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  Hi All,

  One thing I forgot to say is that while I am gone (8Oct-4Nov, inclusive)
Wilko Kroeger will be chairing the meeting (and doing the builds!).

  Thanks, Wilko... ;-)

                                   Pete

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 11:55:41PM +0200, Peter Elmer wrote:
>   Hi All,
> 
>   The next meeting on xrootd development, testing, deployment and monitoring 
> will be Tuesday, 5 October, 2004 at 10:15 CA, 19:15 Europe and 18:15 UK. The
> location at SLAC is SCS conference room B. I'm not in Geneva at the moment
> so anyone at CERN will have to call in on their own. 
> 
>   The connection info for this meeting is:
> 
>    phone:     +1-510-665-5437
>    passcode:  4465
> 
>   The agenda is:
> 
>    o Fallout or otherwise from CHEP04?
>    o New development/features
>       o status of posix-compatible client
>           o xrdcp
>           o "XTNetAdmin" interface (probably needs a new name)
>       o proxy support
>       o server side monitoring - Jacek
>       o client side monitoring support
>       o asynchronous I/O
>       o unsolicited requests
>       o administrative interface - Jacek/Artem
>       o bytes/read printout as file is closed?
>       o updates needed by Castor people
>    o latest fixes - Fabrizio, Andy
>       o progress on the problem list
>       o testing asynchronous mode
>    o Sites
>      o Example configurations
>      o getting rid of feature in BaBar KanAccess.cfg that allows "localroot" 
>        to be specified there
>      o SLAC
>         o turning off non-xrootd log rotation for olbd - Andy/Bill
>         o olb03/olb04/kanolb-a renaming (arrghh!)
>      o Cornell
>      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 problems
>         o olbd crash
>         o xrootd on SAN servers?
>      o RAL - Chris/Manny
>         o new disk space?
>         o import of skims
>         o rpm structure (libstdc++, config files)
>         o cleaning up classic Kanga data
>         o moving to latest version and cleanup of config files?
>      o In2p3 - Jean-Yves
>         o problems with new versions?
>         o cleanup of config files (including BaBar KanAccess.cfg file if 
>           need be)
>         o access statistics
>      o FZK 
>         o cleaning up classic Kanga data
>         o plans?
>    o ganglia/monitoring of kanNNN servers at SLAC - Yemi
>       o adding back xrootd metrics
>       o metrics for staging?
>       o monitoring of scratch area, etc.
>       o monitoring of xrootd versions and alarms when they fail the "Sesame
>         Street test" (Should be possible after yesterday's restart) 
>       o monitoring of total BaBar data (/store/PR, /store/SP, /store/SPskims,
>         /store/PRskims, /store/users, /store/awg), #files and data volume
>       o Updates to presentation
>       o renaming of servers during/after shutdown (arrghh!)
>       o alarms?
>       o monitoring of #file descriptors/TCP connections, etc.
>    o xrootd procedures
>       o restart of servers (deployment of new versions)
>       o problems with particular data servers
>       o adding a new server
> 
>   I have almost certainly forgotten some things, so please feel free to bring 
> anything important up during the meeting.
> 
>                                    Pete



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