Hi All, The next meeting on xrootd development, testing, deployment and monitoring will be Tuesday, 23 November, 2004 at 10:15 CA, 12:15 FNAL, 19:15 Europe and 18:15 UK. The location at SLAC is SCS conference room B. At CERN people can meet in my office (32 2-C14). The connection info for this meeting is: phone: +1-510-665-5437 passcode: 4465 Agenda: o problem list o http://xrootd.slac.stanford.edu/problems.html o New development/features o status of posix-compatible client o status of xrootd-based buffer (being tested for skimming in BaBar) o asynchronous I/O o TThread/TSocket problems when using TXNetFile o proxy support o server side monitoring - Jacek o client side monitoring support o unsolicited requests o administrative interface - Jacek/Artem o bytes/read printout as file is closed? o updates needed by Castor people o SRM o Status of summary web pages for BaBar file data access - Tofigh o Sites o Example configurations o automated restarts of xrootd/olbd (and saving core files!) o SLAC o olb03/olb04/kanolb-a renaming (arrghh!) o Cornell o problems? 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 - Enrica o problems? 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 any problems? o FZK - Rolf o status of setting up the xrootd system? 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Elmer E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: +41 (22) 767-4644 Address: CERN Division PPE, Bat. 32 2C-14, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland -------------------------------------------------------------------------