Hi All,
The next meeting on xrootd development, testing, deployment and monitoring
will be Tuesday, 31 August, 2004 at 10:15 CA, 19:15 Europe and 18:15 UK. The
location at SLAC is SCS conference room B. At CERN I will participate in the
meeting from my office (32 2C-14).
The connection info for this meeting is:
phone: +1-510-665-5437
passcode: 4465
The agenda is:
o mailing list/HN (again)
o ROOT integration of XTNetFile/xrootd
o ./configure issues with kerberos/security stuff reported by Axel?
o building on MacOSX and other platforms (FreeBSD, alpha/OSF,
AIX, HP, SGI, ..)
o Verbose echo of compilation commands (requested by Fons)
o Building security modules independently of the rest of xrootd
o Making TXNetFile depend on security libraries entirely as plugins
o New development
o posix-compatible client
o proxy support
o server side monitoring
o client side monitoring support
o asynchronous I/O
o unsolicited requests
o administrative interface
o latest fixes - Alvise, Fabrizio, Andy
o progress on the problem list
o testing asynchronous mode
o XTNetAdmin
o wrapper - Fabrizio
o SRT integration - Pete
o checksums
o Sites
o Example configurations
o getting rid of feature in BaBar KanAccess.cfg that allows "localroot"
to be specified there
o SLAC
o moving to latest version (20040830-0105) for both xrootd and olbd
o starting one xrootd on a dataserver with server side I/O monitoring
o turning off non-xrootd log rotation for olbd
o olb03/olb04/kanolb-a renaming (arrghh!)
o Padova - Fulvio/Guglielmo
o problems reported by Antonio:
http://babar-hn.slac.stanford.edu:5090/HyperNews/get/KanSOS/393.html
o What are plans in Padova?
o CNAF
o moving forward to 20040830-0105 and cleaned up config files
o RAL - Chris
o new disk space?
o import of skims
o rpm structure (libstdc++, config files)
o cleaning up classic Kanga data
o moving to 20040830-0105?
o config files?
o In2p3 - Jean-Yves
o use and status (disk space)
o status of import of kan data (presumably skims at this point)
o confusion about what should be made available at In2p3 (ARTF)
o plans to move to more recent versions (beginning of September)
o FZK
o plans?
o xrootd procedures
o restart of servers (deployment of new versions)
o problems with particular data servers
o adding a new server
o ganglia/monitoring of kanNNN servers at SLAC - Yemi
o metrics for staging?
o monitoring of scratch area, etc.
o adding back xrootd metrics (was waiting for restart)
o monitoring of xrootd versions and alarms when they fail the "Sesame
Street test" (Should be possible after yesterday's restart)
o Updates to presentation
o renaming of servers during/after shutdown (arrghh!)
o alarms?
o monitoring of #file descriptors/TCP connections, etc.
I have almost certainly forgotten some things, so please feel free to bring
anything important up during the meeting.
Pete
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Address: CERN Division PPE, Bat. 32 2C-14, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
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