Atlas Great Lakes Tier2 Web

How to contact us

• For problems, contact us through our signatures here:
  • WenjingWu AGLT2 Manager and University of Michigan Technical Contact
  • ShawnMcKee AGLT2 Director
• This is our Travel Calendar

What's Happening

• SC15 is going on! See AGLTatSC15
• Bi-weekly AGLT2 meeting. BiweeklyNotes.
  • generally bi-weekly Thursdays, 9 am or as scheduled
• Weekly Facilities & Operations meeting. Wednesday 1pm. FOMeetingInfo
• 2012 ATLAS Physics Workshop at UM
• StatusBlog
• LHC Schedule by quarter

Monitoring Links for AGLT2

• Lots of Monitor pages for both AGLT2 and USATLAS

AGLT2 User Information

• MSU Tier 3 User Info for MSU Tier3
• UM Tier 3 User Info for UM Tier 3
• How to Setup Root
• Getting your grid certificate
• Information on setting up SSH for use on our systems
• TortoiseSVN usage for SVN access using Windows GUI.
• OpenAFS and Kerberos in windows.
• Diagnose Tier3 Condor Problems
• Panda Distributed Analysis
• Directions to set up your Grid CERT in a browser
• How to set up Athena to run in your account
• prun and pathena submission to the grid
• A comparison of Various Grid job submission methods
• Hints on using CVMFS in user jobs
• DQ2 Tools Usage
• AccessDcacheFiles How to access Tier2 dCache files
• AccessEOSFiles How to access CERN EOS system from non lxplus nodes
• Rucio help and information
• RucioClientsHowTo
• Client_howto
• RucioDatasetRequest
• Help with CMT and Access to ATLAS SVN repositories. For notes about authenticating with Kerberos to CERN to use CMT/SVN checkouts see UMTier3.
• UsingGeant4 Using GEANT4 installed in AFS
• MuonReco - Software Tutorial
• VideoConference Information about video conferencing
• MDTChambers Application Twiki page detailing access and maintenance of MDTChambers web and cli.
• NumpyScipy Accessing newer versions of numpy and scipy

Operations

• SecurityUpdates List of CVE items
• AtlasQueueControl for ATLAS queue states, and number of queued jobs
• PanDaAutoExclusion Procedures for Analysis Queues
• Setting DowntimeViaOSG post-goc
• FTSChannelMgmt procedures (enabling/disabling FTS for AGLT2)
• SiteBlacklisting procedures for AGLT2
• DataManagement
• Distributed Services Information
• Software/Hardware Issue Tracking GLPI
• NetworkAddresses Reverse Phone Book
• TroubleLogs Notes on issues that we've seen
• MaintenanceProcedures Procedures for various cluster maintenance activities
• ClusterChanges Yet another list of maintenance issues (sorry)
• RemoteAccess
• NetworkTesting to debug ongoing issues with slow/poor performance from AGLT2 to BNL (and others?)
• ClusterControl Monitoring and Maintaining the state of AGLT2 Worker Nodes
• Condor procedures during Site Startup and Shutdown
• Why is a SAM test failing?
• WLCG accounting results from January 2009 to the present (currently March 2010)
• NetworkIssuesAfterULRetirement to track known issues from the August 27 2012 UL router retirement
• AGIS and SchedConfig changes for AGLT2 queues
• MSUAdministration MSU-specific administration information
• Policy regarding changes in software across AGLT2
• CobblerInfrastructure Setup details and usage workflow for cobbler. Procedure to build desktops from cobbler generated boot media is here also.
• CfenginePolicyWorkflow How to work on changes to cfengine policy and track them in SVN
• UmAtlasRepo Managing our local software repository and mirrors
• FuncSystemControl How to use func to issue batch commands to our systems
• Tracking an INCIDENT at AGLT2, both security-related and operations-related.
• OMD and GLPI usage for AGLT2.
• MigrateHardware for head01 (dCache headnode)
• RecoverFromLostPool when we lose a shelf
• ExtendLVMVsphereDisk shows how to add additional space to LVM disks without rebooting
• Resizing LVM volumes at, eg, CERN desktops
• Running yum-cron on SL7
• Grid Certificate Distriution at AGLT2

Software

• AfsRelated AFS related topics
• CondorRelated HTCondor related topics
• CFEngineRelated CFEngine related topics
• AmandaRelated Amanda Backup related topics
• DCacheNotes
• OSGNotes
• LustreSetup
• SoftwareTutorials - ATLAS Software Tutorials
• DqTwoInstallNotesSept2006
• UMAtlasSoftware
• RocksMain Main page for ROCKS cluster software
• Software problems, questions, install requests, etc. (reference only, see issue tracking)
• AutoTestPrograms
• JobSubMission
• Verifying and debugging DDM for AGLT2
• Installation details, and use of the dq2* commands on the interactive machines at UM.
• Subversion
• Virtuozzo information and HowTo
• Oracle information, installation and configuration for UM Calibration Center
• dCachetoSyslogNG configuration instructions.
• Information on security monitoring setup and configuration
• SQL queries related to LFC for diagnostics, cleaning and debugging
• SQL queries related to PNFS for diagnostics, cleaning and debugging
• Using 'monit' to monitor services on AGLT2
• Updating LFC for AGLT2
• Kits installation information for ATLAS T1/T2 sites (Grid cert required for access)
• Installing pCache information
• MCORE setup at AGLT2
• Install PostgresSQL with replication
• Upgrading PostgreSQL to version 9.5.1 from 9.3.11
• Upgrading dCache from version 2.10.55-1 to 2.13.23-1
• Install Open vSwitch on Scientific Linux 6.7 64-bit
• Installing a main-line kernel on Scientific Linux 6.8 64-bit
• Installing and Using the X2Go package suite
• Installing and Using the X2Go package for UM T3 users
• SL7 Issues with CFEngine and Cobbler
• Postgresql on ZFS details and tuning for AGLT2
• Upgrading PostgreSQL to version 10.5 from 9.5

• ATLAS-LIVE setup and configuration details
• MSUHardwareCatalog
• UMHardwareCatalog
• MSUHardwareRepairs
• MSURackSetup Setting up racks at MSU
• UMClusterOverview
• Track StorageSystems
• IPMI details and information (Remote system access/power control).
• Maintenance Log
• DellComputeMain
• DellStorageMain
• DellPC6248
• DellPowerEdgeXNineFifty Info about pe2950 and pe1950 nodes
• PurchaseDocuments RFQs, POs, Receipts etc. for purchases.
• RaritanIpKvm Raritan Dominion IP KVMs
• HpSwitchMain
• DynesSiteStatus
• How to Add a replaced disk back in an array when it shows "Foreign"
• Installing and Configuring a Dell MD3460 storage array
• Dell Machine Access from IDRAC and OMSA

Installation/setup reference

• RocksPXEbootServers How to install systems via PXE boot menu, how the menu works
• ProcedureofBuildingNewNodes How to add/build a new node via Cobbler
• OSGSetup080 Upgrade of OSG on gate01 to version 0.8.0
• GridCertificates information on setting up grid certificates on AGLT2
• OSGSetup NOTE: Obsolete, see Gate02Setup below Instructions for gate01.grid.umich.edu
• Gate02Setup has details about our AGL-Tier2 gatekeeper setup. This is ALSO now obsolete (5/2009). See InstallUpgradeOSG instead.
• InstallUpgradeOSG has details from May, 2009, about the gate02.grid.umich.edu OSG101 install.
• SetupGSSklog details about setting up gssklog/gssklogd providing x509 to AFS credential mapping for grid users.
• UpgradeUMFS01 for the details of upgrading umfs01 from 32bit to 64bit versions of Scientific Linux 4.1.
• ATLAS Kit Install has information about installing the ATLAS software on our AFS cell.
• Installation details for VDT v1.6.0 on our gate01.grid.umich.edu machine
• Dell Cacti setup information (for standalone and ROCKS config).
• MSUUtilNode Setup of a pe2950 as a utility node Nov 2007
• MSUNetworkConfig
• SunSystems
• MSUDZeroOsg Setup of OSG at MSU for support of DZero VO
• Setup of GRAM auditing for AGLT2
• SiteToolsWebRequest Compute nodes contact frontend via cgi to request actions
• Setting up two gatekeepers for AGLT2 VO support and load balancing
• GangliaSetup
• VMwareSetupandNotes
• NIC setups on Worker Nodes with trunking
• BladeChassisSetup showing the CMC settings for blade chassis network, alarms, etc
• ImplementingQoSatAGLT2 describes the setup for provisioning network QoS for the Condor, Gatekeeepers and dCache Headnodes
• Transitioning from cfengine2 to cfengine3 for services machines
• PuppetInfrastructure Setup details and usage workflow for puppet, puppetdb, hiera, foreman, etc.
• SlonyReplicationdCache Setup details for getting Slony to replicate the dCache postgresql DBs
• ZFsforAFS Setting up ZFS on Linux for AGLT2 AFS file servers
• UpdateKerberos on our servers
• SetupOMD on our cluster(s)
• MultiCore setup on the worker nodes
• ReworkLogging on AGLT2. Upgrading atgrid is an opportunity to migrate to rsyslog,=logstash=,=elasticsearch= and kibana
• CephCluster Setup and operation of experimental ceph cluster
• OpenStack Setup and operation of openstack

• NetworkPlanning
• PowerConsumption
• SystemInstallChecklist
• shopping list
• Policy for AGLT2 for OSG.
• Policy for Tier2 resources including accounts, use of GUMS/VOMS/PRIMA and PBS/Condor configs.
• Tier2Planning pages
• Some HS06 results that we have measured at AGLT2
• Planning Condor configuration updates now that AGLT2 is running SL6
• Upgrade planning for all remaining SL5 systems
• UM CERN Computing Cluster configuration information and procedures
• Install or updating squid rpms
• Host Certificate additions or changes
• Installing Google Chrome on SL7 for use with VMWare access

Tuning and Optimization

• Network tuning page describing tools, procedures and results.
• BenchMarks
• CalTech disk testing
• NexsanTesting
• GlusterTesting
• CEPH Explorations

Links and Contact

• LinksPage Links to Tier-2 related sites.
• InternalContacts Internal contact information

• MsuOsgPolicy OSG policy for the MSU-OSG site (Trash/Tier3 and DZero)