROCKS52 How To make them View on frontend web page (under "misc admin"), or... rocks lis...
Setting up ATLAS Area HOTDISK for AGLT2 As of mid September 2009 we need to provide a new space token area in Tiers of ATLAS call 'HOTDISK'. There are a few com...
Update Installer Kernel Warning this is a cludge. Darn seems to work fine with the r610 hardware, but on the existing pe1950s, hardisk doesn't get mounted for rei...
To manually add a node in Rocks v5.2 you only really need two commands provided that the appliance type already exists, you could check that it's in the list when...
ROCKS Installer This page is a description of how the ROCKS installer boots, how it requests the kickstart file for the node, how the server generates the kicksta...
Installing Follow the Install chapter of "Top Document" xCAT2top.pdf xCAT is installed with the command: yum install xCAT (There's some stuff to do before and aft...
Storage Element An SRM/dCache instance is added to the site as a grid accessible Storage Element. dCache is a very flexible package for combining multiple filesy...
Useful Rocks Links * Rocks v5.2 User Guide the User Guide... * Kickstart XML Reference Just remember that the "var" tag no longer works and that we use...
Well, I haven't actually done it, but here's the directions. Just reverse the architectures since we're running a x86_64 cluster and are going to be kickstarting ...
To build the rocks distribution (in /home/install/ or /export/rocks/install/): rocks create distro To have a node reinstall: rocks set host boot hostname action...
Client tools for Panda Analysis jobs Intro The panda client package contains following tools to submit/manage analysis jobs on PanDA. The following instructions...
Backing up and moving VMs If the VM is running you need to pull a snapshot and backup, otherwise the .vmdk may not be consistent. Spaces in VM names for some back...
Management of Dcache main services to maintain head01 : dcache core head02: postgresql pnfs dcache core pool nodes: dcache core dcache pool main configurati...
Cross Kickstarting in Rocks 4.3 So you want to cross Kickstart nodes that aren't the same architecture as your front end? Don't worry, rocks can do that, or it's ...
Directory /home/install/tools under SVN control. Directory /home/install/tools/bin intended for adding to PATH as desired. Main.TomRockwell 29 May 2009
Procedure for Installing or Upgrading dCache Servers Procedure for installing dCache servers. This is tested for use on the dCache storage nodes / gridftp doors....
Removing PNFS (Chimera) Ghosts There is the possibility that the chimera DB can become out of sync with the actual files stored on disk. The t_dirs table holds t...
Restarting the MSU OSG Grid How to restart the system after an outage. Bring Up and Check Services Cluster Services General cluster services are required, for in...
Background Info: Unexpected Power Loss on file servers During backup generator test on 12 may 09 at the MSU BPS bldg , most UPSs received an errant EPO (Emergenc...
Upgrade Postgres on AGLT2 dCache ADMIN node During our recent upgrade of dCache we also ended up upgrading our Postgres installation on the dCache PNFS node (head...
(Re)Configuration of gPlazma on AGLT2 Due to issues with SRM failing that were traced to probable issues in gPlazma we are planning to implement some changes to g...
AGLT2 SRM Hangs Starting in late April 2009 AGLT2 was having more and more dCache/SRM issues. One problem that significantly increased in frequency was SRM faili...
Reconfigure dCacheConfig to use both Cell and Module As noted before, the preferred gPlazma configuration uses the cell method but it has been pointed out that th...
Replicating the Oracle Controlfile For safety it is good to replicate the controlfile for an Oracle DB. Our muoncal instance (after reinstalling in May 2009)...
Reinstallation of Oracle for the Muon Calibration Center On May 2nd, 2009 our primary Oracle server (umors.grid.umich.edu) was compromised because we had forgott...
How to convert a RO volume to a RW volume in AFS 1) Get tokens as 'admin' via 'kinit admin' folllowed by 'aklog' 2) Check the mount: 'fs lsmount /afs/atlas.umi...
Setup Atlas Space Token background details about why space revervation is needed, refer to srm space reservationdcache book. steps to set up space reservation ...
We have a bunch of scripts which relies on the space token information, therefore,I define 2 hash based subroutine in the dcache perl Library, everytime you add/r...
Generic Kickstart Want to perform a network install of a node that won't be a ROCKS client but using the ROCKS frontend as the kickstart server. Have tried and f...
Want to do test installs nodes in a VMWare ESXi guest. Expect that more things can be made to work similarly to an install on a physical host, but expect that th...
Managing the ROCKS Installer with Subversion See local subversion pages at Subversion Creating a Branch or Tag SVN root@msurox /home/install # svn copy m "c...
Here is from an email: In dCacheSetup (in Aglt2, it is poolSetup)you need to define: metaDataRepositoryImport=org.dcache.pool.repository.meta.file.FileMetaDataRe...
MSU Hummm... Normal procedure is to plug keyboard/monitor into node and see if there are any kernel messages on screen. On Dells also note errors from LCD. U M ...
MSU Each rack has 2 PDUs named PDU RACKNUM N.msulocal where N is 1 or 2. For racks with UPSs, the 1 PDU is on the UPS. You can connect to the web interface usin...
MSU Two switches are at msu sw1.local and msu sw2.local. To find a given node's switch ports(s): Option 1 access the switch web interface and browse for the port ...
SEC.pl (System Event Correlator) There is a nice two part article on SEC which describes how it works and what it provides. I encourage you to look it over. Th...