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Hi All,

  The next meeting on xrootd development, testing, deployment and monitoring
will be Tuesday, 7 December, 2004 at 10:15 CA, 19:15 Europe and 18:15 UK. The 
location at SLAC is SCS conference room B. 

  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 server side monitoring - Jacek
      o client side monitoring support
      o asynchronous I/O
      o TXNetFile updates in ROOT CVS?
      o proxy support
      o unsolicited responses
      o "admin" interface (shutdown, redirecting clients, ...)
      o updates needed by Castor people
      o SRM
      o libstdc++ rpm for RH72/gcc2.95.3
      o multiexperiment setups
   o Status of summary web pages for BaBar file data access - Tofigh
   o Sites
     o Example configurations
     o SLAC
        o olb03/olb04/kanolb-a renaming (arrghh!)
     o Cornell
        o problems?
     o Padova - Fulvio
        o What are the plans in Padova?
     o CNAF - Enrica
        o problems?
     o RAL - Chris/Manny
        o config rpm 
        o config files
     o In2p3 - Jean-Yves
        o problems?
     o FZK - Gregory
        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

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